Windows blows!

That's it. Its official. I H A T E windows!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You'd think a company that can hire 50,000 of the brightest, most intelligent, talented programmers on the planet can come up with something better that this.

Oh yeah. Just got a brand new computer at work. 1.83 ghz HP core duo laptop.
Just your normal average business laptop.

It actually doesn't as crash often as the previous ME machine. So I've finally gotten the opportunity to savor the entire windows experience.

1. Why does this state of the art machine take longer to startup, go to sleep, and wake up from sleep than my 5 year old 800 mhz iMac?

2. Popups! There are freaking popup screens everywhere! And I'm not talking about browser popup ads. The system popups and tells you stuff that you don't need to know like RIGHT NOW. Run a program. Splash screen cover the middle of the screen and blots out everything else. Can't make it go away until its done.
Popup telling, me that there's no wireless network available. Hello, I just push the button that turns off the wireless network. The blue light turned off. I KNOW there's no wireless network.

3. Plug and play. In windows, this is only implied. Its not a promise.

4. Making sure that youre security software is uptodate to the very minute, or else! Kena'd first virus a few days ago. There goes a few hours of my life spent cleaning it up.

5. Did I mention popups! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!

6. Why do I need to click on the Start button to turn off my computer?

7. Calculator. Its the same freaking calculator from windows95.

Islands in the sun

Or, 3 days of running around only in a sarong.

Hey all,

Just got back from a 3day/2night solo camping trip on Mamutik Island, just off the coast of KK. Nothing fancy, just a quick getaway and a personal retreat for some rest and personal time.

I brought along a 1 man tent, 5 gallons of water and a cooler with juice, milk, coke and ice. Yeah, its a camping trip, but a few luxuries won't hurt.







Here's the island, relative to KK.






Closeup of my campsite






View from the Jetty






My campsite!




Reverse view with KK in the background






On Saturday evening, I could hear thuder and see lighting in the distance over Papar on the mainland, I figure, that would be a good time to pitch the tent and button down for the evening.
The storm continued to move up the coast and eventually passed over KK. Quite a spectecular lightning show. Somehow the bulk of the storm missed the island which is amazing considering how close it was.

The next morning it started raining heavily at about 630am and continued through the morning. This is when i realised that my job of sealing the seams on the old tent was less than thorough. There were a few spots that i missed which resulted in about 3 leaky spots. I made use of a few plastic bags, towel and tshirt to take care of the drips and went back to sleep.

At about noon, the sun came out so I took the opportunity to dry out stuff and cook lunch.

I spent the next couple of days, vegging, sleeping, contemplating, staring at the coastline, and reading Romans 8 and Malachi 4. Not much else to do except for Bob the Biawak to keep me company.






Also found this interesting looking flower/weed.






I also decided to patch the tent fly with some duct tape to fix the leaks, which was a good idea since it rained heavily monday morning as well.

The boat was supposed to come get me at 5pm, but i decided to call it in early as I saw more rain clouds on the horizon, so I left the island at about 3pm.

The next movie

Story: Check
Cast: Check
Crew: Check
Makeup: Check
Costumes: Check
Screenplay: Not yet
Rehearsals: Not yet
Locations: Not yet
Shooting Schedule: Not yet
Shooting starts: 13th October

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

I'm finally going away this weekend. 3 days camping. I could check my email and take calls while I'm there. But I'm not going to.