Maz

MOSS v2 coming soon.. - Site
31 Dec 2005 @ 03:58 am - It's been a while since any visable work has been done on my site but I have been working on it on a local copy. I am at the stage where I can see all my old code is shit so I am basically rewriting it all from scratch. There isn't that much to do bu...

Please give me all your monies! - Geebin
31 Dec 2005 @ 03:27 am - I was just chatting about buying a new PC and I eventually got sidetracked into somewhat of a wishlist rather than an affordable PC. Still it's worth looking at and you should all donate me your monies because I am your overlord. First it had to b...

Happy birthday various minions! - General
30 Dec 2005 @ 03:37 am - I've missed a few birthdays during December and this is my chance to congratulate everyone for surviving another year. First happy birthday Kate. I know it's 3am there right now and you probably won't read this for a few days but you'll get it eve...

Virtual DVD+-R - Geebin
28 Dec 2005 @ 04:02 am - I've just wasted half an hour or so looking for a Virtual DVD+R emulator and I'm met by stupidity and insults. My specific problem is that I have a dvd-decrypter image that has an error and is unable to be opened by anything else. I can burn it to a ...

Cultural differences - General
27 Dec 2005 @ 03:34 pm - This is just a list of differences I started making in my head while I was grocery shopping.. - You have to be 21 to buy alcohol? That's just silly. - I'm drinking vodka with Dr Pepper! You remember that stuff right? (also may be responsible fo...

Christmas - General
27 Dec 2005 @ 06:19 am - Well christmas has wasted a few of the last few days so this is an entry to feed the hungry beast that is my website and its audience. When I do anything I'll write a post with some content. Merry christmas for anyone who isn't going to argue with...

777: # of the moose - General
24 Dec 2005 @ 04:29 am - Evanescence at 24000 feet is a bad sign? In Flames, thats better.. I've been too busy to write lately because I've been hanging out in Miami so this is for the last 3 days or so. [u]Wednesday:[/u] This morning Ariel and I went out for pizza for b...

I made it all the way to Miami - General
21 Dec 2005 @ 11:07 am - Because I went to bed so early last night I woke up at like 6am and had very little to do. I threw a change of clothes into my bag and then chatted to people online until I had to go to the airport. I checked in without any problems and while I was w...

Minnesota road-trip - General
21 Dec 2005 @ 10:46 am - Roe and I left Minnesota at like 7am so we could get through Chicago before rush hour and when we left it was a balmy -9 degrees farenheit. Which is like -23 degrees celcius. [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1135125756-IMG_3002.JPG[/img] Lovely as ...

Day++: Mall of America - General
18 Dec 2005 @ 03:32 pm - Today when Roe, Alex and I were all awake and ready to go outside (about 1pm or something) we made our way to the Mall of America. There was trouble before we even got there with tons of traffic and we took an alternate route and even managed to find...

Up up and away - General
17 Dec 2005 @ 01:00 am - I'm about to leave for Minnesota with Roe to visit Alex. It's a 10 hour drive or so in good weather so fingers crossed that we don't get stuck in snow. I'll be away for the whole weekend taking photos and stuff so I'll put those online when I get the...

mod_rewrite lesson learning. - Site
15 Dec 2005 @ 06:45 pm - I'm still attempting to seamlessly change my site across to a dynamic themeing system and have hit a brick wall. Any HTTP GET variables are 'eaten' by mod_rewrite and when I send it to the template page it doesn't get sent on. I.e. if I wanted to go ...

'Tis the season to get sloshed. - General
13 Dec 2005 @ 05:39 pm - Tonight I found out what was in eggnog but I didn't buy any yet. It contains (in a non-alcoholic version), milk, reconstituted milk, egg yolks, sugar and flavouring. In the alcoholic version (mine), it would be: Vodka (Smirnoff or something equally a...

Dinner - General
11 Dec 2005 @ 03:13 pm - I woke up at 10:30am but I fell asleep again until 3pm. We went out for dinner and I was walking around in the snow wearing the same clothes that I wear in the summer in Australia. Chilly.[comment]Very hot here. Graduation today. Fortunately a bit ov...

Crappy software, only $25 - Internet
10 Dec 2005 @ 05:33 pm - Trillian is crashing every few seconds. And they want $25 before they'll give any support. Well I don't know about anyone else but I'm not going to pay for end user software that is shit so the developers can fix it. If the trial is crap it doesn't s...

Shopping trip - General
10 Dec 2005 @ 02:59 pm - When you're in another country like this, it's the subtle differences that are the most noticable. Like tonight we went shopping at Meijer (Myer) which is a store that has everything. Starting with groceries and the boring stuff we then wandered thro...

Cold, cold, cold. - General
10 Dec 2005 @ 05:17 am - Last night we got about 6 to 8 inches of snow so I thought it would be a lovely day for a walk. So I set off wearing thin tracksuit pants and a jacket and as I'm walking along, everyone is looking at me strange when they drive past. They're sliding a...

Google broken - Geebin
08 Dec 2005 @ 06:28 pm - Whatever the hell Google uses for its page ranking seems to be slightly fucked. Normally my site resides about 10-20 when searching for "Maz" but every so often Google drops me to 100+ and a couple of times I was totally removed from the sy...

Looking for legal software - Geebin
08 Dec 2005 @ 03:35 pm - [comment]http://nudekimkardashi.blog.drecom.jp [anchor=1207485072]Comment[/anchor] by [b]Anonymous[/b] on 06 Apr 2008 @ 12:31 pm [url]http://nudekimkardashi.blog.drecom.jp[/url][/comment][comment]http://rihannanude.blog.drecom.jp||rihanna nude http...

Mod_rewrite rules are at hand! - Site
08 Dec 2005 @ 12:29 am - In the wee hours of this morning I set up all the mod_rewrite rules to make all the URL's look a bit tidier. [url]http://maz.net.au/~maz[/url] will take you to my section. [url]http://maz.net.au/~maz/1134000585[/url] will take you to a specific p...

The Struggle: A Life Journey - General
08 Dec 2005 @ 12:09 am - Our hero finds himself feeling groggy, waking in bed at 3 hours past high-sun. As he looks at the sundial on his wall a look of dismay crosses his face and he realises the time for action is at hand! Leaping out of bed he scours his padded room for t...

Hacking wireless - Geebin
07 Dec 2005 @ 01:28 pm - ** PLEASE NOTE ** I am not causing any damage. I am merely on a fact-finding mission over the various wireless networks that exist around the house here. To start with, access points with no WEP and default router passwords are not a challenge at...

Saw 2 - General
07 Dec 2005 @ 08:04 am - Roe and I went and saw "[i]Saw II[/i]" at the cinema last night. It was okay I guess. It was just more of the first one really although it had a few extra twists. Those of you wanting to see a movie with blood and scenes designed to make no...

Day++: Tour of Lansing - General
06 Dec 2005 @ 07:49 am - Today I waged war on those SuDoKo puzzles that people like so much. I successfully finished a program (written in C) that solves them in a second or so. No more guesswork for me! I shall put up a static page for that soon. My tour of Lansing today...

New gallery 'United States' added! - Site
06 Dec 2005 @ 07:37 am - Maz has added a new photo gallery. [url=gallery.php?user=maz&gallery=united_states]United states[/url] A selection of photos from my trip to the United States. Be prepared to see photos of snow, snow and more snow.[comment]Is it just me or is t...

Hotlink protection - Site
04 Dec 2005 @ 04:52 am - I have just enabled hotlink protection on all the images on my site in an attempt to save the precious bandwitdh my site has (I MIGHT use 30 gb one month..), even though I only used 3gb last month. This was just a good way to be irritating. [url=/im...

Day 3: Lansing. I finally made it - General
03 Dec 2005 @ 08:07 pm - Well the plane arrived at Chicago at about 12:30 and we boarded about 1am. Then we sat there on the plane until about 1:30am before we got anywhere. Finally I arrived at Lansing some time close to 3:30am where it was happily snowing. When I got to Ro...

Tv - General
03 Dec 2005 @ 09:58 am - I was compaling about Japanese tv ads being scary yesterday. I'm not sure where American ads rate in comparison. I'm creeped out tho....

Day 2: LAX and Chicargo - General
02 Dec 2005 @ 07:29 pm - After I got off wireless last time over in Japan I got on my flight which was over 10 hours and got me to L.A. some time in the morning before I left. On this flight I had planned to finish my book and sleep for about 7 hours so I'd be awake ready fo...

Day 1: Narita, Japan - General
01 Dec 2005 @ 02:56 pm - I started missing Lisa before she'd even left the airport. :( Now I'm here and I have a terrible headache and I could really use a hug from her. I was feeling so nervous that I was making myself feel sick, but luckily I had opted to skip breakfast. ...

Telstra shaping - Geebin
29 Nov 2005 @ 07:30 pm - To Telstra I say "stuff you". As soon as I get back I'm going to change the internet to another provider. Telstra was only worth it so long as they didn't limit us. With only one person on our internet it's too slow to use MSN. Now we chang...

Oh no I go! - General
29 Nov 2005 @ 11:13 am - Well my flight leaves in less that 24 hours and I'm still slowly doing things that need to be done before I go. I imagine I'll be spending most of the flight remembering things I should have done before I left. Everyone is like, "make a list of ...

I hate stupid peope! - General
27 Nov 2005 @ 11:52 pm - Especially people that are totally inconsiderate and have no sense of empathy. People who try and joke about topics that are not a joke (also despite them not being funny). These people know who they are and try to validate their existance by saying ...

Nobody loves me!!! *cries* - General
26 Nov 2005 @ 11:23 pm - Well yeah. I accidentally left my messengers signed in when I was out today.. for about 8 hours. (Of course I have turned off that stupid auto-away feature so it looked like I was online and at my PC the whole time). Only one person even tried to con...

I remember - General
26 Nov 2005 @ 10:19 am - When the other George Bush was blowing up Iraq. When countries were fleeing the Soviet Union like rats from a sinking ship. When Clinton took power in the US elections. and When 16-bit Nintendo was the greatest. Some things you just can't have...

Getting my arse into gear! - General
25 Nov 2005 @ 12:07 pm - In light of the fact that I leave pretty soon and I haven't been at all prepared. I went out to see EPSA today at uni (my faculty) and they gave me half a dozen pieces of paper that might let me sit my supplementary exam over in Michigan *IF* I do en...

Castle under siege! - General
23 Nov 2005 @ 11:16 pm - Harry Potter is quite... f***ed. There was an 'ornament' on our fridge of Cassie's which WAS a Harry Potter thingy from the paper thingy (Courier mail). It was crap. Anyway, we're all sick of it. Of course the only option is to burn it.. i.e. [img...

Where are my holidays? - General
23 Nov 2005 @ 11:44 am - I need a break. I'm just so stressed and stuff I just wish I could have a break. Instead I'm packing my stuff for America and worrying about at least a million other things and I'm already sick of it. I need to get organised for my trip which leaves...

So I've been slack... - General
22 Nov 2005 @ 12:19 am - and I haven't posted much or been online to chat. I just don't feel like it at the moment, not to mention I still need to get ready to go overseas because I leave in 10 days or so. Which is really scary to think about. I don't know what I'm going to ...

Notice - General
20 Nov 2005 @ 05:04 pm - Do not log into a site, then click every link at once (some browsers have the most random features). As a result I just lost the last half-dozen posts on my journal. Maz...

Last.fm running like a dog with no legs - Internet
15 Nov 2005 @ 08:54 pm - After excessive amounts of pressure from other people (I don't know why anyone cares), but I joined last.fm and started collecting music stats. It was cool for about 5 minutes except the site 404's 50% of the time. And now apparently audioscrobbler h...

Study study study - General
13 Nov 2005 @ 03:56 pm - I've only got one exam to go in my degree and I just feel so sick of studying and working that it looks like I'm going to end up failing it. I know I should be studying hard but for now I'd rather sleep. Unfortunately I have to work tonight and tomor...

Bosses vs. blogging - Internet
12 Nov 2005 @ 12:05 am - In my wonderful travels of the internet I came across a [url=http://blogs.msdn.com/frankarr/archive/2005/11/10/491235.aspx]blog post[/url] (by Frankarr) about an [url=http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;102962406;fp;16;fpid;0]article[/url] t...

