My News

05/07/2009

Today i'm starting MyNews..

05/07/2009

recently i've been away from updating mysite
i've had a serious video card failure in my pc that i normally use
on first inspection the card looks brand new how ever on the component side where the cooling fan is looks all ok, but when i got into the fan casing i noticed it was clogged with dirt i mean dirt it filled the fins of the heat sink, enough to stop the airflow, when i first noticed the failure the video had frozen, its one of the experiences i've had not with a computer, anyways at the time i thought it was just a computer hang, unusual hang as i don't get many of them, so restarted the computer and wouldn't you know it, it would be my next hardware failure the 6th actually all dirt related 2 power supplies,
2 rear fans and one processor fan, luckily there was no damage to the processor, now back tot he video card as it had failed altho i've purchased a new  Radeon HIS hd3650 AGP card it still failed to perform as it should, i'm just waiting on the techs to find out the verdict weather if it had also taken out the main boards AGP port that the NVIDIA Gforce fx card was in or weather that actual card hasn't fail or it just the port had failed i am yet to find out..

05/07/2009 some updates in the Computer controlled Christmas lights project, new on the project is progressing, how ever i'm at a stand still on some components for the main power board, the controllers are on track, tho some bulk plug orders are a little delayed arriving, some special casing required are difficult to acquire, i'm hoping to get it all together before  mid November..
09/07/2009 Finally, i get my putey back sad i know but hey i needed it to finish some cad work, ok after all that they finally found that on both occasions both of the video cards i had put in were faulty, how that for pure bad luck, anyways they the techs fixed it all up for me and works a treat, all i need now for this pc is another main board and processor upgrade and i'll be right for another few years. at the moment the puter can't keep up with the new high def video card, but that ok i really don't use that quality as yet, the standard def is good enough, now the good guys at my putey store were good enough to do just more then a fix they even got in there and did a bit of spring cleaning for me.. i was just to lazy to do it myself LOL, seen this repair was done under warranty and had budgeted for the repairs i then did a ddr ram upgrade on my note book, its was becoming very noticable with the work of overtime on the hd light, so thought a ram upgrade would solve it, incidentally it did :P
09/07/2009 Opps, if you noticed the website go strange recently, sorry i hope it didn't crash anything, i kinda put an infected err rather corrupted after being infected file and put switched index files in wrong folders by  mistake and it caused things to go loopy, anyways should all be good now.
11/07/2009 Update: Computer: after picking up my putey in the last few days, the video card is performing well, tho it kills the processor on occasions specially when looking at HDTV least i can view it, unlike before it would just freeze and die err crash, but still not stable enough to record on pc, looks like i now have a video card that's somewhat to powerful for my trusty computer, anyways looks at updating the putey later either this year or next year will see...   
31/07/2009 Today is a sad day for us, this morning at 9:30am we had to put our baby dog to sleep, he was 12/84 due to complication with cancer he had an OP 2 months ago but it was still to late, it was unfortunate that we weren't able to save him then, but today he had enough and we decided to put him to sleep..
01/08/2009 Nearly 24hrs after putting our baby dog to sleep, well least i can read now what i'm typing but still just as hard to type it, the loss of ones pet after being a family member for so long, oh no here go (pauses) damn, just goes to show this even tho 24hrs after, still just as painful proves it still takes time, even tho he wasn't my dog, we still knock around down the at the farm, but had the same effect on me as if he was actually my own dog, as people have said time does heal... RIP "TURNER"
02/08/2009 Nearly 48hrs since we put our baby dog to sleep, about this time in the past with the loss of a pet i feel that the pain of a pet not being around is less traumatic then it was when you were at the vet and the vet tells you no its best to be put to sleep, at the time i had already new it was time as since the tumor had returned faster and larger then the original tumor and at that time i new that it would of by then be spread thu out, all the same i sure was hopeful that it would of been local, but unfortunate the vet said not its to late, then my hopefulness fell to the floor and new then that it was time and even he new as he look at me with those sad eyes as in saying good bye he wagged his tale as i hugged him to say good bye ruffled him up like always kissed him on the head, i didn't hang around after that as it was to heart breaking to watch him to goto sleep as i wasn't strong enough to cope, i left then and came home tears ran then for some time after that which is expected,

today i'm able to talk more about him as there is less pain and less tears even tho there is tears typing this news, which again was expected, but even tho its 48hrs since he's been put to sleep you start to miss all the little things he used to do and the noises he'd make and the annoyances of morning like charging thro his doggy door and rubbing his head on my bed like come one get up i wanna go walk, little things like that i'm starting to miss i'm sure as hell going to miss him. but i'm sure he's with the others pets and my step dad or he's come back here to the house for one last time till he's ready to join the others. :)
RIP "TURNER"

03/08/2009 Nearly 72 hrs after we put our baby dog to sleep, the main greif has passed, but missing him not being around is still majorly present as you miss his sounds and his little annoyances of a morning, also the same we are coming to terms that he is no longer with us...
04/08/2009 Nearly 96 hrs after we put our baby dog to sleep, well today i feel much less the grief how ever the loss of him is still very much present today, i can now talk about him with out tearing up, he's still much in our minds, we have really come to terms that he's no longer with us...
04/08/2009 with Christmas just a little under 5 months away i feel that i'm not getting my project complete quick enough, as some of the parts required are failing to arrive with in the time need to install them as some of these parts are from overseas, tho i'll press on hopefully i complete in time.. at the moment i've lost interest in completing as this Christmas will be a little sad with out our baby dog....
05/08/2009 today, i've been really busy with various things and hadn't posted how i'm feeling about the passing of our pooch, it wasn't till i visited the cities council admin building that i really had noticed that he really gone when i asked to have our dog taken off the pet registry, i was told that someone had already done so, i was all prepared to do it myself, when i was told it had been done, i was kind of relieved, the young lady that served me was so nice about it i left the building with a happy feeling, i called it in to home and told that it had been done by some one else and i assumed it was some one from the vet.. (thank you)
tho today started of kind of sad as its  getting closed to the end of grieving and its time to move one with life although he brought a lot of fun to our lives in his 12 years with us we are going to miss his antics and his mischief he was a Staffy the runt of the litter..
RIP "TURNER" we hope you find your way back to us in the future..
05/08/2009 Oooops i did it again i kinda shut my site down again when i posted an upload to the sites main folder, no fear all is fixed
07/08/2009 Today marks one week after we put our baby dog to sleep, we are sort coming to terms that he's no longer with us, how ever, its those little things that you miss that get you in tears, like we have a routeen each time we go out and return yesterday Thursday was the first time we came home to a quite house no dog to greet us no sounds of the friendly growling no excited dog because were home nothing, it was just silence, it is some what a strange feeling, tho now we are glad that he no longer in pain if he was there was no telling as at the time he was in a happy spirit, which to him was the right time for him to leave us and join our other departed, RIP "TURNER"
09/07/2009 today around 4:15pm a power failure at a DC in Melbourne took out my and many users internet service..
14/08/2009 well here we are 2 weeks after we put our baby staffy to sleep, we are really starting to come to terms with him missing around the place, it sometimes feels like he's here and sometimes not, that in itself is some what weird, but that's what's happening, all the same, we haven't gotten out of the routine where, you open and close doors and the like where we keep him locked out of the main part of the house when where away he some times get in to mischief when were out, anyways we still miss him as he was always around us...RIP "TURNER"
20/08/2009 Until further notice i've ceased shoutcasting live  to my website as the hosting service had become unstable, there services are currently not accessable, so for the time being i'm going to soon be updating all links to radio streams, those on my main page and those on the radio page..
20/08/2009 Ok i have updated the main page to carry a local Mp3 stream, however it is a 256kbps stream, as it is ok for me to listen as this is broadcasted within Au or rather rebroadcasted in AU from another site over seas from my point of view..
20/09/2009 its been a month since i've done any updates so i thought i'd pop in and type a few words on whats going on.. well i've decided to scrap this years computer controlled test light show as i'm not able to complete the critical part of the project  (the controllers), i'm short of a few chips that are required and i'm unable to get them in at this time, how ever i'm still going to get some of the componets installed ready for the whips to be installed but i don't like my chances at this time..

aslo with some very expensive work done to my truck over the past  few months i've had to pay off the cost of the work that had been done, i'm up for another $1k bill next year for new belts and platinum tip spark plugs at the 200k service and aircon servicing external belts and the usual engine servicing...

so even next year could put a damper on my computer controlled lights so at this stage i'm playing by ear..

as you are aware on the 31/07/09 we had to   but our dog "Turner" a staffy to sleep, i thought i mention it here and let you know how life is with out him, well i can tell you now that its been very very quite, its good to sleep in... :) with out been woken up by the dog crashing thru his dog door or crashing into my bed like there had been an earth quake or something... but life with out him is still a struggle, but there is less work to do around the house as he would drag half the country side inside with him, least know i can keep the house a little cleaner, but we sill miss him even tho he's been out of our lifes for nearly 2 months...

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