Disappointments on the Port Bow!

Oh well, I haven’t update this thing for a while. Life is full of ups and downs at the moment, it’s altogether very bumpy. Well, Since my last post I’ve done a lot of cool things most memorable of which is going to the royal show. For people who have no clue what I’m talking about it’s this giant, carnival sort of thing that comes to Perth for 8 days a year starting around October. I think the original purpose was for farmers to show of their sheep ect. but now it’s this huge thing that occupied the entire Perth showgrounds (really close to our house) with all manner of things to do. I went with some friends and got to be the bag boy while they went on the Python Loop (huge ass rollercoaster) twice. The rides are pretty extortionate here as the average for a ride in sideshow alley is $8au. After feeling wimpy for 10 minutes I let them pressure me into going on the Mega Drop. Bad Idea. This thing is psycho. It takes you up 45 metres then in about .2 seconds it lets you drop all the way down at 204 km/h with a force of -5.5g. That would make you think that all the blood would rush to your head, but for me the opposite happened. I was so freaked out that my friends said I was as white as a ghost. After that we went on the splashdown (fun), Azzam and Sam blew five bucks on shooting cans with a cork gun (to no avail), buying about 5kg of lollies in showbags (pwnage) and then going home and having Azzam yelling at me because I wanted to buy a train ticket (illegal not to do so). The dairy pavilion they have there is quite awesome. Every stall has free samples, YoGo, icecream, cheese, flavored milk you name it, they have it. FOR FREE!

This week I also decided to undertake the horror of installing Vista RC1. To anyone considering this, DON’T. While it may be loaded up with eye candy, it’s a freakin unstable, slow, crashable, bsod inducing, incompatible bitch. After backing everything up I downloaded the ISO and started installing it, only to find halfway through the dvd was corrupt and I had to download the 2.5 gig image again. Big deal you might say, but on a 5gb download limit and with on 256k Internet, it is a big deal! Well, after a lot of fiddling around and a 5 hour install time (Yep, it looks like it’s frozen but it isn’t) I finally got it working. The logon screen is beautiful. Everything else, a work of art. But have you ever tried getting a Picasso to play DVDs? (bad metaphor, shutup) Not even all the fancy GUI tricks in the world would make me install a beta of this again. First of all:

~My neck hurts

~It’s really slow!

~It’s incompatible with my video drivers (a problem, since the vista ones from ATI don’t work with my outdated hardware. I get a BSOD every time I expand the navigation bar in the open/save box.This is something you need)

~I just realized while typing this that I put my ~ key back on upside down (WTF)

~It takes up 75% of my ram doing nothing (512mb)

~And… it’s just really freaking buggy.

My advice to you: Just don’t go there!

Adios, Chumps