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The Longitudinal Study of Me!

Posted by Nitemice on December 2, 2012
Posted in: Discussional, Leisure & Hobbies, Projects. Tagged: answer, blogging, English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, future, goals, letter, past, personality, planning, question, Question Answering, research, response, Risk factor, science, study, survey, time, Time capsule, Time travel. Leave a comment

A Letter From The Past

So, for the last few years, I’ve been creating these little time capsules for myself. A month or two after my birthday, I’d write a bit of a letter to myself just jotting down a few ideas about the future, then I’d collate a bunch of random documents, clippings and any other little object that’d fit in an envelope with the letter, and I’d seal it up and put it away to open in a year or so. Often I’d forget about them, but when I eventually found them again, I’d read the latest one, critique it and write a new one for the next year. This year, I decided to formalise the process, and step it up a bit. I wrote a list of questions that I can use year after year, but also can add to (or remove from if the questions become really irrelevant). I’m calling it the Longitudinal Study of Me, and I was thinking you may want to try it too.

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What’s in a Name??

Posted by Nitemice on November 25, 2012
Posted in: Discussional, Leisure & Hobbies, Technology, Tips & Tricks. Tagged: computer, Data storage device, device names, external hard drives, gadgets, Hard disk drive, human names, ipad, Joss Whedon, naming, naming convention, naming scheme, Network Attached Storage, scheme, Secure Digital, storage media, technology, USB, XKCD. 1 Comment

So, a while back, an employee came into IT Support with two external hard drives because they needed help copying some data across. She started telling us that she wanted this and that “copied onto Betsy,” and she needed “Oscar reformatted to work with Mac”. After a few moments, we realised that she was referring to her hard drives by name, as if they were people. Mr Chief and the Professor both thought it was quite strange and funny, but I kind of thought it was totally reasonable. And this got me thinking about what people name their devices and why. Continue Reading

House Update: Odd Jobs

Posted by Nitemice on November 17, 2012
Posted in: Technology, Traineeship. Tagged: case, coffee scented laptop, coffee spill, cursed, drop ipad, DVD, gadgets, Griffin, griffin survivor, ipad, ipad 4, ipad case, iphone, laptop, MacBook, Otterbox, ring, service wallpaper, smashed ipad, survey, technology, the ring, VHS. 2 Comments

So, you haven’t heard anything about what’s been going on at the house in a while, so I’ve got a few short tales to tell you. Continue Reading

Review: Safety Not Guaranteed

Posted by Nitemice on November 9, 2012
Posted in: Leisure & Hobbies, Movies, Reviews. Tagged: Daria Morgendorffer, Darius, Donnie Darko, drama, entertainment, film, Griff The Invisible, Kenneth, movie, New Girl, oscars, safety not guaranteed, science fiction, tardis, time machine, Time travel. Leave a comment

My recreation of the classified ad the movie is centered around, using newspaper cutouts.

So, I like arthouse films. However, I don’t often get to watch arthouse films, for multiple reasons, no the least of which is that they only usually show at arthouse cinemas, which are quite a bit more expensive. However, a while back, a free ticket for one such cinema came into my possession, so the other day, I went and saw an arthouse film. Specifically I saw Safety Not Guaranteed. And, off the bat, I’m going to tell you, I really enjoyed it. I enjoyed it so much, I want you to enjoy it, so this review will be, as usual, spoiler free. Continue Reading

Review: Theatre Is Evil – Amanda Palmer

Posted by Nitemice on November 4, 2012
Posted in: Leisure & Hobbies, Music, Reviews. Tagged: amanda, amanda palmer, art book, arts, creative work, entertainment, kickstarter, logistical processes, music, neil gaiman, palmer, review, theatre is evil. 5 Comments

So, over a month ago now, Amanda Palmer released her new album, ‘Theatre Is Evil’. It was crowd-funded through Kickstarter, and I was one of the many who funded it. Below, I present to you a review of the album, as well as a number of comments on the whole process. Continue Reading

