Starscape: Edited by Loki - Art
27 Dec 2006 @ 09:55 pm - Credits to Loki for editing one of my photos from last weekend to get this: [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1167256543.IMG_9381_2.jpg[/img][comment]Me gusta. [anchor=1167298551]Comment[/anchor] by [b]Ariel[/b] on 28 Dec 2006 @ 09:35 am [/comment][com...

My love - General
27 Dec 2006 @ 11:06 am - [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1167217537.sIMG_9283.JPG[/img]...

Christmas weekend photos - Art
26 Dec 2006 @ 07:57 pm - [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1167162987.IMG_9290.jpg[/img] [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1167162996.IMG_9314.jpg[/img] [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1167163003.IMG_9320.jpg[/img] [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1167163015.IMG_9347.jpg[/img] [img]/user...

Merry christmas - General
26 Dec 2006 @ 01:27 pm - For those of you who properly celebrate christmas, I hope you had a good day. I managed to be a non-nerd for almost the whole extended weekend and didn't post crap on my site. I also haven't been online to find out which of my friends did so I can ma...

What children are useful for... (Geebin version) - General
22 Dec 2006 @ 12:54 pm - I know I've denied that I'm a geek but I think this is going to ruin that argument. Every time my friends and I discuss having kids, we talk about the age where they're useful for fetching things or the age that they can mow the lawn. Well I was havi...

Coz he seemed normal officer.. - General
21 Dec 2006 @ 04:41 pm - Some of you might already know that I'm looking at getting a new phone. Doesn't matter. As I was leaving work today I got into the lift (as they unloaded a 42" LCD Tv) and a guy from the business below us got in the lift with an I-mate JasJam. I...

Happy days - General
19 Dec 2006 @ 10:06 am - Ariel is here. She is awesome. She arrived yesterday and I was late getting to the airport because there were 3 seperate car accidents. The last one was right in front of me. A motorbike rode out onto the big roundabout near the airport in front of a...

Item nof found - Geebin
12 Dec 2006 @ 07:52 am - [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1165909884.noffound.jpg[/img] I wonder whert it is?...

Consumer choices: Buy Logitech or get cancer? - Geebin
09 Dec 2006 @ 10:27 am - While these two are very tough to call, I think cancer wins out by just being more practical and working longer. My Logitech G5 mouse doesn't left click. Considering I haven't used it for games or anything, just for windows, that's pretty shit qua...

I wish I was a macro with flowers in my hair - Art
07 Dec 2006 @ 10:22 pm - OMG it's more photos. Random things. All the PCB are macro, all the rest are not. 50mm is winning my prize for best day-to-day use lens. So without further adieu. Photos: [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1165529979.IMG_8852.jpg[/img] [img]/users/maz/j...

Wired remote for a Canon 400D: $4 - General
06 Dec 2006 @ 12:52 pm - So instead of buying a $40 remote which is literally a 2-stage button and a switch.. I chose to make a more elegant (even if it's slightly less featured) remote of my own. [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1165409459.DSC00025.JPG[/img] It is literally ...

The refueling saga - General
06 Dec 2006 @ 08:13 am - This was actually late last night but I was busy afterwards so I forgot to write it on here. I drove back to Brisbane last Saturday night, refusing to get fuel on the way just to see if my car could make it to Pitts and back on half a tank. So as ...

Where's my goddamn reset button?!? - General
06 Dec 2006 @ 07:55 am - I was late getting ready for work this morning so I run out the door about 7:20am and run for the train station. About 30 seconds later I stop running and put my headphones on to listen to music on my Sandisk Sansa e260 as I do every morning. Only th...

It's a full moon and the crazies are out - Art
05 Dec 2006 @ 09:55 pm - [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1165355407.IMG_8746.jpg[/img] [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1165355425.IMG_8758.jpg[/img] [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1165355436.IMG_8759.jpg[/img] [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1165355454.IMG_8770.jpg[/img] [img]/us...

Last night - Art
05 Dec 2006 @ 01:12 pm - [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1165323858.IMG_8650.JPG[/img] [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1165323889.IMG_8651.JPG[/img] [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1165323903.IMG_8653.JPG[/img] [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1165323938.IMG_8664.JPG[/img] [img]/user...

Broken Winndows? - Internet
04 Dec 2006 @ 10:07 am - I don't know about anyone else but I'm not sure if I have Winndows. Let alone if it's broken... [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1165226721.winndows.JPG[/img] Gives you an indication on the quality of the company you need to harass web users....

Through a lens, darkly - Art
02 Dec 2006 @ 10:12 pm - No descriptions. Just photos. [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1165097305.IMG_8531.jpg[/img] [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1165097478.IMG_8539.jpg[/img] [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1165097493.IMG_8545.jpg[/img] [img]/users/maz/journal/files/116...

4am is not the warmest time of the morning - General
02 Dec 2006 @ 04:27 am - So I'm in Pitts and it's terminally 4am in the morning. The plan was to get up after the moon had set so I could get photos of the stars without them being so washed out. I did some tests at 10pm and the new lens seems pretty awesome for low-light ph...

And then there were three.. - Art
30 Nov 2006 @ 10:07 pm - I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed, (or looked even), but my photography has started to move away from things that look 'cute' and 'nice' towards more of an abstract comment on the disgustingness of the human race. I'm not sure how/why/when this...

Licence: Creative Commons - General
30 Nov 2006 @ 09:58 pm - [url=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/legalcode]Legal Code[/url] [url=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/disclaimer-popup?lang=en-au]Disclaimer[/url] [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1164922426.cc.jpg[/img] From today, all photos...

Train station spotting - Art
30 Nov 2006 @ 05:25 pm - For those of us that just aren't all that interested in the trains. [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1164907515.sIMG_8510.jpg[/img][comment]What yers up to lads? Trainspottin'? [anchor=1164935088]Comment[/anchor] by [b]sef[/b] on 01 Dec 2006 @ 01:04 a...

