THIS BLOG IS DEEEAAD

This blog is disbandoned.
What?
Disbandoned.
Don't you mean Disbanded?
Abandoned?
Yup, all of those things

Well you won't have a clue as to what the above quote means if you don't watch Flight of the Conchords. Even if you do, you would have to have watched that particular episode in which that piece of text was performed. But enough of the quote.

We're moving to Wordpress.

Moving to Wordpress from Blogger is like abandoning your old '97 Commodore to get a Lamborghini, moving from a crappy shack to a Mansion, switching from Pepsi to Coke, old 15" CRT monitor to a new 22" Widescreen monitor, or getting a new hat.

So yeah. New link:
http://www.goodkingwenceslas.wordpress.com/

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See you there.

Moving

Brickmanbarry.blogspot.com will no longer be hosted by Blogger.
We're moving to wordpress. The site is pretty much done, but i'll give you the link after i've posted a bit on there and fixed a few bugs.

The Escape to The Apple Store.

Yet another historic dig excursion.
This time it's to Sydney.

Heres the plan:
Pack lunch or buy it beforehand.
During our lunchbreak run to the Apple Store.
Meet back at museum 1 hour later.

Everybody's happy.

im still here

I'm just posting less becuase mr Optus has slowed down our connection again. As soon as I get some credit i'll post off my phone.

Laptop HDD Confirmed

Yes there is now at least one teacher that knows whats going on.

My science teacher has confirmed that the laptops will have 2gb of RAM and a 160gb hard drive. Now if you are just as clueless as some of the other teachers, those specs are a good thing.

160gb will get you (minus the space Windows XP takes up) about:
-158,000 pictures at 1mb each
-31,600 songs at 5mb each
-790 1/2 hour Family Guy episodes, at full DVD quality, mp4 format
-3950 1/2 hour Family Guy episodes, at high quality, mkv format
-79 2 hour movies at full DVD quality
-158 million text files

Tutorial: A Classic Lake High Fight.

Above: A classic fight. You could learn from this.

OK obviously Jarrod and Matt don't know how to have a proper Lake High fight. Here are a couple of guidelines for next time:

Gather up your homies
First thing you have to do before the fight itself is gather up as many people as you can to be on your side. They don't even have to be friends, just grab a couple of year 7'ers and say theres a lollipop in it for them.

Walk around a bit
When you've gotten a crowd, take a stroll around the school. One route that is commonly taken goes as follows; Start out in the main quad, walk through the other quads and eventually go find the person you want to fight (Or otherwise known as the "fightee"). This is probably the most important part of the fight since you can gain attention and even more members for your gang.

Insult the victim/fightee
Apart from the classic and most obvious, "U wanna fight me?", there are a number of insults you can throw at the fightee. Slip in a couple of swear words to intimidate your fightee.

Start the fight
From here you can do whatever you want. Just make sure there are a couple of kids recording it so they can bluetooth it to you later.

Teachers and Technology II

Today is the day I found our school's very first teacher to finally hug technology. Or so I thought. Let's read on...

Long-time readers may remember that post I made about teachers and technology. Well today I handed in an assignment on a USB stick. Hurrah.

As I handed it to my teacher, he said,
"I'm not going to print that out."
Now this got my hopes up. Is this the very first tech-savvy teacher in our school? Will he save paper by marking it off the computer?

"Go to the computer room and print it off yourself."
Ugh.

Now this is ironic since it was my Geography teacher that said that. Don't Geography teachers believe in Global Warming? They're always whining about it.

Very Rare Sighting Indeed

I was going through some old files and found an old screenshot I had taken.

MyMiniCity

http://gk.wenceslas.myminicity.com/

I've recently established a town in the middle of nowhere. I call it

GK.Wenceslas (goodkingwenceslas wouldn't fit on the sign)

Each time you visit my city, my population increases and buildings grow etc. until I have giant skyscrapers and such!

So please visit!

http://gk.wenceslas.myminicity.com/

You can create a minicity of your own. Just go to the site.
When it asks you to select your country, go for an African country nobody's ever heard of, because there won't be much competition to be the top ranking Minicity! I just started and i'm already ranked the 4th biggest city in a country called 'Lesotho' in Africa. Hurrah!

Never Going Back

I've switched to Ubuntu Linux, since I got them to mail me a free CD and I decided to try it out. Now i've fallen in love with it and I don't think i'll got back to XP.

I like it because it comes with most of the software you need already installed, like Firefox etc. and you don't need antivirus software (Well at least I don't think you do).

You can download Ubuntu Linux from this link (699mb) or do the lazy thing and make them mail you a free CD (just as I did) but you'll need to signup and enter your address and stuff. Don't worry, it's legit. It took about 2-3 weeks for them to deliver my CD, not 6 weeks like it says on the website.

[laptop] Mythbusters!

I just want to clear up a couple of things about the laptop.

Frequently Asked Questions:

Will the laptops be Apple Macs?
No. The government's budget is about $500 per laptop and Macs are about $1500. You do the math.

Awww I want a Mac.
What the hell is wrong with you.

What will the laptops be then? HP? Acer? Asus?
IBM Lenovo S10. Its sort of a 'mini laptop' called a Netbook.
See my other post for specs and stuff.
Will they be Windows Vista?
No, they're XP.

What about filtering?
They'll have the same filter as the computers at school.

When are we getting them? And who gets them?
Hopefully September this year. And everyone in Years 9-12 gets them, but people in years 10 and up have to share them 1 between 2. Sucked in.

Silly Mrs Rae

Oops! Looks like Mrs Rae has accidentally shown us how to send an email to everyone in the school when she sent us those messages about Dave Smith.

Using this email address:

~8474.scholastic.year.7@distributionlist.webservices

you can send an email to everyone in that year. Just replace "7" with the year that you want e.g

~8474.scholastic.year.11@distributionlist.webservices

for year 11.

Have fun.