You know what?

I reckon someone should make a web based version of firefox. That way I can open shitty-forced-to-use IE and piont it to FirefoxCosYouCantInstallIt.com.

I would do it myself. But I can't.

Advice of the day: STFU

I told this chick the other day to "go get fucked by her family". I said it to offend her as much as humanly possible. I think I succeeded.
Turns out she was sexually abused and actually was fucked by her family. FUCK! Don't I feel great...

Next I might go punch a cripple. I have no morals now :(

Where for art thou *nix MySpace?

I asked this person on MySpace named nix why she named herself 'nix':

'I have to ask, is your nick name based on the great range of operating systems that is vastly superior to windows?'

And i got:

'huh? lol'

Must be a windows user :(

My Childhood TV heroes.

Coolest TV characters of my childhood

I was thinking about the good ol days where I only had to worry about… well nothing at all. Anyways here is a list of TV characters that made my childhood.

Sonic (not really a TV character even though he had a show. But shit does he rule!)

This Guy owned. He owned before people started using 'owned' as a word. He was made to make fun of Fat Italian Plumbers (WTF is with that?) who did nothing but plod.plod.plod around the screen. Where most games you walked through, Sonic would blast right through in such a way you knew he would be screaming ‘UP YOURS SNAIL BITCHES’ Yeah Sonic. Just what Sega needed, just what the world needed. Remember boys and girls the old nemesis of Sonic would of never moved to 16bit if it weren’t for Sega. We would still be playing NES versions of Lord of the Rings.

Diesel (off Thomas the tank engine)

From Day one I was a Thomas the tank engine nut. I remember my folks saying ‘All Ringo Starr! Now that is a famous person’ Yeah he was the guy who told the stories.

I didn’t mind Thomas, and Percy and Edward were pretty cool. But my all time favourite was Diesel. I remember freaking my mum out when I told him he was my favourite.

Diesel was such a crafty, stirring sleaze ball he was great.

Bumblebee (off transformers)

No reason. He just looked funny.

Zippy

Zippy was a class act. A few years ago when mp3 Ringtones were cool, I went to this site and used these. Hint: ‘Three Fat Sausages’ + first person to own Sony Ericcson P900 = Woman on tap. Honest, I have proof.

Bugs Bunny

Nuff said

Speedy Gonzales

Nuff said

Leonardo (Off teenage mutant ninja turtles)

Leo was more in your face than Donatello. Which only just barely made him cool. I used to be a Donatello fan mainly because he knew heaps of cool geeky shit and used a Bo. But I remember changing when a friend said he was a wimp because he hardly fights. /sigh

Oscar the Grouch

Sailor Mars

The first animated chick that I saw on TV and wished she was real.

Sailor Venus

In blonde too.

Viper

The car FUCKING CHANGED COLOUR! It went from red to grey. In red it was a viper with the top down. But when grey (and with a roof) it became the meanest, bulletproof law enforcer there is. KITT would have some serious competition if it were not for some simple flaw: Why the fuck did the Viper have to change into anything to become cool in the first place? I mean would it just be better off to be in ‘ima kikcka your arse’ mode all the time? Oh well, I absolutely loved this show when I was young and this car was the ultimate coolness.

Briscoe County Jr

When I was young I used to watch Baywatch and no, not for the chicks. I actually watched it for the bloody story! I really got into it. For some reason I could watch Baywatch but my mum wouldn’t let me watch Briscoe County Jr. Who I thought was a total tool anyway except for his kick arse horse.

Sledgehammer

All I remember was sledge saying “Trust me, I know what I’m doing” before I world go off and stuff it up only to succeed anyway. That my friend is how a real man does things.

Mr T

I had a kick arse pencil case at primary school. It was yellow and had Mr T on the bottom with his look that he always does. Very cool.

Batman (Adam west)

The old bat man used to have me in fits every morning. I would sit there wondering if Batman could escape the trap that his arch enemy of the week had laid out for him. Even though he always made it out, I always worried if he would. PS This guy would’ve made a wicked James Bond. BAM!!

Gambit

X-Men was a great cartoon. And for some reason I liked gambit with his Bo and slippery card tricks.

