Clearly the best name for a band ever. Almost as good as Electric Six’s latest album title, “I shall exterminate everything around me that restricts me from becoming the master.”
Their music isn’t half bad either.

Stream them at Last.FM or Myspace.

Speaking of music-related matters, Sleeve Channel, one of my favourite recent trip-hop artists have released a new track “Give A Little” definitely worth at least 15 listens over at their MySpace.

Continuing today’s ragey theme, why the fuck do things require space on the C: drive when I explicitly tell it to install to another drive?

Adobe’s Audition music editor is the latest culprit of this stupid and archaic trend. The program requires ~350mb of disk space. During the installation it asks where you want to install it, so I decide to install it on to my 750GB drive I’ve named Local Data. So you know what it does? It installs about 50mb in to the drive I told it to install in to and the other 300 in to my C. Why? Why even ask me where I want to install it if you’re just going to stick it all in C anyway. Fuck you. No wonder I never have any free space on C.

As some of you may know I’ve recently been on the lookout for a new Portable Media Player.
After much research I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m going to get a Creative Zen 32GB. I say “going to” because NOBODY FUCKING HAS THEM.

I’ve been to every shop in town that would have them, except for Tandy’s because it doesn’t fucking exist. Seriously I’ve been up and down Charles street ten times, inside David Jones and in the fucking mall. IT DOESN’T EXIST. It’s a LIE.
Nobody has them.
I’ve been to every shopping mall in South Australia, the largest sized MP3 player that wasn’t an iPod I found was a whopping 8 gigs. Eight. Fucking. Gigs. Fuck you Australia. I purchased an iRiver h320 over four years ago. At the time it also came in a 40gb variant. Are you honestly telling me that in four years we’ve managed to regress 32gb? And the fact that they sell ONE gigabyte models at almost the same price as the 8GB model is just fucking hilarious.

The kicker is that when I ask them if they sell the 32gb model, most salespersons’ jaw almost drops to the floor. They’re like, “What? There’s an MP3 Player that isn’t an iPod that’s larger than 16GB?”
One guy even tried his darndest to sell me a crappy 8gb model. Why the fuck would I want 8gb when I explicitly asked for a 32gb model. He was all like, “8 gigs is all you’ll ever need!”
I told him Bill Gates said the same thing about memory but I don’t think he got the reference. I don’t think I even have 8gb free on my iRiver h320.

So Why? What the fuck does Australia have against MP3 players with decent storage? I can buy a piece of crap iPod touch with 80 fucking GB of storage but if I want a functional, modern PMP I have to put up with 8gb? What kind of logic is that? FUCK YOU AND YOUR HOUSE.

Fuck you South Australia. It’s times like these that I thank Science that online shopping is a reality. Sure I have to pay extra for shipping and handling, but at least I can actually fucking OWN it.

/rage

I recently had to implement spoiler tags in to Co-Opp and had a quick perusal of the nets and found no such phpbb3 plugin/mod. So I figured I’d make one using their good old fashioned custom bbcode page and inline javascript.

In case anyone else needs some inline spoiler tags for phpbb3, or anything else really, do as follows:

Login in to your phpbb3 ACP and click on the Posting tab, then click on the custom bbcode link on the left.

For the BBCode usage, enter:

[spoiler]{TEXT}[/spoiler]

For the HTML replacement, enter:

<span style=”background-color: #000; color: #000;” onmouseover=”this.style.color=’#ffffff’” onmouseout=”this.style.color=’#000000′”>{TEXT}</span>

Example of what this will look like:
OH MY GOD SPOILERS

Ideally, it would be better to add a javascript function, the main reason that I didn’t in this case was that I’m lazy. But it also wouldn’t be globally usable, unless I whack the function in to every template, or God forbid I make a mod or something. Wowzors in my trowzors! Too much effort for such a simple little thing in my opinion.

So I was out shoppin’ with the fam’ and was all like, “Muuuuum, I want a Wii!”
And she was all like, “You should’ve gone before we left.”
So I was all like, “No man I want a Nintendo Wii!”
And she was all like, “If you do that I don’t think it would work any more.”
And I was all like, “Nah the new Nintendo Wii console.”
And she was all like, “Go get a job and buy it yourself.”

Fast forward like 6 months and that totally just happened. My mum is so clever.

I also bought Mario Galaxy, Super Smash Bros Brawl, Crash Titans and Mario Kart Wii. My sister bought the Wii Harvest Moon.

I think the one we got the most fun out of and played the longest was Wii Sports which was included with the console. Bowling and Tennis are brilliant!

That was a pretty expensive weekend.

