Monday, December 20, 2004

GROWING UP IN AUSTRALIA


I'm talking about hide and seek in the park. The corner milk bar, hopscotch, billy carts, cricket in front of the garbage bin and inviting everyone on your street to join in, skipping, handball, handstands, elastics, bullrush, catch & kiss, footy on the best lawn in the street, slip'n'slide, the trampoline with water on it, hula hoops, stepping in puddles, mud pies and building dams in the gutter. The smell of the sun and fresh cut grass. 'Big bubbles no troubles' with Hubba Bubba bubble gum. A choctop. Mr Whippy cone on a warm summer night after you've chased him round the block. 20 cents worth of mixed lollies lasted a week and pretending to smoke "fags" the lollies was really cool & Maison would get you pissed! Or so we were told. A dollars' worth of chips from the corner takeaway fed two people AND the sauce was free!!. Being upset when you botched putting on the temporary tattoo from the bubblegum packet, but still wearing it proudly. Watching Saturday morning cartoons: 'The Smurfs', AstroBoy', 'HeMan', 'Captain caveman', 'Archie', 'Jem' truly outrageous!!, 'The Wizard of Oz', 'Banana Man' and Heeeey heeeeey heeeeeeey it's faaaaaaat Albert', dare I mention 'The Banana Splits', 'Foop', 'H.R. Puff n' Stuff', 'Gentle Ben' or the 'RoadRunner'. Or staying up late and sneaking a look at the "AO" on the second telly.
When 'Monkey Magic' with fish face & pigsy had a cult following
. Miraculous Mellops. & who could ever forget Degrassi Jnr High? When around the corner seemed a long way, and going into town seemed like going somewhere. Where running away meant you did laps of the block because you weren't allowed to cross the road?? A million mozzie bites, wasp and bee stings. Sticky fingers, cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians, riding bikes and catching tadpoles. Marco polo in the neighbours' pool "fish outta water?!""NOOOO", drawing all over the road and driveway with chalk.Climbing trees and building cubbies out of every sheet your mum had in the cupboard. Walking to school, no matter what the weather. When writing 'I love...?..' on your pencil case, really did mean it was true love. "He loves me? he loves me not?" Running till you were out of breath. Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt. Pitching the tent in the backfront yard. Jumping on the bed. Ghosts stories with the next door neighbours. Pillowfights, spinning round, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for the giggles. The worst embarrassment rnwas being picked last for a team. Water balloons were the ultimate weapon. Cricket cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle. Eating raw jelly, making homemade lemonade and sucking on a Funny Face, Paddle Pop or red Icy Pole. Remember when there were only two types of sneakers girls and boys. Dunlop volleys with the green 'n' gold or blue and what, the only time you wore them at school was for "sports day." Bloomers in primary school & Scungies under netball skirts. You knew everyone in your street and so did your parents! It wasn't odd to have two or three "best friends" & you would ask them by sending a note asking them to be your best friend. You didn't sleep a wink on Christmas eve and pretended to sleep for the tooth fairy. When nobody owned a purebred dog. When 50c was decent pocket rnmoney. When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for 10c. When nearly everyone's mum was there when the kids got home from school. It was magic when dad would "remove" his thumb. When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at the local Chinese restaurant with your family. When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed her or use him to carry groceries and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it. When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving student at home. Basically, we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of driveby shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and ",1