The Thursday after the end of the world - General
30 Nov 2006 @ 09:09 am - Since I woke up this morning it has been looking very post-apocalyptic outside. Everything has this yellow/orange tinge. There seemed to be no cars on the road when I left for work and it felt like I was going to be jumped by the zombies from Dawn of...

No! You're boring! - Art
29 Nov 2006 @ 07:21 pm - Interesting people are everywhere. And while some people might enjoy the same old things every weekend I like a bit of variety. So that's apparently how I ended up at a creative commons licence event thing. I don't know how else to describe it. But t...

Desk Scenes - **NEW VERSION** - General
29 Nov 2006 @ 03:36 pm - Added: + Uses less memory + Allows preview and selection of images + other stuff I can't remember [url=/users/maz/journal/files/1164814518.Desk Scene.exe]Desk Scene.exe[/url] [url=/users/maz/journal/files/1164814597.Desk Scenes Source.rar]De...

I am so happy! - General
28 Nov 2006 @ 11:19 pm - In awesome life-related news.. Ariel is coming to stay! YAY! I booked the flights today and we have just about taken care of everything. I'm sure I'll think of more later but nothing quite as important as what we've managed so far. So now I'm just tr...

In camera news - General
28 Nov 2006 @ 10:48 pm - There will be no more camera bits shopping for ages now. While they're still on my chrismas wishlist im too realistic to expect that. What I currently have is a Canon 400D with a kit 18-55mm lens and then.. [img]/users/maz/journal/files/116475344...

Lens testing - General
26 Nov 2006 @ 12:49 pm - Yesterday Thei and I went to Indro for breakfast / lunch where I had the waitress at the cafe come and ask me questions about my camera. After we'd eaten (probably too much), we decided to go and see if the camera store downstairs had any of the more...

Awesome things to do on weekends when you don't like climbing mountains. - General
26 Nov 2006 @ 12:01 pm - 1. Finish old nintendo games like Zelda. [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1164542299.zeldaend.jpg[/img] 2. Talk to awesome people on the phone for half a day at a time. (You all know who I'm talking about). 3. Take photos of stuff. Especially good wh...

Cool comic - Internet
25 Nov 2006 @ 07:49 pm - I will be updating this post with a link when I remember where it came from. I saved it months ago. [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1164484129.PBF097AD-The_Throbblefoot_Aquarium.jpg[/img] LOL.[comment]That comes from the perry bible fellowship at www...

Not in other news - General
24 Nov 2006 @ 08:17 am - I have basically guarenteed another few weeks of site content about cameras by purchasing the top lens off my list, the 50mm f/1.4 prime. I'm dying for a real chance to try it out but from what I've seen it's great for portraits. I haven't had a chan...

Flckr crap - Internet
21 Nov 2006 @ 06:28 pm - Yes I do have a Flckr.com account despite having ample space to display my photos here. But only a free one. This of course means I am limited to 20mb of uploads per month and when I resize photos to 1024 on their longest edge that should be fine rig...

Site outages - Site
21 Nov 2006 @ 01:17 am - Just an update of what's going on with that. I have no idea what's going on with that. Apparently this was a planned outage to do an update that was 'unsuccessful' at last attempt. But they forgot to tell anyone about it. Even if they had, I still ca...

Depth of Field example. (Nikon D80, 50mm f/1.4) - Art
21 Nov 2006 @ 01:15 am - [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1164071676.MAZ00942.jpg[/img]...

Things I would like to buy or have bought for me (please) - General
19 Nov 2006 @ 10:41 pm - Well I'll only put a short description and a picture and maybe a pricetag so you know why I haven't bought them. [b]Canon EF 50mm f1.4 USM[/b] [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1163975820.ef_50mm_f14_usm.jpg[/img] $659 [b]Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5...

woe. woe! WOE your boat~ - General
17 Nov 2006 @ 10:40 pm - So about 5 days after my '20 minute ghosting operation', I have my desktop working and started again. It looks like it needs a bit of a system re-install but that's trivial after the hardware refused to work. <nerd> I had an IDE raid card p...

Riddle: How many internet connections does it take to get online? - General
12 Nov 2006 @ 09:45 am - Answer: The number of Telstra services you have + 1. The cable internet is screwed. For no reason except that it is a Telsta "service". How can you avoid this kind of problem in the future? Use another ISP. Preferably one that doesn't re...

Ebay jokes - MP4 player shopping - Internet
10 Nov 2006 @ 05:17 pm - I'm pretty sure that this isn't really meant to be a joke but it's hillarious. It's badly translated English that looks like it's been beaten to death by a thesaurus. I shudder to think what the mp4 player is like... I have no idea. [code]65,000 ...

In the disinterest of public entertainment - General
09 Nov 2006 @ 09:46 pm - I have decided to post another seemingly pointless photo that it's unlikely that anyone will see. It's the sun. Just in case it was too abstract or something. There might even be trees if you look closely. But don't stare at the sun or your eyes will...

Desk Scenes - New Program! - General
09 Nov 2006 @ 08:00 pm - This new program changes your windows desktop background image on an interval through a simple library of images. It's been done before but i chose to make one that does exactly what I want and no crap. I had just written out a brilliant description ...

In photos this week - Art
09 Nov 2006 @ 07:18 pm - Instead of the usual token sentence between each photo I'll just dump them here and everyone can make up their own captions in the comments. I'm so lazy. [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1163099721.IMG_7829.jpg[/img] [img]/users/maz/journal/files/...

MOSS 3.0 - Site
09 Nov 2006 @ 07:09 pm - This is a notice that I am starting work on a new version of my site. A nice OO PHP XML based monstrosity. If anyone is desperately bored or has thought of some features that this version is lacking then please leave a comment asap. Last time I did t...

Welcome to the maz.net.au commemorative site - General
09 Nov 2006 @ 07:01 pm - Welcome to the maz.net.au commemorative site erected at the domain originally settled by Maz in 2004. The last remaining data was slain on the 30th October 2006 in a server move gone wrong. But over the next few days I'll dump stuff on here as I reme...

Out of my tree: Using blur as an artistic effect. (The evils of wind) - Art
31 Oct 2006 @ 08:23 pm - I've been reading through some old magazines which, (despite being 6 years old and having the newest 3.1MP digital SLR's..), have heaps of interesting ideas. Probably no more than I can get from other people at things like flickr meetups but still. T...

My lovely weekend - Art
29 Oct 2006 @ 10:26 pm - What good are fancy new digital cameras if you can't do anything cool with them? This weekend I went back home and decided to take some night photos. So I wander out to the middle of a paddock with my camera setup and laptop and set up camp. I borrow...

Cameras and car troubles - General
23 Oct 2006 @ 09:52 pm - This is starting to get freaky. Everytime I go to buy a camera, something terrible happens to my car. It was run into when I bought my first 2MP PSA200, the breaks failed entirely when I was on my way to buy the ProShot 1. Now when I bought my Canon ...

Hot tip of the season! - General
22 Oct 2006 @ 09:19 pm - Go see [b]Crank[/b]! It was the definiton of an action movie. Literally. I'm not even sure if they wrote a plot then discarded it, got halfway through writing it and gave up, or if they just bought a truckload of fake blood and fake guns and told all...

Super fun happy expressway - General
19 Oct 2006 @ 07:43 am - This is a perfect time to be writing this as my bus takes a 5 min detour via Southbank. "some serious structural problems have been uncovered. These problems have resulted in several on-ramps to the expressway being closed 'indefinitely'." ...

No more mr nICE guy - General
16 Oct 2006 @ 05:53 pm - I was just listening to the radio and there's all these people complaining about police.. Nothing new. But I kept listening to it and it turns out that the police in Brisbane are cracking down on illegal drug use in the city and valley night clubs. E...

Windows activation unable to connect to server - Geebin
15 Oct 2006 @ 04:51 pm - If you have a problem re-activating windows after maybe installing a new motherboard.. Check that the bios date is correct. The activation program incorrectly says that it is unable to connect to the server. This is the kind of problem that makes ...

The infinite wisdom of Dreamweaver 8 - Geebin
11 Oct 2006 @ 09:02 pm - So here I am, working away on one of my silly little projects when I get this pop-up message. [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1160600208.resources.jpg[/img] At first I thought that I was on my laptop... Or the dozen programs I was running were fa...

Canon 400D Digital SLR - General
04 Oct 2006 @ 09:31 pm - The camera model I was interested in (Canon 350D) has been superseded by a new model recently which promises to be better for the same cost (Canon 400D). What can I say, I'm a Canon and Sony bi*ch. Currently I'm looking at the twin lens kit (18-55mm ...

What a world we live in - Geebin
28 Sep 2006 @ 10:20 pm - At the risk of losing any of those arguments where someone calls me a geek and I deny it... Basically, old laptop = [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1159481982.battery life1.JPG[/img] new laptop = [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1159482000.battery...

Work + website = unemployment? - Geebin
25 Sep 2006 @ 10:42 pm - This is just a reminder for me, (and possibly everyone else), to ask their respective places of work about their policy on personal websites and the information contained therein. Not that I post a whole heap but it's better to be safe than sorry. I ...

Shopping lists are important - General
25 Sep 2006 @ 10:08 pm - ...

SWEAT - General
15 Sep 2006 @ 06:51 pm - This weekend I'll be at the Gold Coast for team building activities. On Saturday night there is a dinner with a 1920's Gangster theme and of course I left it until the last minute to organise my costume, (4:40pm on the Friday). In the end I looked li...

Networking hell - Geebin
12 Sep 2006 @ 11:13 pm - So I've been buying a few parts for my computer here and there until windows decided that it needed to be reactivated because too much hardware had changed. I tried to reactivate it online but apparently my copy has been activated too many times so I...

A wireless household to behold - General
01 Sep 2006 @ 05:55 pm - I'm not sure if anyone else is impressed or if it's just me but I've just finished setting up the wireless for the house. There's my desktop running Windows Server 2003 downstairs, 3 laptops upstairs, and my milkcrate pc is being used as a tv stand /...

Wireless woes - Geebin
31 Aug 2006 @ 10:22 pm - I'll make this simple. 1. F@#! Belkin! 2. Buy D-Link. So the Belkin wasn't working and I wanted to sort that out but their technical support just fobbed me off. So today I went and bought a D-Link, plugged it in (didn't bother with drivers), a...

Super fun happy afternoon - General
30 Aug 2006 @ 09:33 pm - This is almost a geebin kind of post but there are enough other things in there to keep everyone entertained. It all started when I got my work done too quickly and got sent home at 3:45pm. Yay you all say? Well I only get paid for the hours I'm t...

Smell you later! - General
26 Aug 2006 @ 09:04 am - I move now. If I'm not online it's because I'm waiting for the cable internet to be reconnected. The new place will be awesome and people are going to be able to visit and stuff without being so afraid! Yay! To the people who are being crap. Go to...

Stuff I want - Internet
24 Aug 2006 @ 03:36 pm - I was browsing the internet for cool stuff and this is some of the things I found. [url]http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/83a1/[/url] [url]http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/avcards/85fb/[/url] [url]http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

It's been a while - General
22 Aug 2006 @ 02:48 pm - It has been so long since I've added anything to my site that I forgot my password. Of course I didn't bother make the feature that would let me reset the password yet, (or any other admin pages for that matter), so I had to do it manually. Not worth...

