Cost of Living

COST OF LIVING from BenDavid Grabinski on Vimeo.

A rather funny and very good short video, well worth the watch. I guess it is sort of like the work Bob does.

Well Look What I Found

I had forgotten all about this silly blog.

And well it is still silly.

Gmail Custom Time

Well Loged into Gmail today to see a great NEW feature. Gmail Custom Time. It lets you post emails from the past.

"Ever wish you could go back in time and send that crucial email that could have changed everything -- if only it hadn't slipped your mind? Gmail can now help you with those missed deadlines, missed birthdays and missed opportunities."

I am now waiting for the post office to offer something like this. I mean you could never miss a birthday. My post would turn up on time.

Full License

Well I got my Full License.

IT did take me a couple of years to get my Learners then 8/9 years to get my Restricted then 4 months for my full.

Which all in turn now means that I get a Work Car. A 2008 ES Mitsubishi Lancer Wagon 2.4l.

Dilbert

Well I have got my Hands on Dilert the Board Game. I was force to buy it from Aussie as I could not find any one here who sells it. I got it off these guys Games Paradise.

Well it was Bob who said it was the bestest game ever. It does look rather fun. Hoping to get some people together to play this weekend.

I am a Chump

Well I was looking at my laptop and through I do not know the last time I booted into windows. So I was think I can formate it and get some more space. So a formating I go. Then upon reboot I got a nice little message saying "OS Missing". Oh this is not a good thing. Then I start to think for the first time and went oh yea, I just messed up grub.

So looking the internet to find someone as smart than me who knows how to fix it and then I found this. A great guild of how to get GRUB working again. Well it got me back up and going.

Ubuntu 7.10

Well I have upgrade my laptop from Ubuntu 7.04 to Ubuntu 7.10 and it has all worked well. In the past I have had problems with the Battery and my wireless card.

Having started with Red Hat then given up on that After having going throw RPM hell. I move to Debian because Bob told me too. I finally moved to Ubuntu.
I have been using Ubuntu since Ubuntu 4.10 which was a change from Debian. Ubuntu is biased on Debian and uses the same deb package management system but use brown for every thing.

Ubuntu is an distribution that I am happy to give to friends as it work easily and with the latest version (7.10) is very easy for a new person to pick up and start to use.

So go download Ubuntu 7.10 and enjoy

License

Well I now have my Restricted License. So I can now become a driving hazard to the rest of the world.

I have had my learners for nearly 9 years so not to bad really. Now just to get my full.

Photo 25

Photo 25, originally uploaded by heymish.

A shot I got on Traceys new Macbook. The Isight is not too bad. I like the photo. Thinking of getting it printed

Opps

Well I said as long as one of my stuff ups never made the news I would be happy, well that did not last long.



Well I am going to be on the cosat for the next 3 weeks. So at least I miss the cold weather in ChCh.

Off to the Coast

Well off to the coast again. Oh well.

Managed 93km last month. Rather pleased with that.

They have gym on the coast which has concpet2 PM3.

So I am hoping to get to do some rowing over there keep up the Km's.

I am up 271km so should hit 333km. So I should get to 1/3 of the way this month.

Transformers

More than meets the Eyes

Well I am off to see Transformers. At 12:01am so all I can say to the rest of you is Ha Ha have to wait.

Man I am going to be sooooo cool.

Well I am going to have a old man nap so I can stay up that late but hey, I am sure that does not cut down on the cool facter.

250Km

Well I have made one milestone. 1/4 of the way there. Rather pleasing. Had to do a 10km row today to get there. This month I have done 82Km so with another week I should add another 28Km.

Not bad for a fat man.

I have been looking at these pants from Cactus. Dave has got the shorts and they can stand up by them selfs. I think they sound rather cool. the first pair of pants that might last. The nice thing is they are made here in Christchurch so nice to support locale stuff

Well sleep time

Photos of Bike

Edit: Well I was going to post the photos of the bike. But now I think I might wait until the Mags have been published. I am sure they would not find the photos, but I am guessing they would not be happy had I put them out there before they where in the Mag.
Sorry about that.


Here are the photos of Bryan's bike that I promised.

I am now OLD

Well it is official I am now old. I had to go see the accountant. Well that is to say I now have an accountant. So I am feeling I might have to start growing up. Oh well. It was bound to happen one day.

Well I have just got my own Rowing Card. So when I make a run for it too the coast I can go to the gym there and still keep count of my rowing. Which will be nice, should keep the fat bastardness down. Only have 37km till I get to 250Km or a quarter of the way. I have been trying to increase from 7km a night to 10km. I have found this to rather hard. Those extra 3km really kill me.

I was bitching to Bob. About a missing feature in glchess. I have wanted a undo button. So he foolishly told me to do it myself. So far all I have added is the button to the gui. There is not alot behind it yet. I am hoping to add a few bugs to bobs code and have my undo work. This should take me not more than 6 months. Really depends on how many bugs I think I should add.

Google Analytics

Well after spotting Bob's comment on Google Analytics. So I had a look at my own. I first found out that no one was reading this dribble probably a good thing really.

Then I notice some thing. The google seach bit. It tells you what someone typed in to get to your site.



Now Twaddle and Hamish I can see those bring people to me. Openoffice and Rowing I can see that too sure I have made comment on those. But the one I can not see is "skimpy swimwear". The poor bastard that was looking for skimpy swimwear and getting my shit site. Oh well learn them good.

Chuck Norris Kicks Ass

Chuck has written a nice piece on "If I am elected president". Looks like there would be alot of ass kicking.

I hit 200Km last night. Hoping to hit 250km by the end of the month.

If I can keep this rate up I will be happy and maybe a butt load fitter or at least better at the self CPR stuff people talk about. Which is a load of sheep's balls. Personally I am all for running around wildly and waiting for the blood to run out of my head.

Taken a whole lot of photos of a work mates Harley . Turned out nice. He had done the paint job himself and a whole lot of mods.
Hopefully add some photos later.

HAT

Dave is a Bad Bad Man

Well his rowing machine is. The memory card on it has a limit and instead of doing some thing smart like dropping off the oldest row, it just drops the person lowest down on the list off. So as I was the last one to be add to the card it drops my data first. So I have not lost all of my data becasue I have been copying it off. But I have lost 6 days of rowing, which is a pain as I had some good rows. It also drops my monthly totals. So I have to do a bit og guess as to how much I have rowed this month. Not happy. I will now have to make a effort to download my stats each night.

Oh well enough of a rant.

I have hat 180Km. So doing well I was thinking I should keep track of total Metres rowed, Could be nice to see it going up.

Kick Out

Well we have been kicked out of Elizabeth St. Got 6 Weeks to find a new place. Rather a pain. Paul is busy looking for a new place. At least we can not get a much shitter place than the one we have. It might neven be better all going well.

Looking at buying a car. Something cheap and small. See how it goes.

Graphs of Rowing

As you may or may not be able to see. I have been improving on the 5K rows but the 2K I am not looking so good. I have been keeping all the stats in Openoffice. It has been kind of fun seeing all the numbers. I can see it is going to be hard to pull my 2K line down and make it look like the 5K line.

Just to give you some idea of how I am doing the open mens indoor world record is 5:37.0 for 2K

Rob Waddell has a time of 5:38.3. So my best time of 7:44.58 is just a little of the pace oh well