I had a very good weekend. It had plenty of downtime mixed in with some outside activities so I didn’t feel like a mushroom.
Friday night was a quiet night. I got home from work and crashed on the couch for a bit, watching some Big Bang Theory episodes, coupled with some old Buffy, The Vampire Slayer episodes. As a side note, it’s weird watching all the Angel episodes, then going back to Buffy. You tend to try and watch for any holes in the story. Haven’t found any yet 
I also played some Mass Effect 2 for a couple hours, which was great. I love that game. My character I’ve created looks like Vin Diesel lol.
Saturday I went out and had a look at couches and ended up buying a new one. It’s so comfy compared to the old one
I also got a new camera case from my camera from OfficeWorks, cause the case I have is about 3 times larger than the camera… lol.
In the evening Erin and I got some awesome curry from Chaminas Indian Restaurant and sat down with my Mom and Brother and watched Couples Retreat
Sunday I went out for some lunch with Erin and we popped into the DVD rental place. Didn’t find any good DVDs to watch, but Erin bought WhipIt, so we watched that when we got home. About 6pmish we went off to Erin’s parents for a BBQ, where I had a couple glasses of Wine and couple glasses of Port. When we got home I slept surprisingly well… lol
That’s a mouthful… My Mario Model
I was lucky enough to get a Mario Model for my birthday recently from Erin.
What more could I ask for?!?
I’m keeping an eye out for a Yoshi, Luigi model too!
Here’s a picture of the little guy:
I’ve been having a look at my blog site and I think it’s a bit boring and sterile.
The content isn’t updated frequently, cause I don’t post blog updates all that regularly.
I also have very little personal information about me on the site. Considering it’s my blog, you’d think I’d have a bit more about me?
So I’ve started by creating a page called “about me” and “my gear”. About me talks about the where, when, how and why of Simon Brennan. My gear is me showing off my e-penis with regards to all the cool toys I have :p
I plan to try and spend some time everyday on this and put a bit more of me into it.
There’s a System Admin position available at Rising Sun Productions in Adelaide.
Rising Sun Productions do work on major block buster movies like X-Men Wolverine: Origins, Terminator Salvation etc.
How cool would it be to work at that place
http://www.rsp.com.au
I recently had a problem on my HP Pavillion DV4 laptop, where the multimedia buttons and the wifi button stopped working.
I was unable to change the sound volume using the multimedia panel, nor could I enable my wifi/bluetooth.
I came to the conclusion that it must be an ACPI problem, so I attempted to roll back to an older Fedora 12 kernel, which didn’t help at all. I also tried check the gnome keyboard shortcut preferences. They seemed correct and were set to XF<blah> events.
Restarting the acpi service didn’t help either. From what I could tell looking in the logs, no events were being recorded when the multimedia buttons were pressed. However, strangely the function buttons worked. I.E Function+F7 or F8 would increase or decrease the screen brightness and generate a keyboard event.
I then tried to boot the Ubuntu Karmic Koala live cd and found the exact same problem appears in Ubuntu. So therefore it wasn’t a distribution specific issue as it affected both Ubuntu and Fedora.
My solution was to shut down the laptop, disconnect the mains power adaptor, remove the battery, reattach the battery and boot the laptop up. It seems that pulling the battery out fixed the problem!