In honour of nothing in particular - Site
18 Aug 2006 @ 09:58 pm - I have added a new section to my site. A space for me to dump lots of random files or whatever the hell it is I want to. Seeing it looks silly when it says "No files found.", I have wasted about an hour uploading 40MB of photos. For the ...

People's Day - Just another holiday - Art
16 Aug 2006 @ 01:13 pm - This is not an update. This is me transferring a photo. Anyone else can download it if they like too. [url=/users/maz/journal/files/1155733709.IMG_6773.jpg]IMG_6773.jpg[/url] [i](1.54mb)[/i]. [url=/users/maz/journal/files/1155733881.IMG_6961.jpg]IM...

Who's doing stuff? - General
02 Aug 2006 @ 04:46 pm - Still busy. Just in case anyone reads this to check if I'm still alive, I am. Haven't really been up to much other than working and trying to finish my Time Tracker project (hopefully it'll be done this afternoon). More info on this when it's release...

Another bad sign - General
21 Jul 2006 @ 04:44 pm - My cereal packet has the advice, "get an adult to help you" when giving instructions to use a blender. Maybe I better find someone to help me operate my spoon.[comment](feeds you) I helped you operate your chicken before. You're so cute wh...

Cafe Hopping - General
16 Jul 2006 @ 04:41 pm - So I go to work all week from 7:30am to 4pm so by the time the weekend comes around I don't really feel like doing anything but I don't want to just sit at home either. This weekend I've been catching up with the guys from uni who, all now employed, ...

Telstra GPRS modems - Geebin
11 Jul 2006 @ 09:39 am - Another geebin post. I guess I'm just in the mood. This one isn't such a heart-warming tale of success tho. Today I investigated the possibility of using my GPRS capable phone as a modem on the Telstra network. I have an unlocked Sony Ericsson V600i ...

Milk crate XP - Geebin
09 Jul 2006 @ 10:09 pm - Yesterday I was bored and as I was sitting in my room admiring my nerdy stockpile of pc parts, I realised I had enough parts for a whole pc except for the case. I did however have a surplus of staples and computer cables. The end result is a milk cra...

Ghosting a IBM Thinkpad R52 - Geebin
05 Jul 2006 @ 08:35 pm - I don't know if all R52's include the TPM but it sure does make hard work of the simplest tasks like loading a ghost image. Ghost is all pretty straight-forward stuff, network boot, select the session and away it goes. In fact, even the R52's can han...

Australia's World Cup Hopes Not Dashed Yet - General
02 Jul 2006 @ 08:47 pm - But apparently it's moved a lot closer to home. The last game is now being played 2 on 2 in our living room at nearly 9pm. While this is a little earlier than the rest of the games I'm sure it'll finish about the same time or when someone smashes som...

Tales of a Car Well Travelled - General
01 Jul 2006 @ 09:12 pm - As many of you may have noticed, my car is not the fine machine it once was, (approx. 15 years before I got it). The latest few dramas to occur just this week are possibly not surprising but I feel the need to share these stories with those of you al...

Surprise! - General
25 Jun 2006 @ 11:44 am - When I wake up in the morning, this is probably not on the list of things I expect to see. [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1151235815.MiskinMadness005.jpg[/img] But at the same time I am not at all surprised. I'm sure whoever put it there will take i...

No breaks - General
25 Jun 2006 @ 08:30 am - It's Sunday morning and somehow I still have heaps of "work" that I have to do. Like I have to go to the computer markets this morning which as much as I enjoy, takes up more of my weekend. I'm just starting work on a log/timesheet progr...

So early! - General
13 Jun 2006 @ 06:40 am - Oh god it's 6:30 in the morning. I have to get up and go catch a train to work. This is not the warmest time of day and I just want to stay in bed. Someone should pay me to sleep. Maz[comment]I enjoyed my sleep-in this morning. [anchor=1150284335]C...

All work and no play makes Maz take photos - Art
12 Jun 2006 @ 02:18 am - A new photo has been added to the Art gallery and can be found by clicking on this image. [url=http://maz.net.au/~maz/gallery/Art/IMG_6481.jpg/][img]http://maz.net.au/users/maz/gallery/Art/thumbnails/IMG_6481.jpg[/img][/url] [i]Figure 1.1: Doses[/i...

Trust Google? - Internet
12 Jun 2006 @ 02:06 am - Good to know that the Google definiton service doesn't just look for the word "glossary" in the url... Wait a moment.. [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1150077921.what-is-zen.jpg[/img] I'm still very amused....

You know you live in a student area when... - General
12 Jun 2006 @ 02:01 am - 1. Every house has their own shopping trolleys and traffic cones. 2. People follow anyone with a pricing gun around a store, hoping to get a cake for 80c 3. The grocery store has 1 type of soap and 50 different kinds of meat pie. 4. Directions are...

Long weekend! - General
10 Jun 2006 @ 10:57 am - The weekend is here finally. And now I study.[comment]Studied yet? [anchor=1149944058]Comment[/anchor] by [b]thei[/b] on 10 Jun 2006 @ 12:54 pm [url]http://the-i.org/[/url][/comment][comment]Nearly. I swear! [anchor=1149951619]Comment[/anchor] by [...

CAPTCHA fights back! - Internet
07 Jun 2006 @ 08:57 am - One of my favourite RSS feeds has to be from the [url=http://thedailywtf.com/]Daily WTF[/url] people who now appear to have updated the source of their CAPTCHA test. I saw some comments to do with "truthiness" and "paula" from the...

Forget everything I said. - General
06 Jun 2006 @ 04:25 pm - Yeah, so I'm having quite a good day. Basically everyone needs to disregard everything I said lately. I will hereby be busy until further notice. Hope you all had a good day too. Maz...

