Random Stuff by Grehund

I think I might have to implement this flowchart.

Fri, 06 May 2011 18:56:33 +1000

I think I might have to implement this flowchart.

When work feels overwhelming….. LOL!

Fri, 06 May 2011 18:50:51 +1000

When work feels overwhelming….. LOL!

The Awakening

Fri, 06 May 2011 18:32:08 +1000

The Awakening:

A time comes in your life when you finally get…when, in the midst of all your fears and insanity, you stop dead in your tracks and somewhere the voice inside your head cries out…ENOUGH1 Enough fighting and crying and blaming and struggling to hold on. Then, like a child quieting down after a tantrum, you blink back your tears and begin to look at the world through new eyes.

This is your awakening…..

What's on my iPod (iPhone), Part 2

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 20:37:00 +1100

So it’s been longer than it should’ve been between posts, but better late than never - right?

Here it is, my new list:

Audioslave - Audioslave
Audioslave - Out of Exile
Blink 182 - Greatest Hits
The Chemical Brothers - Come With Us
Chevelle - This Type of Thinking Could Do Us In
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Counting Crows - Films About Ghosts
Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing: The Very Best Of
Fuel - Natural Selection
Fuel - Something Like Human
Fuel - Sunburn
Jebediah - Slightly Odway
Joe Satriani - An Anthology
Linkin Park - Reanimation
Metallica - Load
Metallica - Reload
Missy Higgins - On a Clear NIght
Missy Higgins - The Sound of White
Pearl Jam - Select Tracks from Ten, Vitalogy, Vs, and Yield
A Perfect Circle - Amotion
Rage Against the Machine - Select Tracks from The Battle of LA, RAtM, and Renegades
Something for Kate - Echolalia
Something for Kate - The Official Fiction
Tool - Aenima
Tool - Lateralus
Tool - 10,000 Days
Triple J’s Hottest 100 - Volume 4

Funny photo: Jessica Chobot’s t-shirt on IGN’s Daily...

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:01:00 +1100

Funny photo: Jessica Chobot’s t-shirt on IGN’s Daily Fix for November 3, 2010.

What's on my iPod (iPhone), Part 1

Sat, 02 Oct 2010 20:34:16 +1000

If you’re anything like me, your digital music library far outweighs the storage capacity available on almost any current portable music device. So there’s no option other than to keep changing and refreshing the music you carry around with you, as you get bored with it.

My situation is made worse by only having an 8GB iPhone 3G as my portable device. :-( So I change the music on my iPhone pretty regularly. My musical tastes are quite broad, so some of my “iPhone Collections” can get pretty interesting.

Because of this, I’ve decided to start a list of my collections. Each time I change-out the music on my iPhone, I’ll update my blog with a new list of “Whats on my iPhone”. Sometimes you’ll notice a clear trend in my musical choices, either based on my mood, a genre, or a period in time. Often I’ll throw in 1 or 2 new albums or artists that I’ve never heard before.

On to the first list…

Ben Lee - Awake is the New Sleep
Ben Lee - Hey You, Yes You
John Butler Trio - April Uprising
Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns
Live - The Distance to Here
Live - Secret Samadhi
Live - Throwing Copper
Matchbox Twenty - Mad Season
Matchbox Twenty - Yourself or Someone Like You
Missy Higgins - On A Clear Night
Missy Higgins - The Sound of White
Norah Jones - The Fall
Panic! at the Disco - Pretty. Odd.
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - One Hot Minute
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - By the Way
Travis - The Invisible Band
Vanessa Carlton - Be Not Nobody
Vanessa Carlton - Harmonium
The Whitlams - Torch the Moon

There are quite a few albums on this list that I’ve never heard before, so it should make for some interesting listening.

Work, the positive side.

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 15:44:02 +1000

Last week, work was crazy; one tech away on leave & emergencies everywhere! It was just too busy for us to keep everyone happy. On top of that, we’re having some internal issues with staff… Anyone who knows me, knows that’s nothing new. Suffice to say, I was pretty stressed and tired come Friday.

Yet as Friday rolled around, I found myself thinking about all the things I love about my job. I didn’t wake up Friday morning and make a conscious decision to reflect on the positives, it just happened. I’m so glad it did. It’s easy to get bogged down in the daily grind, the politics and the frustrations.

So, here’s a list of some of the things I like/enjoy about my job.

Location. My office is less than 15 minutes drive from home. That can be a godsend at the end of a crappy day.

Variety. My job takes me to a wide variety of locations & businesses. One day I could be in a huge corporate office in the CBD, the next day in a manufacturing plant, the next day in a design studio.

People. Being in so many different locations means I get to meet and interact with lots of interesting people. Some of them I really like & we get along famously, others I despise. Luckily, I’m never really in one place long enough that it becomes a chore to deal with someone.

