If you haven’t noticed this on Facebook, there are thousands and thousands of groups promising you to change the Facebook theme, etc after inviting all of your friends. Yeah, while I haven’t personally tested if any of them work, it is obvious that it is entirely bulls**t. Yep, you got that right. You won’t be able to change back to the old Facebook design because you can’t – it is impossible to change it without the need of extensions like Greasemonkey, but that only just changes the CSS to make it look like the old theme.

So, here’s a hint. If you are going to send me, or anyone else, with that kind of nonsense – don’t.

Meanwhile, we are finally relaunching the Journal as a place to track the Election. Basically, it will just be a place we just aggregate content – though we are going to be a bit more interactive, like recaps and polls to see what is happening; and like last election, live Twitter coverage on the election and on the blog – though that depends on the schedule.

TECHGEEK Podcast is up and running again, though we’re going to be doing it every month – so it means that we can fit it around our busy schedules. We might expand it to have special episodes, but then again we might not. However, I so want to do a prediction thing.

Finally, I might not be blogging a lot on this blog this year, mainly because I’m currently doing two Unit 3&4s and they take priority than this small personal blog. I’m still balancing my life with RM, so expect me to be blogging on TECHGEEK a whole lot more… hopefully.

Now, since I’ve got a test tomorrow (or the next day, or any day before or after you’re reading this), I really need to study.

See ya!

A friend of mine named Andrew has started his own online radio station named Smash. You can obviously tell that I’m helping him out because you can see that Reawaken Media is listed. Stewart is also helping him out as well, since they both used work at AlfaHosts (Okay, Stewart hired him).

A full site, which I’m designing (as Antinomie Designs), is coming soon; however, the stream is up, so go listen to it and give us some feedback.

You can visit the site at http://smashradio.com.au.

Most of the traffic comes from Google, while direct traffic (directly typing the address to TECHGEEK.com.au) comes in second. More than 10,000 visitors use Google than directly going to our address. I should also note that this only tracks unique visitors for the day – meaning that if you made two visits in the same day, it will still be recorded as one. Oh, and some people still prefer to use the old address – despite we switched to .com.au in June, though I think that should have stopped by now.

Multitude3’s server is currently experiencing some network related issues, All tech’s are working around the clock to have this issue fixed as soon as humanly possible If you have any questions please feel free to email me at, danielwatson@aanet.com.au Cheers Daniel Watson Multitude3 CEO

Usually, when my host has this kind of problem (or any host for that matter), they would fix it within a DAY and not several days, though it may be Daniel Watson himself as his “tech’s” (sic) have left the company. One day, I really should write a piece on this blog on how bad M3 is.

By the way, I have e-mailed him finding out what is the reason. I bet you he doesn’t respond. Does he still know that I own TECHGEEK.com.au, and that it has more eyeballs than his site – man, I am getting arrogant.

I swear that every time I am on school holidays, I get weird status messages from people I added as “Friends” on Facebook. No, I am being serious. Below are some of the weird comments that I’m talking about – and yes, their pictures and (last) names have been blurred/blacked out because of something called privacy, that and they do go to my school.

See what I mean? That’s all for today, I’ll write back tomorrow – I think.

But on my last day, I found out a number of good news – got a really good mark in Science and Religion, found out that three of the people in a group I call the “Idiots who managed to get into the school because of the feeder school policy” will leave the school and turns out I got a Distinction in that Westpac Maths Competition I did way back in August, which is kinda surprising, because I just got over half the questions right. LOL!

I also got a certificate for doing Building Bridges and for participating in a group called MAYO, where I am the Web Administrator; but I feel my job is starting to expand outwards since I’m also getting everyone who’s doing software projects for MAYO to sign a document releasing it under GPL and I’m organising a Sprint – which is not the athletic one, but the open source community one. I’m also building a new website environment for them, with the help of several people (Does two count as several people?) using WordPress MU, bbPress, MediaWiki and a few other plugins along the way. I tried to make it tightly integrated with each other so one person can login from WordPress MU and jump straight onto bbPress and MediaWiki, but time will tell if this would work. The best thing, however, is I get to rip apart the BuddyPress theme and attempt to find which bit corresponds to the template I designed.

Woot! But what is on the TECHGEEK Agenda for the rest of the year:

• THE YEAR IN REVIEW: We are slightly changing it a bit, and we are going to focus on a few topics instead of creating a long document of the months. That way, it makes it easier for us to post it in the relevant topics. Expect this to be released on NYE 2009.
• CHRISTMAS GUIDE: Christmas is around the corner and I’m trying to coax Stewart, Luke, Shane, James and Adrian to write up a wish list. This most likely will never happen, but maybe in the next year. If this doesn’t work, wait until Boxing Day, where we will bring together a series of product guides on the best Tech stuff to get during the Clearance Sales. WOOT!
• REVIEWS: We’re getting back into reviews, for now, and we have Luke covering the Apple Mighty Mouse, James looking at Microsoft Office 2010 Beta (hopefully) and I’m looking at the Sony Walkman E Series MP3 player – and I’m also trying to get phones and the Sony Walkman S Series.
• TIPS & TRICKS: We have been lacking in this type of content for a few months now, and we will get started again in December – hopefully.

