It’s time to make some waves and be heard
Archive for the ‘General’ Category.
Took the rubbish out this evening.
Heard a splash in the pool.
Thought it was skinny dipping hoodlums; there were none.
Turns out it was this guy:
So we scooped him out, thinking he would not last long in the chlorinated water.
Does anyone know what species of frog this is? Tried http://frogwatch.museum.wa.gov.au/ but couldn’t find a match.
So it was my birthday this week. 24 years. It was quite a good a good birthday. The norm is probably to feel older, but if anything I feel stronger; that must be due frequent attendance to Pump class recently.
My bike also hit a milestone (a birthday of sorts if you will); 1000km. Here’s photographic evidence of the momentous occasion:
The photo was taken just after Joondalup Drive and Kendrew Crescent. Just after because 1000km was hit dead on the intersection; a very inconvenient and dangerous location to stop and take a photo 
The journey to work is around 11km. This translates to approximately 90 return trips. If these 90 trips were made using public transport, they would have cost $324. With an overall investment of $600 into the electric bike, this means the investment is almost half paid off!
So I’m heading to Seoul in just over 2 weeks time, very excited about the trip! My friend Joe recommended I hunt down a good, comfy pair of loafers as there will be a lot of shoe removal/putting on over there. Over there, the floor is more than a place for walking, but part of the furniture; you sit down on the floor to eat. So it makes sense to take off shoes before entering a building.
Whitfords shopping centre is usually a good place for shoes, so I headed up there. Tried several shops with no luck. Some people hadn’t even heard of loafers, were out of stock, had nothing in my size, or just downright clueless. One of the shop assistants suggested looking in Cite; never heard of it before.
The guy there was very helpful, directed me to their shoe selection, and pointed out several shoes that were loafer’ish. 1 pair caught my attention immediately…
Bright, bold, patterned, casual, and with just a dash of grandpa’s slipper. And they were in my size. And on sale!! I’m not usually one to get excited about shopping/shoes/sales, but OMG it must have been a sign. Tried them on, and they were super comfy. That sealed the deal! $60 later, these beauties were mine. Even if they don’t get much action in Seoul, they will when I get home!
A note: NO ONE wants sloppy seconds!
So I felt like I needed to buy a new toy/gadget/thing to play with the other day. After looking around, nothing took my fancy. Somehow the idea of buying a domain + web hosting popped into my mind. After a few days of mulling over the idea, I just bought a domain .
In due course, www.noizwaves.com will likely replace the current noizwaves.bur.st URL for this site.I’m undecided whether the blog should hold the www sub-domain or its own special blog sub-domain. Heck, maybe it can have both!
I used DreamHost for the web hosting. After looking around at a few places, this one seemed good. A friend also recommended them for their ease of use and excellent customer support. The hosting gives me lots of sub-domains and e-mail addresses, and private domain registration.
Right now I’m looking forward to making some regular posts about my recent activities. Life has been unbelievably busy over the last 4 months it’s crazy! A regular outlet is just what I need.
Update: www.noizwaves.com is now 100% operational!
Lots of uni related stuff has been happening over the past few weeks. Uni results have come out, my 2008 Honours offer letter came, and we had our sacrilegious note burning cleansing session.
It’s been so long since my last blog post, so this one will be full of the general happenings of the last few months. So much has changed; computers have died, laptops purchased, uni degrees have been changed, exams have been and gone, and a few gadgets have been purchased Thats the topic of this post
Since converting to Mac and OS X iv’e been on the hunt for a program that could sync my Google calendar with some sort of calendar program. I was hoping that program would be iCal, but sadly there are no free syncing programs available 
But there was one rose that stood out amongst the thorns; alas Lightning and Google Calendar Provider were discovered.
Continue reading ‘Thunderbird + Lightning + Google Calendar = hotness’ »
For those of you who know me personally, you’ll be aware I’ve been wanting a shiney new laptop for a while now. But no actual need for one, the purchase of a new computer was completely unjustified. So for the last few months I’ve been wishing death upon my computers, and last Sunday that wish came true…
I thought I would have a look on Google to see how high up my blog appears when searching for keywords in my articles. After searching for “noiz waves introduction”, it just occurred to me how ugly and unoptimised the HTML page titles are for the blog posts by default in WordPress:
