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2007 has been rather interesting so far. I have been settling in with the new job, bought a funky little remote control helicopter which has spent more time waiting for replacement parts that I have broken than actually in the air, upgraded from crt’s to some fat assed lcd’s, upgraded to an insane amount of disk storage in my computer room, finally moved to mythtv for the media pc downstairs, found out that I have high blood pressure (lol, no surprises there) and also confirmed that I have high cholesterol… joy!

The health things were no great surprise, I already knew about the blood pressure from all the times I had given blood and I knew I was *not* eating healthily while I was working at IBM. So..in the last month I have picked up myself a funky little Polar RS200 heartrate monitoring watch that has a shoe attachment to detect distance travelled and have started jogging! For those who actually know me, yes, your eyes are not deceiving you, I’ve actually started doing it! I got a little carried away a week or so ago and jogged all the way to Cronulla which was a pretty good effort, a 7km round trip which is pretty good for someone who used to walk from front door to the garage, then a whole 5 mins from car park to work. I have also started a half assed diet which has been pretty good. I feel much better for it, and I’ve even lost about 4-5kg in just a month which is good.

In regards to mythtv, I’ve pleasantly found that its progressed significantly since I last tried using it. I still don’t like the mythfrontend, but that’s cause I’m not a windoze gumby who likes clickity clickity icons. I have configured my media pc with fluxbox and a custom fluxbox menu to fire up firefox for mythweb, nautilus, mplayer & totem. I also blame this on not having a remote to properly utilise the mythfrontend, but even if I had a remote, I doubt I’d use it. I currently use a wireless Logitech MX610 mouse which does the job very well, especially when you can program its additional buttons to do things like pause, volume etc.

I’ve also been bitten by a World of Warcraft addiction. Every minute I can spare I seem to be playing my characters! My primary character is a Draenai Shaman, with a Night Elf Druid alt.. I so wish I had started playing WoW when it first came out.. At the time of writing my druid is a lvl 39 and the shammy is 37.. I do have an assortment of other characters around which equates to a hell of a *LOT* of /played hours.. Its so damn addictive. Least its better than drugs As mentioned earlier, I upgraded a fair bit of hardware, including a nice new 20″ LCD monitor for my main machine, with a resolution of 1600×1200 (cause there was no way I was willing to drop from this resolution that I ran on my CRT’s) and I’m really *really* happy with its performance and quality. Screenshots don’t really show the viewable image quality, but its probably about time I did another screenshot one of these days.. maybe tomorrow, or the day after..

Oh, and for Voodoo:

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