Case mod: LCD Side (Part 1) - Geebin
11 Nov 2005 @ 11:34 pm - After the plethora of how-to's out there telling you how to install 300 brightly coloured fans and flourescent bulbs or windows in your case, I'm considering writing my own to try and fit my 17" LCD into the side panel of my case.. [img]/users/...

Red Room: 0 beers out of 10 - General
11 Nov 2005 @ 10:48 pm - Dear UQ Union, Tonight I had the most unfortunate experience of walking into the Red Room tonight to meet Lisa. Before I'd even got in the door you could hear the god-awful live band. Initially I wasn't sure if the band was karaoke or not by the w...

Features to add: - Site
10 Nov 2005 @ 11:45 pm - It's been really irritating when I think of something that I need to add to my site, (wrote my own CMS), but then have to shelf the idea because of study and when I finally get around to writing stuff I've forgotten. Well no more! This is going to be...

.NET Image Resizer update - Geebin
10 Nov 2005 @ 11:29 pm - This is just to point out my less than optimal solution to my problem. I wanted to batch resize hundreds of images so I could upload them to my site, the catch was that I wanted to do it from any pc overseas on the internet with a small program that...

прилый - Site
09 Nov 2005 @ 11:37 pm - I was looking through the options for referrer links to Google and I started looking at them in all different languages. (I won't be putting any on my site as no one is ever going to click it.) But how cool would "Получите прист�...

Is the glass half-full or half-empty? - General
09 Nov 2005 @ 09:50 pm - No.. really.. [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1131536964-IMG_2441.jpg[/img] If something glows green then it's probably not safe to drink. This Fanta definitely isn't safe. It diabeties in a bottle and after drinking nearly a whole one I can't feel...

Quotes - Site
08 Nov 2005 @ 04:44 pm - [b]Lisa says:[/b] [i]"ARRR. 'Tis a fine aggregated comments section but it ain't no essay."[/i] [b]Maz says:[/b] [i]People don't kill people. Apple drinks kill people![/i][comment]Do we get an rss feed of comments? Comment by [b]Kiera...

VoIP phone bill... - General
08 Nov 2005 @ 09:19 am - I was expecting a large bill but this is something else. - 19 Long distance calls around Australia. - 1 Mobile call. - 14 International calls. (one for more than 2 hours) The total? $6.32 Awesome....

Photo madness - Art
08 Nov 2005 @ 12:31 am - Just an update to let you all see what I'm doing. If you were on-the-ball you would have already checked my [url=http://maz.net.au/gallery.php?user=maz&gallery=practice]'Practice' Gallery[/url] where you would see just a few photos I took recentl...

Mind and Body: Computationalism. - General
07 Nov 2005 @ 02:31 pm - [code]Explain and evaluate Searle’s "Chinese Room" thought experiment against artificial intelligence. Does Searle's argument provide a decisive objection to computational theories of cognition? Does Searle's argument show that brains...

Angry @ Microsoft - Geebin
06 Nov 2005 @ 10:09 pm - It doesn't seem to take much does it? Here is why.. [b]1.[/b] I couldn't find a way to resize hundreds of images with Windows XP [b]2.[/b] I couldn't find a SMALL program to do it for me. [b]3.[/b] I wrote a program in C#.NET to do it. [b]4.[/b] ...

More features than a swiss army knife on a swiss army knife. - Site
06 Nov 2005 @ 04:15 pm - I added the "Remember Me" feature that everyone has been asking for with the comments. So lazy! I also just finished adding the "Static Pages" area where I can upload any sets of pages and they should work pretty independantly of ...

Image resizer in C#.NET - Geebin
06 Nov 2005 @ 01:07 pm - Despite Thei sending me the ImageResizer powertoy for XP, I went ahead and wrote my own simple little app to resize a large amount of images as quickly as possible. It didn't take too long to write but now I start to realise why I didn't use .NET bef...

Ponder the question... - General
05 Nov 2005 @ 12:55 am - [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1131116092-wwmd.jpg[/img] Don't forget to write in and let me know![comment]please explain above heresey to jesus, one by one. otherwise, smiting action will happen. Comment by [b]sef[/b] on 05 Nov 2005 @ 12:59 am ...

Intro page - Site
04 Nov 2005 @ 04:54 pm - As some of you may have noticed, putting just [b]http://maz.net.au/[/b] will get you an intro page to my site. It's total shit right now but there are plans to have some fun with that. If it's not to your liking then you might be better off bookmarki...

*Breaking* news - General
02 Nov 2005 @ 01:47 am - There was just a car smash on our street tonight at abut 12:50am. Of course being a uni student area during exam period, there was about 20 people to run out as they were driving off. My housemates and I were some of the first ones out just in time t...

Site progress marches on! - Site
31 Oct 2005 @ 03:47 pm - As you may notice you can now filter my site by categories. This post is not just to have *something* in the category [b]Site[/b]...[comment]Just had a thought. Maybe you should make it so people cn comment on individual photos in the galleries Comm...

Our cat the pansy - General
31 Oct 2005 @ 01:31 pm - Well this just proves it. At cat harness.. and it's even pink!!! HAHAHAHA [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1130729336-IMG_2240.jpg[/img] [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1130729405-IMG_2239.jpg[/img] What a cat... LOLOLOL!!!!11one[comment]Leave him alo...

Another INFS3204 post - General
30 Oct 2005 @ 11:31 pm - And for good reason. Apparently I now have one of the lowest marks in the class after getting the worst mark for the project (obviously not including the people who have dropped out of the course). I have the 3rd lowest mark and that is a problem. Ap...

Today I had... - General
30 Oct 2005 @ 01:51 am - A nap! Actually I had 2 or 3. I can't really remember. First I got up at like 8am which was FAR too early and I was back in bed by 10. I can't remember how I filled in the middle of my day but I think there was a bit of a trip to Toowong before anoth...

BITS AGM and EOS dinner - Geebin
28 Oct 2005 @ 11:49 pm - It's that time of year again where the nerds get together and choose a new leader! This year the winner is [url=http://clintfelmingham.com/]Sef[/url]!! The BITS (Bachelor of Information Technology Society) annual general meeting today was surprisingl...

What not to do... - Art
28 Oct 2005 @ 03:38 am - I'm not drunk I swear! Those buildings are just moving [b]REALLY[/b] fast! Lesson 1. Tripods exist for a reason. If you're going to keep the shutter open for 15 seconds at 7x zoom then you'd want to quickly find one. [url]/users/maz/journal/files/1...

CNNNN - General
28 Oct 2005 @ 12:02 am - That is not a typo! It's "Chaser Nonstop News Network" which is a political satire show. It's done by the same people who did "Election Chaser" which was also an awesome show. They just spent about 5 mins paying America out about...

Storm chasing - General
27 Oct 2005 @ 09:26 pm - When I rang dad tonight to mention the lack of stopping ability my car had, I also told him about the new digital camera. I said I hadn't had a real chance to test it out yet because the last few nights have been cloudy and I like night photos. He th...

Did somebody say "squigital camera"? - General
27 Oct 2005 @ 06:54 pm - The other day I bought a new Canon Powershot Pro1 digital camera. [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1130402807-pro1_front.jpg[/img] It's an 8 megapixel digital camera with 7x optical zoom. Allowing a max resolution of 3264 x 2448 pixels. It's about a...

New gallery 'Macro' added! - Art
27 Oct 2005 @ 06:01 pm - Maz has added a new photo gallery. [url=gallery.php?user=maz&gallery=macro]Macro[/url] Taking macro photos with the new squigital camera. i.e. really close up photos so that all you see is a very small part of a big object.[comment]Polo! Comme...

Bandwidth speed test - Geebin
27 Oct 2005 @ 01:19 pm - Well this is just to brag as much as anything else.. I just speed tested my cable and ... [code] [b][u]1.1 megabits per second[/u][/b] [b]Communications[/b] 1.1 megabits per second [b]Storage[/b] 139.3 kilobytes per second [b]1MB file download[/...

San Andreas bug? - General
27 Oct 2005 @ 11:47 am - I was just playing the San Andreas stadium mission "8-Track" and losing. So I figured I'd destroy the other 11 cars and just roll to the front for a win.. Well there appear to be problems with that theory. Like the fact that there are infin...

DeJa Vu! - General
27 Oct 2005 @ 01:09 am - What was going on with me this time last year? I was catching the bus to uni because my car was resting against a tree with no brakes. It had no brake pads so I wasn't driving it so as not to damage the discs. [b]GUESS WHAT!![/b] Guess what this is...

INFS3204: round 4 - General
26 Oct 2005 @ 02:55 pm - Placed on the course website is this notice: [code][20-10-2005]: First of all, thanks for all your support in this course. Very importantly, for any problem with this course, you are encouraged to discuss with lecturer first. Lecturer is more tha...

People have too much time on their hands - Geebin
24 Oct 2005 @ 10:39 pm - And this basically proves it. [code]telnet: towel.blinkenlights.nl[/code] and just check it out. OMG it's Star Wars in text! How geebin! [b]Some hints:[/b] 1. Open 'Run' 2. type 'telnet' 3. in telnet type 'open towel.blinkenlights.nl' [b]&iqu...

Damn cars! - General
23 Oct 2005 @ 01:54 am - Damn cars! Especially mine. It broke down in Toowoomba again today but this time I had 61c mobile credit. So that's 2 sms's, the first one was to my dad so that he might possibly come and get me. I waited for about half an hour without getting a phon...

New gallery 'Magnetic Island' added! - Art
22 Oct 2005 @ 01:26 am - Maz has added a new photo gallery. [url=gallery.php?user=maz&gallery=magnetic_island]Magnetic island[/url] A scenic island just off the coast of Townsville. I went there for the Easter holidays in 2003....

Operation: "End INFS3204" goes well - General
20 Oct 2005 @ 04:14 pm - I emailed all the students in the course, (as an earlier post mentioned), and I was surprised to get a dozen replies already. Within about half an hour the first 3 people had replied with more coming in during the day when I was at uni. I might try a...

Power outage: St. Lucia and Taringa - General
19 Oct 2005 @ 07:53 pm - I was sitting in my last lecture of the day philosophising about the meaning of life when all of a sudden we were throw into complete darkness and chaos. Then the wireless internet failed and I decided it was time to depart. Thei and I started walkin...

New gallery 'Lamington' added! - Art
19 Oct 2005 @ 06:28 pm - Maz has added a new photo gallery. [url=gallery.php?user=maz&gallery=lamington]Lamington[/url]: Lamington national park on the NSW / QLD border.[comment]The most delicious of national parks. Comment by [b]DM[/b] on 19 Oct 2005 @ 08:37 pm [/co...

Stripping email addresses. - Geebin
19 Oct 2005 @ 10:56 am - On the [u]INFS3204[/u] site there is a page containing everyone's personal info including email addresses. Seeing I'm going to make the effort to put in an official complaint about the course, I wanted to ask people if they had any issues that I hadn...

A *new challenge* - General
19 Oct 2005 @ 12:38 am - Wandering around Toowong Village today, (just aimlessly, not buying anything), I notice there was always someone following me as I walked around each store. Apparently I looked like the "stealing" type or something because it was each store...

Site updates. Oh WOW! - Site
18 Oct 2005 @ 11:54 pm - Yeah. So I added categories to my site and this is the first post to be in a category. w00t! With any luck this won't look so bad that I'll have to spend the next 5 hours removing it again. I'm tired. There is a few other category related func...

Jolt / Young Liberals censoring my site again. - General
17 Oct 2005 @ 11:25 pm - ...

Memo-to-self - Geebin
16 Oct 2005 @ 09:01 pm - [b]ExecuteNonQuery() is your friend![/b] When trying to debug your SQL statement that for some strange reason always returns true, remember to check that you have actually executed the query. wtf mate? WHEE HE HE!!! Bad assignemnt. *curls up i...

Maz kill Shen now - General
15 Oct 2005 @ 09:24 pm - Anyone doing [u]INFS3204[/u] right now knows EXACTLY what I mean. For those of you who aren't doing it, a general description of the assigment is to make a website ([b]using a zillion web services[/b]) to control enrolment and staffing of courses and...

