GoneWacko’s Blog

Photo Album

Well, following the SROTU’s decision to add a photo album to his site, I have added one too.

The only album available right now features a selection of my Canada Holiday photos, excluding those where I fail to show my photogenicy (sp?!) a silly face or where anything else humiliating is to be seen. (I assure you however that the photos that are available now are still quite humiliating and shocking, so be advised)

You can find the link to said photo album on the right hand site of this very website.

Banking

Well, today I finally did all the stuff I have been promising I’d do for the last 2 weeks.

This includes

• Going to the bank to transfer a whole bunch of moneys
• Sending some stuff to my new school, such as a copy of my diploma

And jeez, what a silly bank it is. I had a savings account which I cancelled after some time. My money was then deposited on a brand new account at the same bank instead of my already existing account with another bank. After making a whole load of a phone calls to various departments of the bank, I was told to go to the local office and to transfer the money.
When I got there, they just told me they couldn’t transfer it, but they could order some forms for me or I could make a phone call, but if I were to do that, it would cost me 9 euros.

Why can’t companies just have a central phone number which can do everything?

Something which was interesting, however, also happened.
I was preparing to go to said bank and while doing so, I thought to myself “Hmm, I wonder if the CD I ordered has arrived yet”. 2 seconds later, the phone rings. Guess what? Music Store. “the Soilwork album you ordered has arrived”.
I think I might have psychic powers.

Windows.. Whooooooo needs it

Well, over the past days, I’ve had an interesting experience that I’ve been waiting for for some time now.

For you perverts out there: no, not THAT experience (unfortunately).

I’ve been having a bit of a dilemma. Even though I have a perfectly legal license to Windows XP Home Edition for my PC, the installation CD somehow claims that the serial number is not valid.
After having tried a few things, I decided to try my father’s serial number, which installed just fine.
However, now I couldn’t activate, because this serial number has been used too much already and the activation window wouldn’t accept my real serial number either =/.

So 2 days ago, the trial period expired and now I’m forced to activate before I can continue to use Windows XP.

Then, the moment finally came. I realized that I had been using Linux non-stop for 5 days in a row and that I had never had a moment where I didn’t know how to do my stuff. (Then again, IRC and MSN aren’t too hard to figure out on any OS) Not only this, but I also managed to get various computer games working, like Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne and World of Warcraft (although I can’t seem to select any object or NPC or mob, so that’s not very playable).

So screw Windows. I’m going to try installing again tomorrow, I’ll call Microsoft and tell them the installer isn’t accepting my serial, and hopefully I’ll manage to get it installed (so I can play WoW), if not, then I’ll just get rid of my windows partitions, repartition my HDs so all partitions are Ext3, and use Linux all the time

Going Mobile!

Yay! Yesterday, I received the following object from my father

I’m very happy with it In some aspects, it’s better or just as good as my PC!

• 1.86 GHZ Pentium M, which I am told is just as good as a 2.6 GHz Pentium 4 (My PC is a 3.0 GHz P4)
• 1 GB RAM
• ATI Mobility RADEON X600
• Widescreen with a resolution of 1680 by 1050 pixels

It’s given to me under the condition that I take good care of it. Heck, I will.
My new school has a brand new section which allows people with notebooks to connect to the network there and do their work on their own computers. Laptops aren’t a requirement, but they are recommended, in a way.

Woohoo

Yesterday

Yesterday was a great day

Together with some people from TT-Forums, I went to the Dutch Railway museum in Utrecht. It was cool meeting some people from the forums (isn’t the internet great?!) and it was cool looking at old trains
Purno, Mr. X and me had great fun.

After about 2 hours in the museum we had seen about everything, so we headed back to Utrecht Central Station where we would split up again. But not before we just had some fun on the station. We sat on some benches and looked at the one thing that makes Summer great: Scarcely clothed women :p
After that we headed to the shopping mall that’s next to the station. Looked at some electronics, checked some DVDs out, etc.

Then, after another 2 hours on the station, we decided to head on home
We had good fun I made quite a lot of pictures, although some of them are a bit fuzzy. (I probably started moving already while the picture was still being taken by my digital camera)

On another note, TT-Forum’s member Illegal_Alien posted a great desktop which looks great when your terminal is translucent

Long time no blog

Yes, it’s been quiet. That’s because nothing significant happened recently. (to me, at least)

I recently went to my new school, the Informatics and Communication Academy in Arnhem, to meet some of the people there. (teachers, mainly, because we have not been divided up into classes yet)
It was pretty nice… Well, the time I spent there was a bit boring, because I didn’t have anyone to talk to, but the trip was nice and so were the snacks. I think I’ll really like it on the school. I certainly hope so.

Furthermore, I recently discovered that Lynyrd Skynyrd is brilliant music. Free Bird is a great song, and so is Sweet Home Alabama. Yes.

That’s pretty much everything I have to say.. I think… Hmm, let me also say this:

I recently went to see Sin City. It was a bit of a weird movie. The way it looks is pretty nice, but the ’style’ was not to my liking. I generally don’t like what I call typical Quentin Tarantino movies. Someone gets a bullet in his arm and his entire arm is blown off, after which 20 litres of blood start shooting out. It’s just not realistic enough.

Then again, Pulp Fiction is a great movie

All that’s left now is to give my belated happy birthday wishes to Owen Rudge. Then again, I already said happy birthday in an SMS I sent him.. (did it reach you this time, Owen? :o)