adsl proper coming to australia

telstra just stopped having that 1500 cap on adsl.

read the news on

http://whirlpool.net.au/

Telstra releases ADSL2+
http://whirlpool.net.au/article.cfm/1684
Telstra offers 8Mbit to competitors
http://whirlpool.net.au/article.cfm/1685
Internode first off the blocks
http://whirlpool.net.au/article.cfm/1686

great news, hope internet goes down in price more, and my modem says i can reach up to 6440 connection speed :):):)

have some fun and make your own

boomerang

i really want to this this, as well as make a spud gun.

love this video

just love this video clip.

OK Go - "Here It Goes Again"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbrGUipawck

Three houses and three utilities, can you join them

There are three houses and three utilities:

You must draw a line from each house to each utility, without the lines ever crossing. Can you connect the houses to the utilities?


can you do it??

nuclear compared to coal

just found an interesting article from dansdata

Nuclear plants are a thorny issue. Their thermal efficiency is lousy, too - all that steam coming out of the cooling towers represents wasted energy. But their pollution output is, arguably, close to zero per kilowatt-hour. Nuclear waste management seems to me to be a very simple issue that's only made complex by politics. But that still means it's complex, so you can't accurately estimate how much of a problem it actually is.

In a world run by rational people, you'd just leave the waste from 40 years of operation of a large nuke plant to cool inside the decommissioned plant for another 40 years - or longer, if you like - then finally truck it away in, oh, maybe ten standard shipping containers (each of which has had its volume halved by armour - that's really all the space it would take), drop it in a big geologically stable hole somewhere, and post ten guards to stop nuts from trying to steal it.

The waste from 40 years of equivalent coal plant operation would fill a fair-sized harbour. And it'd be radioactive, too - not radioactive enough that you should worry about it if you're not breathing it in (that's why fly ash collectors are such a big deal), but certainly radioactive enough that it'd be categorised as low-level waste and treated like Instant Death if it had come from a nuclear plant instead.

http://dansdata.com/danletters177.htm

quite interesting i think.

1 exam down, 2 to go

just finished off my first exam for the 2nd semester 2nd year of exam, 2 more to go and i will have summer break with lots of work and fun. well i hope there is lots of fun.

Inconsiderate Brother

Today i just saw what an inconsiderate brother can be like, last night he went and brought these really nice biscuits and placed them in the fridge. When he wakes up 3 cookies are gone, you or me would be annoyed that they went missing but what makes it worse is that for the last 3 years anything that has been in the fridge has been free game for him.

For example my parents were on weight watchers, for which they needed to eat healthy yogurts, fruits and weight watchers cookies the only problem was that my brother without asking anyone would grab as many items as he wants and eats them. now when it is his turn to buy from himself he wants the respect of his food is his, no one else's, yet he has not earned that right because of his past acts. as some great person said, if you sow positive actions you will reap positive actions ten fold, and if you sow negative actions you will reap negative actions 10 fold over. my brother has been sowing negative actions with his behaviour and still does yet he wants the positive actions of people while not living up to his end of the deal.

Exams on friday

got an exam on friday 8:30 in the morning. hate early starts. 3hours is the exam. but still 8:30am start is way to early.

Went Trick or Treating

went trick or treating with my friend Clara, Naomi was suppose to come but she had work till 4pm and could not make it, which was a shame, we did about 3 houses and it we got lots of candy. we were going to see a movie but we were to late. so we went swimming and had a drink or 2.

on the way home i caught the train at 10:50pm which got me to the bus stop on time, the only problem was that the buses have stopped running that late at night, which SUCKS so i had to get my mum to pick me up and drop me off.