Well how did it go? - General
13 Oct 2005 @ 10:14 pm - Short answer. [b]DON'T ASK![/b] Our demo managed to crash spectacularly on multiple occasions, and we also had nothing work how it was meant to when it did work. I think we almost would have done better with no code. Just a blank project. In the mid...

My car isn't damaged! It has CHARACTER!! - General
10 Oct 2005 @ 11:11 pm - yeah. Lisa and I were just dicussing the, erm, individuality of my car. Maybe even uniqueness. So long as I'm never trying to hide from the police in it the character is good. If you ever hear a wanted ad for someone driving a brown Nissan shitbox wi...

GXP 2000 (VoIP phone) picture - General
07 Oct 2005 @ 11:21 pm - Here it is. [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1128691194-000_0230.jpg[/img][comment]Yay! (of course) Comment by [b]Ariel[/b] on 12 Oct 2005 @ 10:06 am [/comment]...

Mentally numb - General
07 Oct 2005 @ 09:03 pm - For starters, why can't they have some interesting assignments at uni? Some of the earier years ones have been good, fun and so people actually learn something. Now I'm writing a stupid application to run an imaginary diner system, WaiterAid. To be h...

Saitek Eclipse Keyboard - Geebin
07 Oct 2005 @ 09:16 am - As I type this on my old Labtec wireless keyboard it makes me wonder what the point of wireless ever was. Yes it's cool that I can throw my keyboard across the room without getting up and unplugging it. But it's useless as hell to type with. That is...

International dialing - General
06 Oct 2005 @ 12:40 am - I've never had a phone that could ring overseas before. My mobile is blocked to Australia only and I'd never dare ring overseas from a Telstra landline, (Bill Gates couldn't afford that!). Well with the voice over IP phone and some good luck with in...

The city - General
05 Oct 2005 @ 10:49 pm - Millions of people living out their little lives, nothing but a flickering lights from up high. You watch and wonder what they're all worried about, do your anxieties even compare? Is the man with the Ferrari necessarily happier than the taxi dr...

Foot in the door techniques.. - General
05 Oct 2005 @ 06:27 pm - Talking to KJ some more today about a lot of things, (mostly geebin I must admit), and this is *sort-of* following on from the, "get your name out there!" theory. Basically I'm looking for newsgroups and blogs where I can talk to people abo...

Green zone parking. - General
05 Oct 2005 @ 09:26 am - The big question facing us all today is, "Are the car parks shrinking?". Parking in the green zones along MacGregor Drive today, (the big road that runs along by the river), and when I got out of my car I noticed I was just in the car park...

Yarr! Land ahoy! - General
05 Oct 2005 @ 12:04 am - I'm: - Listeing to [ Iron Maiden - Mother Russia ] - Chatting to someone using Dutch phrases - Planning my trip to America - Laughing about a waitress swearing in German - Wondering when my Arabian(?) landlord will have time to put up my shelf ...

Insert confidence here <-- - General
03 Oct 2005 @ 11:51 pm - ...

Does scurvy still exist? - General
03 Oct 2005 @ 11:12 pm - Even in this day and age it is still possible to get scuvry. Two "people I know" have taken it upon themselves to prove a point, (and try and get out of sitting uni exams in 5 weeks), and have decided to try and get scurvy before the exam s...

Stupid moron cyclists!! - General
03 Oct 2005 @ 10:12 am - So you want to be all environmental or you just want to get fit. Well a guarenteed way to save the planet is to off yourself by riding out from behind a truck into the path on an oncoming car and try to ride up the road towards them. The only reas...

Hazardous waste: may contain nuts - General
02 Oct 2005 @ 04:58 pm - I was cleaning my room and... Well, the photos say it all really. 1. here is the space where I'm huddled in the corner right now. Of course I'm not in the corner for the photo, I was in the far corner taking the photo. [img]/users/maz/journal/fil...

My hair!! They're in my hair!!! - General
02 Oct 2005 @ 04:27 pm - Well not really. But here is a photo to show people how it's still-long-but-not-quite-as-long-as-it-used-to-be. [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1128234403-000_0220.jpg[/img] What else can I say....

Too busy for life - General
01 Oct 2005 @ 11:14 pm - Right now I just have too much to do before I can do any more work on my website. Not that anyone actually frequents here. I hope. Anyway, I did get a VoIP phone and I'm messing with the settings as we speak. LG still hasn't sent us a new monitor, my...

*ring ring*. VOIP - General
30 Sep 2005 @ 02:24 pm - Lately I've been looking into buying a VoIP phone to save money on my mobile bill. There is a really good place [url=http://www.myvoipstore.com.au/]My Voip Store[/url] down in Springwood that are worth calling if you're thinking of getting one yourse...

Passport photos - General
30 Sep 2005 @ 02:12 pm - I actually have an acceptable passport photo. Hooray! It only took 5 goes. So who took the rejected photos? First 3 tries were Flight Center, then an Australian Post Office (they actually took the photos then rejected them), and the we finally got th...

Cut down in his prime - General
29 Sep 2005 @ 12:17 am - In case some of you haven't noticed, (or haven't seen me), when I was in Pittsworth I had a bit of a haircut. Nothing to extreme but its about 4 inches shorter. When I get around to it I might post a photo. *A minutes silence*. In memory of the hair...

The saga continues: Part 6 - General
28 Sep 2005 @ 06:30 pm - Today I picked up my drive from Umart and I was not charged the $35. I still think the drive is faulty but I can see why there is nothing they can do about it. So what they've suggested is check out my PSU and, like seagate said, the drivers. Well I ...

Seagate reply: Part 5 - General
28 Sep 2005 @ 12:20 am - Well I emailed the Seagate tech support and this is the responce I got. [code] Maz, This is definitely not normal, I would suggest updating the SATA controller drivers. You can download the latest SATA controller drivers from your motherboa...

Telstra mail server - General
26 Sep 2005 @ 10:13 pm - 2 days later and still no server. Have they changed the details or something without letting me know? I am waiting for an email back from Seagate and it still reports "The server name you entered can not be found on the network". So after t...

Seagate support: Part 4 - General
26 Sep 2005 @ 12:15 pm - Well after my last post I rang Umart and asked what I was supposed to do with a drive that didn't store data. They said they couldn't return it without an error code or an obvious fault so there was nothing they could do. It was suggested that I emai...

Seagate and Umart: Part 3 - General
26 Sep 2005 @ 10:43 am - Well I returned the drive to Umart where I was informed of a $35 charge if it was ok. I knew it was rooted so I left it there. The next morning there was an email from Umart saying it tested ok. I asked how they tested it and was told that they just ...

OMG most awesome rice phone ever! - General
24 Sep 2005 @ 03:02 pm - I was wandering around Indro today and at the little phone stand things I saw the coolest phone ever. It's not as if I'm looking to buy a new phone, and definitely not a [b]$1500[/b] one but it's still cool. The Nokia 8800 is a heavy metal phone with...

Site comments of WOE - General
23 Sep 2005 @ 11:06 am - ...

Internal server error this!!!! - General
23 Sep 2005 @ 11:03 am - Now this is just really irritating the shit out of me. ITS, do your job. I can not currently log on to the internet here in building 78. I emailed them about the "Internal Server Error" and have recieved no reply. The error message I have b...

Geek points? - General
21 Sep 2005 @ 11:26 pm - Ok, so somehow the topic of conversation came around to, why I bother with my website (seeing I am apparently so damn lazy!). The answer is of course "Geek" points. I'd say a fully XHTML website where I wrote my own content management syste...

Everybody hates me. Why do you suppose that is? - General
20 Sep 2005 @ 11:18 pm - Hmm. I've been having some nice conversations and the topic of my apparent laziness keeps coming up. See below: [code] KOUPA: hey I like the look of your site KOUPA: you updated it? Maz: yeah. been working on it all week Maz: coz i have 5 assign...

Seagate's next ad.. - General
20 Sep 2005 @ 10:29 pm - Just some ideas here. Add your own if you're bored. [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1127218796-seagate.jpg[/img] Seagate, Keeping your data guessing. Getting rid of unwanted data, and wanted data, since 1979 Who needs files? Providing pa...

Maz vs. SATA drive: part 2 - General
20 Sep 2005 @ 04:30 pm - The 200gb Seagate sata drive I was having trouble with is officially dead now. When the system was running, the drive was resetting 2-3 times per second, was undetectable by windows, and generally as useful as floppy disk. Actually I think 2 million ...

Searching searchiness of doom. - General
19 Sep 2005 @ 11:15 pm - Yeah. The search function works. I could make it highlight the search word (which should be pretty easy) but at the moment I don't really care. I did get another assignment done today so I just have one or two to go this week before I can sleep. [u]C...

This week of assignments. - General
19 Sep 2005 @ 09:36 am - It's not a good week for anything except assignments. Mid-semester break is next week so I have 5 assignments due this week to make up for the lack of work I'm going to do next week? Well as it stands I've done one of the assignments almost completel...

What's that burning smell? Not another Abit! - General
18 Sep 2005 @ 01:36 pm - Well after buying a dozen or so Abit motherboards that have all had the northbridge fans fail. I have a new addition to the list. The Abit GF5600 that I had has lost its fan. Literally. As I walked into the room I could smell the burning components. ...

Decorations of doom - General
15 Sep 2005 @ 09:29 pm - Yeah. I've just wasted a few hours messing with the decorations of my site. There is now a stupid bottom bar and the side bar is always there in IE. If I can be stuffed installing mozilla or firefox I'll check it out and try fix any incompatabilities...

Telstra Bigpond updates *fixed* - General
14 Sep 2005 @ 11:01 pm - This is to anyone who has Telstra cable or possibly DSL. Last night there was a temporary service outage and today I notice a bit of a problem connectiong my SSH tunnel. Is it just me or has Telstra blocked all incoming ports? Let me know as much in...

Way to embarrass myself! - General
14 Sep 2005 @ 06:51 pm - I'm in my PHIL1000 lecture where people have been giving me enough dirty looks because I've been making lots of noise eating chips and stuff. I have lectures all day and don't have time to stop and eat. Well after everyone was getting over that incon...

More philosophy - General
14 Sep 2005 @ 06:17 pm - Life is like a ... An individual is like a ... I'm looking for metaphors to describe life and individualism. Nothing entirely cliche preferably. I'm sure I can think of something clever but nothing intelligent. What is life really like? Maz[comm...

Seagate complaints! - General
12 Sep 2005 @ 11:01 pm - It would appear I've just lost my 200gb SATA HDD. I came home from work and it was resetting and is undetectable on startup. I don't think this is a problem that only I am having. I originally bought the [b]ST320082 2AS[/b] last year but had to retur...

The fight against censorship - General
11 Sep 2005 @ 05:52 pm - This is a space where you can post your comments that were censored from other people's sites. Just make the link at the bottom point to the site. There is a limit of 1000 characters per comment. freedom-of-speechly Maz[comment]Just so anyone readin...

CSSE3004 individual component: Part 1 - General
10 Sep 2005 @ 01:44 pm - Sitting in the labs doing assignments and I instantly decide it's time to update my site (I wonder why?). At the moment I'm having some issues with getting all data out of an Oracle database without knowing the names of the tabels and such. So I sta...

Non-descript update - General
10 Sep 2005 @ 12:13 am - Well there is no one thing worth an update so this is a collection of pointless updates rolled into one useless entry.. 1. My monitor is back. I am properly online. (Umart does not do monitor warrenty claims. You have to deal directly with the manuf...

Paypal screws hurricane victims - General
07 Sep 2005 @ 08:53 pm - Well this is just crap. There is logic, then reason, then paypal policies somewhere just before whimsy. Following obscure links through the blog-o-sphere I end up here for a story that sickens me. [url=http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=31...

Rembo is alive and well - General
06 Sep 2005 @ 10:22 pm - And re-imaging popular labs at 9pm. I'm not sure whether it gave us any warning or not (because we were at the vending machines), but it's a bit of a pain in the arse to find all our work gone. 9pm? Why not 2am again? Maz...

