A small yet interesting note, anybody remember Aquila? Man that show rocked, the premise was two kids find a badass spaceship that looks like a rock and do all sorts of crazy crap with it.
Still not sold on the idea? what if i were to tell you it had laz0rs and some sort of [...]
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Nostalgia #1
Posted in Life on March 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Zenos, two weeks on
Posted in Life on March 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
so, it’s now been two weeks since i started at zenos. as far as opinions go it seems to be going fairly well.
the work pace is fairly slow as they leaders seem to have adopted a god awful ‘no child left behind’ sort of regime which to be honest i would have thought the interview [...]
Lunix!
Posted in Development, Life on March 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
well as the wireless router was seemingly broken and i was looking forward to an important email i decided to lug my desktop downstairs to unleash the raw power on the interwubz directly to my unsuspecting PC.
i had installed ubuntu months ago in an effort to experience me so berly/compiz/xgl goodness but restricted drivers were [...]
An Update on the Zenos Situation
Posted in Life on February 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
so, after my place had been guaranteed and my arrival date scheduled for the 25th all that is left to do before the big day is to finish filling out the handy dandy, oh-so outdated and misinformation filled welcome pack and do a trial run of my public transport quest. a rough outline is wake [...]
Delicious Purchases
Posted in Life on February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
in the usual regime of keeping relatively up to date with televisual entertainment i realised that i was missing the latest series of the boosh so on scheduling its release date i also decided to catch up with some classics, the latest two additions are every episode of the original series of captain scarlet and [...]
Academy Place
Posted in Life on January 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
on monday, i quested through torrential rain, flooding and truly immense volumes of traffic (seriously, we’re talking about 20mp/h).
getting there on time i did a quick mathematics multi-guess paper and was given a cup of tea before being led to the interview room.
questions started out simple, steadily got more complicated then were followed up by [...]
Not MySpace
Posted in Life on January 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
i’ve had an abandoned myspace account now for about 6 or so months and had changed all of my notification settings so i received absolutely nothing and that was to be how it would stay until a recent <a href=”http://bloggasm.com/january-30th-is-international-delete-your-myspace-account-day” target=”_blank”>blog post</a> caught my attention. agreeing with the vast majority of what was said and [...]
Interview Date
Posted in Life on January 16, 2008 | 4 Comments »
just had a phone call confirming when my zenos interview will be, monday afternoon in wakefield. getting there shouldn’t be a problem as i’m getting a lift and as long as everythings played cool i see no problems getting in. i can give them a flash of leg if they’re gonna say no and problem [...]
Plans for the future
Posted in Life on January 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well yesterday i has my Zenos presentation thing so there i went all suited and booted to Leeds where we got lost on the way there due to some damn confusing instructions
so, there i was on time and where i should be. there were 3 other ‘applicants’ and then 8 just as entourage, i mean [...]
More Hardware Stoof?
Posted in Hardware, Life on December 30, 2007 | 3 Comments »
yup, unsatisfied with my previous bounty of computer bits and bobs i’ve decided to splash out once again. this time getting a new graphics card (XFX 8500GT) and 2GB of RAM to bring my total up to 3.5, which will actually be 3.0 as i don’t have all that many slots for them.
if all goes [...]
