What To Do...

I hate having so many things that I want to do, but I have to choose one (or maybe two) out of the lot. Things to do tonight:

1. Watch Collingwood smash Brisbane
2. Play Mario on Wii, and check out the new controller and Wii Play games that I think I am going to go and buy when I get off work
3. Watch South Park episodes that I obtained
4. Play with the idea of a book management system for second hand book stores
5. Watch one of my newly purchased films: To Kill a Mockingbird or Hotel Rwanda

So what do I do? I could do some work on the site, then watch my footy team and work on the book system thingo. Or I could play some Wii and then watch the end of the game. Or I could watch the game and then play some Wii if I still have the energy to... Life is tough.

Well, this was just a bit of a time filler of a post. I have been meaning to write about my recent trip to Melbourne, but I'll get to that later. (Yet another thing to do!)

Scientology Secrets

Recently some confidential documents from within the Church of Scientology were posted up on Wikileaks. From what I have read it consists mostly of internal notes from Mr Hubbard himself. He actually has a few interesting things to say. I won't comment on accuracy, but they're interesting. Definitely worth a bit of a read, and it's always fun to read something you know people never wanted you to read. I also want to read some of his science fiction, just have to get through all the other stuff on my "to read" list.

If only it had come out last year, it would have tied in perfectly with my New Religious Movements course at uni. Oh well. For this semester I get to write about religion and television, and in particular I'm looking at insecure security cameras that can be found with simple Google queries. It's stretching the definition of "television," but apparently it's ok.

In other news, my opinion of Vista has increased slightly after today. As I am mainly fixing Windows computers at work, rather than using them, most of my contact with them is when something is wrong. XP made it a pain in the ass to fix some problems, like screwed up boot.ini files and whatnot. Getting into the recovery console took a million years, often required (very long and painful) restarts, etc. Vista has automated fixing up the MBR and boot.ini, so the recovery console isn't even required. But if you do need to get a command prompt you can get one, and you can close it and open it as many times as you like! Miraculous!

Enough boring stuff for now, I'll be back later with more interesting things to say.

New Gadgetry

I love gadgetry. So much so that, even though I know PDAs are pretty useless, I am pretty excited about my inheritance of one today. It's a pretty neat little PDA, worth as much as a laptop in fact (roughly AU$1000), so it's pretty cool. It has GPS navigation capabilities as well as the usual PDA type stuff. The GPS is the most useful of all its features, with some music playback coming in second, but I already have a little touch screen GPS that I like a lot more as well as an iPod that's obviously better. Anyway, I'll test run it for a while. Maybe there's something interesting I can do with it, like maybe get a Linux distro running on it. That'd be sweet. It'll tide me over until the iPhone comes out here.

Anyway, it's a big day tomorrow. Family lunch, NCSS tutor dinner, masquerade ball after that, so it's time for some sleep. Short but sweet, as they say.

The Usual Slump

When I start a new blog I tend to write quite a few posts early on in the piece. Then comes a period where I write absolutely nothing (this period is generally quite prolonged). I then decide I want to start a new blog, and the cycle repeats. Well, not this time!

So... I am back at university. So far it has been pretty good. I am doing two studies of religion subjects: Witchcraft, Paganism and the New Age and Religion and Television. Both have so far proven to be very interesting. Maths is also proving to be somewhat interesting, but is quite hard. I struggle with my maths. More info as the semester starts to progress.

Other than this I have been playing plenty of Wii, drinking plenty of beer and reading plenty of science fiction. I am presently reading a couple of things (which is strange for me, I usually stick to one book at a time). Primarily I'm reading The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis by Cutcliffe Hyne. It is considered by some to be the crème de la crème of the stories of Atlantis, and so far I am very much enjoying it. Also on the list is Science Fiction After 1900 by Brooks Landon, which has lots of interesting stuff about the development of science fiction, and in particular my favourite, Robert Heinlein. I've also just started Gray Matter by William Hjortsberg, which looks to be a pretty cool little story about "cerebromorphs," human personalities existing entirely within computers. What's more, those computers still use tape! Lots and lots and lots and lots of tape! I love old science fiction.

And on the Wii I'm playing Mario Galaxy, which is definitely living up to its reputation as the best game of the year. I'll probably go into more detail in a later post.