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It’s Tom’s cousin here, Carl, wishing Tom a happy 24th birthday!

Unfortunately Tom was away when I tried to contact him to wish him all the best, so instead I’ll just leave a little note here with this special comic from PBF:

Hope you had a great day buddy!

Did you know that if you live in Australia for the amount of money you can spend on a rainwater tank, for the purpose of saving the River Murray you would be better to spend the money on purchasing water rights.

My brother gave me water rights for my birthday - best present ever!

Check out waterfind.com.au and purchase yours today!

Just some jokes being emailed around that I found amusing enough! Thanks Arie.

Marriage (Part I)

Typical macho man married typical good-looking lady, and after the wedding, he laid down the following rules:
“I’ll be home when I want, if I want and at what time I want — and I don’t expect any hassle from you. I expect a great dinner to be on the table unless I tell you that I won’t be home for dinner. I’ll go hunting, fishing, boozing, and card-playing when I want with my old buddies, and don’t you give me a hard time about it. Those are my rules. Any comments?”
His new bride said: “No, that’s fine with me. Just understand that there will be sex here at seven o’clock every night…whether you’re here or not.”

Marriage (Part II)

Husband and wife had a bitter quarrel on the day of their 40th wedding anniversary! The husband yells, “When you die, I’m getting you a headstone that reads, ‘Here Lies My Wife — Cold As Ever’!” “Yeah?” she replies. “When you die, I’m getting you a headstone that reads, ‘Here Lies My Husband — Stiff At Last’!”

Marriage (Part III)

Husband (a doctor) and his wife are having a fight at the breakfast table. Husband gets up in a rage and says, “And you are no good in bed either,” and storms out of the house. After some time he realizes he was nasty and decides to make amends and rings her up. She comes to the phone after many rings, and the irritated husband says, “What took you so long to answer to the phone?” She says, “I was in bed.” “In bed this early, doing what?” “Getting a second opinion!”

Marriage (Part IV)

A man has six children and is very proud of his achievement. He is so proud of himself, that he starts calling his wife,“Mother of Six” in spite of her objections. One night, they go to a party. The man decides that it is time to go home and wants to find out if his wife is ready to leave as well. He shouts at the top of his voice, “Shall we go home Mother of Six?” His wife, irritated by her husband’s lack of discretion, shouts right back, “Any time you’re ready, Father of Four.”

The Silent Treatment

A man and his wife were having some problems at home and were giving each other the silent treatment. Suddenly the man realized that the next day he would need his wife to wake him at 5:00 AM for an early morning business flight. Not wanting to be the first to break the silence (and LOSE), he wrote on a piece of paper,“Please wake me at 5:00 AM.” He left it where he knew she would find it. The next morning the man woke up, only to discover it was 9:00 AM and he had missed his flight. Furious, he was about to go to see why his wife hadn’t awakened him when he noticed a piece of paper by the bed. The paper said, “It is 5:00 AM. Wake up.”

Wishes from a frog

A woman was out golfing one day when she hit her ball into the woods. She went into the woods to look for it and found a frog in a trap. The frog said to her, “If you release me from this trap, I will grant you three wishes.” The woman freed the frog, and the frog said, “Thank you, but I failed to mention that there was a condition to your wishes. Whatever you wish for, your husband will get ……. times ten!” The woman said, “That’s okay.”

For her first wish, she wanted to be the most beautiful woman in the world. The frog warned her, “You do realize that this wish will also make your husband the most handsome man that ever lived, an Adonis whom women will swoon over and flock to“. The woman replied, “That’s okay, because I will be the most beautiful woman and he will have eyes only for me.” So, KAZAM!!! - She’s the most beautiful woman in the world!

For her second wish, she wanted to be the richest woman in the world. The frog said, “That will make your husband the richest man in the world by far. And he will be ten times richer than you. “The woman said, “That’s okay, because what’s mine is his and what’s his is mine.” So, KAZAM!!! - She’s the richest woman in the world! The frog then inquired about her third wish, and after careful consideration she answered, “I’d like a mild heart attack.”

