Cheryl and Hamish (Sister ‘n’ law + Husband) move into their new house this weekend, it should be quite exciting. They’ll be living just around the corner from us. David Dawber (Friend of ours) is leaving for an OE in Africa and the UK. Up to 4 years he reckons.
It’s now almost a month later. I, being an expert in procrastination, have still got the top of that chimney to paint. Well, at least I’ve undercoated it now. Luckily I can reach it from the roof without any problems. And then there’s the garage…. OK, remember how in the goss section on March 30, I reported that I might be getting into some television production? Well I can now reveal that I have been doing some work for Channel 7 (Regional TV Station). I’m doing it for free because I’ve always been interested in television and video technology. Anyway, I created their website. It’s pretty basic at the moment but it will get better. If you don’t believe me, have a look at the HTML source on the initial page, one of the first lines says “Web Design: Kent Smith”. I’m too embarrassed to put my name where anyone can see it. I did some filming for them a month or so ago.
High speed Internet. That’s right, I finally splashed out and last weekend the Saturn guys came and installed a cable modem for me. I got sick of dialling up, engaged signals, slow responses, phone being engaged while I’m surfing, etc. It has been great so far. I took the cheapest option (128kb/s) but I can upgrade it to 512kb/s at any time for an extra $15 per month. So far the speed has been more than adequate for me.
I was contacted by a journalist from Wired magazine yesterday. Remember that Jedi EMail that was spread around just before our NZ census? Well, it was sent to me from a guy at work and I posted it in the nz.general newsgroup. As it turns out, the guy that I work with knows the guy who originated it and received the first iteration of the EMail, I had the second iteration and it spread from there. The journalist is trying to do an article on it and traced it back to me. The guy that I work with is now trying to find out from the originator, whether he wants to talk to this journalist first. I asked the journalist to send me the URL of the article when it’s published, so I’ll post a link to it when I know it.