Exasperated Calculator

I haven’t had a very clean period on the blog since the start of the year – sorry everything’s been erratic. Initially I was going to plead ‘not enough time’, but that’s not really true.

It’s really about time management. And a lack of proper capital use.

In particular, it’s about a very silly bit of my IT setup at home.

As those who’ve met me know, I’m a little ‘over extended’ in the gadget front. In particular, I tend to watch TV/movies streamed from my computer. Or, to be more specific, streamed from the external hard drive attached to my laptop.

Those following along can probably already see the problem – the best bit of down time each evening, the opportunity to write a blog post or two (or just catch up on other blogs) is while I’m watching TV, but my laptop is tethered to my office setup and is unavailable…

Silly, really.

Anyway, I make no promises about blogging more often. But I’ve now switched the setup over to stream TV and movies from my other computer, and so now I’ve got a laptop to use while I’m watching TV.

(I also could buy myself a nice new laptop I suppose).

Go throw something on a barbie, play some backyard cricket, or complain about the politicians. You know, something Australian.

I’ll be back on Tuesday. Everyone have a great long weekend.

And if you don’t get the long weekend because you’re not in Australia: Why not fix that?

Happy 2008 everyone.

I hope everyone reading this had a fantastic finish to 2007, and is all set for a great year ahead.

2007 was an odd year for me – a lot of disruption (albeit very positive) in the things that I work on professionally kept me busy. My only real hope for this year is to try and be a bit more in control of things that are going on.

So here I am for another tilt at the blogging thing. I fully expect that this will last only a month or so until my buffer dries up, but we’ll see how I go.

I plan to post a lot more reviews of the books, movies, TV shows and computer games that I see. I’ll be starting with three of the films I saw over Christmas, which could be summarised as the great, the bad and the brilliant. Plus there will be the normal assortment of random links I find on the Internet.

So let’s get going with the year, already.

Hi All.

Sorry for the lack of posts lately. I decided to go on hiatus until the new year, but forgot to put up anything letting you know…

I’m busily preparing a nice buffer of posts, so expect to see lots of stuff come January 1.

Was sick for a fair chunk of last week. Just now getting up to date with the blog.

No more interruptions between now and election day, I promise.

I’ve backfilled to where I dropped off last week.

The new design for the site has just gone live. Hopefully it’s a little bit cleaner than the old design.

I’ve mainly tried to simplify the overall design – leave only the main elements that are needed. In particular I’ve removed the whole sidebar, and replaced it with a single archives page link at the top.

Another thing is that I’ve taken the comments out of the blog. There wasn’t much use of the comments, and it was causing me a lot of overhead in website design. Spam was the bigger issue, with only about one in one hundred comments I deal with being actually real. If you have a comment you’d like to make on a post, use the email address on the Contact page.

I haven’t had a chance to test it properly in every browser yet, so please let me know if there are any problems.