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My 21st Food Related Event
Mar 31st
Some may have heard about what is planned for my upcoming birthday. There will be some kind of Chinese banquette of sorts happening of which details I will be able to provide later. Food will be paid for, people should only have to think about any drinks they’d like and drinks they’d like to buy me. Location is somewhere around Ingle Farm if I recall correctly or around that general area so transit shouldn’t be an issue for anyone. This post is simply an early one to let people know ahead of time (Way ahead of time my birthday is in May). More details as they become available.
Update: I have the name and location of the restaurant at last. Get in touch via MSN or Astra for those details.
My Video Card Died
Nov 9th
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.
Australian Defense Force Recruitment
Jun 18th
Today I attended a YOU session at the Defence Force Recruitment centre in Adelaide. The day included waiting, aptitude testing, waiting, informal interview, form filling, more waiting and finally a basic medical interview based on the previous form filling. The aptitude testing was a very basic multiple choice affair. First you take a general test which asks simple questions like:
Which of the following words does not belong:
Dog. Cat. Bird. Tyre. Fish.
After completing the first test or running out of time (the tests are timed), you have a short one minute break before doing the second maths based test. The maths test is a little bit more involved but overall the questions are simple like:
Plane A and Plane B are 500 kilometres apart and flying towards each other. If plane A is travelling at a constant speed of 240 k/m and plane B is travelling at a constant speed of 360 k/m when will the planes meet?
The informal interview afterwards is nothing special. You’re asked a few questions to sum up what you know about the ADF and are then presented with the results of your aptitude testing and the roles you can join. I chose Communication Electronic Technician and due to being a job in demand had an interview set up on the spot.
Communication Electronic Technicians maintain and repair the Air Force’s vast array of radar, radios, satellite and computer systems to ensure the Air Force has an accurate view of the airspace around it.
Three hours had passed and I spent a fourth hour doing some form filling and confirming some of my answers with a nurse before heading home. My job interview is scheduled for Tuesday the 23rd.
Moving House
May 14th
I will be moving house late next week and hence will lose phone and internet for a lengthy period of time. I’ll probably only be online when at Tafe which I have on Monday, Tuesday and Friday so don’t expect to hear anything from me other than on those days. I’ve yet to sort out a disconnection date for the phone and internet but I’d expect to do so around Monday. I’m currently trying to use all my quota 