Review: Savages

Posted by Nitemice on October 27, 2012
Posted in: Leisure & Hobbies, Movies, Reviews. Tagged: bad movie, California, day of the dead, Drug cartel, Drug Enforcement Administration, entertainment, film, gore, gory, mexican drug cartel, Mexican Drug War, NTFS, politics, Savages, Skype, yuck. 3 Comments

So, last week I saw the movie “Savages”. As you may realise, this kind of movie is not the type I would normally see, but I’ve decided I might as well review it anyway. Let me state now that I didn’t like it much, and hence there are numerous spoilers to follow. Continue Reading

Review: Doctor Who – Series 7 – Episodes 1-5

Posted by Nitemice on October 21, 2012
Posted in: Leisure & Hobbies, Reviews. Tagged: Amelia Pond, Amelia Williams, Amy Pond, Amy Williams, Anthony Horowitz, BBC, Dalek, Doctor, doctor who, don't blink, John-Green, Nefertiti, Plato's cave, review, rory Pond, Rory Williams, season 7, season7, series 7, soufflés, the doctor, The Ponds, weeping angels, wii tennis, YouTube. 2 Comments

Doctor Who – Sunsets are Cool by *Girl-on-the-Moon on deviantART
⇈This is not mine. Click on the picture to go to the source.⇈

So, I had been planning on reviewing the episodes of Doctor Who as they were released, but I never got around to it. Instead I’m just going to do them all in one go. Below, I’ve got a little description/review of each episode, as well as a few comments on this series as a whole. Warning, there are spoilers a’plenty below. Continue Reading

Armageddon Expo

Posted by Nitemice on October 14, 2012
Posted in: Books & Comics, Discussional, Leisure & Hobbies. Tagged: anime, Armageddon, arts, comparison, Cosplay, Crown, entertainment, gaming, illustration, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Popular culture, Showgrounds, supanova, Supanova Pop Culture Expo, videogames. Leave a comment

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So, there’s been Supanova, Armageddon and Oz Comic-Con ( I didn’t get to go to that) this year, and in essence they’re all the same. They’re a weekend-long occasion where a bunch of geeky guys and gals gather together, often in costume, to share their love of comics, anime, TV shows, movies and general pop culture. It’s a commercial event, so there’s always tonnes of stuff to buy, but also things to see and do. In short, it’s great fun. Yesterday I went to the Armageddon Expo, a pop culture and comic convention, with the same friends that came to Supanova. And following the trend, it was quite similar in some way to Supanova, but also quite different. Continue Reading

House Update: How to get Apple Push Notifications to work behind multiple firewalls and a proxy

Posted by Nitemice on October 5, 2012
Posted in: Discussional, Security, Technology, Tips & Tricks, Traineeship. Tagged: APN, APNS, apple, apple notifications, Apple Push, Apple Push Notifications, Authentication Certificate, DIY, firewall, House, internet, ios, ios 5, ios 6, ios5, ios6, IP address, ipad, iphone, iphone 5, Kingdom, Network Address Translation, proxy, Push Notifications, security, technology. 3 Comments

So, the week before last Apple released its new iPhone, along with an update to its IOS operating system. On the same day, Mr Chief finally, after months of trial and error, worked out how to get Apple Push Notifications to work from within the House’s network. And now, I’m going to give you the information he would have loved to have had at the start of all this trouble. Continue Reading

Review: Looper

Posted by Nitemice on September 29, 2012
Posted in: Leisure & Hobbies, Movies, Reviews. Tagged: Bruce Willis, drama, emily blunt, entertainment, film, future, future self, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, laser keyboard, Looper, Mao Zedong, movie, resident evil, Rian Johnson, sci-fi, science fiction, scifi, taken, Time travel, Transporter. 3 Comments


Looper by ~phildin on deviantART
⇈This is not mine. Click on the picture to go to the source.⇈

So, last night I saw the new movie Looper, with a few of my friends. A particular friend of mine and I have always been fascinated in time travel and the possibility of such, so the fact that this movie centres around time travel had us interested. So we went and saw it, and now I have a review for you. As usual, I’ll try and keep it spoiler free. Continue Reading

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