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.