The Cyco Safe House

After closing the Hideout a little while ago, my need for any form of external hosting was greatly diminished. The other websites hosted on the same account were seldom used also, so it made sense for us to end it.

I’ve moved my blog over to WordPress.com because I don’t need the flexibility of a self hosted WordPress blog and now I don’t need to worry about upgrading WordPress at every point release.

The web hosting company we were with was Host Gator, and apart from a recent stuff up concerning a password reset, the experience has been very good. I would recommend them to anyone looking for cheap, reliable, shared hosting.

Last Wednesday, the 25th, I submitted my final piece of TAFE work.

It was a long and boring assignment on Managing Complex Projects, Managing Quality and Development Methodologies.

Over the past two weeks I had three practical exams on Windows Security, Linux Security and Enterprise Wireless Networks. By some miracle I was able to achieve full marks in all three despite going into them feeling less than confident.

If I had to pick one exam that contained the most BS, it would have to the wireless one. Each student was given an incredibly unreliable D-Link wireless bridge. I was one of the two lucky ones to actually get their bridge working on the day and it was seen to be working by two teachers, however when it came time to get my exam marked it had stopped working!

I lost one mark because of this and I was pretty pissed. But then, suddenly, without me touching anything the bridge started working again! Thankfully I got that extra mark, but I cannot believe I was going to penalised for the crappy equipment we were told to use.

Thankfully, I don’t have to put up with that shit anymore though.

The High Definition format war has finally, officially, come to an end! The winner being Blu-ray, the format Sony has been pushing relentlessly.

Toshiba, one of the two biggest backers of HD-DVD (the other being Microsoft) announced in a press conference that they will stop producing HD-DVD hardware, that includes both players and recorders, by March 2008.

While they will of course stick with the existing standard DVD format, Toshiba did say they have no plans to adopt Blu-ray.

As you would expect, Paramount and Universal who were previously HD-DVD exclusive have announced they will begin releasing their titles on Blu-ray.

That’s about it. Personally, I am happy that Blu-ray “won” because I own a Blu-ray player (PS3). However, I do realise there’s a lot of people out there who have been burned because a bunch of stubborn organisations couldn’t make up their mind.

I promised myself I would never join in on MySpace, but it seems that promise has been broken. All of my friends use MySpace instead of the arguably better alternatives of Facebook, Bebo and Virb so I’m pretty much stuck with it for now.

Before I joined in though, I wanted to make sure I didn’t create a typical MySpace profile page, that is: tiled background, flashing graphics, auto-playing music, etc. So I went hunting, found a decent tutorial and whipped out my pathetic Photoshop skillz.

Rpg Cyco at MySpace

EDIT: I have stopped using MySpace. Good riddance!