how to hack the brisbane city council library catalog pc's

well for some reason brisbane city council went way overboard in stopping people from accessing the net on the pc's just for viewing the catalog over the internet. we all know that the internet wants to be free. the ways they stop the spread of the internet on the broswer terminals is to not allow you to access the address bar. it is unchangeable. all the good stuff in ie that you hate with a vengence because we use firefox are missing. eg you can't save, load, change anything nor copy paste or change any of the tool bars. i'd take a screenshot of what it has but that has also been disabled. this is just in the browser, but for the operating system, it has no start button. tho it does have the task bar so thats a good thing.

now getting back to allowing you to go to any webpage out on the net via this terminal is easy. just do a search that will turn up no results and it comes up with a handy link. asking you if you want to do a google search. that is such a handy link to leave lying around the place and in doing so has foiled their plans of locked down pc.

hope you have fun. its easy to make a list of stuff you look at regurlay or even just to google the address you want.

itsa having a free bar tab.

come join. drink till the bar tab is gone. well not really. just come enjoy the company of having some leading companys in brisbane enjoy some nice food and drink and network to get a job. that could happen or we could eat, play pool and drink a couple of jugs ;)

hope you come

will

xml exam in 3 hours

well i should be studying for an exam that starts in 3 hours but i'm here typing to you all about how well i might pass this subject. currently got 29.15% in the subject and just need another 21.9% to pass but i should stick to 30% just on the safeside. last exam is worth 60% out of the entire subject so i need at least 50% on it. good that its multiple choice :):) well gtg now. boingboing.net might have something interesting on it by the time you finish reading this.

Cool art that will mess with your head

Now don't get me wrong, art can be cool, but art that messes with your head is even cooler.

Guess how many deer are in this photo.

Find the rest of the photos at frogview.com

The way car's are not suppose to be made

The Trabant was made out of onion meal and polyester fiberfill batting.


wow when you don't have steel create a steel subsitiute for your cars. Find more info Here.

The Black Hat Support

wow hope the world is not like this


thanks from xdcd.com

The Waterfall model

Hmm, it’s interesting that when you apply for a programming job, they ask you if you know the waterfall model. Quite strange but because I have not been in a position where people come to me asking me to make something on a scrap piece of paper I didn't know that it’s a big thing. So all those subjects just covering the model were not lost. Darn it was so boring too, if they told us that we would need this info for getting a job, I might have remembered more of it instead of brain dumping it to the computer so I can think better on programming in other languages, eg C#, java, scheme and recently XQuery.

waterfall model

A Tree That peeled like a banana when hit by lightning

They said that the tree is waxy and smooth to the touch.

Read more via : Boingboing
(Thanks to Eric and Mark and Menarique)

Just in this topic it seems that trees that have been struck by lightning do not burn and also are very difficult to cut down as that are as hard as anything. this is because solids don't actually burn, its the gas that burns. seems the theory is that wood that has been struck has its volatitles evaporated from it so that there is nothing to burn from it. this is also a tree dies from the strick as there is no fluids giving their nutrience to the leaves.

thats what i got from Dr Karl

XQUERY why with the fortran??

i have no idea why people love this language. i'm guessing it came from people liking SQL and Scheme. with a bit of java thown in just for kicks. i'm starting to hate how the internet documentation on XQuery is rather lacking in some parts, such as how do i do dynamic tags??? also how do i change what the elements have stored when doing more than 2 querys one after the other??

Animation based on spam filter-busting text via BoingBoing

The brother's McLeod have created another creepy/cool cartoon short that uses the spam filter-breaking text that hideous spammers add to the bottom of their junk mail.

It's cool. hope they make more.

from BoingBoing

off to gympie i go

Well its time to head off to gympie. means that uni work goes out the window for a while. sucks... so many assignment due yet not enough time to do them all :( well i'll find time to do them tomorrow. as one is due on the 1st of june.

also my birthday is coming up. 3rd of june. turning 20 :)

current best movie out.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

is out. wish i could go see it today but i'm working all day, then off to gympie tomorrow. coming back sunday, on sunday i work from midday till 8pm then need to hand in an assignment, maybe next week.

java assignment 80% done

well my java assginment which is an RSS reader is nearly completed :) just need to finish off updating and loading and saving. might also add save and load from external file if i have time. still got to do the testing, clean up my comments and the report, all before friday, as i'm not in town over the weekend and its due this sunday. yay.

tough being a uni student.

assginments piling up. got a headacke. at least i have an engagement party to go to this weekend. pity i have an assignment due on the sunday after it. doh...

btw

you only have 6days and 2hours from when i post this to get your cheap copy of office 2007 ultimate. costs over $1000rrp but you can buy it for $75 IF you are an australian uni student.

http://itsnotcheating.com.au/

so so tired

well i was lucky enough to get a bakery shift today, a total of 9 hours :O so now i am so tired and right behind the 8 ball on all uni gear which needs to be completed before i go up to gympe this weekend :( this sucks.

What a marble machine should look like.

I would love to build one of these if i had the know-how. but i guess having mechanical puzzles is good enough for me atm.

