http://owened.net it's probably awesome Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:16:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ashley has already posted about it, and now that I've finally read up on the topic a little, I'm totally flabbergasted at the sheer ignorance on display from Senator Conroy and the other MPs concerning this initiative -- not to mention that of Australians in general, but I suppose like ... http://owened.net/2008/11/13/australias-clean-feed-ridiculous/ This morning I left the hospital after staying overnight; a requirement of the procedure I had received yesterday. It's nothing serious, so I apologise if you weren't informed previously and are now worried about my well-being. Now that we have that out of the way, I can continue my little story. ... http://owened.net/2008/11/06/hospitalization/ So this weekend, we had a party. We needed music, obviously. But we didn't want to use CDs, or an iPod or anything like that. Those things are too easy to change. People go and hit 'next track' when they don't want to listen to something, and it annoys everybody ... http://owened.net/2008/10/27/open-source-jukebox/ It's been more than three years since I upgraded my PC. Yeah, I know, hey? I'm still running an AGP video card, DDR memory, and a Socket 754 Athlon 64 CPU. I bought this system way back when in preparation for the launch of Half-Life 2; and since that time, that ... http://owened.net/2008/10/22/a-new-computer/ This weekend has been hilolerous (hilarious, but with more lol) -- Friday night, out in the Valley with Annie and Kate, who both gothed up for the occasion of visiting Club Blink in 299. I'll admit that I wore some eyeliner. Apparently it made me look hot. But I'm not ... http://owened.net/2008/10/19/epic-weekends-for-the-win/ Normally, I don't really like change. Change is unpredictable and can make comfortable things turn into uncomfortable things. I started looking around for another job. I was starting to feel a change coming on; it's been building up over the past few weeks. At work, things were different. My boss ... http://owened.net/2008/10/08/change/ My week's been alright this week. I saw Carly and my friends a lot which was good, but unfortunately for some reason, I haven't had the mental agility recently to do the required thought acrobatics which allow for the override of bad experiences with good experiences. In other words, I'm focusing ... http://owened.net/2008/09/27/my-week-in-review/ It's awesome! I'm pleasantly surprised by just how much I've enjoyed listening to Triple J's Impossible Music Festival over the past weekend. You can check the line-up for all of the details about what bands have been playing. Highlights for me would be The Presets (playing as I write this), Nirvana, ... http://owened.net/2008/09/21/triplej-impossible-music-festival/ I did some grocery shopping today. I needed a few things; bread, milk, fruit, and some cold meat. The usual things. So, I headed down to my local grocery shop, and as it happens, the place was entirely empty. Bearing in mind that 1.30PM on a Wednesday typically isn't the ... http://owened.net/2008/09/03/flabbergasted/ An addendum to my previous post on the same issue, I've thought further about my energy levels and what seems to affect them. Today, instead of sitting at my desk and reading Slashdot for my lunch break, I took my lunch outside, sat in the sun and read my book. It ... http://owened.net/2008/08/26/an-addendum-energy-levels/