Speedy Cerviche

I was absolutely addicted to the samurai pizza cats. For a good year this was the show I associated with even bothering to come home after school.

Well I can think of heaps of other shows but time is not something I have. So what are your favourite characters?

I am moving to wordpress

But don't worry I will still post my crap that you will never want to read on here.
The crap that you will more likely want to read will be on worpress.

Wordpress I might go there.

I am sick of blogger's lack of features. I might move over there.

Very Cool

The guy on app a day has churned out some great applications so far. If you haven’t heard of it, it is basically a guy who will code a new app every day for a month and blog while he is doing it. One of my favourites so far is the Time Management app from Day 2. With this I should be able to see what it is I actually do with my day in front of a machine.

Spent the last few weeks making a Sudoku solver/generator in excel, only to find out one that is 10 times better on the interwebs. Great, if I knew this beforehand I would not of made one in the first place!

Windows XP guide coming soon!

Even though I have been using a Mac (and loving it). I still want to use windows for two main reasons. First is I am more familia with it than anything else (even more than linux), the second is gaming and the vast variety of software out there.

So this week I will be spending a certain amount of time writing up a guide to “making Windows XP cool”. I have always wanted to write what I do to get my XP rig running all nice and pretty and with Vista around the corner there is not much time left until this document is out of date.

Stay tuned and hopefully I will have the first chapter up here by the end of the weekend!

Mac is OK. It like works and stuff.

So the last real time I owned and used a Mac was way back in 1999 with OS9. When my Toshiba hard disk decided to die, I thought why the hell not, it's prettier than the Toshiba. So I am now the owner of OS X tiger. Oh yeah my missus isn’t too happy about me Indian giving (can I say that?), but oh well.

So for the last fortnight I have been using OS X for about 90% of the time. And the biggest difference with windows is the same difference with Linux:

I spend my time on how to do something instead of getting it to do something. In other words, I spend time on using my machine instead on of getting my machine able to be used. To say that I would totally move to OS X would be far fetched. But if vista leaves a lot less to be desired, I may be inclined to use windows for playing games and using a Mac/*nix set up for everything else.

Apart from games, OS X and Linux do everything a window does and better.

MAKE THE SWITCH!!

So I am Using Word right....

And I make a table.
Sweet . Now time to make a formula. Nothing fancy, I just wanted something to multiply and then total a few things. No need for excel.
One problem though... After about two hours of fuck arising around, I find out that there was no way to display the cell number (ie b4) you have to count it!!
That's right, I got out my finger and counted out One, Two Three Four. Then A, B, C, D.... Oh cool D4!
So now I know cell number, word obviously knows the cell number or the formula wouldn't work.
So um er... How about some way of displaying it?

Good on MS Word god I love the way you make me run around.

Be my friend on this blog and I will give you 1/10 of a $

To prove that no one in this world reads my dribble. I will be giving 10 cents to everyone who comes on here and leaves a comment. Just leave an email address.

For a limited time only!! (ie until I run out of cash)

The Trademe experiment.

So I am broke and want a new computer. So could Trademe save me?

I might put it up to the challenge. By only spending no more than $100 a purchase I will see what is possible to get a nice working system that will allow me to play Elder Scrolls 4 faster than 20fps (what my current PC manages).

Here are the rules:

• I can only spend $100 a week or purchase
• The only way I can spend more than $100 is if I didn’t buy anything the earlier week.
• The parts have to work (duh), be either a socket 754, 939 or similar system.
• In order for the challenge to be successful, I need to have fully loaded box that was only bought through trade by the end of November.

I will keep this post updated every week instead of making a new blog post every week. You may ask why I would risk buying all my equipment off a trady outfit like Trademe? Well mainly because I think it is a myth to get a excellent system for a decent price. Not to mention if it is in good working order.

Watch Google They might be your new job.

If you work in IT. Then you are probably familar with Microsoft, you are perhaps familar with google too.
Well in a few years you might be needing to replace that MCSE qualifacation with a brand spanking 'I KNOW GOOGLE' certificate of some type. Think about it. Gmail, Gcalendar, Gcal, Gchat, Gpages, Google bash, Google Apps, Writely........ Soon google will have and account and project management sotware for the small business.

