400th post!

Wow… 400 posts hey? Who would have thought! That’s about 50 a year on average (almost one a week). I’ve wanted to post more often, but I never usually have the time. So yeah, here we are 8 years on. If I pull up my first ever post, we can see that…

• I was about 17 /18 years old
• My dad had just bought a new computer (a ‘kick ass’ 933mhz) LOL! The place he bought it from closed down a few years ago.
• My brother’s girlfriend (at the time) had just dumped him.
• I enjoyed my job then too (as I do now).

Moving forward another 8 years brings us back to now… and how things have changed. 933mhz computers are no longer kick-ass, in fact they deserve to be kicked up the ass (lol) or at least used a boat anchors / door stops / items in computer museums, and I’m now 24. Heh… but I think I enjoy things a lot more now than I did when I was younger. I have a great relationship with my boyfriend, I love my job, I have an established business on the side with a number of great corporate entities as clients, I am saving for a home(loan) and my business has a lot of assets. I love my friends, get along with everyone at work. Now let’s hope everything stays that way

Speaking of friends, last night was uberfun! Edz bought an Xbox360 a few weeks back too, so he brought over some games and his 2 controllers, so all four of us could play together – we played some monkey game which was fun, Crash Nitro Karts, Fusion Frenzy and Worms.

The plan for the night was for everyone to put in $10 each, and buy a bottle of wine, plus the ingredients for dinner and dessert. Could we do it all for just $10 a head? Actually, yes – with a few bucks to spare too (that was with a bottle of white, too). It kinda felt like a TV show, cause we had $40 to work with, and only 10 minutes to think of a meal to make (the travel time between my place and the shop). It was Edz task to get the ingredients for dinner, and then make it – and my task to do the same for dessert. Ed had decided on making a chicken pasta bake, and myself a German pudding with custard. Fortunately, everything went according to plan, for everyone, and both meals were very tasty & filling.

When one’s feeling bloated from eating too much, there’s only one thing to do… play Xbox360! So we did… till about 11:30pm After that, Edz and his BF left, and Daz and I said goodbye. He’s such a good kisser. So hawt *tsss* ouch hehe. So yeah, that went on for a while, and then he went home Last night was also Brandt’s (aka Marmoset’s) 21st birthday, so a quick shout out – happy birthday to Brandty! I hope you got what you wanted… no doubt the marmoset drank too much and spent the wee hours curled up on the floor in front of a loo. Haha nah, it’s all good. When he was younger he did that. Now he is a mature, responsible adult. Isn’t that right? Hehe…

Well, that’s about all for now. Since this is my 400th post, I thought I would leave you with a huge list of random’s – the list I’ve been promising to post for ages. Yeah, I know.. slacker
Enjoy!

• When Iowa college students began receiving anonymous letters referring to them as â⚬Åœduclodsâ⚬ and darkly alluding to their bisexuality, one recipient became obsessed with finding the senderâ⚬➢s identity… a very interesting true story called ‘Chasing the duclod man‘.
• A note to employers: 8 things intelligent people, geeks and nerds need to work happily (very true).
• Google Maps Hack (tested and working as of 1/3/07) – zoom in much further than it usually lets you!
• Photos of the world’s largest passenger ship.
• Awesome tank wheelchair!
• Cool concept cars.
• Eddie Izzard on Computers (very funny video).
• What do you get when you mix a little car, with a big caravan and a hill? You get this video.
• Watching ‘Prince’ turns you gay, does it?
• All glory to the HypnoToad!
• Cool arena made from Lego.
• 101 jobs to make you appreciate your own job more.
• Apartment transformed into Star Trek shrine.
• Why celebrity photos look so great.
• New movie (from NZ, funnily enough) – Black Sheep. Yep, it’s about killer sheep. Right.
• LOL funny chip packet ‘Home girls – it’s all that!” mm-hmm gurlfriend – raise the roof! ROFL…
• Top 10 billboards.
• Tracking the path of the sun over a year (photo-morph – cool figure 8 pattern).
• What happens when you put glowstick-fluid into a toilet? You get a cool techno-galaxy-like thing of colours!
• 10 funniest USB gadgets… like the DVD rewinder! LOL.
• USB Barbeque – it needs 35 USB ports to power it, lol!
• Photo slideshow of New York’s first robotic parking garage – cool!
• Where have all the bee’s gone?
• Wow… a dual-touchscreen notebook (no keyboard – but 2 screens – and an on-screen keyboard).
• Lol – this looks funny – a kangaroo swimming in the ocean! (several pics)… here and here and here and here and here and here!
• Nice in-flight photos up in the sky…
• Construction of the world’s highest bridge (photos).
• The story of how a $10 wok kept a NZ TV station on air.
• A giant ocean fish (pics).
• Hahaha – manager of the year, hey? (funny photo from newspaper)
• Automated toilet paper feeder made from LEGO!
• 7 geeky chairs (pics).
• Cool ‘Drag & Draw‘ digital painting kit for kids! Really clever idea…
• LOL – Windows-power ATM crashes… so someone starts Microsoft Paint and writes a message
• A fun line game.
• 33 tiips for coping with Jetlag.
• Unusual Wikipedia articles.
• Cool game – Line Rider (different to the one mentioned a few points above).
• Another fun game – Double Wires.
• Massive beetle (photos).
• Why geeks and nerds are worth it.
• This sure doesn’t happen often – Bill Gates (Microsoft) & Steve Jobs (Apple) dining together at a function!
• Photo illusions.
• Shop Dropping (the opposite of shop lifting) is a tactic used by artists and activists to clandestinely place altered or recreated objects into retail stores. Handmade labels were printed out for students to color, cut, and paste… video.
• Great billboard idea.
• The 10 largest databases in the world!
• A Japanese vending machine (with a human inside?)…
• World’s smallest RFID chips? Power-like… scary! (For those who don’t know, RFID chips will eventually replace the aging barcode).
• Weird accident photos.. what the?
• The Open Source cola project.
• Funky eraser… looks like a keyboard key…
• Cool photo of a large navy fleet.
• Microsoft’s ice showroom (pics).
• Nvidia shows off their next generation mobile phone interface (video).
• ‘The Picture of Everything‘…
• Microsoft-power IKEA billboard error.. heh!

All done. Phew, that was hard work