Archive for the 'Life' Category
Sorry, but I’m not an audiophile
Friday, November 7th, 2008It would be fair to say that, for a student, I spend a stupid amount of money on audio equipment. People will often comment on my purchases with phrases like “Are you insane?”, “Why would you ever spend that money on a set of …..’s?” or “Yeah, but that’s because it’s what you do” and [...]
Who wants to know this information?
Monday, August 25th, 2008I logged into Facebook today, to find the following ‘Sponsored Poll’:
Of course, I clicked no, but the results were still pretty strange:
I’m sure I’ll find stupid or weird things to post soon enough. They seem to be coming often at the moment.
-james
I don’t like to be mean but….
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008Seriously, a lecturer at Uni sent this out. Hopefully you’ll pick up on the irony and stupidness of the contents.
Dear students,
More than 20 student email accounts are bouncing subject-related emails.
Please check and ensure to use Faculty or UTS email accounts.
Hotmail or other free mail is not recommended for faculty related emails.
If only people would think before they [...]
Where (some of) my Uni fees are going
Saturday, June 7th, 2008What else am I to do when I’m in the city with time to use up between events than go to Uni and do some downloading of some of my favourite content distributed on the internet.
Most people would realise that this is content is coming down faster than I think any connection available to consumers [...]
Daily Photo #2
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008Today, most of my time was (and will be) spent traveling in a car between my brothers 18th Birthday lunch and a friend from Uni’s 21st this evening.
I took this photo as I was thinking about some code I was writing while sitting in the back of my grandparents car traveling down the F3 Freeway between Newcastle [...]
New idea: (near) Daily Photo
Friday, May 2nd, 2008So, it seems these days I have a lot of time to do things when I’m at work, but often by 5pm on a Friday afternoon, with still an hour to go, I’ve ran out of ideas. I thought I’d try and take a photo almost daily that best reflects my activities for the majority [...]
Techtrum - A new podcast
Monday, March 31st, 2008Just a short one today.
My mate from Uni, Simon, and I have started a podcast titled Techtrum. We’re aiming to cater to the Australian tech community — covering some international, but mainly local news. We’ve got some good feedback so far — and I’m still working on getting the audio quality higher.
I’d love you all [...]
Yahoo! Live
Monday, February 18th, 2008Starting today, you can watch happenings of my life on Yahoo! Live at http://live.yahoo.com/jameskirsop. I’ll be broadcasting live (bandwidth permitting) from UTS Orientation/Clubs day this Wednesday, 20th Feb, so make sure you tune in to watch this social experiment.
Live (not to be confused with Microsoft’s Live service), seems pretty interesting - but isn’t really new. Other [...]
Finally some images!
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008I’ve finally got Aperture working, and have just started doing some edits. You’ll be seeing more and more images appear on Flickr this afternoon and tonight.
I’m a little bit disappointed with some of my images - a few of them aren’t as sharp and in focus as they could have been, but there’s a few [...]
Sunshine, Rain and Computer Problems @ Eastern Creek
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008You could almost say that I was in Melbourne with the weather I’ve experienced today. On the grid before the sprint race, the sun was shining and the weather was quite hot. 30 minutes later, the rain started as large grey clouds covered the circuit, and it hasn’t stopped since.
Here’s a shot of the weather, [...]