Insert philosophy here - General
06 Sep 2005 @ 05:05 pm - [b]<uni> <phil1000> <inroduction>[/b] Hume thinks miracles are shit. I agree. Paranormal claims are shit too. [b]</introduction> <paragraph>[/b] Hume's points are: !. People are crap and can't be believed. @. The...

Mazez fantastic puzzle of the day - General
05 Sep 2005 @ 02:43 pm - See that menu bar on the left? <-- over there. Well I want it to have a full blue bar (that dark blue stuff under the menu), all the way down the left of the page at a percentage width of 16.5%. And I'll just stick the menu on top. So far it r...

Offline - General
04 Sep 2005 @ 02:54 pm - I may or may not be offline for a few days/weeks.[comment]Why? Comment by [b]Smassie[/b] on 04 Sep 2005 @ 09:42 pm [/comment][comment]Why dont you go turn on my monitor and find out? Comment by [b]Maz[/b] on 04 Sep 2005 @ 10:25 pm [/comment]...

Riverfest - General
03 Sep 2005 @ 10:53 pm - Another year, another riverfest. For the first time since I've been living here I couldn't be bothered going out with the million or so other Brisbane residents to watch the fireworks. Instead opting for the stay-inside-and-watch-dvd's plan. There we...

From the archives - General
02 Sep 2005 @ 03:29 pm - I was looking through the folders on my computer and found this funny little video from a couple of years ago.. [url=http://maz.net.au/users/maz/journal/files/fdd_end.avi]FDD END[/url] Maz...

Censorship! - General
02 Sep 2005 @ 02:43 pm - There have been requests by certain youth political parties to remove posts from my site. I don't know about anyone else but I'd call that political censorship? Let's not start a war about this but just be careful what you do, or people are likely to...

Learn to drive ffs! - General
02 Sep 2005 @ 02:39 pm - Driving to cold rock and back I had at least 3 cars pull into my lane while I was in it. Once even having to drive down the wrong side of the road to miss them. Do people not know how to drive or is it a national "Drive With Your Head Up Your Ar...

Some more ponderings from the weird and wacky world of PHIL1000 - General
31 Aug 2005 @ 07:06 pm - Just to set the scene for everyone, we are meant to be talking about dualism (i.e. a seperation of the body from the mind). And these nuggets of quotes came up.. (any "..." means there was a long pause. No doubt for us to consider the profo...

Guess where I am. - General
30 Aug 2005 @ 05:47 pm - Yes. I am a sad sad slave to the Microsoft corporation and I'm at Tech-Ed '05. On the upside I'm going drinking at the Gold Coast so it's not all bad. There were actually some interesting speakers. It's a shame students are only here for one day. ...

Today I had a milkshake - General
29 Aug 2005 @ 11:18 pm - But to be more specific it was a FREE milkshake. In exchange for a free hawaiian pizza. It was very good. Tomorrow is TechEd. If it's boring I'm going to the movies to see "Unleashed". If anyone else wants to come I don't care.[comment]Hey...

In the news - General
29 Aug 2005 @ 01:47 pm - Todays "news" from [url]http://uncyclopedia.org/[/url] [code]In honor of hurricane Katrina, the City of New Orleans is to be renamed the City of Atlantis[/code] [code]Man in Madison, Wisconsin breaks an ankle and his big toe kicking the t...

Group meeting: Positions vacant - General
29 Aug 2005 @ 01:36 pm - I'm here at uni for a group meeting that either isn't on, or had no one turn up. It cost me $2 for parking for this, what a waste. I did bump into Reubot and io in the labs studying for [u]INFS1200[/u]. That's a shit course. I spent all evening an...

MSN - A big ball of crap - General
27 Aug 2005 @ 05:30 pm - This is merely a complaint about the uselessness of msn messenger, and its entire supporting set of servers. Have you been getting the message that some of your IM's could not be delivered? Or just not hearing anything from the people you're talking ...

Sin City - General
27 Aug 2005 @ 12:00 am - Well in preperation for my stupid [u]PSYC1020[/u] exam tomorrow, I spent my evening watching "Saw" (which I only saw half of) and Sin City. I thought Sin City was really good and actually artistic. It starts out perfectly in black and white...

Stupid group subjects. - General
26 Aug 2005 @ 10:23 am - After filling in my morning with a lecture on tips for the final demonstration, I find out my group is scheduled for 4:30pm on a Friday afternoon. This may be a little inconvenient if I have work that night. As it turns out we are unable to have any ...

The price of fuel and comments on life - General
26 Aug 2005 @ 12:09 am - Life sux. The price of fuel sux. Erm. That didn't take as long to write as I thought it would. I guess this is just a general bitch about trying to get somewhere in life at this day and age. Everything is so expensive (not even thinking about my HE...

I am! - General
24 Aug 2005 @ 07:34 pm - What makes me 'me'? Is it my thoughts? My experience? My body (atoms and whatnot)? My soul? All of those? I think I am my mind is. (Not the physical mind but what I think.)[comment]It's the hair. Definitely the hair. Comment by [b]sef[/b] on 2...

Updates galore! - General
23 Aug 2005 @ 03:31 pm - Yeah. I'm still writing the backend for this and I've finally made it so images and files can be easily uploaded to the journals. [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1124775008-nowImage.jpg[/img] I'm not sure how long to keep them for. A year or someth...

Terrible songs - General
23 Aug 2005 @ 12:59 am - [b]Aren't there just too many?[/b] Well I just heard a few. Basically anything Nova 106.9 plays would need to be included in this list. I am just sick of [b]talentless, useless bastard DJ's[/b] butchering nice old songs that may not have been the bes...

Today I *almost* had a milkshake - General
22 Aug 2005 @ 10:13 pm - Well people decided they were hungry when I was sick of cooking stuff at work and had cleaned up. So I had to cook these bastards pizza. By the time I was packed up and cleaned up and shit, cold rock had closed. That's shit. I want my cake and eat i...

Win my car competition closing soon - General
22 Aug 2005 @ 09:59 am - Well as the title says I will stop accepting entries to my "Win my car" competition. The entries were pitiful. You worthless, lazy worm babies have been to busy diseasing the planet to send me an electronic mail with pictures. NO CAR FOR YO...

My drink - General
21 Aug 2005 @ 07:19 pm - Coke, Red fanta, vodka and a love heart shaped ice cube. The heart shape ice cube may be slowly poisoning me as its sort of absorbed part of the cheap asian ice cube tray and is slowly releasing it into my drink. The vodka should kill anything bad r...

Tales of a share house - General
21 Aug 2005 @ 04:11 am - [i]These are not necessarily stories but rather a collection of thoughts or ideas to do with sharing a house with 7 other people. (Most of them are people.)[/i] [b]Cleaning[/b]: It would appear that 8 people = 1/8 the cleaning. Not in this world. I...

Wish me luck - General
20 Aug 2005 @ 08:14 am - Just testing. Fingers crossed!![comment]OMG IT WORKED!!!!1112 Comment by [b]Maz[/b] on 20 Aug 2005 @ 08:15 am [/comment][comment]Well done *hugs* Comment by [b]Lisa[/b] on 20 Aug 2005 @ 08:20 am [/comment][comment]Hey the text isn't right! Comme...

New site design - General
20 Aug 2005 @ 04:06 am - Well leave a comment and let me know what you think of the new and improved maz.net.au site that is still at maz.dnsalias.org because the solid internet server has differnt sessions and an inability to open any of my files. There is probably an issue...

OMG it's not purple! - General
18 Aug 2005 @ 12:20 pm - So I'm in between colour schemes right now. I was hoping to get some help with a little bit of graphical design or something but everyone seems busy right now. Anyway this is my first post using the system that I wrote, and to be honest I'm a little...

New site - General
15 Aug 2005 @ 01:26 pm - Is still somewhat lacking. There is some minor issues to do with the infinite user levels feature. Not to mention the total lack of design and pictures. So screw it. I'll switch over to that another day when I have more time....

Working hard (as usual?) - General
13 Aug 2005 @ 01:39 pm - Apart from the several hours of website development until 5am in the morning. I had to work where I got paid today as well, (whats that called... a job?). Of course, no Saturday night working is complete unless at least 2 people don't turn up and we ...

maz.net.au competition - General
10 Aug 2005 @ 08:12 am - [b]Fantastic prizes up for grabs![/b] It's a CRAP YOU DRAW IN LECTURES competition! The idea is that while you're being bored to death by your random lecturers, you start to scribble on youre notepad and you now have the opportunity to get something...

That darn cat! - General
08 Aug 2005 @ 12:50 pm - I was up playing with Eric today and came downstairs for about 5 minutes to check emails and stuff and when I went back upstairs I couldn't find him. After all the panic from the other night when he got out I decided to panic and run around trying to...

Service outage imminant - General
08 Aug 2005 @ 02:56 am - If you can't read this than ISA server broke my internet. [b]Whatever will you do without my journal to read?!?[/b] WOE! If you can read this then what are you doing on my LAN? invisibly Maz [comment]Scratch that. How Microsoft is stupid in 3 easy ...

Computer repairs - General
07 Aug 2005 @ 02:05 am - "Please sit back and relax while Windows 98 installs on your computer." Maz: Windows 98!! OH NO!!!!! Yes. It is a sad day indeed when I am installing windows 98 on a PC again. What else is meant to go on a Pentium 200mhz with like 64mb ...

Personalised plates? - General
05 Aug 2005 @ 10:48 pm - Driving back from Ascott way too early this morning I happened to go past a black Holden Calais with no number plates. Instead it had a big embossed royal crown picture. This was interesting so I looked at the driver as I went past and it was some 40...

MSN WANKERS - General
04 Aug 2005 @ 11:13 am - J00 w4nk3rs @ micro$oft w0n'7 l37 ppl c0py sum1's m$n nam3. G37 F4RK3D! Maz [comment]You should see some spam I got. (laughs) Best. Spam. Ever. Advertising a bestiality website in l33t [b]Ariel[/b] on 11 Aug 2005 @ 01:58 pm[/comment]...

My first day at uni - General
02 Aug 2005 @ 11:28 pm - As some of you may be aware.. I have one contact day a week where I am required to be at uni. Wednesday is that day. Last week I had been given a Wednesday shift at work before I knew what my timetable was like so I was unable to attend all my first ...

Work on my day off. - General
01 Aug 2005 @ 01:45 pm - It all began horribly early about 9:45am when I drove into uni. I don't think I did anything until after midday when I went to Indooroopilly where I looked at kittens and got passport photos taken. Then I went to Umart to return a CF card which took ...

Windows get fucked. - General
31 Jul 2005 @ 10:30 am - There is no hibernate tab. On a fresh install. No wonder people just have a hatred for the shit. angrily Maz [comment]FUCK WINDOWS! FUCK WINDOWS! FUCK WINDOWS! FUCK WINDOWS! FUCK WINDOWS! FUCK WINDOWS! FUCK WINDOWS! FUCK WINDOWS! FUCK WINDOWS! FUC...

Sooooo eeeaarrrllyyy! - General
27 Jul 2005 @ 11:08 pm - I swear I'm melting. HAHA to people bashing on the doors to the labs. Maybe we need to circulate a petition about getting a vending machine that accepts $20 notes. I really want a Red Eye but the vending machine is so shit and ITS NOT FAIR! I need my...

Off to a good start - General
25 Jul 2005 @ 12:34 am - I'm already reduced to entertaining myself on wireless 27 minutes into my first lecture for the last semester here at UQ. It's a "Programming for engineers" course in C++ but I'm standing (now sitting) up the back of the room because a cla...

What a shit site! - General
22 Jul 2005 @ 01:26 pm - This just deleted my entry so get stuffed. [b]Imagine it![/b] angrily Maz [comment]You should feed it more. [b]thei[/b] on 23 Jul 2005 @ 01:10 pm [url]http://the-i.org/[/url][/comment][comment]I agree. [b]Cassius[/b] on 23 Jul 2005 @ 06:14 pm[...

Whirlwind tour of Pittsworth - General
12 Jul 2005 @ 01:10 pm - There are lots of windmills apparently. Other than that, all is quiet on the home front. The cat is fat. The dogs are fat. Back tomorrow. My cakes have come into work. Mmm, better than maccas. Quack. Maz [comment]One more day of training. I can ...

