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Dammit, dammit, dammit. You know, I've been wanting to code something like this for a good year now. It's what I actually wanted out of mx2. Well, somewhere between that and this. I'm just too damn slow to start anything original.

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The final package arrived today, from Dallas/Maxim Semiconductors. And I ordered myself one of these.

Today, while I was at work, I was fiddling with the piece of metal while reading a test document, and casually doing my work.  Suddenly I looked up and realised I had absent mindedly jammed the peice of metal into the floppy drive of my computer!  I'm never going to live this down.

I'm sure someone else besides me has noticed the unusually warm weather we have been having lately.  Auckland in particular (I'm not too sure about any other city) almost seems to have become tropical. The weather and temperatures we have been having lately are very similar to the ones places such as Fiji often experience at the end of the rainy-season.  The temperature gauge in the dining room of my house read  31 degrees celcius this afternoon when I arrived home. And this was *after* I'd opened all the windows and doors! My school has no airconditiong and this morning it was actually hotter outside than it was inside.

First Winter and Summer seemed to have become one season, and now we're experiencing tropical storms and unusually high temperatures.

I wonder what the weather holds in store for us next...

On the above date, Reel Big Fish will be releasing their new album. It is called "We're Not Happy Til You're Not Happy".  I'm so excited. In true RBF fashion they have included three covers: Tracy Chapman, Morrissey and Reel Big Fish. Yes, folks. They have done a new version of one of our favourites: Beer. Oh I can't wait.

We're Not Happy Til You're Not Happy Track Listing:

1. The Fire
2. Drinkin’
3. Don’t Start A Band
4. A-W-E-S-O-M-E
5. We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful
6. Turn The Radio Off
7. Revolution
8. The Bad Guy
9. Beer
10. The Joke’s on Me
11. One Hit Wonderful
12. Last Show
13. Say Good Bye
14. Your Guts (I Hate ‘Em)

So this is the first comic I've done in a while...  But boy is it a good one.  I was quite impressed by the way I made a topical joke - No offence Dom!  I've got a couple of good ideas brewing as well, and, even though it was brought up ages ago, I’ve been inspired by our entry on the http://www.thewebcomiclist.com/.  Yep, Ii'm planning on doing a lot more comics.  I’ve been pretty bad recently.  But make sure you stick around, and check the site often.

In other news, I’m planning out how I’m going to attach the new joysticks to my new control panel – I got them to cut it out on the plasma cutter at work.  I just need to make an adapter plate so I can mount the joysticks in, and we’ll be away.  I’ll try and get some photos for your viewing pleasure.

In my spare time, I’m mixing the These Four Walls Ep.  I’ve done about 3 songs out of 7 so far.  Its sounding really really good.  Once I’ve finished the mixing, maybe in a week or two, we’ll be heading back to Earwig Studios to do the mastering.

I checked The Onion today. I was really surprised to see Dom in the Point-Counterpoint. Especially since he isn't an English Grad Student.

Come on, admit it. That looks a lot like Dom.

A serious drop off in statistics recently?  Hardly ever anyone else on at the same time as you?  Perhaps everyone is avoiding you?  Perhaps everyone is just avoiding me...

Yeah, you've probably already noticed the new feature around these parts - recently played tracks. This is just to confirm that, yes, you can have your recently played tracks published automatically on SE, as long as you're using one of the following: Winamp, Windows Media Player, iTunes, foobar2000, XMMS, AmaroK, QCD, RhythmBox, J. River Media Centre or Noaturn.

So that should be just about everyone. I expect to get a whole bunch of messages from people who have signed up. I want to see how many pages I can get the script to retrieve before it goes into meltdown.

Edit: Answer: Many, many pages

Well it seems that my life goal of becoming a paid musician has been achieved.  Here I am, once again, sitting at work in the middle of the night being paid to play my guitar while waiting for the phone to ring.  The audience is attentive, albeit rather quiet, and they don't seem to mind when I fuck things up, if I decide to play the same song several times, or if I just give up on a song halfway through.  Perhaps I should have put more conditions on achieving this particular goal...

For those of you who don't know, I went down to Pauanui for a weekend of mountain biking and just generally chilling out.  I really did need to get away, but I didn’t realise how badly I needed it until I went.  Oh man, just doing nothing all day was sooooo good.  And, as some of you may have guessed, we had some drinking adventures as well.