The value of an I.T. degree - General
05 Jun 2006 @ 01:51 am - As some of you might know, I'm about to complete, *fingers crossed* my I.T. degree so I'm trying to find a full-time job to move into. There's a lot of work available in the IT sector even if it is help desk and support work and an IT degree would me...

Inline CSS hyperlink color - Geebin
05 Jun 2006 @ 01:05 am - I tried and I tried but I can't find out how to set a link colours from a div to a link inside it.. <div class="something" style="[b]purple links[/b]"><a href="purple.html">i am purple</a></div&g...

Bandwidth Splitter: UPDATE - Geebin
02 Jun 2006 @ 03:53 pm - Just checking some things out about 24 hours after I installed this add-in for ISA server and I've just noticed that it only watches web traffic. This makes it ultimately useless when about a million applications are going to use more bandwidth than ...

Bandwidth shaping and splitting on ISA server 2004 - Geebin
01 Jun 2006 @ 09:22 pm - For quite a while I've been looking for an add-in to Microsoft ISA server 2004 that allows me to share the internet bandwidth evenly between my housemates. On the Telstra 20GB standard cable plan, after the 20gb is used I get charged 15c/mb. That's a...

The longest short-weekend ever! - General
29 May 2006 @ 09:21 am - Friday was exceptionally busy as everyone may have noticed from my earlier posts and my weekend was just as bad or worse as far as having too much to do goes. I was working Friday night so didn't have time to re-image my laptop so on Saturday morning...

Correction. Make that even less money - General
26 May 2006 @ 12:38 pm - So picture the current situtation where I end up with about $6 left at the end of a fortnight. Take away 16% of the total amount of money I got, take away 70% of my day, and give me more things that I have to buy to meet requirements. This leaves you...

All part of the excitement - General
25 May 2006 @ 10:34 pm - This is getting to be insane now. I need to get a daily planner just so I can show people that I'm busy 100% of the time for the next week, at least. All the time I'm getting more things to do and less time and money to do them with, but I can't avoi...

Service outages. - Site
23 May 2006 @ 07:49 am - My apologies for anyone actually trying to get to my site in the last few days. Something on server3 seems to be killing it at a regular interval and as a result, my site and emails go offline for a few hours at a time. If you were trying to get h...

6 months to find a typo - Site
22 May 2006 @ 08:53 am - I just did a quick search for myself in Google and I'm 4th for the word "Maz" today. In the little bit of a description for my site that it shows it had "maz.[b]m[/b]et.au" and I couldn't work out where it was. I'm glad to say tha...

Weekend escape - General
14 May 2006 @ 11:35 am - Well I wouldn't call it an escape when I went to Toowoomba.. I went and saw the Umbilical Brothers last night at the empire theatre. The show was great and by the time it was finished, my face was sore from laughing and smiling so much. They had a vi...

And in other news.. - General
08 May 2006 @ 06:48 pm - Well nothing has happened so this is going to be very boring. I went to lunch today and that filled in a couple of hours or something. I did my scheme assignment last night but I need to make it more efficient now but that's some excitement for later...

Mt Cougal walk - General
04 May 2006 @ 12:01 am - On Monday (so I've been too lazy to update), a group of people I have a loose affiliation with and I, climbed the two peaks of Mt Cougal, just on the Queensland side of the QLD/NSW border. [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1146699038.IMG_5826.jpg[/img] ...

Rubbish tv - General
29 Apr 2006 @ 05:41 pm - Well it's the weekend so that guarentees bad tv before even turning it on. On channel 7 there is Queensland Weekender and they're doing some *cough cough* 4-wheel driving. Shows like that are the reason city people buy a 4-wheel drive to go anywhere ...

Art-capades - Art
28 Apr 2006 @ 01:50 am - Today Thei and I were so bored we decided to go to Indro for lunch. While we were there we went to Rabbit Photo and I had some prints done. [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1146219907.IMG_5620.jpg[/img] They are 10x15 inches (maximum size available) a...

Suitably geeky - Sudoku solver - Geebin
28 Apr 2006 @ 01:47 am - So I've been working on a lot of new photos and a few other projects just haven't been keeping any nerdy readers suitably entertained? Well this is something I wrote a while ago to solve those really irritating Sudoku problems with glorified trial-an...

Hear ye! Hear Ye! - Art
26 Apr 2006 @ 01:55 am - It has come to my attention that I have updated my Art gallery. [url]http://maz.net.au/~maz/gallery/Art/IMG_5604.JPG/[/url] and [url]http://maz.net.au/~maz/gallery/Art/IMG_5597.JPG/[/url]. Please let me know what you think. anxiously Maz[comment]...

Away: roughin' it - General
23 Apr 2006 @ 03:41 pm - Gone to Pittsworth. Be back Tuesday night.[comment]And I just had a beautiful cooked breakfast. I can't remember the last time I was up early enough to consider a meal 'breakfast'. [anchor=1145949417]Comment[/anchor] by [b]Maz[/b] on 25 Apr 2006 @ 0...

Nothing to report - General
20 Apr 2006 @ 09:41 pm - To the department of housing... Who stopped by this morning. This no doubt means all kinds of trouble that I just don't care to worry about right now. Apart from this I have been in the relentless persuit of a job to no avail. Maybe tomorrow will be ...

The nothingness - Site
15 Apr 2006 @ 06:39 pm - As a result of being on holidays, and everyone else being on holidays, I really have nothing much to do. So I am going to start work on the 3rd version of my site. Keeping the modular design I currently use but adding more abstraction layers to do co...

Awake - General
10 Apr 2006 @ 05:27 am - Ok. So the whole idea of a dozen energy seemed like a good idea until 6 hours later when I actually try to get to sleep. While my solution may just be brilliant and totally own anyone else's, I'm going to be a mess tomorrow. Although there is somethi...