Moral of the story: Women are clever. Don’t mess with them.

ATTENTION female readers: This is the end of the joke for you. Stop here and continue feeling good.

Male readers: Read the rest of this entry »

Those that know me personally know why it has been such a long time since I last posted a blog update. For others, you probably don’t even care but I’ll explain anyway. Regardless of what Stephen and Ben say about how long it’s been since I’ve last posted and how bad this makes my blog, I’m still ranked #307 in “ State of the AustralianBlogs-osphere (or the noisiest bloggers in Oz) - Spring 2006“, whatever this means!

My computer crashed, and it crashed hard! I was experiencing random data loss, so I formatted, reinstalled system, and restored all data from my backups. This is a very lengthy process to do, and takes me about a week to do this as I have many other things I’d rather be doing like mountain biking, and things I’d prefer not to be doing like going to work (not to say I don’t enjoy it, but like most people there are days I’d rather just go mountain biking). So the computer then ran fine for a few days, the blog was restored, and then I experienced even more data loss. But this time it wasn’t just my downloads directory which had crashed, it was my webserver files, documents, and even some program files. This is when I knew there was a hardware error, and so the debugging began. It was a length process of torture testing the CPU for a few days using Prime95 then doing manufacturers disk checks on the hard drives (and my gosh, the windows chkdsk utility certainly didn’t help to “preserve” data shall we say). No errors with the CPU and hard drives, so I check the RAM with memtest86 and that was fine. Then I realised that the partitions that were failing were all from hard drives connected to my RAID controller, so I am confident this is the problem. Forum searches of this problem revealed that yes it most definitely is because of my RAID controller, although there didn’t seem to be any solutions, and so I just bought a new computer. I had by this time wasted several weeks of time debugging and if I had to buy a new motherboard to fix it, then it was just time to upgrade. So now I’m sporting (and consequently this blog is running from):

• Antec P180B case
• Antec Phantom 500 power supply
• Asus P5B-E Plus motherboard
• Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 CPU with Scythe Ninja heatsink
• GeIL DDRII 667MHz Dual Channel 2×1GB CAS 3-4-4-8 passively cooled RAM
• Asus 7600GS 256MB GeForce PCI-E passively cooled graphics card (with plans to upgrade in a year)
• Western Digital SATAII HDD’s with 16MB cache
• Windows Vista Ultimate and hating this operating system (will explain in a future post)

I’ve been working on making the computer whisper quiet, by duct taping all of the air vents in the box which stops sound waves coming out of the back of the box, and also forces the air to go through the air filters at the front. It is silly that the box has air filters when the air isn’t forced to go through them - c’mon Antec! I have also ordered some Scythe S-Flex brand fans to replace the Antec fans so this way the motherboard will be able to control the fan speeds according to temperature. The Scythe brand fans look to be really good quality, made with fluid dynamic bearings, and soft spin-up technology. Once I get these fans installed I’ll do a big post on the result and explain fully what I’ve done.

All in all, apart from having a new fans on the way to install, and not liking Windows Vista because it won’t let me run programs like Winrar without having to type in the administrators password, and not running the background programs for my motherboard without typing the administrator password EVERY TIME I REBOOT, I’m pretty much back on track and I guess you can expect this blog to be updated slightly more regularly from now on again

Apart from all this computer saga that I’ve been experiencing, I’ve been mountain biking at Eagle Park about once a week, spending time with Morven and our friends, the odd bit of gardening, doing stuff for the IET, experimenting in the kitchen with random food recipes, burning Morvens leg on my motorbike (sorry Morv!) and seeing her go in to emergency department of hospital, watching dodgy chick flicks with her afterwards to help her feel better, and watching the latest TV series I’m totally addicted to, which is called “24“.