Last post for August. How time flies...
I picked up a couple of 512Mb SD cards for the camera, so I should be able to take more pics at once. I also got myself a couple of rechargeable batteries and a charger. Now all I need is a decent subject to photograph...
Maybe I'll start a photo-webcomic. The lowest of the low.
In other news, the exercise thingymajiggy seems to be going well. I'm still averaging around an hour for the walk (which I guesstimate is around 5 and 1/2 or 6 kilometers). My left ankle is hurting a bit, but I'm not sure why. I don't recall stressing it and if it was because of the walking, I'd expect both to be hurting, not just the one.
Finally; I use Firefox which has this nice spell-checker built in. What I want to know is, why do words like "okay" and "pics" come up as being wrong but a word like "guesstimate" is accepted???
Friday, August 31, 2007
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Long slow trudge...
Okay, so the new exercise kick isn't really going according to plan. Do these things ever?
Anyway, for those of you morbid enough to follow along, you can do so from this page on my website. I'll probably be updating it every day or so.
On the other hand, I've had a few excuses / reasons to skip a few days. On Friday my mum was in an accident which (for obvious reasons) prevented me from exercising for a few days and today it was pouring with rain.
Well, there's always tomorrow...
Anyway, for those of you morbid enough to follow along, you can do so from this page on my website. I'll probably be updating it every day or so.
On the other hand, I've had a few excuses / reasons to skip a few days. On Friday my mum was in an accident which (for obvious reasons) prevented me from exercising for a few days and today it was pouring with rain.
Well, there's always tomorrow...
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Day One
Well, today I started my new exercise regime.
Not much to tell. I've plotted out a course, but I'm not sure how far it actually is. I'll need to measure it out to try and work out how far I'm going.
Today was a brisk walk, and it took me an hour (59 minutes, 19 seconds) to cover the course. I plan on doing a lap each day and after a month I'll start jogging it instead of walking. Hopefully, I'll be able to run 90% of the distance by the end of the year. I say 90% since I'd need a bit of time to warm up and cool down.
The idea is that I'll be able to take my shirt off and have the ladies say "Mmm, interesting" instead of "Meh"...
Not much to tell. I've plotted out a course, but I'm not sure how far it actually is. I'll need to measure it out to try and work out how far I'm going.
Today was a brisk walk, and it took me an hour (59 minutes, 19 seconds) to cover the course. I plan on doing a lap each day and after a month I'll start jogging it instead of walking. Hopefully, I'll be able to run 90% of the distance by the end of the year. I say 90% since I'd need a bit of time to warm up and cool down.
The idea is that I'll be able to take my shirt off and have the ladies say "Mmm, interesting" instead of "Meh"...
Monday, August 20, 2007
First pics from camera! w00t!
Okay, most people aren't going to give two hoots about this, but I felt the urge to share...
That's my car, and one of the first things I've taken a pic of.
Right now I've only got the basic 16Mb SD card that came with the camera, but I'll get some bigger ones soon. I'll probably also get myself a tripod. Just because I can.
Maybe I'll even be able to get some pictures of me up, or better yet, something other people will actually find interesting...
And yeah, it is rather cold around here. It's winter in the southern hemisphere.
That's my car, and one of the first things I've taken a pic of.
Right now I've only got the basic 16Mb SD card that came with the camera, but I'll get some bigger ones soon. I'll probably also get myself a tripod. Just because I can.
Maybe I'll even be able to get some pictures of me up, or better yet, something other people will actually find interesting...
And yeah, it is rather cold around here. It's winter in the southern hemisphere.
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Another day, another comic uploaded
It took a while to get all the html coded up, but I managed to get my comic ictoanftc (I couldn't think of a name for this comic) onto the site. It's viewable here, but it's one of those "unfinished" comics. I have quite a long story laid out for it, but for some reason I can't bring myself to continue it.
I was going to put up the complete story (or what I had written so far) but there is a fair amount of good material in there which I may still use.
In unrelated news, I bought a digital camera today. A nice Canon Powershot A550 which seems to be a fairly nice camera so far. I've also bought a tripod for it from eBay (through a friend's account). Hopefully the tripod will be suitable and everything will work well together. If it does, great. If it doesn't, then at least it didn't cost me that much.
I'm a bit miffed about some work I had done on the car today.
Basically, the reverse light was coming on when the vehicle was in neutral, not reverse (it's an automatic). I took it to the auto electrician but it turns out that the part it needed was no longer available from the manufacturer. And the car isn't that old.
So I told the chaps to install a simple switch so that I can turn on the reverse light manually, and to install an immobilizer while they were at it. Told "it'll be $150" which is decent. Final tally, it came out at $230 because the price was just for the immobilizer and didn't include labour or additional bits.