CSSE1001 Assignment 1 - Geebin
10 Apr 2006 @ 03:42 am - I told everyone I was going to stay up and do my assignment... and so I did. It involved checking for permutation pairs of digits where the second digit is 8/5 of the first. I'm not going to put code online because that's a 100% sure way of having s...

Grocery shopping - General
09 Apr 2006 @ 03:25 pm - I did have a list of stuff I needed to buy but when I got there I have $4.40 in change in my pockets. So instead I bought 3 energy drinks and plan to stay up tonight until my assignment is done perfectly. Stay tuned for exciting randomness tonight. ...

New photo - Art
07 Apr 2006 @ 02:48 pm - On Wednesday night, Thei and i were bored and sick of sitting in front of computers so we went for a walk while it wasn't raining. It started at the Toowong 7/11 and from there Thei wasn't worried about where we went. He didn't want a huge walk but I...

Sorbs, CBL and all sorts of other crap - General
06 Apr 2006 @ 06:00 pm - Anyone waiting to recieve an email from me will be waiting quite a while longer. Yesterday I made the mistake of shutting down my internet server and I happened to get a new IP address when I restarted it. This IP address (on a 8 day lease) happens t...

Site changes - Site
04 Apr 2006 @ 12:50 pm - About 3 months ago I rewrote my site and completely restructured it. As a result the RSS feeds moved. This is for the few people who obviously haven't updated their links (and as a result probably won't read this). Please re-add the RSS feeds.[commen...

"The Lion King" and other Disney adventures - General
03 Apr 2006 @ 03:18 am - I spent most of the day in Pittsworth today, (I got there about 4pm but when you only get up at midday, the time after that is most of a day). So I went to go for a ride on the jetski after I'd had something to eat and by this time the sun was settin...

4 RBT's and a burning wheelie bin - General
01 Apr 2006 @ 04:13 am - So Saul brought home 10 of his drunk friends who proceeded to trash upstairs for a bit but one girl decided she wanted to scream and yell instead. By 3am I was sick of being kept up so I said either she calls a cab or I take her home myself so I had ...

Random drunk people trashing our house again - General
01 Apr 2006 @ 01:50 am - Well it's only 1:47am and there is random drunks trashing the upstairs of our house. They appear to be friends of one of the people up there so I don't know and don't care to know any of them. One chick is just insane and yelling and screaming and I'...

An Indooroopilly adventure - General
31 Mar 2006 @ 01:02 am - It started out as a trip to West End but somehow I was convinced not to go that way. Instead I walked to the Taringa shops via an overpass over Moggill Rd where I admired the city view and took some photos of the cars on the street. [img]/users/maz/...

Operation: Impending doom 3 - General
30 Mar 2006 @ 04:53 pm - Maybe later today, or if not, another day, Sef and I are going to go set up in a park with camouflage gear and scare the joggers that go past. Sounds like fun and if we get shot then I guess this is so everyone knows that we were just playing, we are...

Woe. My car hates me! - General
28 Mar 2006 @ 12:32 pm - It was all going fine. Nearly ran out of fuel so on the way back from Woolworths (where I spend most of my money on washing powder) I stopped to get fuel. My last $20 and it was just under a half a tank. As I pull up in front of our house it does it'...

My week summed up in 4 photos of my feet - General
27 Mar 2006 @ 12:15 pm - As some of you are quite aware, I really sunburnt my feet when i went to Stradbroke Island last weekend. For most of the week after that I couldn't walk, and still now I can't wear shoes. These 4 photos show why.. [img]/users/maz/journal/files/11434...

Early morning photos - General
26 Mar 2006 @ 09:20 am - So I meant to get up early, 5am, and go take photos around the city as the sun came up. It was all a very good plan until I found myself driving over to the Royal Brisbane Hospital just after 11pm and not getting to bed until 12:30am. It was still al...

Why take photos? - Art
24 Mar 2006 @ 12:53 am - For art's sake? To show other people a scene? For accolade, applause and parades? Well I'm not sure about the rest of the world but all I'm trying to do is find a good desktop background. I enjoy the experience and learning that comes along with phot...

To lazy people.. - General
23 Mar 2006 @ 06:10 pm - This is for everyone that only checks my site when they get an RSS notice or a message from me personally. I have just uploaded a select number of photos from my trip to Stradbroke last weekend that I am still recovering from. Seeing everyone is anxi...

Australian broadband - Geebin
21 Mar 2006 @ 03:55 pm - The quality of the plans available to people in Australia are shit. Now I'm not talking about obscure needs or anything, in fact they're basic needs of broadband. Fast service and shaping after the amount of downloads runs out. There are only 2 optio...

Summary of my day - General
20 Mar 2006 @ 10:48 pm - My feet hurt. Watch this space for tomorrows exciting adventures.[comment]Also: I don't suffer in silence so if you don't want to hear about it I suggest you avoid me for a few days. [anchor=1142895267]Comment[/anchor] by [b]Maz[/b] on 20 Mar 200...

Last.fm fun - Internet
20 Mar 2006 @ 01:10 am - Found this feature in there somewhere. Kinda cool. I assume it's going to keep updating and stuff. Now you can all see what kind of horrible music I'm listening to. If I like it too much I'll make a module for it and put it in the sidebar of my site....

Away: Gone beachin' - General
19 Mar 2006 @ 11:20 pm - Due to a rediculous lack of money and anything better to do, Thei, Sef and I went to Stradbroke Island for the weekend. The original plan was to spend only $10 + food but we'd never tried this before so it was always going to be interesting. We left ...

Emo losers - General
19 Mar 2006 @ 10:20 am - This is just to all the emo losers who turned up so they could tell all their other underage friends that they did something other than choke up the internet with their useless bullshit on myspace and livejournal. If you're going to turn up you might...

