Here is a miscellany of things
It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted (yet again), and with good reason; it was a very busy quite a while, and still is. First of all, our house is being renovated, so about a third of the house is out of action and a quarted or so of what’s left is crammed full of stuff, and that’s not counting the garage, where our new and largely untested* barbeque resides for now (it will then be transferred to our spiffy new deck). The extended living room is almost done now, with insulation and cabling in place, windows in, and my parents’ new ensuite is pretty much finished except for powerpoints and switches and whatnot. All in all, it’s really interesting watching the progress slowly unfold, day by day.
I’ve started watching Battlestar Galactica and am almost finished the fourth and final season. It’s pretty interesting and surpasses RTD’s vision of Doctor Who (obviously; pretty much everything does. I can’t wait to see if Steven Moffatt and Matt Smith turn that all on its head — they probably will) I just don’t get why the twelve Cylon models are apparently exactly like us except that something in their blood that is somehow really hard to detect makes them a Cylon.
On another note, I got me some VirtualBox upon hearing that it now supports 3D acceleration**, so I downloaded the latest version of Ubuntu and tried to make Compiz Fusion work, with great difficulty. Apparently it’s supposed to work out of the box, and looking back I think it does; it’s just that I wanted the settings manager so I could muck around being advanced and so on. I also tried to get it running on my laptop, but found that the northbridge wasn’t supported.
I have discovered the awesome power of Photoshop after using Fireworks at school to “create a logo”, which for everybody else was just a square in a circle or something with their initials over it. Me being me, I decided to go a different way, and so here is the end result of the initial concept:
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I’m very happy with how it came out, and rather saddened that Paint.NET can’t do things like this, but at least I’ve got Photoshop to use in its stead when things like this are needed.
And lastly, I got a new set of speakers the other day, Logitech X-240, and the initial test blew me away. They were much better than my old almost-no-brand speakers where the bass drowned out everything else. I was pleasantly surprised to find a Bass Volume knob on the back of the subwoofer, which instantly sold me even before I’d tried them out.
*it was very depressing that we were defeated by a flaw in the design that prevented us from changing the faulty regulator. We had to unscrew the entire right side of the thing before we could even get a spanner in there.
**for non-geeks, fancy 3D effects.
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