Woot! Purchased a pair of HD 238 headphones today from http://www.audiojunkie.com.au/, an online based audio shop out of Melbourne. $50 off the RRP price so I’m pretty happy with that given I was going to buy the next model down (228) from JB Hi-Fi for the same price.

I have a set of in ear Sennheiser headphones but I just wasn’t happy with the music quality, I like my bass and these don’t pack a punch in any way shape or form. My Apple headphones I got with my iPhone are better which is a let down. In all fairness, I only paid about $40 for them.

The HD 238′s are known to produce a good bass and lifelike sound so I’m hoping the reviews I’m reading are true! Product homepage.

After a very long absence I started playing again this weekend. I finally hit level 72 and completed Borean Tundra so I’m very happy with today’s efforts.

I recently purchased a pro Flickr account for my new photography hobby! My other half recently got a Nikon D90 (thanks Mr. Rudd!!) and I got his Nikon D60, though I’m starting to wish I had the 18mm-200mm lens that my other half has! I took that for a test ride on Saturday night and it takes some awesome action shots, I was quite impressed. Anyway, the D60 will do to get me started until I work out how to use the thing.

I’ve added a Flickr plugin to my site to quickly show recently added pictures and I’ve also added a tab up the top courtesy of the plugin to show my Flickr albums. Check it out and feel free to comment!

If I ever get a six figure job or close to it to pay this baby off I’ll be getting a BMW Z4 Roadster.

New, it has a price between $80,000 and $90,000.

In the meantime, I’ll keep dreaming.

Check this out! They did a better act on the Comedy Gala though.

Recently I brought a new 24″ iMac (just before the recent upgrades) making the move away from my MacBook Pro to a Mac desktop. I do also have a Windows box but it’s now being used as a file server after I made the move to Mac OS. Still requiring a use for Windows and not wanting to muck around swapping monitor cables from my external monitor on my iMac to the Windows box (can’t be bothered buying a KVM), I installed VMWare Fusion with Windows XP SP2 loaded. It is running really well, very stable and is yet to have any hiccups. It’s only being used to run a web application and MS Office however.

Here are some screenshots in the various modes:

Running window mode.

Running Windows as if it were operating side by side with the Mac.

Running full screen.

For testing, I’ve also loaded Windows 7 Beta and it also runs very nicely:

Running full screen.

Windows 7 booting up in the VMWare.

Window mode.

Well, experienced my first earth tremor last night shortly before 9pm. I was sitting on my couch and felt this weird rocking sensation, it really felt like the couch was turning into jelly! The TV was a shaking and a rocking and my iMac and external monitor were wobbling on my desk. Quite an odd experience and freaky at the same time. It was a tremor of 4.6 magnitude so not enough to cause damage thankfully.

My fiance just assumed that the vibration was coming from our sound system! Most certainly not lol.

Anyway, here’s an article on The Age about it if anyone is interested click here.

It’s that time of year again, uni has started and we’re now about to start our third week in. Hopefully if everything goes to plan I’ll finally finish off my Bachelor of Information Technology at the end of 2010! Which I’m looking forward to given I enrolled in 2003-04. I’ve been doing it part time via distance ed which is 6 years, otherwise 3 years full time. 

This semester I’m doing Project Preparation & Professional Practice and another subject, Service Operations. One of the requirements for Project Preparation & Professional Practice is to blog about our progress so please check out my blog at http://itc306.xabit.net. Should be fun!

I suppose I better stop procrastinating and actually get some study done.

Oh we’re at it again! We need to get out of this flat we’re in, we out grew it the day we moved in lol. It has however served us well, we’re minutes from the train station and three tram stops, only 25 minutes to the city, we’ve had little trouble here aside from having our push bikes stolen but no big loss since we hardly used them. Our recent trips to Dubbo meant we were close to Melbourne Airport to get there which was handy but time to move on, we’re getting itchy.

Not sure what areas we’ll look at aside from the fact it needs to be within a 30 minute train ride to the city given it’s where I work and it looks like we’re looking for a house rather than a flat/unit. The prices of flats in the city are high and while we could afford it, most won’t allow me to move my cat in.  

Hopefully we’ll find something soon anyway!