Hi, no this is not the photo blog, but I will be heading out through the city tomorrow and I am taking my camera with you. Primarily to show you guys why the hell I live here, its quite an amazing place and im sure by the end you will love it as much as I do.
Horse
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Monday, June 17, 2013
Sunday, June 16, 2013
The Brilliance that was.
How many of us would like to look back over our lives and say that we made a difference ? Most of us I would bet. For some people that is making a lasting impression on family and the lives of those around them, for others they are destined for greater things.
Today I was reminded of the brilliance that was Michael Jackson. He has been called many things and most of those deserved. He had a very strange existence one which most of us could never understand. But one thing he was, was brilliant, he changed the way we see music and dance, he churned out hit after hit, and the video clips that went with them still feel fresh today.
Below are a couple of my all time favorite Michael clips. I hope history is kinder to him than the press ever was, when he took his last breath the world lost one of its great artists.
Today I was reminded of the brilliance that was Michael Jackson. He has been called many things and most of those deserved. He had a very strange existence one which most of us could never understand. But one thing he was, was brilliant, he changed the way we see music and dance, he churned out hit after hit, and the video clips that went with them still feel fresh today.
Below are a couple of my all time favorite Michael clips. I hope history is kinder to him than the press ever was, when he took his last breath the world lost one of its great artists.
The list is endless, the music unforgettable.
Probably my favorite clip below, smooth criminal runs a close second.:)
Saturday, June 15, 2013
The Horse Charge
What can I say there is nothing more beautiful or horrifying that a charge of the Cavlary As the poster wrote, I hope I never see those brave noble animals used in such a way again. I have also included one of the most famous cavalry charges of all time. The charge of the Scotts Greys during waterloo, what an amazing sight.
Monday, June 10, 2013
Last couple of weeks.
Hi all;
You probably all noticed my absence yes it happened again, I vanished into the great interwebs. No but really, I have been busy getting things done. We were going away today to the southern states, but a few things have changed and we wont be going. Both my partner and I have trips to Brisbane in the next two months for school and that realistically will be the end of any journey we wanted to take for pleasure.
But I have been busy installing the 40th birthday present as each group of parts arrived, had a couple of hiccups, I blew one amp to kingdom come, it was nearly on fire by the time I cut the power. This afternoon I finally got everything hooked up and running, have front and rear running even if it is a little unbalanced. The head unit has an issue with left RCA output, ie there is none, so working with the supplier to work out a solution.
To be honest with you all I am proud of this achievement, its tidy and done properly, all wires are shielded, secured and to be honest its a really neat job. I made the right choice with speakers, amps and ultimately my decision to go an extra heavy gauge for main power and earth. Considering I purchased most everything from ebay site unheard, I did well. There was one exception however.
I purchased an 8 gauge install kit from an ebay seller, you will see in the pics below that it was definitely not 8 gauge but 16 gauge. I have a habit of stress testing my cables for the max amp draw before I install them, the last photo are what happened to the wire when I did. That could have been fatal to the amps, and worse still you will see it blew through, that it fire starting material right there.
Before someone says where was the fuse about the last photo the fuse was set for an 8 gauge maximum draw, the wire failed first. I hope that brings home to people how serious this is.
Anyway I gave the ebay seller a not so good rating and they have agreed to replace the kit with the one I should have gotten. I have however warned them that if they do not change their advertisement in the next 48 hours I will inform ebay of the miss advertising. Im worried someone won't check and they will loose and amp or worse the car.
Its not a fun thing to have to do, but 12 Volts can still cause some major issues if not treated properly.
Other than that I successfully finished my first semester and was congratulated by my teachers for the quality of the works I submitted. We start week 2 of second semester tomorrow, and im loving the new subjects already.
On the IT front setup a NAS using Freenas so we now have 8 TB on the home network, will go get a WD TV unit tomorrow and set that up and we can finally centralize all of our movies, tv shows and everything else we have down loaded. Loving FreeNas and the ZFS file system, its simply amazing, if you want to learn about ZFS file system and how simply awesome it is check out this Link. Also a quick note here, freeNas is an IXSytems product that is provided free. IXSystems are responsible for the desktop version of BSD and I think that they are one of the best OS alternatives out there.
Been re watching Ghost in the Shell Stand alone Complex, the last week, man now I know why I loved it so much the first time around, but as you all know I am an anime fan anyway.
You probably all noticed my absence yes it happened again, I vanished into the great interwebs. No but really, I have been busy getting things done. We were going away today to the southern states, but a few things have changed and we wont be going. Both my partner and I have trips to Brisbane in the next two months for school and that realistically will be the end of any journey we wanted to take for pleasure.
But I have been busy installing the 40th birthday present as each group of parts arrived, had a couple of hiccups, I blew one amp to kingdom come, it was nearly on fire by the time I cut the power. This afternoon I finally got everything hooked up and running, have front and rear running even if it is a little unbalanced. The head unit has an issue with left RCA output, ie there is none, so working with the supplier to work out a solution.
To be honest with you all I am proud of this achievement, its tidy and done properly, all wires are shielded, secured and to be honest its a really neat job. I made the right choice with speakers, amps and ultimately my decision to go an extra heavy gauge for main power and earth. Considering I purchased most everything from ebay site unheard, I did well. There was one exception however.
