Denial is the First Stage of Rehabilitation

Well its official. My Christmas light madness has reached a new level. Yesterday while minding my own business, strolling through my local Bunnings Warehouse (damn fine Store! Highly recommended - no really.) I spied the Christmas Lights section.



Now somehow, my mind managed within a few microseconds to have already convinced itself that I needed more christmas lights. It then proceeded to force me over to the lights, and purchase said lights. Im a little scared and believe I may have some sort of obsession here. Even the good people at Bunnings seem to know me now, and even remarked "Buying more lights?".



Now as Denial is the first stage of rehabilitation, I believe I may be on to step two. Im not sure. Any phsycologists out there feel free to drop me a line and let me know how bad my phsycosis really is. In any event, I'm all ready for the big unveiling this weekend. Its going to be one long saturday hanging lights.

The Glorious Fourth

One of my old work mates has just released a single with his new Band, the "Glorious Fourth" The Glorious Fourth are a Rock/Pop 3 piece band from Newtown with
Kenneth Wallace: guitar, lead vocals, Dominic Thurbon:bass, backing vocals
Andrew Axton: drums.



Their debut Single "Six Feet Down Under" is awesome. Visit their website, listen to the samples and buy their Single! Stay tuned for the official launch of their EP!



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Storms and Rain are My Bag Baby

I have to say, I absolutely love storms and rain. I'm not sure exactly what makes me like them so much. The sound of rain on the roof particularly when trying to drift off to sleep is just so relaxing. Watching storm clouds roll in, thunder and lightning is just fascinating. It's a shame that we are in a drought at the moment, it has been so long since we had the usual summer afternoon storms every single day.



I love summer. Long hot days, afternoon and evening thunderstorms. Its just fantastic! (as Long as My car is under cover of course!)

Product Placement

Marks Metaphorical Mofoisms is proudly sponsored by Pump! Bottling tap water and selling to you at inflated prices for years! 

Its Using the Trees!

Oh My God! I am... THE PREDATOR! hahaha - Comon! That was Funny! It just never gets old, does it. What a fantastic Movie! Rock On!



This was taken on one of many stupid trips in the car... Enough said!




 

"Who GIves a Shit" Week

Well those who know me may or may not remember "Who Gives a Shit" Day (I believe it was one of my birthdays) where we just drove around with no destination in particular, and basically just did stuff. Well, this is who gives a shit week. It's my last week at my current job, I discovered I'm allergic to bullshit and morons, so this place really isn't such a good fit for me. With that in mind, you can imagine my carefactor is verging on non-existant. To top it off, after an adventure in "wine" land yesterday I'm feeling about as seedy as wholegrain mustard.



Its amazing how liberating making a life changing decision can be. I mean, I could have stayed here for years/decades longer I guess, but that is not where I want my life to go. I want to wake up and want to go to work, to be challenged and stimulated (not that way you sick bastards), I want my actions to be appreciated and worthwhile. The exact opposite of my current situation.



Change is good. Change is inevitable. Go with the flow, have guts to make the change, have the guts to dare for more. Or don't. This isn't a communist paradise! You control your destiny. Fuck me, this is turning into one of those damn self help willpower seminars. On that note - Peace, I'm Outta Here!

How Long to Christmas?

Well, it has begun. One of my neighbours beat me to it! They already have xmas lights! Bastards! Even if they are fairly pitiful. I have already stuck a bunch of lights up, hopefully lulling them into a false sense of superiority. Next weekend I will be coming in with the big play, the 150+ metres of lights will be going up. Yeah baby! They won't know what hit them!



It is definately good to see someone else fostering that christmas spirit, christmas this year will definately be a magical experience! I mean, the first christmas together with my lovely wife, christmas lights and decorations, good food, family - its all there!

Singularity

Singularity is a research project focused on the construction of dependable systems through innovation in the areas of systems, languages, and tools. We are building a research operating system prototype (called Singularity), extending programming languages, and developing new techniques and tools for specifying and verifying program behavior.



Advances in languages, compilers, and tools open the possibility of significantly improving software. For example, Singularity uses type-safe languages and an abstract instruction set to enable what we call Software Isolated Processes (SIPs). SIPs provide the strong isolation guarantees of OS processes (isolated object space, separate GCs, separate runtimes) without the overhead of hardware-enforced protection domains. In the current Singularity prototype SIPs are extremely cheap; they run in ring 0 in the kernel’s address space..




Singularity uses these advances to build more reliable systems and applications. For example, because SIPs are so cheap to create and enforce, Singularity runs each program, device driver, or system extension in its own SIP. SIPs are not allowed to share memory or modify their own code. As a result, we can make strong reliability guarantees about the code running in a SIP. We can verify much broader properties about a SIP at compile or install time than can be done for code running in traditional OS processes. Boarder application of static verification is critical to predicting system behavior and providing users with strong guarantees about reliability..




Want to know more?



Singularity Website


Technical Report

All Systems Go

Well after another day "Working From Home" due to the Lane Cove "Hole" I managed to do a system test of my 2000+ christmas lights. I'm proud to say that I definately do not suffer from epilepsy as all 2000+ bulbs blinking was quite a sight. I did go into momentary convulsions, but they soon passed.



Im currently formulating a plan, to try and take over the world. Well, ok, two plans! One to take over the world, and one to figure out where to hang these babies!



Watch this space!

Melbourne Cup

Well, its that time of the year again. Now Im not a big gambling person, it could be that I don't need any help pissing my money away, or possibly that I just don't like horses (apart from their obvious glue making strengths). However, just for today, I will indulge in the celebrations (read: food and drink) whilst not putting down any bets.



Well, that was a fairly boring tirade. Surely I can do better, right? *shrugs* I don't know. I mean, I'm at work so thats a definate downer. I have 9 days of work left before I start my new job, well - thats an upper definately. So far, I'm neutral. Im sure after the first dickhead user of the day, I'll be back to my usual rantings,bitching and moaning about this and that. Stay Tuned Loyal Viewer!