Archive for the 'Geekery' Category



Cruising through life

I’ve been pretty happy lately, which is a nice change. I don’t think I’m one of those people that can stay happy for long periods of time. Not sure if that’s because I’m overly critical or it’s just some odd personality defect. Anyways, I find that I’m pretty content at the moment. Most aspects of [...]

Yeap, that’s right. Thesis is done. Over. Handed-in and all that. I stayed awake for 54 hours straight and boy did I pay for it. I think I’m still recovering. It really is amazing though, what you can push your body to do with a few cups of coffee and some adrenaline. Nevertheless, I am [...]

In keeping with my ‘I don’t have time to blog but here’s some stuff for you anyways’ of late, here’s two links:
Top 75 Heroines of Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror: Part IV
As I wasn’t really interested in showing ALL 75, I’ve given the list from number 14, because that’s what number Hermione Granger is. What I [...]

Killing time

So I’m sitting around, waiting to meet with my supervisor about my thesis. And I think I’ve worked out what I’m going to miss most about uni - the free printing and Internet. Well, it’s not exactly… free. The Engineering Department gives you like 100 pages per semester, 250 if you’re doing thesis. I think [...]

I hate fish.

HAHAHA. That’s kind of all I can say to that. Considering the first time I heard of the movie I did think it *was* a B-Grade 80’s flick. Scary.
So I was looking into RSS reader extensions for Firefox and found one that I like - Wizz RSS. I used to use the aptly named RSS [...]

h4ckz0r

Ok, I am slowly, but surely, hacksing my way through bBlog. I do rather like this blogging/CMS tool. It’s fairly easy to use and most of the stuff is straight-forward. It uses the Smarty template engine and seems to make a lot of things simpler. At the same time, there’s lots that doesn’t work out [...]