The Maz adventure park - General
17 Mar 2006 @ 05:07 pm - I was looking for my towel for my maybe-trip to Stradbroke Island. I didn't find it but I did manage to make an even more amazing discovery! I found a lid of a Cottee's cordial bottle, upside down, full of barbecue sauce in my cupboard. Upon closer i...

Kellogs brand licence? - General
16 Mar 2006 @ 09:52 pm - This is just a stupid story from when I went to pick some housemates up from Indooroopilly shopping centre. Well Traffic was a bit busier than I thought but it was nothing serious except I noticed a Silver Commodore following me. Coincidence? Well af...

Emo party!! - General
10 Mar 2006 @ 11:44 pm - In honour of Sophies going away from the house of madness we shall be having an emo themed party. This is the poster that has been created for the occasion, (but don't consider it an invitation for you weird internet types to just turn up). I'd say t...

Because it looks pretty - Art
10 Mar 2006 @ 11:34 pm - I thought I'd put a link to it from here or no one would ever bother find it in my collection of a million galleries. [url=http://maz.net.au/~maz/gallery/Art/IMG_4341.jpg/][img]http://maz.net.au/users/maz/gallery/Art/thumbnails/IMG_4341.jpg[/img][...

BITS bqq - General
10 Mar 2006 @ 11:44 am - True to form it's a non-event. So much a non-event that it has apparently been cancelled. At the moment this is unsubstantiated rumour because also in true BITS style, no one has sent out information pertaining to events. So from myself and other wei...

Wow. Art? - Art
09 Mar 2006 @ 04:27 pm - So I was looking at my photos from yesterday and was inspired to slightly edit it for a more dramatic effect. If you're into that sort of thing you should check it out on deviant art where I dumped it until I get around to sorting out my galleries he...

Back. What a lovely walk - General
09 Mar 2006 @ 11:51 am - I had a great time yesterday after Sef convinced me to not just give up right at the start. As most of you know I am the yardstick for laziness and having done no real physical exercise for the better part of 3 years, (even driving to Toowong Vill...

BRB. Mountain climbing. - General
08 Mar 2006 @ 07:04 am - Gone mountain climbing with Thei and Sef. Back soon.[comment]Back now. Was a lovely stroll and I didn't fall off any cliffs too much. [anchor=1141859614]Comment[/anchor] by [b]Maz[/b] on 08 Mar 2006 @ 11:13 pm [/comment][comment]Except now he has ju...

Exercise quota exceeded - General
03 Mar 2006 @ 04:09 am - Today I had an interesting adventure to the north coast. Sef's parents needed some help installing a couple of 5000 gallon water tanks. The delivery truck left them at the top of their steep driveway because apparently if they drove down the hill to ...

Lian Li RH-42 mobile rack keys - General
02 Mar 2006 @ 01:17 am - Recently I aquired a Lian Li RH-42 mobile rack but both of the keys have been lost. As easy as it is to turn the lock with a pen lid I was curious to know where someone would go to find such an item. I was also wondering if someone who reads this mig...

Multi PSU - General
28 Feb 2006 @ 12:50 am - This is the kind of silly problem I have when I try and do upgrades for free. My current power supply puts out 400W and just can't keep up with all the crap I have in my case. The obvious solution would be to buy a nice solid 550W Antec but unfortuna...

Not quite a job search - General
25 Feb 2006 @ 10:02 pm - Ok. Seeing the job search was put on hold for an hour or few, I decided to play some Counter Strike. Every time I download a map and try use it I get the error "unknown navigation file version" and Counter Strike: Source crashes out. All th...

SEEK site outages. - General
25 Feb 2006 @ 09:15 pm - I just went to look for jobs and stuff and got the following message: [code][b]We are currently upgrading the SEEK site and apologise that SEEK is temporarily unavailable.[/b] The site outage will be from 10.30pm Saturday 25th February 2006 to 2...

Pittsworth excitement - General
24 Feb 2006 @ 01:00 pm - I lied.. But it really is Pittsworth. It's quiet which is apparently good. I did see menagerie of pets at my parents farm, Fred being the cutest but no longer the heaviest. I also stopped by and visited my little cousins who aren't really little (17)...

Scenic tour of Cunningham's Gap - General
19 Feb 2006 @ 06:30 pm - Yes, that was what I did today. That mostly involved being driven around in Clint's car to see how far it could get down dry-weather-only roads. We did things like try to drive Spicer's Gap which we made most of the way up before the road was blocked...

Home - General
18 Feb 2006 @ 09:20 am - I actually got home about 24 hours ago but due to my laziness and stuff I didn't post anything on here. Right now I'm just having a couple days to rest and catch up with everyone before I start looking for jobs and sorting out university. So if there...

Captians log: 16th February, 2006 - General
16 Feb 2006 @ 09:36 pm - Everything started indicatively of my day when I was stopped by security at Lansing airport and patted down for no apparent reason, (the metal detector didn't beep or anything). Following that they ran 'further tests' on my laptop which involved swab...

Tokyo, Japan v2.0 - General
16 Feb 2006 @ 07:10 pm - So I'm back in Japan. I have a huge story about what it took to get here but I'm not going to bother type it up again just because I can't get wireless. Check back here after I get home. Safely Maz p.s. Damn internet kiosk[comment]Rar [anchor=114...

My little problem - General
15 Feb 2006 @ 08:54 am - It's only a little problem so far because it hasn't happened yet. Fingers crossed and knock on wood and all that crap. I leave Lansing, MI at 6am tomorrow going to LAX. My Japan Airlines flight leaves at 11:50am from LAX. These are the two absolut...

Travels winding down - General
14 Feb 2006 @ 09:26 am - So I have one more whole day left here and I imagine I'm going to be doing a lot of sleeping to make up for getting up at 4am this morning and haveing to get up at like 4am on Wednesday. I had a great trip and saw lots of interesting places and took ...