Horah for google heh?

VGNZWTFOMG!!!!!!! The VGNZ Infringement.

We all remember (or do we?) a big little site by the name of VideoGames New Zealand. It featured regular News, Articles, Reviews, and even had the odd competition. Not to mention the full featured forums with a decent amount of articulate gaming members. When I came across the site in 2002 I was hooked For here seemed to be a haven of Kiwi individuals who just so happened to like gaming.

Cool.

So cool in fact the when I posted in the Forums: ‘There are no bloody SEGA articles in the Retro section’ that one of the moderators offered me to posts some Sega goodness on the site.

So I posted a few (read FEW) reviews and the like. But wasn’t really into it, I could put the blame on two things…. A 9800 PRO and Far Cry. But I was still Reading and posting on the forums and Reading the more than half decent articles.

Still cool.

Not so cool is that VGNZ over the last year has not seen much attention. Blame that on one thing: HAXORZZZ!!!!111!!!

Not so cool.

Around or before this time I decided to just stray away from contributing. Mainly because I wanted to work on my own projects.

So with the forums down. And me doing my own thing. I hardly came back. Just popped back in now and then and see what’s up. Which, I have to say has not been much since the forums had been down for quite a while.

Until… One day (a few weeks back if I recall) I heard that the forum was back to normal and things were on track for the resurrection of my interest in the site. I had been out of action for a while. Why not log back on a see what’s going on?
So I do and see that things are a bit slow, which is to be expected when the forums were out for as long as it was. I poke around and then decide to post something relating to what caused me to drop interest:



With the other thread asking where our other members have gone. It got me thinking.

I hadn't really disappeared.

I would more so call it lurking for something better which was caused by a few things:

1) My interest in games just waned. Even now I have trouble getting excited. (I’m sure you guys can help on that)

2) The whole life thing. Girl friend, work, other commitments etc.

OK now I have that out of the way I am going to come out with my can of worms:

4) The forums had been the only saving grace for a long time. Due to mainly it’s members. The articles on VGNZ were top notch and…….. Well there was no ‘and’.

5) VGNZ had a lot of ‘current affairs’ throughout the last year or so. But with that aside I think that my personal disappointment can be put on two things. One was the VGNZ 2.0 that never came. The other was the problems with forums since they were hacked.

I was a somewhat lethargic contributor as a staff member; as were a lot of others. All I can say on my part is that I sometimes wondered if it was all worth while actually contributing. There just seemed a lack of drive or ambition. As hippie and wimpy as sounds, I think that the ‘X’ factor somewhat faded away.

And hell look at NZGAMER I use to think that they were some nifty little community site that was inferior to VGNZ. I’m afraid I can not that any longer. Love em or lump em NZGAMER has competitions, ads (I saw one In my mobile magazine recently) a news letter etc. The bottom line is there is just more happening. Something which I would love to see happen for this place.


Well I decided to be blunt…. Really blunt. But I thought If I got some of the things I was thinking said and done…. Instead of lurking around, then it can only help.

What I would like to see would be a few projects and to build up momentum, but how I am not so sure…..

So what would you guys like to do/see happen?



I head off, whiz past my articles and notice they are still there gathering dust:


No wait. My name is not Raja.

That's right boys and girls. Leave the staff at VGNZ and your articles get owned by the man. Although I am a bit pissed. What really shocked me was that nearly everyone
who are now ex-staff have now got the honour of being called Raja. Even the moderator who offered me a position on the staff has had his work stripped off him.

This is not cool. Not cool at all. It is one thing to copy and paste an article from a 3rd party source... So long as you CREDIT THE PERSON WHO WROTE IT. It is quite another thing to claim somthing as your own. This is the unritten rule of the internet.
/. does
gamespot does
digg does
in fact nearly everyone does except videogames.co.nz

So remember boys and girls. If you want orignal, informative and interesting content.Make sure that the authors name is not Raja.

My Blog Is F*****

Deleted too many of my posts. Duh!