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Nintendo Wii Wireless Wierdness

Hmm, long time with few posts. Have been getting stuck into facebook a bit. That said, I have found something odd in configuration of our Nintendo Wii that may be of assistance to some. But first, a bit of background information: At home, we have a wired network with a number of devices hanging off [...]

Sunday September 30th, 2007 in Blog | No Comments »

Enabling Avivo codec in Vista Media center

After running the Cyberlink Codec on Vista media center to avoid a problem where I got a green screen in HDTV playback, I noticed that it doesn’t seem to handle deinterlacing very well at all. The problem was getting quite annoying so I set about to see whether it was possible to use the ATI [...]

Thursday August 23rd, 2007 in Blog | No Comments »

Media Center PC musings

Well after messing around with our Media PC for a bit, I believe that I have finally got it doing everything that I want. It is now hooked up and running with full HDMI goodness. Some of the set up issues were: Playback of HD content within Vista Media Center (VCE) The first bit of [...]

Saturday August 18th, 2007 in Blog | No Comments »

New TV

Heh just on the side, we have finally jumped on the HDTV bandwagon, with the first new TV to be purchased in our house in the last 25 years. It has also been combined with a spiffy little Home Theatre PC for other multimedia and iTunes goodness.

Monday July 30th, 2007 in Blog | No Comments »

Reflections on return from Melbourne

Well after what was effectively a two week paid holiday in Melbourne, it is back to reality in Brisbane. The two weeks I had down there were an excellent chance to simply take a break and make use of the time through some good reading and reflection. It was not very far into the course [...]

Monday July 23rd, 2007 in Blog | No Comments »

More Post Chrysalis Thoughts

I have been reflecting upon my weekend at Chrysalis and had the additional thoughts about the weekend. In addition to what was written earlier, I really think that Chrysalis and my trip to Melbourne came an I time when I really needed them. Simply put, Chrysalis was an excellent chance to rediscover the first love, [...]

Thursday July 12th, 2007 in Blog | No Comments »

Chrysalis Reflections

Well as I am on my flight to Melbourne I thought I would take the chance to reflect on my Chrysalis experience while it is still fresh in my mind. Well after getting off to a bit of a false start last year with Chrysalis, I have finally experienced it. The bit of back story [...]

Monday July 9th, 2007 in Blog | No Comments »

Day Camp done for another year

Well it was that time of year again where 200 odd of the primary school kids (and 100 odd other bods who are leaders for the week) descend upon the Allawah Scout campsite for Day Camp. It is also the time of year when many of the young people from churches between Ipswich and Indooroopilly [...]

Friday June 29th, 2007 in Blog | No Comments »

Shiny new silver thing with wheels

It is quite funny. About 3 years ago I go this idea in my head that I wanted to save up for a car. The problem was that I was still working at Pizza Hut and earning next to nothing. More recently I have working for the EPA which allowed me to save some money [...]

Tuesday June 26th, 2007 in Blog | No Comments »

When co-operation ends

Well I have finally come to the end of my period of work for the Environmental Protection Agency. I have to say that getting ~18 months of work out of what was originally a 10 month QUT industry co-operative placement is not bad at all. Furthermore, due to my working full time for this period, [...]

Saturday June 23rd, 2007 in Blog | No Comments »

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