Two nights ago, my TV exploded. Well I guess it really imploded, since most of the exploding happened internally.

I was saddened by it’s passing because I really did love that TV. Even though it was a crappy old roundish 68cm non LCD non plasma non anything TV. It was perfect and it never dissapointed me.

Until that day.

So I had to buy a new one. This however gave me the opportunity to peruse the fancy LCD widescreen flatscreen everythingscreen TVs. It was like a kid being let loose in Toys r Us. I snapped up a 32 Inch widescreen HD TV and lovingly put it on credit.

I’m still getting used to this new sharpened reality and my god I never knew colour looked like that. Apparently my cables don’t like the new HD and I need to fork out another bunch of money to buy some component cables. I’ve never been able to watch movies in true widescreen before though and now, I wonder how I ever lived without it.

It seems that over 49% of people are still using IE6.

While only 14% of people use Firefox 2.0.

It confuses me.

I have been building sites for about 11 years and from the beginning of time I have battled relentlessly with Internet Explorer.

IE doesn’t display things properly, it breaks things, it hurts them. With 37 tabs open and constant code changes and refreshing I STILL can’t get this site to look like it does in Mozilla.

Yet, constantly I’m denied the use of sites, of features, of scripts because I am promptly told that I am not using the correct browser. “Sorry, but this site requires IE6 or greater.” I feel like saying “But Firefox IS greater! Just let me show you!”

This is of course my opinion and others will scoff at me, tell me the wonders of IE and how fabulous it is. Some will say they don’t care and it works fine for them. Fine. But for me, I can’t stand it. I hate that Outlook opens it automatically, I hate that if you change your default browser, outlook won’t open a damn thing. I love my gmail and I love Firefox and I just don’t understand.

I know posts have been slowing down a little over this month. This may be hard for me to even comprehend. I think I’m a little flat on inspiration. Bleh, I hate being inspirationless. It’s not like I’m not here because I am. I spend a ridiculous amount of time in front of my computer, whether it be work or play related but sometimes I feel like I have nothing to say. I feel like for once, everything’s ok and that kind of ok doesn’t need words.

However, I am not going anywhere and I guess I just wanted to get that out there. I am in no way disappearing off the face of the internet as so many bloggers do. Nuh uh.

Sometimes I like to be stealthy and lurk the hell out of everything. I think I’ve mentioned it before, the fact that I love to read/listen/take in information and I’ll do this quite a lot before opening my mouth, er..or opening my keyboard? That doesn’t really work.

Sometimes, and I’m now aware that this is the second paragraph beginning with “sometimes” and that kinda weirds me out, I do believe that there may be such a thing as TOO much information and one day, unbeknown to me, my head will just suddenly stop working and all the overloaded internet crap that I’ve absorbed in the last ten years will just dribble out my ears and leave me helpless in a pool of my own knowledge.. Nice.

The point being, I like my computer, a lot and I’m never far away from it.

And If you have no idea what the frell I’m talking about over the next few posts, I apologise now. I’m in a really weird dimension right now and I’m curious and interested in a million things at once.

First and foremost, before I divert into something completely unrelated, I wanted to announce that the Circle of Shadows webring is now up again at cos.shadowmuse.com

For those that have no idea what I’m talking about, The Circle of Shadows is my long running pagan ring (and sub community of sorts) and due to Ringsurf being a rampant house of spam, I had to find it a new home. It was about time it had a fresh lick of paint anyway. Sooo, if you were a member, or wish to be a member you can head on over there and sign up. There will be a lot more coming with the Circle of Shadows site, it’s a project I’ve put a lot of time and effort into, however it’s all been offline for some time and it’s overdue to be put back into place. This I shall be doing

It is so freaking cold here that I have taken to locking myself in a room with a ceramic heater, trying to type with gloves and wearing all manner of wool made objects on every part of my body I can possibly put one.

At the moment, 11:00pm, it is 2.6 degrees C (36F) and this is quite warm for a change :s It has been on average, about -6 at night and not maxing much above 10 during the day. Yes this is my first winter at over 1000 metres above sea level, and I am really feeling it. Hah! I said I would love it. I said I would be glad to be out of the 42degree sticky weather.. Well I am, I’m just, adjusting.. It’s friggen COLD!

James and I went to see Joseph tonight. Not the person, the musical. Our town musical society puts on a big gig every year and this year was awesome. The lead was my co-worker for a time and it was eye opening to see how great a singer and actor he is. Made my night! Don’t you just love how musicals make you feel like you could take on the world? Well they do me. I felt like dancing and singing myself home.. but I’m not sure the workers at Hungry Jacks would have appreciated us doing a duet for our burgers. Heh, I would have done it justice!

Anyway, I’m going to put on another pair of gloves, drink copious amounts of hot tea and try to allow the musical vibe to warm me from the inside out.

Over breakfast this morning I saw this aired on Sunrise It’s amazing, brought me to tears.

I have so much to do today and so little motivation. It’s a rainy cold day and I’m quite content with sitting snuggled in front of the heat. I have three assignments to complete today and a whole heap of paperwork to organise.

I wanted to let those know that were a part of the Circle of Shadows site, things will be up again shortly. Because of having to remove the site due to massive amounts of spam caused by shitty hosting software and complacent administration, I will have to come up with a new plan. I’ll have further news on that later anyway.

There’s really nothing that riveting going on with me right now, thus the lack of stimulating communication. No doubt after saying this, something massive will happen to me and I won’t be able to stop blogging about it. Maybe I’ll win the lottery, but you really need to have a ticket in it to do that. Hm, maybe I’ll stumble across millions of dollars just lying on the street,  but then I’d have a guilty conscience with keeping it and have to turn it in. Ooo but then maybe it will be some little old ladies life savings and she’ll reward me with half of it and leave me everything in her will. :\

I guess I have to study now instead

It’s 5.00pm on a friday evening. The moon is gorgeous tonight. I had to take a pic. Of course, all I had on hand was my craptacular 3.2 camera so although it captured the colours beautifully. The distance and res is pretty icky any higher than this. I’ve been pining over a camera I want for ages but money keeps dissapearing from my bank account in strange mysterious ways. It wouldn’t of course have anything to do with the new LCD widescreen or video card that have suddenly come into my possession. Course not.

Anyway so that there is my backyard. Well that’s me sticking my head over my back fence and taking photos of the full moon. The grass is fairly dry at the moment because rain has decided to just say to hell with Australia and not come back. After the rains those fields are so pretty.

Anyway part 2. Today has been a bit of a nightmare really. I spend the morning installing said Video Card and let the games begin. However after 2 minutes into the game my computer spontaneously combusted and the power went off (not really with the combustion but it sounded good at the time)

I cried. Yep I cried over hardware. Apparently my new card is selfish and needs it’s own large chunk of power to run. About 300w of it. Now because I was only running a 400w power supply, you can see my dilemma. I had to search town relentlessly for a new supply and fight off a guy at the computer store from charging me $35 to “look” at my power supply. I said no. It’s dead. There’s no bringing it back. I just want new power see?

So I have advanced to a super quiet 600w thermaltake and my computer now purrs like a kitten.

Let’s hope it just stays that way.