Warning

I received this in an email a few days ago:

With all the news on TV lately about the tropical cyclone hitting the North West Coast of Australia, we shouldn't forget that Perth has its share of devastating weather too. I've attached a photo illustrating the damage caused to a home from a Perth storm that passed through the metropolitan area yesterday. It really makes you cherish what you have, and reminds us not to take things for granted! Warning: The attached picture is graphic and may not be suitable for sensitive viewers.

Click here to see the picture that was attached.

Old to new

I have been busy upgrading my computer over the last few days, but in my typical style, I did it the hard way. After obtaining the new hardware (which I will mention later in this post), I got so excited that I didn't even bother to sort out all my old stuff and attacked my case vigorously, installing all the fun new hardware. However, upon running it for the first time, windows would not work. Oh no. I thought it would crap it's self, but I never thought it would just go "yeah right, bugger off". Not to worry, a plan was hatched where windows was running using the old hardware so the old could be moved to the new. All was well again. I just hope I didn't forget any of the old, I always tend to forget something. Last time I forgot my favourites and emails. Now onto the upgrades...

• 2 sticks of Hyundai 256Mb
• AMD Athlon XP2500+
• ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe
• 40GB hardrive
• Gexcube Radeon 9600XT video card

All that is missing is a sexy new case and a DVD drive. What was wrong with the old case? Well, it was a nice case to look at, but inside it was not so great. It seemed suck in dust no matter how I set up the fans and in the end, it stared to really piss me off. Goodbye bluey, it was cool. (Well, no it was warm. You never really offered me places to put any fans.)

I just realized what I forgot. I forgot to copy the font’s folder, fantastic.

For me?

As walked into the kitchen this morning I was thinking "I'm thirsty and my throat hurts... Flowers. Huh? Flowers?!" Yes, there was a huge assortment of flowers, in a vase and with a monkey toy attached to it, waiting for me in the kitchen this morning. Me. The girl who's only ever had people give her cheap ass bunches of flowers that are already dead and still have the "Reduced to $2" on them. Even though there was no name on the card, I instantly knew it was from Ella because of what the card said:

"A worthy nomination, better luck next year. (P.S. Can I have some more points now haha)"

The nomination bit was about the bloggie awards and if you join the forum you'll get what the points bit is about. Ella is the only point whore I know that would send me flowers. It was a nice surprise and I want to say a big thank you to Ella. You made my day dude!

That was fun

I ended up winning over tiredness and logged onto IRC last night (or would 2am be classed as this morning?) and it was fun. Not too many people there, most talkative were Sergio, Tom and Scrivs. What was it like? It was like a car went past at high speed with the winners names printed on it. I was left asking "Does anyone know who won best aussie?" and I only just found out Loobylu won it today. Word has it that the IRC conversation was projected on a screen for a bit at SXSW, so I tried my best to not say stupid things. Anyone have pictures of the event?

Congratulations to Dan of who won Best Designed Weblog I knew he was going to win and I’m happy he did. Simplebits rocks. Also congratulations to Sergio for his win.

Till next year...

Tweak

As you can see, I've once again made some changes to Kitta.net. Tweak, tweak, tweak. Font is now Verdana, navigation is now super cool and you'll find a few changes here and there on the content pages. Most noticeable being colophon, which is a mix of the old about and site info pages.

Bloggie awards are in a few hours (that's if I worked out the time difference right) at SXSW. And for those that have just surfed in, Kitta.net is up for 'Best Designed Weblog'. If I do manage to win the battle with tiredness, I'll log onto #BlogIRC that's been set up to announce the bloggie winners. It's the next best thing to being there.

Thank you all for the emails and well wishes, I am feeling better now and I'm off the evil shoe forgetting medication. Special thanks to Jesse for reminding me what a shoe is in an email:

Shoe [ shoo ]
Noun (plural shoes)

1. stiff outer covering for the foot: an outer covering for the foot, usually made of leather, fabric, or plastic, with a stiff sole and usually not reaching above the ankle
2. See horseshoe n.1
3. protective part in an engine: a lining or part in an engine or machine that protects another part from being worn down
4. playing card dispenser: a special box that dispenses playing cards one at a time
5. power collector on an electric train: the part of an electric train or streetcar that connects with the electrified rail from which it draws power
6. metal strip on sled: a strip of metal along the runner of a sled
7. part of a bridge: a base that supports the upper part of a bridge

So which one is it?