So here is the day I was hoping to enjoy, just another 4wd adventure.
But I came around a corner, fish tailed and hit a tree (then did a 180, don’t know how that happened though).
This was on the way home so I still had a good 4wd, it just took a little longer to get home than expected.
I’m lost on feeling though. I’m confused how it happened. I came out of it ok, mum is shaken up again.
I’m sad that I won’t be able to drive anywhere, but it is not going to bring me to tears.
The tow truck guy suggested that the car will be a write off, so I guess all of the work I’ve put into the car just dissapears.
I’m not particularly worried about the money on the car, because I’ve had a blast in it. But I kinda wish it lasted longer.
I could just replace the car, but does that mean I would have to go back to work to build the funds up again…
Does the freedom the car gives me outway the freedom I wanted from my own project….
September 28th, 2008
Well ye dirty land lubber.
We made it to international talk like a pirate day and some of us take it the extra step.
September 19th, 2008
For the longest time, I was getting next to no spam.
Now it seems that I am getting 3-4 every day.
I’ve started turning off comments for some of the posts that keep getting spam to stop the emails coming in.
One thing I noticed was that they all come from the same ip address (200.63.42.136). I would normally expect it to come from many addresses.
Just wondering if anyone else is suffering at this point in time?
September 5th, 2008
…but doesn’t upload any shots: Does anybody know about it?
Well very few, but the worst bit is I can’t show it off.
Back near the start of August, my brother and I took our patrols over to Tasmania for a quick whip around. Goals were:
1. Cadbury factory tour
2. Drive in some snow
3. See an old Huon pine tree
So here is us on the first day at some lighthouse.
Stopped off at some falls.
Some more falls
A small snow fight
Spotting a rainbow
Crossing a lake
And on Mt Wellington where it snowed for all of about 30 seconds 
Is was just 4 full days in Tasmania, but worthwhile. Some say “what a waste” bringing two cars but it meant all 4 of us got a front seat and if anything went wrong, the other car could probably do some towing. The only thing that bothered me is that you can’t drive and take photos (Mum still needs to pick up on the finer details of the camera).
When we got home we got some tickets to some races that I went to but caught a cold from. So I haven’t had the energy to put these pics up previously.
So we seen the Huon pine, We got to play in the snow. But the Cadbury factory was shut on the weekend, which is when we pulling into Hobart.
August 20th, 2008
Just came across an interesting line that I thought was worth sharing.
public static boolean isInterfaceOf (Object o, Class<?> interfac) {
return interfac.isAssignableFrom(o.getClass());
}
Now java obviously has a instanceof keyword that allows you to do this, shorter to type and more recognisable.
The project I’m having a peek at (Archimedes an open source CAD program) only has one use for this where instanceof couldn’t work.
It hides the collection of objects and you can get all of the objects of a certain type. You could get around this by exposing the collection.
Just thought that this method actually makes the coding longer than what it actually does.
August 7th, 2008
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