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TradeMe and Trade Union Success

Friday, June 27th, 2003

I’m on the verge of making $48 (or more) on my 6.4gb Maxtor HDD. I’m bidding on an item or two elsewhere, but I won’t tell you what those are till i’ve won or lost them

Also, today I went to union delegate training at my union at Dev-Zone, the Service and Food Workers Union. Yes, I do think this is a weird union for a web developer to be a part of, but the company is a service organisation, and I guess I do help out with IT support, and they have done a really good job of negotiating our contract, so I’m all go with them.
The training was to teach me how to be a better union delegate. I really had no idea of what it meant to be a union delegate, but I learnt that it means helping your fellow union brothers and sisters (my own words) with their work place issues, such as unfair treatment, dismissal issues, pay disputes and the like.

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Rant from Froot Salad

Saturday, June 21st, 2003

Here’s a tip for you when you are installing Windows XP on a new hard drive. Make sure it’s the only drive in the computer, otherwise XP will label your primary partition as E:. That’s whats happened to me, and there doesn’t seem to be any way for me to change it short of re-installing. Anyway, I recieved my new 120GB Seagate harddrive. It kicks. Can I interest anyone in a 6GB hard drive?

With my new hard drive installed, I’ve gone and installed Unreal Tournament 2003. If you haven’t played UT2k3 or it’s XBox counterpart Unreal Championship, you haven’t lived. And talking of 3D, UselessCreations has released a new version of their ever-so-popular Matrix Reloaded 3D screensaver. The new version is interactive; you can move the mouse to track around the code simulation. Also check out their Inside the Matrix screensaver,
featuring a low-polygon model of Neo flying round an infinite city of buildings which are dripping with the matrix code. Not as cool as the Matrix Reloaded 3D screensaver though.

Smileychris pointed me at Enhancer 017 for Winamp 2.x. As I had just installed Winamp and hadn’t yet turned on the Equaliser, installing this plugin instantly improved the quality of the sound output.

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I come bearing gigs!

Friday, June 20th, 2003

Finally! I have 120 Gigabytes to call my own! I bought a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST3120026A… 120GB, 7200rpm, 8.5 ms average seek time, Ultra ATA/100 interface with an 8MB cache…Mmmmm… It should be ultra fast and ultra quiet… I can’t wait to take this beast home and slap it in my machine. Unreal Tournament 2003 here I come!

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Ever played Boxes?

Thursday, June 19th, 2003

I just got this book from Mindscapes: 100 Strategic Games for Pen and Paper. Some of the games in this book look really fun and challenging. Online Whiteboard anyone?

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Welcome to my brother

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2003

My brother is finally on the net! Say hi to Stuart, and welcome him to the online community His screen name is “The Bison”

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