Well, I actually just bought a new domain on April 18th for my new personal site idea. What I want to do is remodel this blog into a personal site for my own thoughts, as well as a professional project and portfolio site. So, I’m planning to create my own theme for it from scratch, or perhaps just find a decent pre-made one if I can’t develop anything suitable. I have one design nearly completed, but I think I may go for a different approach. Do you think that this project development/portfolio site would do better with a dark or light theme?

Anyway, I’ve just bought the domain www.lachytech.net. I feel it’s fine for what I need it for, it’s original, simple, short enough and personal. Now all I need to is decide on a theme to go with, then plan how I’m going to reorganise this place, in the way of categories and pages. I’m probably going to start adding some blog entries as the project is moving if I get around to it. Hopefully I’ll be able to find enough motivation and inspiration to begin working on it again.

Hopefully I’ll be back soon with some more news on the project.

Ciao.

Well, the HSC is finally over. Now I just need to go back to school to sign out (and purchase a 200GB IDE drive for $23. ). I should be providing some details of what’s been happening, so I’ll start with the exams.

HSC Exams

Well, they’re over. I don’t want to go into much detail, so here’s a brief overview of my thoughts on the exams:

• English Paper 1 – Moderately annoying
• Information Processes & Technology – Easy
• English Advanced paper 2 – Annoying
• Mathematics Advanced – Mostly annoying
• Software Design & Development – Easy, though I know I missed at least one simple mark due to an error.
• Information Technology – Easy

Lennox Head

Well, for schoolies some friends and I went up to Lennox Head, about 30 mins south of Byron Bay. There were six of us going, taking two cars. Our group left soon after my last exam, and we just happened to get stuck in traffic between Korora and Moonee Beach for an hour. Great fun. So, what should have been a 3.5 hour trip ended up being 5 hours. At least we had a good chance to listen to power metal (including some laughing at DragonForce) along the way (my music was supreme =D ), and some of Peter’s misc good-feeling music. Also, we can’t forget Sam’s spectacular iPod, broken in half and held together by sticky tape.

So, to briefly describe what we did up there, it involved drinking; watching Black Books, Cowboy Bebop, Hellsing, Big Trouble Little China and The Goonies (Thanks to Crowley I actually liked it.); playing Xbox/360; going out to Mexican, which was awesome (and included chilli beer); and going to the beach.

Anyway, ’twas great fun.

Nothing

Since then, I’ve been doing pretty much nothing mostly. Watching anime (Gundam 00, Azumanaga Daioh, Cardcaptor Sakura again), watching Cool Runnings, playing some games (Crysis WARHEAD, Modern Warfare 2, Assassin’s Creed and Plants vs Zombies), swimming a bit, and working on applying for a job. I plan on applying to a few computer repair places, a web design business, as well as K-Mart, Target, Big W, Dick Smith Electronics and Tandy.

That’s basically it for me, I’ve also decided o start using a few more Google apps. I’ve just started using Google Reader, and I’m liking it so far. I needed a decent RSS reader. I’ve also just downloaded a pre-rlease version of ChromeOS, so I’m going to test that out from a USB stick tomorrow.

So, now that I’ve finished school I’ll be able to do a few things, like continue to work on my blog theme, possibly convert to a new database app, although finding a decent RAD app other than Access is hard, and start working on IPTBB again.

That’s it for now, I’m off to drink some Mountain Dew at 2am.

Last year, in Year 11, we were required to make a website or poster for a fake company, Chekd Surf and Snow, for an assignment. I made this awesome website. http://juize.shadowthief.com/IPT/

Now I thought this website was quite good. For me it marked a good achievement my learning PHP. Today though, I received an amusing email and replied to it. (click for full size image)

Now I found that pretty hilarious. Somebody found my site by chance, probably using google (even though I didn’t do any SEO coding for it), and thought it was a real site! Though if you look around the site at all, you’ll realise that it of course isn’t a serious company. Just look at the URL, and some of the product descriptions.

They also musn’thave looked at the about page as well, as they appear to be located in America, judging by their email address at comcast.net. If they had looked there at all, they would have found “We are located in Cofss Harbour on the Mid North Coast. They probably haven;t even heard of Coffs Harbour though, so I guess it’s understandable.

Anyway, in order to prevent future orders form people who come across my site before I get the chacne to take it down, I’ve added a notice on the main page.

“Note: This is not a real company. This website was created as part of a school assignment.”

Well there you have it. My hilarious email from this morning.

Until next time, enjoy yourselves.