Climbing trees and building cubbies out of every sheet your mum had in the cupboard. Walking to school, no matter what the weather. When writing 'I love...?..' on your pencil case, really did mean it was true love. "He loves me? he loves me not?" Running till you were out of breath. Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt. Pitching the tent in the backfront yard. Jumping on the bed. Ghosts stories with the next door neighbours. Pillowfights, spinning round, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for the giggles. The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team. Water balloons were the ultimate weapon. Cricket cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle. Eating raw jelly, making homemade lemonade and sucking on a Funny Face, Paddle Pop or red Icy Pole. Remember when there were only two types of sneakers girls and boys. Dunlop volleys with the green 'n' gold or blue and what, the only time you wore them at school was for "sports day." Bloomers in primary school & Scungies under netball skirts. You knew everyone in your street and so did your parents! It wasn't odd to have two or three "best friends" & you would ask them by sending a note asking them to be your best friend. You didn't sleep a wink on Christmas eve and pretended to sleep for the tooth fairy. When nobody owned a purebred dog. When 50c was decent pocket money. When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for 10c. When nearly everyone's mum was there when the kids got home from school. It was magic when dad would "remove" his thumb. When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at the local Chinese restaurant with your family. When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed her or use him to carry groceries and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it. When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving student at home. Basically, we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of driveby shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents andgrandparents were a much bigger threat! Some of us are still afraid of them!!! Remember when decisions were made by going "eenymeenymineymo" or dib dib'sscissors, paper, rnrock. "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest. Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in Monopoly". Terrorism was when the older kids were at the end of your street with peashooters waiting to ambush you.The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was boygirl germs, and the worst thing in your day was having to sit next to one. Where bluelight disco's were the equivalent to a Rave, and asking a boy out meant writing a 'polite' note getting them to tick 'yes' or 'no'. When there was always that one 'HOT' guygirl. Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot. Your biggest danger at school was accidentally walking through the middle of a heated game of brandies". Nobody was prettier than your Mum. Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better. Taking drugs meant scoffing rnorangeflavoured chewable vitamin C's, or swallowing half a Panadol. Ice cream was considered a basic food group. Going to the beach and catching a wave was a dream come true. If you actually lived there boogie boarding in the white wash made you the next Kelly Slater. Abilities were discovered because of a "doubledare". Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors. Now, didn't that bring back some fond memories?? If you can remember most of these, you're an Aussie legend!!! Pass this on to another Aussie legend who may need a break from their "grown up" life... I DOUBLEDARE YA!!!!!
grandparents were a much bigger threat! Some of us are still afraid of them!!! Remember when decisions were made by going "eenymeenymineymo" or dib dib'sscissors, paper, rock. "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest. Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in Monopoly". Terrorism was when the older kids were at the end of your street with peashooters waiting to ambush you.The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was boygirl germs, and the worst thing in your day was having to sit next to one. Where bluelight disco's were the equivalent to a Rave, and asking a boy out meant writing a 'polite' note getting them to tick 'yes' or 'no'. When there was always that one 'HOT' guygirl. Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot. Your biggest danger at school was accidentally walking through the middle of a heated game of brandies". Nobody was prettier than your Mum. Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better. Taking drugs meant scoffing orangeflavoured chewable vitamin C's, or swallowing half a Panadol. Ice cream was considered a basic food group. Going to the beach and catching a wave was a dream come true. If you actually lived there boogie boarding in the white wash made you the next Kelly Slater. Abilities were discovered because of a "doubledare". Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors. Now, didn't that bring back some fond memories?? If you can remember most of these, you're an Aussie legend!!! Pass this on to another Aussie legend who may need a break from their "grown up" life... I DOUBLEDARE YA!!!!!

