Anyway I'm going back through the last couple of months right up to when I received my N97 for key events which are worth putting on here, because that was when I last updated this blog in the first place!
Keep an eye out for posts slightly older than this one!
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...cos I'm not a fat bastard! I brought the Jaffa into work and it was very well received!
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...so I made one!
It's so big it filled a dinner plate. It is... the... PERFECT size! Now to find a cup of tea big enough for it
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Remember this?
Yup, it's the box that used to be the server at my old place. It was lacking a hard drive before but now I've fitted a modest... 20Gb drive.
"20Gb!?!? Why, man!?!?" you may be asking. Well, it doesn't need a big drive. All of my music and videos are stored on the Terrabyte network drive, and my media box will be connected to the network wirelessly over a 108Mbyte connection. I've installed Windows XP and XBMC onto the box, and now it's ready to go.
Result? It's brilliant! The television is connected to my hi-fi, the media box gets the videos from the next room, and I can control it all with my wireless keyboard (which also works in my Wii, I might add). I think at some point I'll switch it over to some form of Linux distribution, but I haven't decided what yet. For now, it does the job, and pretty damn well!
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Carly and I decided to take a day out and go to Chester Zoo. I think we chose the best day for it. It was hot and sunny, and there were loads of animals out as well! Plenty of opportunities to take great photos, like this one:
I've uploaded my pictures to the Photographs section so go on, have a look then!
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Just a quick note, really. My parents stopped by this weekend and brought some RAM for me that they weren't using... and couldn't use, as it's incompatible with their computers. As a result, I've now got 3.5Gb of RAM, only 512Mb short of the 4Gb maximum that the motherboard can take.
The computer is, again, noticeably faster than before! Especially after I've just also deleted 100Gb of crap from the hard drives and defragmented them.
I should be fine with this set up for quite some time then...
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Power cuts aren't fun. No siree! Let me tell you about the one from last night.
I wake up at about 4am and can hear a distinct beeping coming from somewhere. For a short while I try to ignore it, but it was even starting to disturb Carly, so I went out to investigate. It was the flat's alarm control box, and it was beeping loudly because it was running on emergency battery backup. Now surely the beeping would drain the battery even more, but the real reason to stop it was that it was keeping us awake. After reading up in the manual and five minutes of fiddling, I got the beeping to stop. Wondering why it wasn't using the proper power, I went to the cupboard downstairs in the block of flats to see what was going on. I poked my head out of the front door, and I could hear everyone else's alarms beeping as well as I walked down the stairs. I peered into the cupboard. All the metres were blank. It was a power cut.
"Ah well", I thought, so I went back to bed. All wrapped up under the sheets again, I started to settle down to a, now peaceful, night's sleep.
*CLUNK* *CLUNK* *Whirrrrrr*
It was clear to me that the power had come back on. I opened my eyes to a room full of light. My computer had come to life. The internal lights from the fans and the UV bulb were shining out of the window on the side of the case and lighting up the room. It was accompanied by the gentle whirring of my three hard drives. I sighed. I think Carly sighed too. I got up to turn the computer off. However, as I walked over to the PC, the national grid decided to do it for me. Pitch blackness again.
I sighed again, and went back to bed, and then the PC sprung back to life once more. I thought to myself "I can't be arsed!" so I just left it running. This was a mistake, as it then became clear to us that this was an intermittent power outage. The PC was firing up, then shutting off, firing up, shutting off, and was doing so for the next few minutes. Getting fed up with it, I went to the PC and turned off everything at the plug.
Now for some sleep. Of course, the power cuts had caused my alarm clock to reset itself. Since we didn't know how long this was gonna go on for, I set the alarm on my phone instead. We drifted off to sleep again...
Upon waking up three hours later, it was clear that the power still hadn't come back on. This meant no hot water, no coffee, and no television. It also meant we couldn't wash, even with the cold water, because there's absolutely no natural light in the bathroom. We couldn't have cereal because I had no milk. Things were grim. I suggested we go to the local café before heading off to work, but sadly there wasn't time. Carly had to go to work.
I ended up driving to work all crummy and tired, and having to stop by the shops in Whaley Bridge to get a coffee and a breakfast bap.
Thankfully when I got back from work earlier today, the power was back on. Phew!!
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I picked up a new game today, and it's jolly good fun! Why? Well, watch the video...
I don't really need to say much more. The game is an extension of the original Wii Sports with an add on for the controller that picks up more of your movements. An excellent title overall! There is one thing I just want to point out... The way this game works and how the Motion Plus add-on works? This is franky what I expected of the Wii when I first got it. The release of this add on has shown that this simply wasn't the case.. well, not anymore
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I've had the phone for less than a month, and it's first firmware comes out! V11 has actually been out for a few days in the rest of the world, but has only just come out in the UK.
There are many different fixes in this and I've noticed that the phone is running a bit better thanks to this firmware. Lots of people have complained how buggy the N97 is so I recommend you install this update as soon as possible! You don't even need to back up your data cos the phone preserves them.
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