Entries from November 2004

Porn slip-up embarrasses Idol winner

Date November 22, 2004

This stuff is gold: Porn slip-up embarrasses Idol winner. You gotta love the Herald-Sun‘s dedication to accuracy, BigPond‘s incompetance and, above all, The Age‘s glee in pointing out the mistake!

Australian Idol Winner

Date November 21, 2004

So Casey won Australian Idol for this year. Oh joy. I think the only thing that kept me awake throughout the show was the shock I got when she arrived in that God-awful thing she was wearing. Utter disgrace. If I see another group performance by “your” final twelve, I think I’ll throw up. It [...]

Half Life 2 verdict

Date November 18, 2004

Steam, updates, Steam, updates, loading, loading, loading. This is the basic rundown of getting Half Life 2 up and running last night. On dial-up no less; I am getting so sick of dial-up. But, it was eventually up and running fairly smoothly, minor sound glitches, so I think the solution is to slightly tweak the [...]