Wow, that last post is from November 2005.
How neglectful.
Anyway, I hope to keep the blog up this year, as I've just got my own place in Sydney and ADSL2. Whooee it's fast.
It feels good to be connected again, after a year in Darwin. Where I was living ADSL wasn't available and I wasn't going to pay several hundred $ to have a phone line hooked up to get 56k. Eventually I went with a Telstra MiniMax wireless connection, but that cost $99 a month for 50 hours. It didn't have a dl limit, which was nice, but you can't do that much in 50 hrs anyway.
My desktop's carking it at the moment, it's a hardware problem I think. Darwin just eats computers alive. Can't decide whether to upgrade my notebook and turf my desktop or what, cos I want a decent amount of storage available. The external hard drive cases I got to hook up to my notebook have caused nothing but trouble. Bloody failed writes and not shutting down with the comp and all sorts of crashes.
I was going to keep the desktop as a fileserver / torrent dl'er, but it's not cooperating so I might just junk it and work something else out. Also, at ADSL2 speed you don't need to leave things downloading overnight or while you're out because you'll chew through your quota in a day. Couldn't survive on 64k for the rest of the month.

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