Yesterday I posted some photos, and within a couple mins... I had spam! How is this possible?! I usually use Thunderbird to clean the spam out of my inbox, but unfortunately it cant detect spam sent to me through my blog. This is most annoying. Anyhow, I shought I would share a website with you. http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/nano.ars/3 These guys are testing their new iPod nano to see how they can break it. It's interesting to note that they ran over it with a car twice and it still played! I dont think I could cope with all the scratches if that happened to my nano... (wow I want one) lol. The nano has a color screen and is only 7mm thick! it's so sexy, I really want one, however at $349 for the 4gig model in Australia, It's still a little expensive. *gifts are most welcome tho* =D Anyways, today I have finished off some extra research work on our powerpoint presentation, and now I should start looking at doing some thumbnails. I hope I can design a communications device as small as the nano, but somehow I doubt it. Tonight is a meeting of al the church councils in our cluster, I dont know what they will be talking about, but it should be interesting.  

Last Friday was Lindy's birthday. Chris works with Lindy, and when we heard that she didnt have anything planned for her birthday, we soon fixed that! We had only planned a dinner at the tavern in Mooroolbark, but we discovered that there was some live entertainment too. The band was the Melbeats, and they are a Beatles tribute band. It was most amusing to see Chris and Lindy singing along together. I didnt know many of the songs, but it was still an enjoyable evening.  

Julian Hamilton spoke some inspirational words at the event. 

Soulframe flew down from Queensland to perform as part of the event. It was really awesome.  

Y was the largest outreach event the church has ever done, and has only wet our appetite for more. 

I left Fathers Day dinner a little early so that I could attend the Y event at Glen Waverly Uniting Church. 

Michael was wrapped that they had doritos. 

Fathers Day this year was a low key affair, with the family gathering at Grandpa's house for dinner.  

My car, back together at last!

Well, I have good news and bad news. First the good news... my car is
now back on the road, and I night say that we did a mighty fine job of
putting it back together, even if it was a little tedious. There are
only a few little problems with the way my car went back together...
a) the digital clock isn't lighting up at all, I think maybe dad
overlooked connecting it, or maybe I have to set it before it will
display anything?
b) the radio wont work. It shows a blank screen, and wont let me enter
the security code. I can hear static going through all the speakers.
c) the lights on the radio go dim when you make the lights behind the
speedo go bright, and the inverse happens when you turn the speedo
lights down low.
So overall, I really cant complain.. the heater now works, and I have
some nice new underlay under my carpet. And i suppose I have a watch if
i ever need to know the time. Music would be nice, but that can be fixed
later.
Now that I got my car fixed, my computer has decided to be naughty. For
no apparent reason, the USB has decided to stop working, so thats my
next project.

the car carpet hung out to dry.  

the carpet was removed for drying.  

the passenger seat... feeling rather cold and alone after being moved out of bruce 

all the trim and rear seats needed to be removed to take the carpet out to dry it.  

Bruce without seats 

The replacement heat exchanger 

the heat exchanger: where all the problems began 

Another day...

Well, I'm enjoying my little break from uni pressure, with no design
work there is really only dynamics questions to work on. I spent a good
part of 4 hours on them today! and still I am not up to date.
Yesterday afternoon, before Dad and I headed off to Grandma and
Grandpa's house to pull my car apart, I applied for a credit card. I
know... Its exciting! I applied for one with a $500 limit, and they
rebate you 1% of your total bill each month! So that means if I spend
$1900 on it each year, I wont have a annual card fee. (that works out to
be $37 a week) My plan is to use it for everyday purchases. Anyways, I
hope I get it, it will be handy.
This afternoon I spent the afternoon with Shane, we didn't do anything
too thrilling, just hunted for DVD box sets and screen protectors for my
palm. I was most annoyed to see that they don't carry them in my size at
officeworks. Shane very kindly drove me home, and after dinner I plan to
work on my car... this time maybe put it back together.
-Andrew

Now what?? oh dear. 

mmm.... dashboard 

As you can see, everything is gutted from my car! I had no idea how much crap was between me and the engine!