Recent developments.. - General
11 Jul 2005 @ 03:18 pm - No, not my new website. That's still in a state of nothingness. I have met 2 more types of mould in our bathroom. And then I named them all.. Bluey, Greeny, Blacky, Orange-y, Hang-y, and Sink-hole-pond-scum-y. After that effort I went to take a sho...

On a hot starry night.. - General
11 Jul 2005 @ 02:34 pm - We went out for Maccas of course. But alas! Milton was closed! As we sat there in a cloud of confusement one man knew the way... To another Maccas. The journey was long and arduous, (nearly 10 minutes in my car). The weary travellors ordered their u...

What can I say? - General
10 Jul 2005 @ 02:16 pm - Mmmm. French vanilla cheesecake. Now that I'm rich and everything from working lots I can afford these things, (also because they're only $20). Lisa says: Meh, before you would have just put $20 less fuel in your car. [b]Too right![/b] Maz [comme...

Been busy. - General
08 Jul 2005 @ 06:42 am - I've been working lots and lots of hours this week in an attempt to make lots and lots of money. So it's off to work with me and I might write more later if I can be bothered. wealthily Maz [comment]I, on the other hand, have been spending lots and...

Mazez: a series of unconnected events - General
04 Jul 2005 @ 01:24 pm - Last night I'm just sitting in my room and Sophie wanders in and says, [b]"wouldn't it be funny if a serial killer rented one of the rooms here"[/b].. Right after the new guy moved in. But we decided we'd be safer if a serial killer moved i...

Stupid car woes - General
03 Jul 2005 @ 01:11 pm - Well I got up late and sat around watching Dean (the new guy) moving his stuff in. Somehow the day just got away from me with the Bewitched marathon on and before I knew it I had to go to work. In all the rush I didn't have time to get fuel (which is...

Jon gone - General
01 Jul 2005 @ 10:08 pm - Jon just left. Entirely too early. He had to wake me to get some stuff off me. It's going to be so much less fun around here with Jon gone. The house of madness is losing some of its best madness. Everyone is going to miss him heaps. I hope he's not...

Fuck off Farren - General
01 Jul 2005 @ 01:49 pm - If you do drugs that fuck you up and make you paranoid / hear shit that's your problem. But don't keep me awake and bitch about the noise I make as a result of you waking me. I got very little sleep, add to that a lot of vodka for Jon's send off par...

Sweet chilli chicken - General
30 Jun 2005 @ 12:55 pm - I just made the most awesome pizza! Well, it's not bad but I have plans to keep improving it. Here is the general gist of it. [b]Ingredients:[/b] - Pizza base - Sweet chilli sauce - a little Tomato base - Onion - Mushroom - Bacon - Chicken ...

A walk in the park - General
29 Jun 2005 @ 11:33 am - My day began sometime well after lunch with drinking games. Jon and I decided to test out that [url=http://maz.dnsalias.org/journal/vcomment.php?post=1114313862]shot-glass chess set[/url]; and test it we did. There was a sort of tournament going on a...

Randomness strikes again - General
28 Jun 2005 @ 12:11 pm - After a walk in the rain, at night, to see if a Fasta Pasta that closed down was open again or something, (it wasn't) I'm going back to bed. soggily Maz...

The answer is... - General
28 Jun 2005 @ 03:01 am - [b]Webcam porn!![/b] Not only did she have some dodgy guy drop his pants on webcam, she posted the screenshots on the forum where she met him for the whole world to see, (and of course laugh). This resulted in the guy threatening law suits and gene...

Cassie + internet = ? - General
27 Jun 2005 @ 11:09 am - Leave a comment and guess what Cassie is using the internet to download!! The winner gets cheesecake. [comment]PORN!!!! I would if I were Cassie :P But it doesnt matter cos I'll get cheesecake anyway. [b]Lisa[/b] on 27 Jun 2005 @ 09:54 pm[/comme...

New site progress - General
27 Jun 2005 @ 05:21 am - Well... Lack of. I've been sort of doing other things first, like finishing San Andreas. And staying in bed. The shitness of this site is really starting to bother me again so there may be some progress on the new site in the very near future. Not to...

Finished - General
25 Jun 2005 @ 05:21 pm - Well this is me only updating when I have something to say. I don't really have anything to say but I should leave an update so I don't have to tell the same story to everyone. I was at KJ's working on the computer about 4:30pm when I got a call f...

Please wait... - General
25 Jun 2005 @ 06:06 am - Machine rebuild in progress. Also got called into work tonight. Maz [comment]No 'illy maz'. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE WORLD!?! [b]Cassie[/b] on 25 Jun 2005 @ 05:24 pm[/comment][comment]Coz I'm lazily [b]Maz[/b] on 26 Jun 2005 @ 03:12 am[/comment]...

Fantastic satellite maps - General
22 Jun 2005 @ 05:42 am - Sef sent me a link for a satellite photo of St. Lucia where you can clearly see the building I am sitting in right now. Of course I went looking for other places I knew and was surprised to find that the farm is in really high detail. That's kinda sc...

Last one - General
22 Jun 2005 @ 12:05 am - If people don't fucking turn off the sound when they play stupid flash games in the labs I'm going to just fucking kill them. Want to play games with the sound on? Fine. Just [b]fuck off and do it[/b]!! Stupid fuckign inconsiderate international stu...

The origins of 'foo' and 'bar' - General
22 Jun 2005 @ 12:00 am - All the good intentions in the world, (I was looking up the RFC about IP over HTTP), when I stumbled upon something much more interesting. The mysterious variables that are used in so many programming examples, (foo and bar) are the topic of their o...

3 down, 1 to go - General
21 Jun 2005 @ 11:26 pm - Now I only have [u]COMS4200[/u] to go, and by the looks of it I may fail, but if I do a lot of the class is going to fail before me. Today is Wednesday and I am in the labs to study. Exam tomorrow and work tomorrow night. Then I go drinking. Whee...

Rembo of doom defeated - General
20 Jun 2005 @ 04:09 am - [u][b]Disclaimer: Don't do this. It's misconduct.[/b][/u] What appears to happen is a shutdown command ([b]shutdown -r -t 600 -c "message I can't remember"[/b]) is sent to all PC's in a lab and upon restarting, Rembo runs. It seems to be c...

COMS woe. But not until after INFS woe! - General
20 Jun 2005 @ 02:41 am - Got up early to make it to the [u]COMS4200[/u] exam preperation session thing. After that I realised I'm just screwed. Had to leave that early because I'm still trying to desperately learn [u]INFS3202[/u] before the exam tonight which is in the "...

How could I forget - General
19 Jun 2005 @ 07:42 am - You'd think I'd remember my wipers didn't work on my car. It should just not rain in the city. My washing is all wet and I can't drive anywhere without getting wet from having the window down so I can wipe the windscreen every red light. We had So...

Desktop is alive again - General
17 Jun 2005 @ 04:01 am - Stupid exam period and everything means that I need my PC working to get all the stuff off it. As a result I had to purchase a new nice cheap GF6600. Stupid hardware. graphically Maz...

Hardware funeral march - General
16 Jun 2005 @ 05:49 am - Big compter says: " " [b]That looks like a bad sign.[/b] Squeaky graphics card says: " " [b]That sounds like a bad sign.[/b] Monitor says: "Check signal cable". Maz says: "Oh...

Return of the wipers - General
15 Jun 2005 @ 01:32 am - Awesome drive to Indro was made better when while stopped at the lights, I got my wiper out the back seat of my car, wound down the window and proceeded to wipe down the windscreen in pouring rain. Which made all the cars around me edge away slowly. ...

Windscreen wipers of doom! - General
15 Jun 2005 @ 12:22 am - The stupid [u]PSYC1030[/u] exam this morning had my alarm going off at 7am which was ridiculously early, especially when it was all rainy and wet outside. (Lucky the only washing on the line of mine was a work shirt I needed to wear tonight!) On the ...

Kalculator! - General
14 Jun 2005 @ 03:18 pm - Study was bad. [u]CSSE3004[/u] was bad. There was beeping and calculators (OH THE CALCULATORS!) and the questions and the no answers [b]IT WAS HORRIBLE![/b] Remind me to write more when I don't have an exam in 7 hours. The doom!!! and chicken. ...

This is not newsworthy - General
14 Jun 2005 @ 07:25 am - [url]http://www.couriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,15602238%255E1702,00.html[/url] Is it just me or this shit? In summary: "Man got lost going to the toilet". Seriously, "drank from taps" IS NOT A SURVIVAL STORY! ...

Who has a shitbox calculator? - General
14 Jun 2005 @ 12:14 am - Stupid crappy [u]CSSE3004[/u] course needs a calculator in the exam. Not just a normal crappy calculator, a non-scientific one.. Of course I don't have one, nor does anyone else I know. It seems to be impossible to find a prehistoric calculator that ...

Psyc study - General
13 Jun 2005 @ 02:07 pm - Thats what I did all day. After my alarm went off at 10am and I snoozed it every 5 minutes until 11am. When I eventually made it to uni I went and [b]studied the Coles for Skittles that were meant to be on special[/b], but weren't. So I bought some a...

Today, today, today - General
12 Jun 2005 @ 02:37 pm - Umm. I didn't do anything. I went to KFC. Then back to bed until I went to work until 10:30pm. Now I'm home, people are drunk and if Cassie spills any goon on my bed I'll kill her. I also bought Smirnoff. yay. Maz [comment]Bah. Ye of little faith...

Faster pasta from the world of Linux - General
11 Jun 2005 @ 04:34 pm - Well I am using [u]Mandrake linux[/u] to see what my site looks like. It looks like shit. It's as if I'm still using windows! There was a bit of a dilemma tonight. I had maccas for lunch and I was hungry but it was after midnight so only maccas wa...

Tastes just like an italian restaurant - General
10 Jun 2005 @ 05:20 pm - Only with B.O. It's rediculously late already and I haven't got very much done. Today I purchased hosting for my new site (which is still not written) so [url=http://maz.net.au/]maz.net.au[/url] redirects back to this site for now. [u]Blergh[/u]! ...

QUT. Reccomended for ages 2-7 - General
09 Jun 2005 @ 04:28 am - The other night I was looking at an assignment that a QUT student was doing. I don't know what subject this was for but surely it was a first year subject? Here is the starting java source files. [url=http://maz.dnsalias.org/journal/files/Classes.zip...

I 0wns j00! - General
09 Jun 2005 @ 01:43 am - Payment went through for my domain name today so [b]I am officially the new owner of maz.net.au[/b] for the next 2 years. Once I've written my CMS (or at least know how it's all going to work) I'll buy appropriate web hosting and only use my home ser...

Pearls of wisdom... - General
08 Jun 2005 @ 02:59 pm - Without any crap here they are: 1. Never leave a bagel in front of a desk top fan or heater, it makes it go stale. 2. Never leave a laptop on top of a huge subwoofer, it bounces. 3. You will not understand the opposite sex. 4. Winamp rand...

Domain name! - General
08 Jun 2005 @ 02:26 pm - I attempted to purchase my domain name today. [b]It's "processing"[/b], whatever that means. I am currently hard at work writing my website from scratch so no time to waste writing here. It's all action here today. Went to Indro for St. ...

Beer is SH!T - General
08 Jun 2005 @ 02:07 am - Well I drove back to Bris last night. I got back just in time for peak hour traffic. You know why I was so late? I was cleaning the inside of my car. I found like 50 5c pieces. I had some dinner and finished off all my alcohol in my fridge. This is w...

Lazy days - General
06 Jun 2005 @ 03:57 pm - Oh Gno! I be tired and sleepy. Still in Pittsworth slowly wasting away. Making backups of DVD's and LP's. Which is not as fun as you'd think. Several hours later and I'm just bored. Not to mention some LP's having the track titles in a random order s...

No mousse for me! - General
05 Jun 2005 @ 11:14 am - I woke up in the morning and 2 minutes later it was afternoon. I got out of bed and I could smell the roast lunch cooking so I had to move all my shit out of the lounge to make space for people. After lunch, dad showed my brother some rifles he had a...

Return of the Magna - General
04 Jun 2005 @ 02:32 pm - Well I survived to get up this morning this afternoon. Which is good because I had plans to get to Pitts by lunch time, (3pm ish). For those who didn't know, I've been borrowing my mum's 98 Magna while my car was in Pitts being roadworthied. It's not...

