The flat is finally full of people and things are starting to settle down and level off a bit. It is now a week after ‘O’ week, the biggest week on the University of Otago’s calender where all the students arrive back in dunedin, move into their flats and their Halls of Residence, and the orientation …

My struggles with TVersity have come to an end for the moment, and I’m quite happy with that. After struggling for many hours to get it working under wine on my ubuntu machine, I decided to try out vmware running virtual windows xp. it took all of a couple of hours, most of which was a windows installation, and i …

It was about three months ago that i made the leap into linux on a almost full time basis. I had been using linux on my laptop with dual boot occasionally and had been using fedora at university (along with mac osx and windows 2000) but decided it was time to make the final leap and make it a full time thing. Ubuntu …

It’s all starting to come together now. With power, phone and internet all connected and up and running, we can finally start living in our own flat. It has taken almost two weeks but finally we have our internet connected, and I can start using my computer more productively. As a Computing student, I really can …

I’m always interested in the weird and wacky when it comes to technology and gadgets. Things like fridges with the internet, and RFID car security, and my latest find is an MP4 watch. Yes that’s right a wrist watch that plays music and videos, not to mention displays photos, text files and even has a few …

Check out this guy who makes art out of Lego bricks. Very talented and very creative, a must see. His name is Nathan Sawaya and he is a 33 year old New York artist. I really wish I could be in America to go see his art museum exhibit, the pictures on his website show some amazing sculptures. go check out The Art of the …

We’ll I have officially been living in my flat for over a week, my first flat that i have lived in away from home, and so far I’ve enjoyed it. OK, so I haven’t really spent a great deal of time there, what with working all day and having a social life, but despite that it has been good so far. Maybe i …

About a year ago I bought myself a psp off of the local auction website TradeMe, New Zealand’s answer to eBay, and have since used it mostly for listening to music and not a lot else. Sure I’ve used it for gaming, and struggled with using it for the internet, and just recently I’ve started watching …

A friend emailed me today, and told me a grand epic that was a day in his life, and my first response to him was ’that story is blog-worthy, share it with the world why don’t you?'. It’s become more and more self-evident, that the world is full of linguistically capable, and even exceptional writers, …

So I was on holiday, and over that time i didn’t add a single entry to my blog. I think my new years resolution is to actually sit down and add something to my blog more often. Lets start this off with a little about what im doing. Well as a Uni Student, I find myself finally moving into a flat. All students …

Ok, so all blogs start somewhere, and mine starts here with my first blog post. Welcome to everyone who has managed to find this site, it’s not that publicly advertised i know. Firstly I would like to say a bit about myself. So I’m a 20 year old University Student at the University of Otago in New Zealand. …