Marble Machine 2

Mr Deity comes to town

gdayworld podcast had an intersting conversion from the guy who runs mr deity, its a very good show. short but sweet.

http://www.mrdeity.com

tikibar from twit

After listening to twit podcast they were saying alot of stuff about tikibar. Its a show about people making cocktails with a storyline, quite interesting show, kinda makes you want to make some drinks :)


http://www.tikibartv.com

long time no post

well i guess everyone has been wondering why no posts in the last 2 months. well things have been busy. and my blog fell off the radar like everything else :(

will start posting more i promise.

will.

easter holidays where did they go???

well its been a week and i have no idea where those holidays went :( i wish i could have had more time to just be lazy. instead i cleaned the house. worked and did minimal study as well as hanging out at a friends house and seeing sunshine. sunshine was a good movie. :)

tho the noise they included kinda sucks because if you are in a vaccum. you would not hear anything unless you were connected to the structure that was getting blasted by heat of the sun.

japanese flash mob dance

i think this is pretty cool.

Bus stop to my house

as i created it i might as well put it up.

heres a link. To get to my house using the bus ;)

In a cider making mood.

For some reason i want to make cider. then drink it. i found this great site but i think i might just contact my friend tim and ask him to show me how to make it.

floras-hideout for making cider

i hate colds

well last week my little brother was in a hugging moood and gave the rest of the family head colds. now its hit me :( and i hate it. i hate being sick. hope it passes very soon. and i can't get out of going to uni. got to much on.

The DIY Car

heres an interesting article. you buy a car brand new very cheaply then build it yourself. what a concept wish i could import one and use it in australia.

http://spluch.blogspot.com/2006/11/japanese-do-it-yourself-cars.html

Make Apple TV hacks

Apple TV hacks…
We posted Erica's "warranty voiding" of the Apple TV and less than 24 hours later it looks like the...
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Looks Pretty Cool hope someone rejigs the Apple Tv to make it play all videos and audio from anywhere.

Big Brother State

Here's a small clip about the Big Brother State

the day the world collapsed

well last monday i tried to get my new 320gb hard drive formatted. but my comptuer would not complie. then when i put it into my brothers it worked. so then i had another problem. what was in my comptuer that was making the format crash and not making windows crash. well the problem was my ram and motherboard would give erratic errors. eg if left on for more than 2 hours memtest 64 would find errors in the first 10sec but if the comptuer was left off for a couple of hours then turned on. then memtest 64 would not find any errors and windows would boot normally. so now i have brought a new motherboard and ram and had a bit of a scare trying to get the old cpu off the old motherboard and onto the new motherboad.

 

the problem was that after 3 years being together they did not want to come apart. so when i pulled off the heatsink the cpu came with it. right out of the slot :O:O:O. and it sould not come off with my finger nail betweenthe heat sink and cpu. so i had to use a screw driver flat heard to nudge it off. which worked :) only prob was the the cpu came off and fell 30cm onto some plastic pin's first :O. so i tried to put it into its slot but it would not fit because 1 pin was bent. so i had to carefully get the twisers out and with my hands shaking from all the scares bend the pin back. then it fited :).

 

i put the comptuer back together again and left the drives unconnected and booted up memtest to run when i was at work and it came up with 0 errors :) for 8+hours.

 

my next problem is formatting a drive with xp without the xp cd ;)

 

i'll find a way.

uni begins. time off work

well now uni has started the amount of time i work has now been compressed into 3 days and one extra for front end. i've moved to produce :) so much easyer. caught up with naomi. seems she wanted to get away from one of her housemates at her old place. she also lost her phone so it was very difficult to track her done. but i did :). she now lives in taringa. my mums having her 50th birthday party this saturday coming. its going to be sweet :)

another day another trip

today i dropped my brother off at school then went to uni to check out my classes and to see if i could get some free stuff. alas i'm a week early :(. will try next week. when i wondered around i saw some really cool moniters being installed. lcd widescreen. massive displays for use uni students to use. hope i don't get to addicted to them else i'll need to go buy one for home use ;). came home and walked my brother home. then started to cook dinner. its now boiling down to spegatti sauce. i also got fed up with the fan on my brothers graphics card so i pulled it apart and oiled it as well as cleaned out all the dust from it. hope it runs real good and quiter now.

working, working and more working

well this weekend i am doing one 9hours shift and one 10hour shift. 1pm to 10pm and 12pm to 10pm. those are some long days :( but the cash is good :) hope it keeps coming.

extra work from no where.

now heres something you don't see everyday. my work had me rostered for only 4 hours this week. but i have been chatting to one of the higher ups about my position and it seems i have accidently been stranded between 2 departments which leaves me in a bit of a spot. because of it, i'm back to causal rates and also no hours. i'm use to 20 hours a week, well not working them persee but the cash flow from those hours. and its the middle of the week. wednesday and i get a phone call from work asking if i could work. well of course i say yes. and then i get 26hours + the 4 hours i work at darra. so i'm over the moon but i bet my body will be on the floor sleeping by the end of the 4 day hike.

the first post in months

time has seems to have slipped away from me over the last couple of months. its seems like it was only November when i put in my last post. allot has happened to me over the last 3 months. uni's about to start. i had a big paycheck from working boxing day. worked 22 hours or more for the last 4 weeks but my contract ended and i'm out of work for a week fingers crossed its only a week.

lego car factory

boy i wish i had this many kits to make this :)

http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/01/lego_car_factor.html