I just revamped the Midnight Blue section on Grey/Blue.

I'm quite proud of it I think.

However it is 2:30 in the morning, so I'm going to bed.

Well, I now own a Wii.

My Wii number is:

6990 5696 1716 4841

Wii Fit is good.

I'm probably going to buy a Wii. Most likely tomorrow.

Evil, evil things. I have been wanting one for a while but so far haven't been able to justify to myself the purchase. However, now that Wii Fit is out, I finally have a good reason for buying one.

However, once I buy one, the list of games I want is rather long...

Is anyone a member of Icon Buffet?

If so, can you add me as a friend (user: HalloranElder). If not and you want to join, follow that link and I get a bonus.

Icon Buffet is a site that sells stock icons for use on web sites and the like, and also allow members to get free icon sets. The free sets are delivered slowly, however you can give the sets you have to those people you have as friends and they can give you theirs. So, the more people you know on the site, the more free icons you can get.

Looks like fun, except for the fact I don't know anyone on it, so I don't have an icons.

I am hoping that the organisational stuff-ups to this point do not effect the actual running of Gen Con Oz, because they haven't been going that well so far.

However, the events are starting to show up in their system, so things are going ahead.

Gen Con Oz runs Thursday July 3 till Sunday July 6 (no public holidays) and the current cost is $55 for 4 day entry or $16.50 per day plus event fees. If you want to have a look at what events are available have a look at the Event Search page.

I'm running three games there: 12/1, Pathway to Eternity and Ball of Dreams, Travis is running The Wake, plus I noticed that Der Golden Sterne (written by our very own Caine) is also running, Megan Bushby is running The Scarlet Pimpernel, Wit and Wedlock is also there plus a Legend of the Five Rings: Heroes of Rokugan game as well.

A grand total of 8 Freeforms at the moment (with The Wake running twice).

With the Tabletops they currently have 149 "events" in the catalog and I doubt it's complete yet. I know that our very own Kevin Powe is doing Empty Chambers, Spent Shells, a Feng Shui game, and if his past exploits are anything to go on, it should be an awesome game.

Now, ladies and gentlemen, I expect this Gen Con to go poorly, simply due to the fact that it's the first Gen Con Oz. However, if we want it to go well in the future, we have to put every effort into getting it as good as it can be now. So, if you have a chance, please come along and give it a go. The more people who turn up this year, the more chance there is of it running again (and the more chance we have of teaching these American gamers what roleplaying is really about).

Come along. I don't think it's going to be "The Best Four Days in Gaming", but I'm going to give it my best shot.

The latest Nine Inch Nails Album is downloadable for free.

Eric should be on TV again this evening.

The Einstein Factor, 6:30pm on ABC TV.

Go Eric!

I am not intending to wish umbra_mentis a happy birthday.

Nope, no intentions at all.

Is that clear?

Mainly aimed at the Melbourne crowd:

For those who don't know, Anestis has gotten a new job in Canberra. This means that he's moving away from Melbourne.

As a result, there's a "farewell drinks" planned for him tomorrow from 4:00pm onwards. If you're a friends of his, I doubt very much that he wouldn't want you to come, but I won't advertise something like that without his permission. Therefore, if you want to come and haven't been invited via Facebook, either let me know and I'll pass it on to Anestis, or contact him directly.

Today marks one year since Travis and I moved to Melbourne.

Best decision I ever made.

Thank you to everyone who has made my life down here so wonderful.

The Optimus Maximus Keyboard by Art. Lebedec Studio is now available at ThinkGeek.

It's not cheap though at $1,589.99 US, but considering every key has an inbuilt OLED screen in it, is it any wonder?

I want one!

"Knowledge without mileage is bullshit."

Said earlier this evening by Henry Rollins.

Somebody pointed me at this, and I felt I had to share.

I present, The Clocktower.

They've done bouncing balls, exploding colour and claymation rabbits, now it's foam...

Warning: 68 photos, so it takes a while to load.

By the time I got around to it the Friday night show was sold out, so I'm going Monday the 21st instead.

Really looking forward to it.

The 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of All Time.

As far as I can tell all of them either have the video embedded or have a link to it. Of course, it includes such classics as "Who's on First" and the "Dead Parrot" sketch.

The characters for Lockdown are complete, which isn't bad since it's scheduled for UniCon, a con that isn't for another six months at the earliest.

Still some notes and stuff to do, and work out how I'm going to do a few props that I want, but I'm rather proud of myself for my efforts.

Henry Rollins is doing another spoken word tour of Australia. I've been meaning to go and see one of his shows for ages, and never got around to it, so this time I'm going to.

He's playing in Melbourne on Friday the 18th, Saturday the 19th and Monday the 21st of April. Tickets are $53.30 each (plus some sort of booking fee I assume). I'm thinking of going on the Friday, but am open to suggestions. Anyone else interested in coming?

nakedteddybears pointed me to ursulav's Live Journal some time ago, and I'm glad he did.

She's a brilliant artist, and also a brilliant writer, and her LJ is very much a fascinating read. However, being a freelance artist, her income tax is "interesting" to say the least. Despite throwing lots of money at the tax man to cover her tax bill, she's recently been hit with a rather large demand to give the US Tax Department lots of money.

So, to that end she's doing a limited edition jumbo print of The Taxman. The piece is 13 inches by 19 and will cost $25 US. I asked and she estimated postage to Australia to be about $20, so for $45 US I can get a fantastic piece of art, and help support a fantastic artist to boot. With the strength of the Australian dollar at the moment, that will be less than $60 total, and I would be paying a hell of a lot more for a generic print at a local art shop.

For more information there's the actual LJ entry, plus there's her art site, Metal and Magic. Go check it out, you know you want to.

I came up with an idea for a game over the course of Conquest, and have put up an initial blurb for me to start working off.

So, I present to you, Downtime.

REMINDER: Daylight Savings ends at 3:00 am tomorrow morning for New South Wales, ACT, Victoria and South Australia. As a result, you get an hours sleep in. :)

More work on The Daily Man site.

Changed the colour scheme to something I think looks a lot better, added more links to the appropriate bits, and generally improved the look.

I have also added in the Daily Man RSS Feed details, and created the LiveJournal Feed for the Daily Man.

I have accomplished much. Still got the Tags to do, and I still need to design an Admin interface so I don't have to do all the uploading and data entry stuff manually.

On Monday morning one of the guys brings in two Pop Flyz. These things have been being used all week by all of us, having a great deal of fun.

We come in this morning to find an additional six of them, so one for each of us.

Dan had been off for three days with the flu, and was back in today with a hell of a lot of stuff needing to be done by 5pm when some clients were turning up. The clients turn up, went through the things that needed to be looked at and then left. The moment they left the guns were brought out, and we've been in the middle of world war 3 ever since.

It's a hell of a lot of fun. :)

After a little bit of fiddling, I've got the rss feed working so that it automatically updates at half past midnight GMT.

I'll put the link, etc up when I get home, because I'm not testing that at work. :)