Last Sunday Ksenia asked me to do a small photo shoot for her company, so I guess this is my first "Professional" photo shoot :). Actually the pictures were supposed to look amature. Amature is my specialty :). The T-Shirt designs are the reason for the photos by the way.
It was tons of fun. I had four models at my disposal: two Swedes, a Russian and a Brit. Not bad eh?
Well 2 hours and 500 shots later I thought I had some decent looking shots. Check them out on Flickr
Obviously I look nothing like these people, but its nice that the computer thinks I look like Sarah Michelle Gellar
For the past 2 weeks I've been pretty sick and the weather outside was crap so I decided to get back to some online gaming. Signed up for a trial Eve account. Its a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG). I've been slowly getting addicted to the game since. It brought memories of an old game I used to play - Earth and Beyond. Thats the game that got me through first 2 years of uni. For those who dont know, MMORPG games are based on a shared world (galaxy in this case) where all the players live. And they are not called massive for no reason. Eve resently set the most concurrent users record at just over 25,000. The great thing about the game is that you are free to do whatever you want. There are no set missions or any specific path you have to take. Total freedom. You can sit on your arse all day long talking to all the other players while your factories are making your cash. You can trade, manufacture, research without even moving around or you can go out in the big big world looking for greener pastures, figting pirates on the way (or joining them). You can solo or find a bunch of likeminded players.
The game is a huge timesink - hours pass without notice. Great for these rainy winters when you dont want to go anywhere outside. Hopefully I will still find something better to do on the weekends like snowboarding (the plan is to go up the mountain as often as possible). Hopefully going next weekend, might even get some pictures back from the mountain. Unfortnately I'm not confident enough yet to take a camera with me all the way up the mountain, but we'll see.
Laters
It must be the weather but in the last couple of weeks its been very hard to get my arse off the couch. I've also been sick on and off which is quite unusual. Here is an update anyway, no pictures though - lazy.
Ahmed has left for greaner pastures. Quite literally the grass is known to be greaner over in switzerland. All the best of luck to him.
My friend Rachel came back from a long trip around Europe. Made me feel quite jealous when she started showing all the pictures. One day... I'll make it all the way to Europe too.
Got back on a mountain bike - first time in years. Had a huge bike accident when I was 17, pretty much gave it up since. Still feels good though, maybe one day I'll get back into it.
Watched the world cup a bit. I picked Germany vs Brazil final when the whole thing started, I guess I was wrong. Seems like France will take it this time.
Work is so so, nothing major happening really. Train people are on strike so there are no trains to work. Have to catch the bus which is not that bad, just twice as expensive.
Like I said no photos this time, my camera has not left my bag. Instead have a look at this video. For those who dont know - I'm a pretty big F1 fan. People say F1 is boring and I have to agree. These days its getting more and more boring. This is what it used to be like.
Gilles Villeneuve against René Arnoux
Not many things have happened since my last post. Our soccer team has made it into the semis even though we didnt pay the club fee :) The rules are that if you pay the club fee you get 10 more points for the season. This almost certainly means that the teams who dont pay dont make it to the top 4 as there are only 9 games in the season and its quite hard to make up 10 points. We just managed to squeeze in the 4th place by winning the last game (11:6) and having some the right teams loose on the day. Unfortunately this means we now have to play the top team in the semis. They have not lost a single game this season including annihilating our team 14:3 Maybe we should have paid on time then we would have been 2nd on the table and had a much easier semi.
Watched some movies this week
Poseidon
The Producers
Munich
None of them really exited me that much, but they went bad either. I'd give them all 5/10
Long weekend coming up, hopefully something to write about.
It all started yesterday when I missed my morning train to work. Eventually I made it to work around 10.30 knowing that I will have to take a long lunch so I can go sort out some of the bank stuff. When I got to the bank, I spend an hour waiting in the queue just to get an EFTPOS card made for me. So that was most of the day gone. I knew I only really had to do one thing at work - fix a bug in one of the applications and release the update. Easy right? Sure it is as long as you dont do it in a rush. I've managed to fix the bug, test it and release the update. All the clients picked up the update automatically. I thought my day was done. HA! 10 minutes later calls were starting to get through about the app not working, basically crashing on start. It was weird because I've also installed the update and so did lots of other people in out company. It worked fine for them but not for people outside the company. After talking to one of the clients for a good half an hour and getting them to install and re-install the app I basically gave up making up some excuses on why its not working. As soon as I hung up the phone I had the stangest feeling that I knew what was causing the problem. It was such a newbie mistake - I've managed to release a development version of the application instead of the live one. The only difference between the two is that the live connects to the server via a remoting object (like a web service) and the development version connects directly to the server. But the server is not directly accessible from outside the company LAN, hense only the people outside noticed any difference. So I thought - Easy, I'll just release another update with the right configuration file so it connects where its supposed to. What I forgot is that the people affected cant run their applications to get that update.... I only realised that around 11pm that night. Sigh.
Today was a case of deja vu. I sleep in too long (ok thats not that bad) and missed the early train again. Finally released the update to the clients. It was time to do some more development. Unfortunatly my workstation didn't agree. SQL Enterprise Manager refused to start up. It looks like i will spend the whole day today trying to fix that and in the worst case - backing up all the files so I can re-image the workstation.
All I know is that I will look both ways before crossing roads today, if this week keeps following this trend I will most likely end up in the hospital by friday - or worse.
Finally after a month of waiting my TV is finally here. Now my life is complete. It got delivered to my work just after lunch - no work has been done since.
In other news:
Apartment now has an internet connection so there is lots of new movies and episodes waiting to be watched.
I tried 2 new sports in the past week - bowling and squash. Bowling was awesome. I was told the speed of the ball wasnt very important but i tried a couple of really fast ones to see what happens. Some of them went over 30km/h
Squash is fun too, already got myself a racket and a club membership. Impulse buying is great.
OK, I've decided to make a genuine attempt at starting up a blog, so this is officially my first post. I’ll try to keep it short.
This is something new for me – my own little piece of the web. The priority for the next few days is to post some pictures from stuff that happened before this date (to make an illusion that my life didn’t just begin today). The next thing will be to play with the layout of the site, it’s a bit messy right now. The last, and probably the hardest goal would be to do regular posts to keep the site alive.
On a different note, things I’m looking forward to in the next few days:
