Checked out of the hotel just before. There was a cop checked in cos I saw a surprised valet guy get out of the drivers seat of the cop car he had obviously just parked out front of the hotel.

I can’t believe the internet price though, .68c a minute. They were using getin2net as their provider. The address was get.in2.net but I guess thats just the DNS of their internal proxy server. It had an accept page that you had to go through before it would give you access and it gave unique ID to my laptop. If only I knew the MAC address of the guy next door.

So I should leave hopefully at about 12:30 today and be back my 3 or so. Then I have to drive my bluebird up to Warkworth to drop it off to a guy who’s paying me $900 for it. Need to get a rego for it first.

Pritty shit how I can only get $900 for it though. Thought I could get at least $1500 but with a cracked windscreen and a whining front bearing in the gearbox. Dammit.

Oh well, one more (half) day of company paid meals.

The other night I was playing round with my PC, and I plugged my 320gb in but the computer wouldn’t turn on. It just made a zoom sound and then died. Somewhere in the PSU. And I had to turn it off at the PSU, and then turn it back on, and then try to turn it on again before it would make the noise again.

I was like wtf? So I looked at the connection and somehow the plug from the Molex–>SATA had gotten “un-keyed” and managed to get itself plugged in the wrong way. So I was shooting 12v up the 5v and 5 volt up the 12v. Needless to say the drive don’t go.

But I tried plugging it into my portable molex PSU, a little powerpack with a 240 in and comes out in a 12v/5v molex and it didn’t turn off – not that advanced. However some little voltage regulators on the hard drive’s logic board got very hot very quickly! So I quickly turned that off.

So guess what I will have to do is buy another 320gb, swap the logic boards, grab the data off it, swap the boards back and biff it

Waste of $190 (a couple months ago).

So I’m in Hamiltron at the moment. Working at the SKYCITY down here. Company paid hotel, company paid my gas down here, company paid meals. So awesome. Staying at a nice hotel too, with broadband included in the room I hope. Then I can update my linux cos haven’t got broadband at home yet.

Though I have been informed I can get it now – supposedly the lines have been upgraded. But suddenly every broadband plan is a rip off! I am so sure they were cheaper before, it seems the unbundling has made things more expensive, though I think that was going to happen anyway – I think I remeber something about that.

Only dumb thing about being down here in Hamilton, I get to eat out every night, but I have no one to eat out with. Oh well. This is like a working holiday