Despite running late, I somehow managed to best the space-time continuum and catch the early bus, getting me in to work a whole 30 minutes early.
I accidentally typo-ed the alarm code, setting the whole thing off for a couple of seconds while I punched in the correct code. I still can’t hear out of my right ear.
Upon logging in I was greeted with a “Your account has been disabled. Please see your system administrator” prompt. Turns out another David recently(ish) left and instead of disabling his account, the techs accidentally disabled mine. Of course, the techs didn’t get there until 9.
Once that was resolved I discovered I could no longer write to the web server. One and half hours of techy banter between them, about 5 log on/offs and reboots and their final solution was to delete my user profile and start again.
Another 30 minutes wasted setting up my shiny new profile the way I like it, installing Firefox addons and so forth.
After that I actually got a bit of work done and then off to lunch.
I had the worst Subway ever. The bread was half cooked so it was all limp and uninspired. I have meatballs on my sub, small little weighted objects inside a soft, uncaring shell, fighting against gravity to stay in place. That was never going to happen. It was even toasted.
I scoffed down my sub in 8 minutes to slow down the increasing speed it was falling apart. This left me with a stomach ache for the rest of the day.
I got back to the office a mere 20 minutes after I’d left, wasting the rest of my 45-minute lunch “hour” reading Digg.
Upon checking my mail I realised I could no longer communicate with the Exchange Server. I got one of the techies to look at it and had him stumped for a few minutes. Then he walked off saying, “Oh, I bet I know what it is..” and he was never heard from again. I still can’t get my mail.
The boss-man left for his trip to somewheresville, leaving everyone in pretty much a bludging mood.
The guy to the left of me had a Stewie soundboard, and the guy to the right an Arnie soundboard. They were throwing lines back between each other, that kept us pretty well entertained for the rest of the day. It was broken up with the occasional youtube video and phone calls (work related and otherwise).
I left 5 minutes early and realised I’d forgotten to buy a bus ticket at lunch. I quickly whisped over there, only to discover the line was huge, there were only three registers open and the express credit-card lane was closed. I waited what seemed like forever and eventually got to the front and payed the obscene ammount of Earth credits that it costs to buy bus tickets and was on my way.
I bested the space-time continuum for the second time that day when I realised that my bus was sitting there at my bus stop waiting for me, a whole 10 minutes late.

Not exactly the worst day ever but it was certainly different. I applaud the Gods for spicing things up a bit.

Team Fortress 2 has an amazing little console command that every game should implement immediately. By simply typing “explode” in to the console your character instantly does just that: explodes.

Everyone I know and their dog’s have the command bound to a key for quick gibby access.
Personally I use it during the post-game time to spray the walls with my beautiful blood. Others sometimes use it to confuse enemies. Some people (kpros) use the command if they are about to die by fire, since using it (or it’s relative ‘kill’) stops the pyro that set you on fire from getting the point(s).

Some people used to type ‘kill’ during Counter-Strike games for hilarity purposes, however we often found ‘nade suiciding to be far more entertaining. Or jumping off the top of the castle.

The Co-Opp guys and I were recently stacking a fairly old HL mod, “Dystopia“, and during gameplay I was heartbroken to find that explode was non-existent. This is a command that every game from now on simply needs to have.

Even COD4 would be far more entertaining with randomly exploding soldiers. Oh wait that already happens with the ‘nade spam on -FF servers.

…is AWESOME.

I’d pretty much given up caring about Spore due to all the delays and all the hyper fans. However, after playing with the creature creator I am SO there. Enjoy my first two awesome creations.

To play with this brilliant mini-game simply check your favourite gaming-related website and grab the demo.

So I went shopping today at the apparently local mall of shopping and every clothes store was pumping out the latest club beatz as normal. Now I don’t mind decent club songs, I don’t quite get the connection between fashion and dancing but it’s not the songs that bother me. Infact I am quite partial towards to music of sweat and bouncing. It’s the crazy volume they play these songs at that frustrates me beyond all.

It’s so loud that it isn’t fun to listen to any more. There’s such a thing as too loud. I’m young and hip and incredibly good looking so it’s not that I’m getting old or anything. It’s just common sense to play these songs at a comfortable volume. Unsurprisingly everyone was yelling at each other because they can’t hear each other’s puny human voices over these amazing club songs.
You know how people say, “Size isn’t everything”? Well the same goes for volume, man. Seriously it’s just lame.

One store I went in to didn’t even have a decent sound system, just a little radio sitting there pumping out these bass-heavy songs with little to no bass actually being presented. This made the song crazy tinny and quite painful to listen to. I was checking myself out in the mirror (which is hard not to do, I confess) and swore I saw blood spewing from my ears. It suddenly became clear why all their stock was covered in blood.

Actually now that I think about it’s probably that the person in charge of the sound is just deaf. He’s probably the douchebag that sits in front of the speakers at clubs bobbing his head away like a retarded step-child that nobody loves. No wonder he hears static all day.

In other news, my screenshot of Infernal from way back is now directly linked to from a warez site. I should pull one of those aresholic switcharoos and put up a big porn picture or something, but being the innocent Catholic-raised schoolgirl that I am, I won’t.

Will swap keys!
I was bored at Centrelink (surprise!).
I also swapped a couple of the lettery keys around.
Now that I think about it, I feel kind of like an arsehole.
I can just imagine someone banging the keyboard thinking it’s a problem with the computer. They’ll probably try to reboot it and wonder why the keys haven’t swapped back. Oh you crazy people!

I wonder what happened to that paperclip.