I’m also looking in creating a special feature for TECHGEEK.com.au next year called Technology and Education, focusing how new technologies and the Internet have helped education. Anyone want to help, please comment.

Well, I better be off.

See Ya!

Other than that, last Thursday, the entire Building Bridges region that I’m in went to East Kilmore to help with Blaze Aid, which was pretty good. While I’m sad that it was the final meeting, at least we ended at a high note – even if we completed 2/3 of the entire work, which consisted of pulling down fences and removing the wire. While I didn’t get the hang of it at the beginning, I managed to learn it – among other jobs. Hopefully, there will be another day my school will go up there. There are photos of the event – unfortunately, I can’t post them up since it wasn’t me who took them.

Well, I’ve got to end it there. Exam time is already upon our school, so I better study. Hopefully.

However, today’s FCOW will only have one passage today, mainly because I can’t be stuffed in writing any more, and that it pretty much sums up the pain of St. Kilda supporters and the gloating of Geelong fans.

Person #1
THE SAINTSSS, ARE GOINGG, THE SAINTSSS, ARE GONE, THE SAINTSSS, HAVE LOST IT. COP THATT, IT’S OVER. GO GEELONGGGGG.

Person #2
no (name removed)

Person #3
F**K GEELONG

Person #1
BAD LUCK (name removed), riewoldt is going to dye his hair black, listen to screamo and slit his wrists.

Person #4
Shit the fuk up (name removed) u f***ot c**t

The discussion basically continues to talk about shutting people up and I think there’s a reference of having ADD or some other thing that makes you hyper. Well, until this comes along in its colourful language:

Person #5
SHUTUP C**T U Bi**H F**K GEELONG

Then this:

Person #3
YEAA SUCK A FAT ONE (name removed) EVERYONES AGAINST YOUU F**K WIT F**K GEELONG!!!

Person #1
but (name removed) i tht you were collingwood. (He’s talking to Person #5)

Then it slightly drifts into something else, before Person #5 then goes on and says:

Person #5
lol ye no s**t but im with saints on this one so shutup c**t F**K GEELONG B***H!

Person #1
LOL, everyone so passionate, i don’t like geelong or the saints, but saints supporters were cocky bout it, so umm.. bad luck? next yr maybe.

Then it just ends in with:

Person #6
COLLINGWOOD SUKS

You know what, maybe I should stay away from football fans during Grand Final day.

Anyway, I’m introducing FCOW; and no, it’s not another website. FCOW stands for “Facebook Crap of the Week”, and I will recount the crap of status messages and updates on my Facebook profile (By the way, you can add me as a friend here). However, I am not going to reveal the identity of some of the people, mainly because of privacy issues and that I cannot really name them unless I have their permission.

Take this for example:

hey girl, like something off a poster..like a gun to my haulster..shes running through my mind everyday.

OK, I’m not going to criticise his spelling, and his grammar; but, it seems that I don’t really want to know that she is like a gun to your head – and last time I checked, that’s a bad thing. Just got to love the crap on Facebook. I would also post photos, but I would have to blur faces and it does take a while – well, not really, but I just can’t give a stuff about doing it.

Another thing Facebook has is that you can read the comments of a friends post, especially those who aren’t your “friends” on Facebook, and it does bring in more crap, mainly because it does show up in my news feed every time I launch Facebook on my browser – and I don’t care if you have plans for the weekend or find that your “sundaiz are on my waiz”. I mean, come on, what the hell does that mean? Below is a comment transcript from someone who said “im bored” – and yes, his grammar is terrible.

Person #1
awww no shit ayes…
i hate sundaiz on my waiz…
too quite…
grrrrr

Person #2
i rekon. Im bored as. But im watching summer heights high so its alrite i just wanna go out but

Person #1
bahahaha no shit ayes…
bahahaha summer height high..
watta funny guy…
lol better than what im doin…
nothing….
lol i wanna head outs too, but cant…
SUNDAI…
grrrrr

Lastly, I leave you with this weird comment timeline from another person’s status message:

Person #1
things that make u go mmmm

Person #2
Animal intestines are pretty good but I guess u cant top sheep brains.

Person #1
agreed.

Person #3
dicks

Person #4
fuck up saen…since wends disd u use dicks….u jeew

Person #3
coz he said things that make you go mmm
and dicks make YOU go mmm dont they ; )

Person #4
bahahaha namhhh they make you go *puts it in my mouth** u jew

Person #3
what do u want me to put in your mouth??? ur always talkin bout wantin meat at school, so u want mine in ur mouth?? : P

Person #4
fukcs off kunt, ifs i wasnt reli tipsy or hwatveaverfs i am, id be muckin you bad trick…bahaha but cheyeah, no ones wants your lil chlode in their mouth…

Person #3
you’ll muckin me bad trick??
wtf does that meann??:S

Person #4
ummmm soriz meant mockins… donts u kno what tricks is???

Person #3
like a magic trick??

Person #4
bahahaha ill explains sum otha times aks me then….truuuu

Person #3
yeaa okay i’ll write it down on my hand so i remember : )

OK, WTF?