Aaargh.
I hate cars...
I was going to put up the complete story (or what I had written so far) but there is a fair amount of good material in there which I may still use.
In unrelated news, I bought a digital camera today. A nice Canon Powershot A550 which seems to be a fairly nice camera so far. I've also bought a tripod for it from eBay (through a friend's account). Hopefully the tripod will be suitable and everything will work well together. If it does, great. If it doesn't, then at least it didn't cost me that much.
I'm a bit miffed about some work I had done on the car today.
Basically, the reverse light was coming on when the vehicle was in neutral, not reverse (it's an automatic). I took it to the auto electrician but it turns out that the part it needed was no longer available from the manufacturer. And the car isn't that old.
So I told the chaps to install a simple switch so that I can turn on the reverse light manually, and to install an immobilizer while they were at it. Told "it'll be $150" which is decent. Final tally, it came out at $230 because the price was just for the immobilizer and didn't include labour or additional bits.
Aaargh.
I hate cars...
Monday, August 13, 2007
Getting a digital camera
In my family, we've never really been that big on cameras. We've had some basic ones, and take pictures on occasion, but for the most part, we don't take a lot of pictures.
Lately, I have been thinking about getting a digital camera. Like everyone else, I'd really like dSLR, but they are hideously expensive and I'd only use three or four settings. So I'd be paying a whole lot for functionality I don't need and probably wouldn't know how to use.
So I've been browsing through the 'point and shoot' range of cameras.
I was thinking of getting some of last years technology. Getting something that was top-of-the-line a while back but superseded nowadays.
Having had a look at a whole range of different cameras, both locally and on eBay, it seems that (in my case) I may be better off buying a local camera and just keeping an eye out for when they are on sale.
I've been looking at a bunch of different cameras, and the one that seems to strike my fancy is the Canon Powershot A550. It has a couple of good reviews, takes AA batteries (rechargeable) and uses SD cards for expanded memory.
I want the rechargeable AA's and the SD card option so that I can buy them from work ;)
I saw some nice Fujifilm cameras, even some SLR-style ones that look nice but they use xD cards. Other types seem to use different cards depending on the manufacturer, so I think I'll be going with Canon, whether I get the A550 or a different camera.
Lately, I have been thinking about getting a digital camera. Like everyone else, I'd really like dSLR, but they are hideously expensive and I'd only use three or four settings. So I'd be paying a whole lot for functionality I don't need and probably wouldn't know how to use.
So I've been browsing through the 'point and shoot' range of cameras.
I was thinking of getting some of last years technology. Getting something that was top-of-the-line a while back but superseded nowadays.
Having had a look at a whole range of different cameras, both locally and on eBay, it seems that (in my case) I may be better off buying a local camera and just keeping an eye out for when they are on sale.
I've been looking at a bunch of different cameras, and the one that seems to strike my fancy is the Canon Powershot A550. It has a couple of good reviews, takes AA batteries (rechargeable) and uses SD cards for expanded memory.
I want the rechargeable AA's and the SD card option so that I can buy them from work ;)
I saw some nice Fujifilm cameras, even some SLR-style ones that look nice but they use xD cards. Other types seem to use different cards depending on the manufacturer, so I think I'll be going with Canon, whether I get the A550 or a different camera.
Thursday, August 9, 2007
Meandering musings
Just coming down from the tail end of around four days off from work.
Didn't get to do that much, mostly due to my own laziness I suppose. On the plus side, I did take my car to get the lights fixed. Every time I tried to turn on the park lights, it would blow the fuse. Turns out that I had wired it up badly and accidentally connected the earth for the radio to what I thought was an earth but was actually the feed line for the lights.
No wonder I was blowing fuses...
Other than that, it's been fairly quiet for while. Not sure what exactly it is that I want or need, so I've been leading a fairly aimless life lately. Since I haven't had any goals, I haven't been moving in any direction.
Maybe I'll take up Ian's offer and move to Sydney.
Because there's Sweet F A happening around Perth...
Didn't get to do that much, mostly due to my own laziness I suppose. On the plus side, I did take my car to get the lights fixed. Every time I tried to turn on the park lights, it would blow the fuse. Turns out that I had wired it up badly and accidentally connected the earth for the radio to what I thought was an earth but was actually the feed line for the lights.
No wonder I was blowing fuses...
Other than that, it's been fairly quiet for while. Not sure what exactly it is that I want or need, so I've been leading a fairly aimless life lately. Since I haven't had any goals, I haven't been moving in any direction.
Maybe I'll take up Ian's offer and move to Sydney.
Because there's Sweet F A happening around Perth...
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