BITS EOS dinner - General
04 Jun 2005 @ 01:29 am - I went out for a suitably geeky dinner at the BITS EOS party at Castelli's. I talked to some interesting people about interesting things while I enjoyed my massive piece of caramel cheesecake. I ended up driving there so I couldn't drink anything but...

Off I go. - General
03 Jun 2005 @ 07:58 am - I goes-ies to the BITS dinner nows-ies. Back later for drinking. pizza-ly Maz...

Too much sleep? - General
02 Jun 2005 @ 02:57 pm - After work last night I went to uni to do [u]CSSE3004[/u] until I went to bed at 4am (after a Maccas run). So I had my [b]presentation today at midday[/b] so I set my alarm for 10:30am. Plenty of time to be ready for it. [b]Then I woke up at 11:30...

Another day. Another pizza. - General
01 Jun 2005 @ 02:24 pm - Well i had grand plans of getting all my work done last night by staying up all night and not getting out of bed today. About 2am that ideal was shattered when I was watching Rembo count down, and forgot to cancel it. So i went home and went to bed. ...

QUACK - General
31 May 2005 @ 03:35 pm - woof! bow wow! something something. I had uni all day. Then 6 hours of work. Now I have to stay up all night and do [u]CSSE3004[/u]. Screw COMS. After this I'll be sleeping until about Friday. cheesecake-ly Maz...

This sux - General
30 May 2005 @ 10:49 pm - I felt sick. And my head hurt. So I just went to bed. Nothing achieved today. I don't have time to be sick. :( sickly Maz [comment]>:D< i hope you feel better soon [b]Roen[/b] on 31 May 2005 @ 10:22 am[/comment]...

Thanks Oracle - General
30 May 2005 @ 03:33 am - For all the awesome error messages that make so much sense.. [i]ORA-04091: table S4052992.TEACHING_ASSIGNMENT is mutating, trigger/function may not see it[/i] *TABLE ROARS!!* OMGS IT'S ALIVE!!!! [comment]ahahahahahahahaha. That is so cool. The...

More ports blocked? - General
29 May 2005 @ 11:25 pm - I get to uni today and can't seem to get anything to work on port 443, (HTTPS). Which means no email for me. I'm just wondering if this is just me? Or is port 443 now blocked permanently? Let me know how it is working for you at uni. This is crap....

Tragedy - General
29 May 2005 @ 03:19 pm - I can see this journal/blog has taken a turn for the worse. Well, maybe it was always this shit, no one is ever reading it, and it's entirely for my benefit. In either case I suggest you save the last of your soul and unsubscribe from the RSS feed no...

It's all good - General
28 May 2005 @ 04:58 pm - Work wasn't too pissed about last night. Tonight I had to close. So I went alcohol shopping and stuff. So drinkies. Then went on maccas run, feel terrible, flu still. Lisa locked me out. I be :(. Remind me to take the key into work tomorrow? Zorb...

The quiet life - General
27 May 2005 @ 04:04 pm - It sure is. And kinda cold too. Apparently it dropped to 0 degrees overnight and I don't own a jacket. Winnar! Just to give my housemates something to talk about, I'm just chatting to Lisa. Who probably won't talk to me now. Heh. The TimTams ran o...

Home, home on the range. - General
27 May 2005 @ 05:01 am - No deer of buffalo here. Just very fat pets. It's like no stop action here, I've slept.. and.. hmm. I needed to relax anyway. In another note, the B.I.T.S. end of year dinner is at Castelli's next Friday night. Numbers are limited so see Insom (I ...

*sigh* - General
25 May 2005 @ 10:17 am - And repeat. chaotically Maz [comment]WAFFLEMAN! [b]Cassie[/b] on 26 May 2005 @ 12:14 am[/comment][comment](kiss) Tc of yourself. [b]Ariel[/b] on 26 May 2005 @ 05:18 am[/comment]...

Sleep to sleep - General
24 May 2005 @ 03:50 pm - [b]Sleep[/b] -> Uni ([u]PSYC1030[/u] lecture and tutorial) -> Work (Filling in for someone) -> Uni ([u]INFS3202[/u], f***ing assignment!) -> [b]Sleep[/b] Repeat. repetatively Maz [comment]You know, I was just thinking that you look l...

Birthdays - General
24 May 2005 @ 02:22 am - It has just come to my attention that I may have forgotted to wish some people a happy birthday for some dates earlier this year. I would like to take this moment to offer my sincerest apologies to the following people. Jubey, Everyone else. H...

Starburst jelly beans of doom! - General
23 May 2005 @ 12:52 pm - Once again I am out at uni so late that I can only be considered a sad, sad, sad little geek. I even went outside today, as I unfortunately had lectures, (damn them!). [b]Now what you've all been waiting for, the Starburst[/b]. Not only are they s...

Teh new rembo of doom - General
22 May 2005 @ 02:36 pm - [b]OMG! Rembo is after me!! It's chasing me out of labs. Sssh. Don't tell it I'm here.[/b] At least the new system gives you 10 minutes warning. Today I woke up really really late due to chatting to someone until 5am, (and they had to get up at 8a...

BORING! - General
21 May 2005 @ 01:13 pm - I woke up. Went to uni to don [u]INFS3202[/u] but got none done. I had to leave about 5pm because I had work tonight and I finished about 9:45pm. I really didn't feel like working but they are short of staff still and I guess I had to. I went and ...

Infs pracs, assignments and doom - General
20 May 2005 @ 02:15 pm - I felt like total crap when I woke up this morning this afternoon so I grabbed my laptop off my desk and went online (to save getting out of bed). Lisa was online so I chatted to her until she went to uni, refusing a lift from me because I was still ...

Raining frozen cats and dogs? - General
19 May 2005 @ 01:11 pm - [b]OMG it's freezing here![/b] It was beautiful weather this morning. Just that sort of 'crisp' cold as I attended my weekly [u]CSSE3004[/u] bore-the-shit-out-of-me lecture. KJ, Thei and I went to Indro for lunch (as is tradition), where I purchased ...

My radio ad and a trip to Nokia. - General
18 May 2005 @ 01:51 pm - My day began innocently enough with a [u]CSSE3004[/u] group meeting where I submitted my timesheet, the project report and an intragroup report before I had to rush to my psyc '[i]voluntary[/i]' research participation. This involved a couple of surve...

Relief from COMS but not feeling well. - General
17 May 2005 @ 01:44 pm - Today I... Went to some of psyc. Then the tutorial for psyc. Then home. After all the stressing about COMS, I read the spec sheet (finally) and it's not due until next week. Phew! When I got home I just sat around chatting to Jon and we shared the...

I am a waffle - General
16 May 2005 @ 03:15 pm - A waffle is a flat batter cake cooked between two hot plates that are called a waffle iron. It has a distinctive gridlike appearance, the result of raised partitions on the waffle iron. [img]http://maz.dnsalias.org/blog/files/images/Waffle_DSC00575....

The ITEE 'fishtank' - General
16 May 2005 @ 03:10 pm - Today I decided I needed to liven up my 'lab' experience. Originally I was planning to put signs on the window, (facing outside), saying "[b]Please don't tap on the glass. You'll startle the nerds.[/b]" but decided it might have lacked orig...

CSSE SRS with absence - General
16 May 2005 @ 03:04 pm - The jumble of letters in the subject will not make sense to normal people. Don't worry. I had a COMS day at uni where I did relatively little [u]COMS4200[/u]. But rather a lot of [u]CSSE3004[/u]. There was a group meeting today which I attended wh...

ITEE is down again. - General
15 May 2005 @ 11:19 pm - I guess that is a big [b]Fuck you![/b] to anyone who has assessment due? This is just useless. [comment]Fixed. That was fast. They plugged it back in? [b]Maz[/b] on 16 May 2005 @ 09:23 am[/comment]...

Age old question.. - General
15 May 2005 @ 03:42 pm - [b]Genius or madness?[/b] I think I'm going to go with option B today. Instead of a spiral of self-destruction, I seem to have gone for [b]a non-spiral-straight-line-thingy into madness[/b]. Which is kinda fun too. But when a drive to clear my head t...

Stolen pizza - General
14 May 2005 @ 04:08 pm - Today I slept lots and lots and lots. Then I was woken by a belt sander. Then more sleep. Then I got up and went to work where I had to close. After that I took a pizza up to KJ's and then came home just in time to get a message from someone I used t...

Excited girls outside! - General
13 May 2005 @ 01:45 pm - Life sux doesn't it? I'm sitting in the labs writing C for my stupid 3rd [u]COMS4200[/u] and from outside you can hear some girls cheering. The way they do when they're exited and nervous at the same time... Sux to be indoors. Today I submitted [u...

When translations go wrong. - General
12 May 2005 @ 02:40 pm - "It is resolved if you remove the devices you USB before igniting the computer?" Anyone got a lighter? *Burns computer*...

Self titled - General
12 May 2005 @ 02:09 pm - [b]I'm in the mood for chainsawing the heads off bunnies.[/b] You supply the hardware, I'll rustle up some wildlife. I have so much more free time while people are away that I might actually have to resort to uni work to keep myself amused. My pla...

I'm home - General
12 May 2005 @ 09:48 am - Hollie is here and she got her hair done and it's very sexy. *Hollie giggles* LOL. Girls. So vain. haha-ly Maz [comment]MARCUS LOVES HOLLIE! [b]Cas.[/b] on 13 May 2005 @ 09:18 am[/comment]...

Remote ITEE is currently fucked - General
12 May 2005 @ 07:16 am - Is it just me or is all of ITEE.UQ down right now? I can't get to itee.uq.edu.au from here. (I am in my [u]INFS3202[/u] lectrue on wireless). How retarded....

Online quizzes that are right. - General
12 May 2005 @ 07:07 am - This one is uncanny. LOL. [url=http://dicepool.com/catalog/quiz.php] [img]http://dicepool.com/catalog/images/splats/sarcastic.jpg[/img][/url] No use trying to fight it, you're an eight-sided die, a d8. A fine example of simple elegance, the d8 i...

Should I combine my blog and journal? - General
12 May 2005 @ 12:51 am - I realise this has just ended up as a regular blog that has been split in half. In reality a blog probably shouldn't be about my lunch or whatever but that's what most of them are like and it's too much trouble to be different. At the moment my jo...

Taste in music a problem? - General
12 May 2005 @ 12:10 am - I used to listen to a lot of old gangsta rap and everyone I know would complain non-stop. There is no more gangsta rap (coz everyone died) and I got sick of all the songs I had. Then I found In Flames. Now I listen to about 90% metal and then some...

You won't get it - General
11 May 2005 @ 02:09 pm - ...

Or not to work? - General
11 May 2005 @ 08:25 am - Well I got to work. And Andrew had forgot to ring me and tell me not to bother come in. So I don't have work tonight after all and will be home soon and or later. I hope my landlord is done pressure cleaning old paint off the walls outside my room...

To work? - General
11 May 2005 @ 06:53 am - I got up this morning for a group meeting I didn't really participate in, then incredibly stupid PSYC experiments. I feel like I've just been robbed of a day and don't feel all that good. Then about 40 minutes ago I got a call from work asking if I c...

Beware MS - General
10 May 2005 @ 02:02 pm - Was sitting in the labs tonight and with Thei and KJ, (the UQ Microsoft student ambassador), was signing up for a bank account until it got the the huge long contract bit. At which point he stops and says, "..And this is where I'm supposed to si...

OMG! LOUD! - General
10 May 2005 @ 08:57 am - I bought my new stereo. I had about $600 to spend but decided on something a little more reasonable. In the end I spent $370 on a Sony - MHCRG444 - 3 Disc HiFi system with a sub woofer. What can I say? My ears hurt.. [img]http://maz.dnsalias.org/...

Maz Makes use of Mandrake on a Manic Monday - General
09 May 2005 @ 04:20 pm - OMG that is a bad song... Anyway. I had [u]COMS4200[/u] all morning, including a tute, that I didn't attend. Thei, Sef and I went to Indro about 1pm to buy fish for Sef's empty fish tank and I wanted to look for stereos. 2 hours later I'd found no...