I purchased an 8 gauge install kit from an ebay seller, you will see in the pics below that it was definitely not 8 gauge but 16 gauge. I have a habit of stress testing my cables for the max amp draw before I install them, the last photo are what happened to the wire when I did. That could have been fatal to the amps, and worse still you will see it blew through, that it fire starting material right there.
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| Grey Cable is 8 gauge earth wire note the thickness difference |
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| Blow through . There is an electrical fire starter if I ever saw it. |
Before someone says where was the fuse about the last photo the fuse was set for an 8 gauge maximum draw, the wire failed first. I hope that brings home to people how serious this is.
Anyway I gave the ebay seller a not so good rating and they have agreed to replace the kit with the one I should have gotten. I have however warned them that if they do not change their advertisement in the next 48 hours I will inform ebay of the miss advertising. Im worried someone won't check and they will loose and amp or worse the car.
Its not a fun thing to have to do, but 12 Volts can still cause some major issues if not treated properly.
Other than that I successfully finished my first semester and was congratulated by my teachers for the quality of the works I submitted. We start week 2 of second semester tomorrow, and im loving the new subjects already.
On the IT front setup a NAS using Freenas so we now have 8 TB on the home network, will go get a WD TV unit tomorrow and set that up and we can finally centralize all of our movies, tv shows and everything else we have down loaded. Loving FreeNas and the ZFS file system, its simply amazing, if you want to learn about ZFS file system and how simply awesome it is check out this Link. Also a quick note here, freeNas is an IXSytems product that is provided free. IXSystems are responsible for the desktop version of BSD and I think that they are one of the best OS alternatives out there.
Been re watching Ghost in the Shell Stand alone Complex, the last week, man now I know why I loved it so much the first time around, but as you all know I am an anime fan anyway.
Hope your all well will drop by your blogs later on this week and say hi.
Horse
Saturday, June 1, 2013
Reflections
Hey all been a long week, im not that well again on antibiotics again. Was just thinking about things and how much my life has changed these last few years. In a way its amazing, well to me anyway. Most people would think what I have now as quite ordinary, but thats the whole point.
Long day ahead tomorrow finish the first semesters work, and start the next on monday.
Cheers all I hope your doing ok
Horse
Long day ahead tomorrow finish the first semesters work, and start the next on monday.
Cheers all I hope your doing ok
Horse
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Islam, and those who act in its name.
Im sure by now everyone has seen the horrible events in the UK, and right now normally I would launch into some rant about religion etc. But this is slightly different and let me explain why.
Firstly it wasn't an act designed to kill many. It wasn't a bomb, it wasn't an attack with an assault rifle. They didn't run away and hide after the act.
It was a single act of terror, simple and blunt, to strike terror into every day people. I take solace in the fact that, they were forced to use knives, the most simple of all possible weapons. Now to be honest, that may have been their only idea, but im sure if they had access to anything more violent they would have used it. This proves a point that the people protecting us are doing a very good job.
There will always be random acts of violence designed to make people frightened, unfortunately at this time in history most of the people doing these things are radical Islamist fundamentalist. They believe that the whole world needs to be converted to Islam and that everyone who doesn't convert should be killed. Blunt but simple.
Until moderates stand up and crush these ideas before they happen, we will be experiencing attacks for decades.
I will finish this blog post with an argument a friend made to me a couple of nights ago, before this event. He said "You know what? We in the west need to teach these countries who don't act to stop terror a lesson. The USA is the only country on earth who has used a nuclear bomb in anger, and it scared a lot of nations to tow the line. We should make an example of Iran. Turn the whole country into glass, then go on the news and say you attack us in our homes and we will bomb you into heaven."
I will state this person is normally very moderate, but he like the rest of us are getting worried our proportionate responses are not getting through.
Horse
Firstly it wasn't an act designed to kill many. It wasn't a bomb, it wasn't an attack with an assault rifle. They didn't run away and hide after the act.
It was a single act of terror, simple and blunt, to strike terror into every day people. I take solace in the fact that, they were forced to use knives, the most simple of all possible weapons. Now to be honest, that may have been their only idea, but im sure if they had access to anything more violent they would have used it. This proves a point that the people protecting us are doing a very good job.
There will always be random acts of violence designed to make people frightened, unfortunately at this time in history most of the people doing these things are radical Islamist fundamentalist. They believe that the whole world needs to be converted to Islam and that everyone who doesn't convert should be killed. Blunt but simple.
Until moderates stand up and crush these ideas before they happen, we will be experiencing attacks for decades.
I will finish this blog post with an argument a friend made to me a couple of nights ago, before this event. He said "You know what? We in the west need to teach these countries who don't act to stop terror a lesson. The USA is the only country on earth who has used a nuclear bomb in anger, and it scared a lot of nations to tow the line. We should make an example of Iran. Turn the whole country into glass, then go on the news and say you attack us in our homes and we will bomb you into heaven."
I will state this person is normally very moderate, but he like the rest of us are getting worried our proportionate responses are not getting through.
Horse
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