Superbowl XL - General
06 Feb 2006 @ 01:18 pm - Well seeing I'm here I will pretend to care? Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Seattle Seahawks 21 - 10. There were some controversial referee calls in the first half against the Seahawks leaving them 3-7 without a touchdown while the Steelers first was c...

The snows are here - General
06 Feb 2006 @ 09:18 am - Finally after about a month and a half it snowed here again. Enough to leave a few inches on the ground. It started snowing yesterday when we went to Meijer to buy food. This is when I decided I didn't like snow anymore. Walking into the store it was...

Trillian 4 - Internet
04 Feb 2006 @ 05:57 pm - It's about that time of year again when another version of Trillian is released to replace the last semi-written version that barely manages to limp through and keep some supporters. Personally I think they have a great idea, a solid support base and...

More progress - Site
04 Feb 2006 @ 03:59 pm - I spent most of the day working on my site but I can't work out what I actually changed. There's lots of new features and stuff and if you find any please let me know what they are. I have plans for a forums module that I may or may not run on my ...

It's a mighty fine car but it ain't no book - General
04 Feb 2006 @ 03:08 pm - So I didn't quite get around to writing my book. I'm discussing ideas with other people and I figure I might get that started in like a year or so. Instead, I was playing San Andreas and I made a lowrider. [img]/users/maz/journal/files/1139065201.lo...

Can I write a book? - General
02 Feb 2006 @ 03:52 pm - So I have a lot of opinions, theories and wild ideas.. I think I could write a book. So I'm no Rene Descartes but I still have my philosophies on life and how everything works and lately I've been considering the idea of writing them all down and org...

Comments RSS now available - Site
01 Feb 2006 @ 06:33 pm - You can now subscribe to an aggregation of the last 10 comments posted to a user's journal. I haven't generated one for each user, but as comments are left for them the comment RSS will be generated and a link can be found above the ads near the bott...

My revelations about Las Vegas - General
29 Jan 2006 @ 05:13 pm - These may not all be new, but they have definitely been confirmed after only a quick look at the city. [b]1.[/b] Not a place to raise a family. [b]2.[/b] Obviously once run by the mafia. [b]3.[/b] San Andreas ripped off so much, the names make ev...

Viva Las Vegas - General
28 Jan 2006 @ 05:29 am - Well here I am in sin city. It's like a huge amount of construction in the middle of a desert, but it's like nothing is finished. All the roads and stuff are half finished, no painted lines or whatever. I can't actually gamble here due to being under...

Damn php output buffering. - Site
27 Jan 2006 @ 05:22 am - I want to send a file. The code to send it is run by the template. To begin with I start the output buffer at the very beginning of my code, [code]ob_start("ob_gzhandler"); // start the ob // load the template here. // get the request ...

The curse of money - General
23 Jan 2006 @ 02:15 pm - That is to say, it sucks to have none. So I'm looking for a full time IT job while I finish my last subject at university. I have had a few suggestions about using my site to help with that, including putting up all the source for the little programs...

Bugfixes already - Site
23 Jan 2006 @ 01:43 pm - What can I say? I was having really obscure problems once I uploaded my code to my active webserver which is running linux not windows. This shouldn't have made any difference but it did. So I have been making a few changes as I go but nothing really...

North American International Car Show - General
22 Jan 2006 @ 08:27 am - I have just uploaded some of the many photos that I took while at the NAIAS in Detroit. All the images have had to be resized down to 800x600 instead of the original 3264x2448. If anyone wants poster sized prints you'll have to request them off me pe...

MOSS v2.06 released - Site
21 Jan 2006 @ 12:04 pm - There were celebrations worldwide as the initial core of MOSS v2 was released earlier today. My site is now running the new version and I'm just finishing the last touches on the photo gallery module. The new core contains only login and general func...

Home sweet home. - General
18 Jan 2006 @ 12:23 pm - We're back in Lansing, MI again after our weekend in Canada. Despite all the things we did, what I enjoyed most was the auto show in Detroit. I'm feverently working on my new site before I upload galleries like crazy. It's going to have gallery and p...

O Canada! Our home and native land! - General
16 Jan 2006 @ 09:03 am - Today I am in Canada, on free wireless as usual. Roe and I are in Toronto for a couple of nights to explore. We decided to go to the auto show on the Tuesday on the way back because I think we'd still be trying to get in if we went today. It was so b...

Canada and auto show this weekend - General
14 Jan 2006 @ 06:50 am - This weekend (leaving Sunday), Roe and I are going to Toronto, Canada and to the North American International Auto Show on our way through Detroit. I'll try to take lots of photos if we're allowed. We're going to spend a night or so in Canada and may...

OMFG $70,000 for a CMS? - Internet
11 Jan 2006 @ 06:18 am - Heh, yeah. I decided to go looking for information about some features I might like in my CMS and maybe so ideas on how to structure it before I came across.. Komodo CMS. Now for $70,000 (that't not a decimal), you can get an enterprise edition of.. ...

Ice skating yesterday. Other stuff today - General
09 Jan 2006 @ 02:05 pm - I went ice skating yesterday but I never actually got around to writing it down. Well it was good fun, not quite as easy as rollerblades. The ice skates don't lace up as high as blades so they were twisting on my ankles a bit so I got very sore very ...

Are parents responsible? - General
05 Jan 2006 @ 04:52 am - ...

Oops! - Site
04 Jan 2006 @ 01:54 pm - My new site design is semi-toast. I should have thought this out before I started doing it. Let that be a lesson to you all. My original plan was to have a site that did nothing except import modules and execute those. Now the problem is that if 2...

Tis 2006 here now - General
01 Jan 2006 @ 03:16 pm - I just watched the countdown to 2006 and I am glad to know what 2006 is brought to us by Coke Zero. Lucky someone paid for it or we'd have to do 2005 all over again and that would be terrible. It will now be known as two thousand and coke. Hope you a...