Archive for November, 2009

The Boredom Post

Nov 29th

Nothing much going on right now. I might vent some anger towards a recent Anno 1404 announcement when I can get my brain working. In the meantime have a random picture.

Update: I haven’t yet gotten around to playing the new Anno 1404 expansion but I may get around to it eventually. Instead of any content I’ve added another comic by H.C. Staff. Enjoy.

The source.

Independence, Satire and Press Freedom

Nov 16th

Posted by Kyorisu in Videos

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The Chaser’s Julian Morrow delivers his take on press freedom, censorship and media ownership at the annual Andrew Olle lecture.

A particularly memorable instance of this was when we found ourselves in the unique position of having a publishing deadline for a comedy newspaper on September 11, 2001. We watched the planes hitting the World Trade Centre just a few hours before the print deadline for the next edition. It was a strange night, but one that typified the way we’ve taken the old adage “tragedy plus time equals comedy” and turned it into a less universal dictum – “tragedy minus time equals Chaser”. “Centrepoint jumps two in world’s tallest building” still stands out as an all-time favourite headline of mine. But it, like many jokes I’ve been associated with, offended and appalled many.

You can read Julian’s entire speech here or watch the event on iView here (6 Days remaining as of 16/11/2009).

I’ve Got This All Wrong

Nov 15th

Posted by Kyorisu in General

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If all else fails assume the worst about the person you are responding to. It seems to work for these Gizmodo readers so why not everyone else? Foxtel cannot possibly hope to provide what cable companies in America offer and based on that I have absolutely zero interest in the service.

My Video Card Died

Nov 9th

Posted by Kyorisu in General

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This morning my Galaxy Geforce 8800GT decided to die. The game I was playing at the time froze as the driver tried to restart a few times before it failed and the machine turned off. The card itself was incredibly hot to the touch, I let it cool down before doing anything. My case has no speaker so I had to go find one and plug that in to get one long beep and two short beeps. Looking through the trouble shooting section of my motherboards manual I discovered that one long beep and two short beeps means graphic card/monitor error. Right now of I’m pretty buggered I can’t even remotely access any of my data because I reset the CMOS at some stage and my Raid isn’t set to boot so nothing happens.

There is only one other PCI-E video card in the house and that belongs to Jame’s. I’ll borrow that from him when he gets home to get my machine to at least boot and work from this laptop I’m on right now to get things done.

Update: Situation has changed, see comments.