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Hey everybody, hope you’ve all been doing great. I haven’t made a ‘personal’ post for over a week now so I thought i’d fill you all in on what’s been happening with me, interesting or not lol.

School is school really, same old same old. I only have two weeks left of classes for the semester, then a week of exams so it will all be over very shortly, I so can’t wait. I’ve been applying for all kinds of jobs lately. I’m most probably going to be taking some time off studying after this semester is over so looking for a new job.

Applied for mostly full time positions in a whole range of fields such as data entry (boring), various programming jobs, mainly experience with .net languages, some web development stuff (php/asp.net), some consultancy work, even applied to work full time in a sports store here in Melbourne. I hope i get an interview with the sports store, I think i’d really like working there for a bit.

Ummm, what else has been happening. I mentioned in this week’s (episode 6) audio I caught TOTO’s Melbourne concert, which was really great, had such a great time. Lost my voice at the end of the night but was fun nonetheless! lol. Anybody who has ever been to any kind of rock concert knows fully how hot it can get down in there, and I was totally stuffed by the end, soo hot….about half way through I was really dying for some water or something, but didn’t wanna move. It would have been hell trying to get out of the huge wave of people I was nestled amongst. But, still so cool!

Anybody close to me knows I’ve been doing it tough over the last few weeks, just with my personal affairs and stuff. Most of the people I’m close to do come here and read my blog too, so to all you guys, thanks alot for being there for me it really means alot to me. Good to know I have such great friends around me.

On a lighter note, I’ve been hyping it up for the last few months you are all aware. New Super Mario Bros for the Nintendo DS finally came out this week, hope to pick up a copy of it sometime soon. If you have no idea what i’m talking about, just browse through my blog, you’ll most definately find a post i wrote on it.

So thats about it I guess, If i’ve forgotten anything, i’ll be sure to tell you guys about it. Take it easy, have a great week!

The bill released by the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee is called the ”Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination Act.” It’s gathering support from both sides of the aisle, but is also facing strong opposition. This could be a long and ugly battle.

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Michelin shows a potentially disruptive technology which could be the future new standard for vehicles: an airless, integrated tire and wheel combination. It’s called the Tweel (Tire/WhEEL). Watch the video to see how it works and what it will/can be used for.

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While it is tough to be a woman, being a man can be downright deadly. Women live longer than men. And now scientists suggest a simple Darwinian reason: Competing for a mate can wear a guy out or get him killed.

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Hey guys, haven't written anything on here for at least a few days, its been a madhouse with uni at the moment. I have this essay I have to write, I may have talked about it before, but its an essay on Operating Systems. Here's the topic in question: 

“Operating Systems have two main functions. The first is to provide resource abstraction and the second is to manage resource sharing.”

Sounds fun huh lol. im going ok with it at the moment I suppose but only have a few more days to get it done before its due so been pushing for that recently. Soon enough Justin, soon enough it will be all over.

Mmm what else. Thinking about going to see Mission Impossible 3 tomorrow, i think that will be a cool movie. To be perfectly honest, Im not a huge fan of Tom Cruise at the moment. Seems as though he's gone a little crazy personally, but I do think he's a pretty good actor. Should be good anyway.

Just a quick one for today, gotta get back to this damn essay, its killing me right now! lol.

Check back on Friday for Ep#4. I haven't been talking about all that much, but rest assured, it will be a great episode. 

You’ve seen the person sitting next to you in the classroom or meeting flipping the pen or pencil around their thumb…..now it’s your turn to bug someone else.

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It's time for another episode of the greatest show on earth…well, just kidding. I have just put out episode 3 for your listening pleasure, back for another week of revision on what's been happening with me, news here on my blog and any major announcements.

Show Notes:

• High score in Tetris DS - NEW personal record: 417 lines cleared, LV 43, 834,000 points scored
• Back to Uni we go - Back for another 5-6 weeks of hitting the books
• Apple 8GB & 10GB Nano models - Cool if you don't yet have an iPod, kicking yourself if you do!
• Wrap-Up - Interest in show music, any ideas?

I've been really excited about finding new artists which licence their music under creative commons or freely distribute their music. I'll be using a favourite tune on each episode, hope you guys like it. If anybody has any suggestions on any really cool 'Indie' bands or cool artists who freely distribute their music through various licences (creative commons) please let me know, i'll be happy to track them down…maybe you'll hear your favourite song next episode!

Thanks guys for sticking with me while i've been ironing out the bugs on this new idea. I've had few tough hosting issues but have finally sorted them out i think now.

Enjoy Episode 3! 

835,484 points I scored the other day in Tetris DS by playing for 35-40 mins solid on one standard 'endless' marathon game. I got to Lv 42 with 417 lines cleared essentially beating the game more than TWICE over! I was so amazed, my previous best was LV 23 with only just over 300,000 points so this was a huge step.

I'm definately not joking, for proof I took some photos of the game after I finished:

I tried to upload some more of these photos but wasn't working for some reason, maybe i'll check back later and see if its working then. Was pretty crazy, thought i'd just share that with you guys.

I've started back at uni now to finish off the rest of the semester. I so can't wait until its over, it will be great. I have an exam today which won't be fun at all, but i'm never going to be any more ready than I am now, so we'll see what happens with it, hopefully its easy! lol. 

Remember Episode 3 will be out friday, just got done recording it before, throw some music in on it (creative commons of course, no lawsuits please) and it will be all done for another week! It will be up Friday afternoon AEST. 

Episode 2: Rain, Hail or Shine was just a little over 2MB and I can't seem to upload any files to wordpress over 1MB so I decided to try my luck and keep this episode off site. Some people are having trouble downloading the file which is unfortunate. It wasn't my intention to make a big deal out of these audio posts, just doing them for something different.

I am seriously going to try and keep each episode under 1MB so I can keep them here on wordpress without any hassles. I don't particularly want to encode each episode in any less quality than 56Khz which is the lowest bitrate i think which doesn't affect spoken word all too much. To combat this, I can either lower the quality of the audio which I don't really want to do, or cut each episode's time down to around 2 minutes. If I plan each episode I think I can manage 2 mins without any hassles.

Episode 2 is 5:25 minutes long and will be the last episode over 2-3 minutes from now on. Doing this will obviously help me out a lot, and it will help you guys out too. You won't be getting stupid error messages when your trying to stream each of the files which i'm totally pissed about happening.

Episode 3 will be out on the 28th and will be easy to download, don't you worry and will be hosted right here on wordpress.

Sorry for all the problems with episode 2 guys, some people didn't seem to have a problem and others did, but it won't happen again. Thanks for hanging in there with me, trying new things it was bound to happen sooner or later.

Well my mid-semester break is over and back to school I go. I so can't wait until this semester is over, will be awsome. I was really loving not having to goto school, but I guess its ok going back. I still like it no problems there, but I just really can't be bothered doing anymore schoolwork. I need to take a break I think. After this semester I will I think.

Mmm what else has been happening… I was out saturday night in Melbourne having dinner at the Hard Rock, it was fun. Heidi you'll appreciate this, we had this waitress that night, her name was Candy (i think). Such a fun waitress and was bubbly and did spins and twirls, really looked like she totally loves her job. It was just the two of us and unlike most of the waitresses there, she would stop by often just to see how we're going and if we liked the food and stuff. I tipped her $10, she was very appreciative.

So just a quick post for today, gotta go get ready for school anyway, have to leave in like 10 minutes. Longer post next time i swear!