Whose car is this?!? - General
08 May 2005 @ 11:19 pm - A typical Monday morning and I'm at uni over an hour early for my lecture. Why would I waste an hour here? Because parking is shit. If I get here just in time for my lecture there are no car parks left on campus. It wasn't this bad when I started her...

Lots of work = good stereo - General
08 May 2005 @ 01:30 pm - I woke after 2pm. I Rang my mum to wish her a happy mothers day and then just downloaded Linux distros because I had nothing better to do. I started work at 5:30pm vowing to not be the one closing (3 nights in a row). About 30 minutes later that d...

Sporting events should be banned - General
08 May 2005 @ 05:04 am - I went to Milton maccas for breakfast / lunch / dinner and there must have been something on at Lang Park. There are like a million cops around and I'm more than worried about driving around there with my not-so-roadworthy car. Either ban sporting ev...

I'm not a fucking taxi - General
07 May 2005 @ 05:49 pm - Don't get me wrong, I don't mind driving people around. I've made about a million trips out to uni to take people to maccas at Milton when it's late. But fuck doing that anymore. I can't drive tonight, (for reasons that only the bottle shop are re...

Just like last weekend. - General
07 May 2005 @ 01:54 pm - I stayed up way too late last night. I basically fell into bed at 4am! At midday I woke because of a phone call from KJ about power supplies being poxy. So he visited and we copied files onto the Raptor drive he got back before going out to uni to do...

What time is it? Knife time? - General
06 May 2005 @ 01:46 pm - Today I hurridly got up and finished my psyc essay that was due a couple of days ago and I was really needing to submit soon. Then I had to go into uni to print it where I saw Sef and Scruff who had been at the Red Room drinking all morning. There wa...

Random girls and being a goth - General
05 May 2005 @ 06:54 am - The random girls is about someone I don't recognise saying "Hi Maz" and then I have to spend the rest of the day trying to work out who they are. So please, anyone who decideds to say hi to me in the streets.. If I look confused, please eit...

Bitten - General
05 May 2005 @ 12:05 am - This morning I woke up suddenly with a burning pain in my leg. I think something bit me. I don't know if I should be worried, after all, I survived to make it to my CSSE lecture but I may lapse into a coma when the boredom removes my will to live. So...

So tired! - General
04 May 2005 @ 01:30 pm - By 10am this morning I just couldn't stay awake. Nothing was working and I just needed to sleep. So I sent my [u]PSYC1030[/u] work to my website for me to finish later and just headed home. I just slept until after 6:30pm. I chatted to Thei and KJ...

DeAdLiNeS!!!!!!! AAARRRRGGHHHHH!!! - General
03 May 2005 @ 07:00 pm - My day started with COMS. And ended with COMS. It's 5am and I am still in the labs after only just getting COMS working. WOE! ([i]COMS, COMS, COMS, COMS, COMS, COMS, COMS, COMS[/i]) In 9 hours my [u]PSYC1030[/u] essay is due which I am about to st...

Monday the holiday - General
02 May 2005 @ 01:55 pm - I had a very relaxing day of CSSE and COMS today. I watched "[i]28 Days Later[/i]" and thought it was crap. Now to sleep. ' '-ly Maz...

Hints for picking fights.. - General
01 May 2005 @ 04:15 pm - [b]1.[/b] Do not turn up in a slow, smashed, recognisable car. [b]2.[/b] Don't take on a group bigger group than the number of people you can fit in previously stated shit car. [b]3.[/b] Don't take on people holding cricket bats. [b]4.[/b] Don't t...

Computers, work, poker, cricket and driving. - General
01 May 2005 @ 01:50 pm - Just a normal Sunday right? Today I was up late so wanted to really sleep in but I woke up at like 11am and felt guilty for not doing any work. I was actually woken by an SMS from my sister saying my mum was in Brisbane and I should let her know i...

CSSE and work - General
30 Apr 2005 @ 01:52 pm - My day started with a mad rush to get to my [u]CSSE3004[/u] group meeting. We saw Ken on his way out but had no questions and it was all very weird. The group meeting went to like midday, (remind me to write down the minutes), and after that I went t...

Damn. Miss France (2004) is HOT! - General
30 Apr 2005 @ 03:13 am - On KJ's blog there was a post about how Miss France 2004 was stripped (pun!) of her title after posing for Playboy. [url]http://kjacobsen.net/kjacobsen/archive/2005/04/29/730.aspx[/url] Pictures are availiable... Oh yeah! [url=http://maz.dnsalia...

I needed a break - General
29 Apr 2005 @ 01:48 pm - I was so worn out from this week that I needed a break so I slept in this morning until midday. Then I chatted online until about 3pm. After this I went out to uni and worked on the [u]COMS4200[/u] assignment. It seems to be pretty close to working. ...

Money - General
29 Apr 2005 @ 07:42 am - Saving goes better when you cut down on the amount of money you waste. As opposed to saving the same amount and wasting any extra. What a revelation!...

COMS4200 woe extended! - General
28 Apr 2005 @ 01:58 pm - Today I had heaps of [u]CSSE3004[/u] classes where I chatted online. During the workshop we had one of those group survival exercises about crashing a plane or whatever. I was busy writing C so Ian and I decided we'd take the pair of .45 calibre pist...

AMD Turion - General
28 Apr 2005 @ 07:32 am - The 64-bit [url=http://www.amd.com/homepage03102005/mobile_T64_learnmore]Turion[/url] is AMD's answer to Intel's Centrino. AMD are providing the CPU's but the chipsets can be provided by a number of vendors which may result in higher power consumptio...

Union national day of (non) action - General
28 Apr 2005 @ 06:21 am - Today at 12:30pm the stupid union hippies shut down all non-essential union services to go to the city to protest against VSU, ([i]Voluntary Student Unionism[/i]). I have heard unsubstantiated rumors that all union employees have been paid while they...

OMG OMG OMG. 2 days left - General
27 Apr 2005 @ 01:54 pm - It's midnight and I'm still in the labs doing [u]COMS4200[/u]. Tomorrow I go get supplies and move in until it's finished. Today I didn't make it to my group meeting due to feeling crap and having to stay in bed. Until I got a message from Thei sa...

Chain letters = spam - General
27 Apr 2005 @ 07:26 am - After a hard day working at uni, (*cough cough*), coming home and having to delete spam is not my idea of fun. Even if it was sent by a person not a bot. Just to make it clear. 1. [b]No one is going to get any money if you spam all your friends ...

A day in the life of Microsoft - General
27 Apr 2005 @ 04:21 am - Today I'm attending a talk by Chuck Sterling from Mircrosoft about his experience in the company. This includes information about getting started with Microsoft and surviving the interview processes. This seems very worthwhile considering I wouldn't ...

COMS4200 Assignment 2. 3 days left. - General
26 Apr 2005 @ 01:49 pm - Uni today was terribly early at 10am. Being a Monday timetable I actually had a [u]COMS4200[/u] lecture first (going over peer-to-peer again), and there were no tutorials this week. After the lecture Thei and I went to find out wtf was going on with ...

Suitably geebin? - General
26 Apr 2005 @ 11:55 am - I was cleaning my room (to avoid study of course!) and when I was done, this is what it looked like: [url=http://maz.dnsalias.org/blog/files/images/nerd.jpg][img]http://maz.dnsalias.org/blog/files/images/nerds.jpg[/img][/url] That's basically a...

zero equals one? - General
26 Apr 2005 @ 07:48 am - Cleaning my room and found this. [img]http://maz.dnsalias.org/blog/files/images/01.jpg[/img] Trippy eh? [comment]I like the third line best. [b]DM[/b] on 26 Apr 2005 @ 09:23 pm[/comment][comment]If a = b, that is legit.. I'm just too lazy to ...

Me have fast wireless now - General
25 Apr 2005 @ 11:30 pm - Me borrowed 802.11 B/G wireless card from nice person. Now me can learned and work at lunch. Dell laptop, random wireless card, HP software.. magic! If anyone wants me. Try looking online :P...

Pittsworth for a day - General
25 Apr 2005 @ 01:56 pm - After last night I was pretty tired this morning so I hit snooze on my alarm for like an hour. Eventually I got up, got ready and left for Pittsworth, (via the BP.. [b]Isn't fuel expensive![/b]). It was an uneventful drive back and I arrived there ab...

Busy R.E. - General
24 Apr 2005 @ 01:47 pm - Tonight I woke up at 11am after staying up to 4am. I need more sleep. But instead I went to the computer markets with Jon and KJ. I bought some of the parts for the PC I'm building and I also bought a chess set ([i]see: [url=http://maz.dnsalias.org/b...

Nothing says fun like drunken board games - General
24 Apr 2005 @ 03:37 am - And what better game to play drunk than chess? Well now you can with this awesome chess set I scored for $20. [url=http://maz.dnsalias.org/blog/files/images/chess.JPG][img]http://maz.dnsalias.org/blog/files/images/chesss.JPG[/img][/url] Anyone...

Sleeping in exams. a.k.a. PSYC1030 - General
23 Apr 2005 @ 01:58 pm - This morning I woke up at 11am and thought, "Good. Saturday. I can sleep in." but about 30 minutes later I remembered I had an exam I hadn't studied for this afternoon. So I got up and went out to uni to 'study'. So when I get there Thei an...

Keyless - General
22 Apr 2005 @ 01:54 pm - This morning I didn't have uni so I slept in until about 11am. When I woke up I chatted to Thei online who said I should get to uni or I'd fail [u]INFS3202[/u]. I got there about midday and parked my car but the parking meter took my money and wouldn...

IBM Talk at UQ - General
21 Apr 2005 @ 02:55 pm - On Friday the 22nd at 1pm (yes, very short notice), there is going to be a talk by Neil Readshaw about the IBM labs at the Gold Coast, their recruitment plans, and so on, as well as some topics in information security. Prentice Building (42), room...

Where would you like to go today? - General
21 Apr 2005 @ 01:53 pm - Today my day started a little earlier than expected when Hollie [b]woke me at 6am[/b] to drive her to work because she missed her train. I was undoubtably at my best and most alert when I got lost in the city when all i had to do was drive a straight...

INFS3202 - General
21 Apr 2005 @ 06:27 am - Is a bit slow today. It's 4:26pm (nearly half an hour into the lecture) and he has just put up the first lecture slide. The start of which is about "what is a database". zzzz. [comment]Well, what is it? [b]Clitn[/b] on 22 Apr 2005 @ 10:4...

UQ Wireless - General
21 Apr 2005 @ 06:26 am - I was about to say how much improved the wireless around UQ is again as it dropped out. But they have updated the system so that when it drops out and re-connects, it keeps your login for a little longer. Which means I can keep browsing sites without...

What's going on? - General
21 Apr 2005 @ 12:18 am - When I woke up this morning my site was inaccessible. The hostname was not resolving to the correct IP. So I force the dynamic DNS to update.. And it's still the wrong IP. Something is seriously broken. In the end I went to dyndns.org and set it m...

Survival of the fittest for the modern day - General
20 Apr 2005 @ 01:02 pm - While some people may be trying to protect those not intellectually endowed individuals with seemingly moroninc warning labels on almost things that are barely inconceivably harful, there is hope for the human race yet. The answer is to [b]keep gi...

Only a quick group meeting - General
20 Apr 2005 @ 12:33 pm - The only thing I had today was a short group meeting today for 10 mins at 9am.. Or so I thought.. As it turns out the group meeting didn't get started until 9:30 (I was late too), had plenty of people absent and raged on for about 2 hours. At the end...

I hate spam - General
19 Apr 2005 @ 02:30 pm - Following random links on KJ's blog and then other links on those sites I found this one. [url=http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/04/18/new.spam.battleground.ap/index.html]Attention shifts to spam containment[/url] Near the middle is this ...

Psyc is fun - General
19 Apr 2005 @ 01:27 pm - First a lecture on mood disorders that women are more than twice as likely to have most of. Then a lecture on sexism that tells me I can't point that out.. heh. I have been working so hard today... [b]<study>[/b] [url=http://maz.dnsalias.o...