Wednesday, November 24, 2004

News:
If you've got some worthy news for the this page e-mail me at parnet@gmail.com and i'll send you an invite to join so you can infact post your own news.

I've finished my second Dan Brown book this week. His book Decpetion Point was a very entertaining read and towards the end i was reluctent to put the book down. i just wanted to keep reading.

Birthday's:
This weeks sees off Rissa's birthday and Shelly's birthday Happy birthday to the both of you!

Shelly's party, Thanks mate hope you enjoyed the wine i gave you.

Rissa's birthday celebrations going to be held at the Taren Point Hotel (or for those of you as old as me Dave's Place)

Towards the end of the week Ben's birthday turns up as well.

Sport:
The Misfits had there first none loss of the season, against the equally worst team in the comp.

It seems as though that last night was a great game of soccer for me and also one of the worst for me as well.. scoring2 goals in the first half and saving all the goals in the second half. But still i let my anger get the better of me on the field.. i 've really got to calm down a little after all "its only a game" -Kane.

Special mention to damo whom apparently scored 2 goals! but onlt one was recorded. poor damo better luck next time mate!

Score 3-3


Wednesday, November 17, 2004

Fun:
Happy Tree and Friends Sounds pretty nice right? Watch it... And then your mind will be changed. Foe

News:
Mel's Christmas party is on again this year.. 4th of December if I can remember correctly.. Looking forward to it... Who knows maybe mexcian Stilt walking man will make an appearance this year? (yeah right and maybe Joe will learn how to juggle)

This weekend coming up is Booie & Shellies party its someone birthday... bah! Its always someone's birthday! it all to hard to keep up with... Luckily my PA Dannii sends me reminders once in a while.

Sport:
The Misfits suffered an angry loss last night As well.. 3-2. A late goal to opposition after the final siren... Wasn't the cleanest game we had but it was still fun.. A very flukky goal to Damo (personally I think he carried it across the line).

Next week can we get a bigger cheersquad? Rissa is getting lonely by herself out there..




Friday, October 22, 2004

"The Unwritten law of Joe"


If your going to write my name down it's spelt JOE not JO!
i am not a girl therefore please remember to add the E!

Wednesday, September 22, 2004



"When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy"

Well Well Well.. I've just finished loading XP SP2 and guess what? Now I can't see my network connections and also my PC has no sound. Dammit!!! Why does this have to happen to me... nah! It's all good fun.. I'll figure these problems out.

But for now... I cannot recommend any of my friends updating to XP Sp2 except under a fresh install..

other than that all things a pretty quite round here..

hopefully I'll be updating the design of this site. Sooner or later... Probably later..


Thursday, September 16, 2004



hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.

he he, i thought it was funny. i maybe the only one whom does find it funny.





"Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time." -Demetri Martin at the Assembly Rooms

Tuesday, August 10, 2004

Residents and businesses throughout 95 percent of Sydney will soon have the option of side-stepping Telstra's copper-line network altogether for their broadband and telephony services.


Unwired pushes into VoIP - ZDNet

Friday, July 16, 2004

How do you organise 4000+ Photos? Use Google's Picasa
Picasa works with the digital photo files on your PC to create a better, more organized viewing and editing experience. - Google.


I've just started with the above software and it looks fantastic, works fast and does what it says... it organises your photos for you.

why do i mention this? its party because i love google. Google just bought picasa out and now own picasa.

as the software says..
"this is the software that should have come with your camera"



finally, 100 posts!!!
 10% content and 90% crap...
 

 

Government bans inhaled alcohol

An AWOL machine turns a shot of alcohol into a vapour, which is then inhaled through the nose or mouth.

Gaming and Racing Minister Grant McBride will today make alcoholic vapour - known as AWOL or alcohol with out liquid - an "undesirable alcohol product' under the Liquor Act.

Awolmachine

 






Monday, July 05, 2004

kiss my ass2
congratulations. you are the kiss my ass happy
bunny. You don't care about anyone or anything.
You must be so proud which happy bunny are you?

Recent site developments..
i've been working a few things of late and one of them is a photos page for my wesbite..
as soon as i get acccess to my internet resources i will be setting up a page for posts of photos and various other things. but i am not the only one whom can update these photos apon request you will be able to upload your own photos. email me for more info.
what do you do with the latest and greastest M$ framwork? Make a game of course!!!


Terrarium for .NET framework

Wednesday, June 30, 2004


Windows Update Services is the new successor to SUS and its looking pretty good to me. read about it below
What You Need to Know About Windows Update Services

Friday, June 25, 2004

Some More info about windowsXP SP2 Firewall.Not a very well written document btif you can understand what he's talking about you just might agree with him on some points.