One thing that I didn’t expect was how hard the mountain biking would be.  Down there, there is a lot more mountain, and a lot less biking.  Where I usually go, the hills are just undulating, but down there, oh man, I swear the whole place was up hill.

Anyways, I’m doing more of the T4W mixing, and I’ve done 4 out of 7 songs.  Its getting a lot easier now.  But for now back to work.

Was just wondering what is happening with the MX2 site.  It seems to have taken a halt - and I think thats a shame cause a battle with music is a good idea.

(Prolly get rejected, but I was just wondering whats the haps are with it)

Hi all. This is just a quick update to explain the lack of fresh news - I got a job! So, yeah, that's less time for me to unproductively mess around and post rants. I'm sure you'll all think it's a tragedy, and post comments telling me how much I am sorely missed, and how it's just not SE without my pointless arguing and endless criticism!

Oh, and hi to anyone from work who might be looking at the site. Please excuse the general tardyness of the other users - especially, in alphabetical order: aardvark, adams, aitkins etc. - they can't help it. Check out the comics.

These Four Walls gig tonight! Kings Arms! unsure what time just thought I'd put this on here,Chris and Justin what are you doing! you have to let people know! I don't even know what time but guessing as there's 2 other bands playing t4w won't be on before 10pm? And Viracocha are very good too.

So I'm just packing everything into my rack for the T4W trip to Te Awamutu!  I'm taking my gameboy for the car ride down, and I'll probably need it to distract me while the band guys get with groupies in the same motel room tonight.  Everything I need is going in my rack case.  I am so awesome, the rest of the band should be like me, and have rack mounted everything.

Hey y'all

Everybody come and check out me new funk outfit, we be called Transfunktion.

We're playing at the University of Auckland tomorrow (Tuesday) and Wednesday. Catch us in various places around the Quad between 11am and 2pm.

Also: don't forget Ska-B-Q: King's Arms, Sat 26 February. Doors open at 5pm, The Forcefields are playing about 7pm.

As, I hope, Most of you know its time 40 hour famine again.  As a keen supporter of the famine I am naturally doing it this year, and hoping that some of you guys will follow!

This year they've introduced a website in which you can sign up and have oyur own Online Famine Book, which allow your friends and family, from all over the world to pledge (sponsor you) an amount of money,  to give you for doing the famine.

Check out my booklet, and check out the site.  Because by sponsoring me you will be helping others around the world who are living in crisis situations. 

If you sponsor me i'll sponsor you back!

Thanks to those who have sponsored me already from SE! (Blair, Chicken and funkymunky)

THAT BEDPACK IS F**KIN' ARSE!

For many of you,  you probably don't know who Seawolf actually is, but anyway, those of you that do know can tell the others:-) Anyway, its probably a HUGE surprise to even see me submit some news. Well, we got some town leave today (off RNZAF Recruit Course R1/05), and would you believe it, there is an internet cafe in Blenheim haha.

I apologise for the spelling, but I dopn;t have much time, if I miss the bus back to base, I'll get charged and have to paint curbs for a week probably! (I'm not kidding)  The For those who know what I'm talkin' about, the headline reflects the mian remark givin' out during our inspections every morning, yep, EVERY morning. Get up 5.30am, not that bad, but, you spend the next 40 minutes dusting, making bedpacks, ironing  and anything else. IF the your bedspace is shit in the dormitory, then your going to get shafted good style! I'm  freaked out I'm gonna get it pretty soon (it WILL happen, I'll screw up somthing huge, like have a piece of dust on my pillow, or under the paper in the bottom of my drawers!

I'm still shit at shooting the Steyr and stuff, the only thing I was kind of good at was the double tap, standing, 13/15, 32/40 for the rest, and thats only on a 25m range!!! We just started on the C9 LSW (M249 SAW, or Minimi for others). 

I was in Hospiltal for a night of observation last Saturday as I was concussed during PT (gumby cunt I am), so yeah pretty pissed of about that, got tonnes of wounds and bruises, it is BLOOD, SWEAT and TEARS haha. Man, I miss THE ROCK and T4W heaps. We are in a blank spot for the Rock which is CRAP, luckily I have my CD's and a CD player (GASP!)

Oh well,  I gotta sign off now, gotta get some hair spray (for ironing - awesome creases!) and washing liquid and polish for my boots and if I'm lucky I might get more time later to post something else if Justin and Dom let me! IF i'm lucky and not a heap of shit in the next 7 weeks I just might pass the course and be back in Auckland on April the 20th:-)

Signing off - OUT

Sunil