COMS exam and CSSE meeting - General
18 Apr 2005 @ 01:43 pm - So my entire day was just uni work. Who cares. Social lives aren't for anti-social people. I got up at 8am and went to uni to study for my [u]COMS4200[/u] exam. Which I probably failed because I didn't have the money to print out the lecture slide...

Got my cake and eat it too! - General
17 Apr 2005 @ 01:43 pm - This morning I woke about 10am with nothing to do so I basically sat around all day playing computer games. I did have uni stuff too do but I couldn't get into the mood to do it so I have to wake up at 8am tomorrow and study. Tonight I had to work...

From Stradbroke - General
16 Apr 2005 @ 01:36 pm - I woke up early and did nothing until i packed my stuff and left. On the way to the ferry we went to Point Lookout and walked around the track there and I took a heap of photos (which I hope to have online soon). After lunch I caught the ferry back a...

To Stradbroke - General
15 Apr 2005 @ 01:49 pm - I've just had the most relaxing day in ages! Although I got up at 7am I only made the 9am ferry to Stradbroke Island (which takes about half an hour) and my parents collected me on the island. So we went to the campsite (via somewhere to get ice c...

OMG my money is all gone! - General
14 Apr 2005 @ 01:34 pm - Because I bought a 17" LCD monitor. ([i]See: [url=http://maz.dnsalias.org/blog/vcomment.php?post=1113482898]LG Flatron L1750 LCD Monitor[/url][/i]). But before I did that I had a [u]CSSE3004[/u] lecture where I Googled the names on the back o...

LG Flatron L1750SQ LCD Monitor - General
14 Apr 2005 @ 12:48 pm - Today I purchased a 17" LCD monitor for $365. It seems pretty good for what I paid for it (8ms responce time). Anyone who was considering buying the same item from Umart I can say I have no complaints with it. 1280x1024 @ 60Hz. Clear with norma...

Mmm. Cancerous gum! - General
14 Apr 2005 @ 01:19 am - I am so bored in my CSSE3004 lecture that I started cleaning out my wallet and I found some chewing gum, (which is delicious!). On the packet it says: [b]CONTAINS PHENYLALNINE[/b]. Now out of boredom I decided to google that and see why it was so ...

80 / 20 rule - General
14 Apr 2005 @ 12:16 am - Yesterday I heard the 80 / 20 rule. Put in 20% of the effort to get 80% of the marks. Put in another 80% of the effort to get the file 20% of the marks. Very true. To get a 7 you have to work your ass off....

900 words per hour - General
13 Apr 2005 @ 11:53 am - I got up this morning at like 10:30am after using the snooze button a dozen times. I eventually made my way into uni to see someone and got a park at Leo's college. As far as I know, no one was billed $800 this time. After that I went to the labs ...

Reflective review of the traffic today - General
12 Apr 2005 @ 01:28 pm - Today I only had psyc lectures which were much the same as usual. After I spent all my money on food last night I had to get money for parking so I left my car oustide Wordsmiths without paying parking while i ran to the ATMs which were both out of o...

OMG Psyc! - General
11 Apr 2005 @ 01:20 pm - My [u]PSYC1030[/u] assignment is on "The effects of violence in the media on children". Seeing our research has been done for us and I have to argue that it turns children into monsters I'm going to be choking on all of what I write. I w...

I craved chocolate cake - General
11 Apr 2005 @ 01:11 pm - Where I went to uni for COMS4200. Which I attended and stuff. After that I came home for pizza then went to the movies to see "[i]Sahara[/i]" which was pretty average (as you'd expect a movie of a Clive Cussler book to be). I'll read the bo...

More work = more money - General
10 Apr 2005 @ 01:55 pm - I had no plans for today so I slept as late as possible, managing to stay in bed until I got hungry about 2pm. So Cassie and I had a relatively eventful (and mostly legal) drive to KFC and back and then we were playing "[i]Vampire The Masquerade...

What a horrible waste of a Saturday - General
09 Apr 2005 @ 01:57 pm - Last night I stayed up to 4am drinking the vodka that was left from the party last weekend after deciding that I was just going to sleep all of today. (Cassie told me to hang around and drink with her, and then went to bed). At about 9am I got an ...

Tis friday - General
08 Apr 2005 @ 01:45 pm - I'm tired as hell and now I'm drinking my vodka. Good times were had by all. I sumitted my INFS pracs on time but the COMS assignment that we submitted may or may not be working. The extension goes to tomorrow night so I must do work on the weeken...

C# - General
07 Apr 2005 @ 01:45 pm - I used [b]C#[/b] to write my CSSE3004 assignment in today. It's not all that bad once you get used to the [b]arse-backwards[/b] way you have to do everything. That and the fact that the MSDN library is totally crap compared to something like the Java...

That's hillarious - General
07 Apr 2005 @ 01:32 pm - Today I rushed back to uni at 10am which was too late to find a park and I had more [u]CSSE3004[/u] to do. I ended up parking in [i]Women's College[/i] visitor car park and running to the labs about 10:30am. In the labs I messed with [b]C#[/b] ([i]se...

BOAT CRUISE!!! - General
07 Apr 2005 @ 09:53 am - Nothing screams fun like drinking on a boat! The Japsoc is having a boat cruise next Friday night (15th) which looks like it might be fun. It's an "event" which societies have (because they aren't all like BITS). [img]http://maz.dnsalias...

Can't talk now. CSSE3004 due! - General
06 Apr 2005 @ 05:47 pm - How bad is the fact that I'm rushing so I can get home to bed by 4am? I only want to get home by 4am so I can get some sleep so I can make it back here by 10am tomorrow to actually finish doing my work! ARGH! Today I got up at 10am and came to uni...

Insanity attack! - General
05 Apr 2005 @ 01:54 pm - No sleep equal insane. I have no idea what day it is or anything. The last few days are all squashed into one blur at this point. All I know is that I spent the afternoon at uni doing [u]CSSE3004[/u] and due to the lack of sleep I don't even know wha...

My holidays.. All gone! - General
04 Apr 2005 @ 01:56 pm - I managed to make it to my first class today after the holidays at 10am. So I slept right through that (like a few other people), waking up for breif periods of fancy maths (with Greek letters), which I think should have nothing to do with I.T. Af...

I'm getting sick of this - General
03 Apr 2005 @ 01:49 pm - It's so much trouble to have to write what I did, (by the way, I did nothing). And breathe. So I figured I wouldn't bother anymore. I assume everyone is sick of this site by now. I haven't even put up the photos from when I went on holidays over new ...

Sleep, work, party! - General
02 Apr 2005 @ 01:52 pm - Just one word for tonight. "SMIRNOFF". You know it's classy when you're drinking straight vodka from a jar. I slept all day and had work tonight for about 4 hours. So that's like nearly 12 hours for the week. When I went TV shopping w...

Uni work on my holidays. Oh how I miss high school! - General
01 Apr 2005 @ 12:24 pm - I stayed up all night last night chatting to Trace until Hollie got up at 4:30am. At which point Trace stole Hollie's bed and I thought I should probably sleep. After I woke up at 1pm today I rang my dad to ask about the car and we have idea what ...

Blogs suck - General
01 Apr 2005 @ 05:08 am - I do realise this is a blog. So don't bother.. Why do people making blog posts point to some other blog with a piece of news and add more opinions? Can't we point to the source? It just ends up as a major game of online chinese whispers and if you...

Give me a break - General
31 Mar 2005 @ 01:54 pm - Yes I woke up very late considering how much uni work I have to do. Then by the time I got to uni at 1pm or whatever I was not in the mood so I sat and chatted to people which I could have done from home. But I didn't. Had to go to work at 6pm whe...

Back in Bris for another semester - General
30 Mar 2005 @ 01:15 pm - I slept. I woke. I drove. I worked. I movied. I am. Maz! [comment]I movied therefore I am? [b]DM[/b] on 31 Mar 2005 @ 12:37 am[/comment][comment]Exactly! [b]Maz[/b] on 01 Apr 2005 @ 01:26 am[/comment][comment]cognito ergo pintara [b]sef[/b] ...

Holidays melting.. nooooooo! - General
29 Mar 2005 @ 01:09 pm - As the holidays are nearly at an end for me. I wonder if I have been emo enough? Na. Today I did a whole lot of nothing when i wasn't wiring a car stereo into a truck. The main problem being the fact that the truck ran of 24V and the stereo needed...

Easter rocks on - General
28 Mar 2005 @ 01:30 pm - Why can't people let me sleep. Phone calls and people visiting before 10:30am, [b]that's crazy![/b] I have no idea what I did between showing someone how to copy cd's and watching episodes of "[i]Mythbusters[/i]" that I missed that my paren...

The best lunch ever - General
27 Mar 2005 @ 01:52 pm - Today I woke up about 11am. Just in time to wait around a couple of hours for lunch. It was definitely worth waiting for. Roast and gravy with beautiful crunchy roasted potatos with vegetables. After that we had butterscotch ice-cream with fruit sala...

If you sit in front of the tv all day you'll get square eyes! - General
26 Mar 2005 @ 01:13 pm - I had such an action packed day today. I was in bed watching comedy shows until after 3pm. Since then I've walked the dog and now I'm watching "[i]Waterworld[/i]" yet AGAIN. I'm so over this movie. Looking forward to lunch tomorrow or some...

The sky is falling.. Well the beds are burning... - General
25 Mar 2005 @ 01:25 pm - St John's college was ablaze this afternoon? How pissed off would you be if all your stuff got toasted. Anyway, I was just wondering if anyone knew how it got started? How much burnt down? And does anyone have any cool stories? [comment]http://www....

To Brisbane and back - General
25 Mar 2005 @ 01:19 pm - This morning I began my day in pitts at 10am and promptly got in the car and went to Brisbane. I was helping my sister move into her new house but when we arrived, we discovered she didn't have the keys and couldn't get in. When I went to my place to...

Wot woz dat? - General
24 Mar 2005 @ 01:50 pm - Today was way too long. It shouldn't have started until well after midday, then I may have gone to all my classes. Instead I found myself skipping the second part of my first lecture to go to Indropilly to buy a new phone. Because we were there early...

Management is teh d00m! - General
24 Mar 2005 @ 12:21 am - I don't have uni on Wednesdays so I slept in until about 11am when I eventually decided to get up to do some work. So I sat online chatting all day talking to Thei at uni who was stressing about his assignment due tonight. So I had a bit of a laugh a...

IIS is shitting me off - General
23 Mar 2005 @ 06:26 am - It's permissions system is fucked!...

Work and new webserver and more work - General
22 Mar 2005 @ 01:21 pm - This morning I rushed to my PSYC1030 lecture at 10am only to realise I felt sick and didn't want to take notes. I did still stay at uni for my tutorial at 1pm or whenever it was. After this I was going to come home but I stopped by at Sef's and waste...

Too busy. - General
21 Mar 2005 @ 01:41 pm - I can't talk now. Server rebuild in progress. Today I: 1) Started COMS 2) Did a little more business case More on this when I do something. speedily Maz...

SocksCap - General
21 Mar 2005 @ 02:14 am - Is a marvelous program for when you need to do something while you're trapped at UQ. I just used SocksCap to go through my putty SSH tunnel to remote desktop to my server on its IP (60.226.1.46) to restart its dynamic dns updater because not only was...

Back to Bris and work - General
20 Mar 2005 @ 01:59 pm - I slept in really late considering I didn't have a late night last night. I woke up about midday and went over to see Kate to help her buy a laptop. Mostly just explaing what difference all the different components made. When I got back home I did ve...

Shopping. Shame I didn't buy a phone. - General
19 Mar 2005 @ 01:41 pm - Today I missed breakfast by about 2 and a half hours. So I stayed in bed until mum was ready to go into Toowoomba. I had to get some stuff including more microfibre shirts. Gift from the gods. After spending most of the day in Toowoomba shopping I wa...

Bush invites Israeli PM to ranch - General
18 Mar 2005 @ 04:06 pm - Thei spotted this and it had to get a mention. "Mr Bush normally uses his ranch for top level diplomatic meetings and to reward important allies." Full unimportant story [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4361769.stm]here[/ur...

Slept in for uni.. at 2pm. - General
18 Mar 2005 @ 01:50 pm - Last night at 3am I was thinking that my class today wasn't until