Challenge. Every week there’s something new, something I haven’t seen/used/fixed before. Sure, it can be stressful too, when you have an office full of people waiting on you to “get it fixed”. My job is never boring though, which is great.

Influence. I’ve worked in large, medium, small, corporate & government organisations. I remember all too well, the feeling of being a nobody, a “number”. My current employer has only 10 staff members. Which means that each members’ voice is heard. Not everything everyone says is worth listening to, but that’s another story. ;-) My employer trusts my experience, listens to my ideas, and allows me to steer the ship (most of the time).

I’m sure I could list a few more, but they’re the core of what gets me through those crappy weeks. For all it’s faults, there are still plenty of things I enjoy about my job and where I work.

I just wish everyone was able to say the same about their vocation, or to even have a job to talk about.

"No matter what, you’re going to mess up sometimes. It’s a universal truth. But the good part is you..."

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 15:00:07 +1000

“No matter what, you’re going to mess up sometimes. It’s a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you’re going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends- they’ll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything- they’re your true best friends. Don’t let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they’ll come and go too. And babe, I hate to say it, most of them- actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can’t give up because if you give up, you’ll never find your soul mate. You’ll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn’t mean you’re going to fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don’t, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life’s a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.”

- Marilyn Monroe | Submitted by Ishaaa (via quote-book)

OMFG, Best Music Video Ever! Ever, Forever, and Ever! Time for a...

Mon, 03 May 2010 00:04:55 +1000

OMFG, Best Music Video Ever! Ever, Forever, and Ever! Time for a cold shower…

Marco.org: How to post photos on the internet

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:30:49 +1100

Marco.org: How to post photos on the internet:

LOL, this is so true. An excellent guide Marco.

Probably the best PSA advert I have ever seen. Awesome! If that...

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 23:01:07 +1100

Probably the best PSA advert I have ever seen. Awesome! If that doesn’t make you wear a seatbelt, what will?!?

100 Helpful Lifehacks for the Unemployed

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:55:07 +1100

100 Helpful Lifehacks for the Unemployed:

I thought this was an excellent list of tips, tricks, and survival techniques for people who are unemployed. Several valuable ideas that I know would’ve helped me during times of unemployment. I’ll bookmark this one for the future, you never know.

10 Most Fascinating Natural Phenomena

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:31:04 +1100

10 Most Fascinating Natural Phenomena

5 Industries an Apple Tablet Could Revolutionize

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:55:31 +1100

5 Industries an Apple Tablet Could Revolutionize:

An excellent and well thought out article on just how big the impact of an Apple Tablet could be.

FML

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:54:51 +1100

FML

K2 for Joomla - Why you shouldn't use it.

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:02:10 +1100

Over the last 2 years, I have been involved in developing a few Joomla websites. The sites have varied in their design layout, content and function. All have implemented excellent templates created by the guys over at RocketTheme.com.

In July 2009, they introduced their Affinity template sporting a third-party extension from JoomlaWorks.gr called K2.

K2 was JoomlaWorks’ answer to WordPress. It was a major enhancement to the entire Joomla CMS, both front and back-end. It was set to make Joomla a more compelling option for bloggers, so naturally I was interested.

Being the early adopter that I am, I set to work including K2 in my latest Joomla website. It has been a headache ever since!

Whilst K2 has introduced some over-due features to the Joomla CMS, it seems the author(s) has given little consideration to K2’s true flexibility. K2 was meant to be more flexible than Joomla, but in reality it’s not. Allowing a user to create custom fields is not enough to call it flexible.

Maybe the story would be different if the guys at JoomlaWorks were of any help when it came to troubleshooting. Just browse the JoomlaWorks or K2 forums and you will find tales of frustration at every turn. You’re lucky if you receive any response from a JoomlaWorks member at all!

On top of the lack of flexibility and poor support, K2 has introduced some unwelcome “features” to the Joomla CMS too. Specifically, the “blog calendar” and “tag cloud”. Have a look at some WordPress blogs implementing these features and ask yourself just how useful they are.

My fellow blogger, Jeff Attwood, wrote an excellent piece titled Thirteen Blog Clichés, back in 2007, addressing the uselessness of these and other “features” of blogs. So it begs the question, how in-touch with current web trends are the guys over at JoomlaWorks?

Use the K2 extension from JoomlaWorks at your own peril. My advice; stick to individual extensions that do 1 task really well. Stay clear of any all-singing-all-dancing extensions, unless you really enjoy bad musicals.

Image Source: flickr

Star Wars: The Last Supper Source: blogger.com

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:03:32 +1100

Star Wars: The Last Supper

Source: blogger.com

Melvin's Summer Internship

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:08:35 +1100

Melvin's Summer Internship

Internet Life Source: pelfusion.com

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:06:12 +1100

Internet Life

Source: pelfusion.com

Mommy, why is there a Server in the house?

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:23:35 +1100

Mommy, why is there a Server in the house?