Monday, June 21, 2004

Securing your wireless network:
4 simple hints
-Turn off broadcasting of your SSID.
-Change the default settings of your router’s Web-based administration.
-Enable WEP or WPA encryption.
-Allow access based on MAC address.

for an expanded gudie please follow the link below
- Protect Your Wireless Network -

Tuesday, June 15, 2004

Buying into High Definition - Guide - Short-Media

have you wanted to know more about HD TV? even though this is an US site is still a very good reference for HD TV

personal opionion: HD tv in Australia is crap..and by that i mean really crap.
Well Well Well, what a weekend its been for the snow.. friday i sent an e-mail to the tourism guys in thredbo and my questions have been answered. 20 cm of fresh snow all over the thredbo mountain!!!!

I was kinda starting think there wasn't going to be any snow this season..

i've provided links below to some of the more popular Resorts and news sites

Thredbo
Ski.com.au
Perisher Blue

Monday, June 07, 2004

Asustek Australia: "powerful integrated 2D and 3D graphics "

A7V8X-MX SE


Value-rich K7 solution for SI
This VIA KM400 chipset-based motherboard is just the right solution for Socket A 2.25GHz+ Athlon XP processors. With quality graphics right out of the box and industry-leading technology such as AGP 8X and DDR333, the A7V8X-MX SE is a value-rich motherboard.




Introduction
This VIA KM400 chipset-based motherboard is just the right solution for Socket A 2.25GHz+ Athlon XP processors. With quality graphics right out of the box and industry-leading technology such as AGP 8X and DDR333, the A7V8X-MX SE is a value-rich motherboard.

333MHz FSB Athlon XP CPU Support
AMD's Athlon XP 3000+ and all follow-up CPUs now support 333MHz FSB for increased office productivity and enhanced digital media experience.

AGP8X
AGP8X (AGP 3.0) is the next generation VGA interface specification that enables enhanced
graphics performance with high bandwidth up to 2.12GB/s.

Powerful Integrated Graphics
The A7V8X-MX SE delivers powerful integrated 2D and 3D graphics performance for functionality and value.

SoundMAX Digital Audio System
The SoundMAX Digital Audio System is the industry's highest performance and most reliable audio solution for business professionals, audiophiles, musicians, and gamers. SoundMAX Digital Audio System can output 5.1 channel surround sound and features state-of-the-art DLS2 MIDI synthesizer with Yamaha DLSbyXG sound set, 5.1 Virtual Theater™ and supports all major game audio technologies including Microsoft DirectX™ 8.0, Microsoft DirectSound 3D™, A3D, MacroFX, ZoomFX, MultiDrive 5.1, A3D and EAX.

6 USB 2.0 ports
USB 2.0 is the latest connectivity standard for next generation components and peripherals.
Backwards compatible with current USB 1.1 peripherals, USB 2.0 delivers transfer speeds up to 40 times faster at 480Mb/s, for easy connectivity and ultra-fast data transfer rate.

ASUS C.O.P. (CPU Overheating Protection)
ASUS C.O.P. (CPU Overheating Protection) is a hardware protection circuit that automatically shuts down the system power before temperatures go high enough to permanently damage our CPU.

CrashFree BIOS
CrashFree BIOS allows users to restore BIOS data from a floppy diskette even when BIOS code and data are corrupted during upgrade or invaded by virus. Unlike other competing vendors' products, ASUS motherboards now enable users to enjoy this protection feature without the need to pay for an extra ROM.

S/PDIF out interface (optional)
Asus A7V8X-MX SE provides convenient connectivity to external home theater audio systems via an S/PDIF-out (SONY-PHILIPS Digital Interface) module. It allows to transfer digital audio without converting to analog format and keeps the best signal quality. (Notes: S/PDIF module is separately sold)
Integrated 10/100 LAN
The on-board LAN controller is a highly integrated single-chip Fast Ethernet controller. It is enhanced with an ACPI management function to provide efficient power management for advanced operating systems.

Thursday, June 03, 2004

Nokia unveils mid-air messaging

Great so now when i get run over by a car. I can then type out a message and wave my arm about and tell the car that hit me he is a dickhead!

Wednesday, May 26, 2004

Saturday, March 13, 2004

Monday, February 16, 2004

Happy new year.. finally..

it's been a long time coming but i'm only a month late with the happy new year stuff..

anway on with the links

My T610

other than tha its all i feel like updating today.