With help from my neighbor Dan we put up the garage door opener. It is so nice to finally be able to push a button and drive in or out! Thanks Dad & Shell!

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My wonderful girlfriend bought me Little Big Planet for the PS3 this xmas, and I am addicted.  I have already finished the main story line (havn’t found all the hidden items yet though).  The feature I like the most is the level creator.  The physics engine is incredible and the freedom to be creative is phenominal.

Once I have created some interesting gadgets and hopefully a decent level I will post them up.  So far I have created a classic tobagan and them kicked it up a notch with a rocket engine!

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We bought a tree… in the dark.  But in the end after cramming 210 lights and 4 or 5 other random decorations we have this:

Merry Xmas Everyone!

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I have been playing with the new VMware Fusion and Paralles Desktop running on my Macbook.  I have to say at first I thought Paralles was a better choice than Fusion because of it’s better speed and easy VM conversion tool to let you migrate your existing VM’s to Parallels.  It seems I jumped the gun, as soon as it came time to run a Linux VM (especially OpenSUSE) it all fell apart.  The Parallel’s Tools install did compelte however I could never get the video to work correctly, and found out later a lot of people are having the same issues.

The short of it is, yes Parallels is very cool and generally works well and fast… providing you want to run Mac OSX or Windows XP/Vista.  So for now I will be sticking with Fusion, it handles all of the OS’s I want, including Linux, and all devices work to their full extent.

On a side not, OpenSUSE 11.1 with KDE 4.1 is looking great.  The new KDE release is a lot more stable and useful, although it isn’t perfected yet!

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A friend of mine came across Peter Fox, a german musician who does this strange orchestral hiphop reggae mashup which I think works.  The songs are very differnt, some more catchy than others but deffinately work a listen!  Check out Alles Neu

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Is Google Maps famous!

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A new house with an unfinished basement is the perfect setting to properly wire the house for networking. Here is the end result in the basement, not quite data-centre spec. but I am pretty happy with how it turned out.

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Well the bday is coming up soon, and the GF made me cupcakes! w00t! THANKS BABE

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Headed to Detriot to the NAIAS with the GF and mazda3london, had a great time and drooooooled over a lot of cars. Nissan GT-R = YES PLEASE.

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I finally got around to setting up a media server / NAS. Picked up a referb HP desktop, popped my TB box onto it, installed FreeNAS and BAM! The PS3 can pick up the media, I can mount volumes for backups and mass storage. So nerdy it hurts… but so useful!

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