Hello from Virgin Broadband!

Well, we've had it for nearly a week now, and after a few hiccups, seems to be working rather nicely. We couldn't get a 3G signal originally, but after some playing around on Sunday (which I missed, but was then shown some funny photos of Dad outside our barn, with modem, my notebook and an old corded Telstra phone) we now have the modem sitting outside the study door, on a garbage bin, and a much improved speed (not as good as the barn roof apparently, but still an improvement on dialup :P ).

I took a few minutes out from uni work today to upload some photos from the city last Tuesday and the 'Deathly Hallows' weekend. You can see them at my Flickr page.

While we were in the city we went to Skydeck 88 at the Eureka Tower. The view was pretty awesome, and while I didn't personally go out on to 'The Edge', we did go on the open-air balcony next to it, which was incredibly windy and incredibly cold and felt like I was at the snow, but was so much fun, possibly more fun than the Edge, which costs an extra $8(!).

We also went to see 'Order of the Phoenix' in IMAX. The 3D was cool, but not as amazing as I expected. While there were bits that looked truly fantastic (such as the Thestrals, and the fact it felt like you were on set watching them film the scenes), there were times the effect didn't really work, and as the film was obviously shot for standard film with the 3D as a kind of after-thought, the running scenes that were shot hand-held (and looked great non-3D) were just too blurry and weird looking. Not to mentioned the 20 mins was the real maximum time you could watch - the strain on your eyes is just to great.

And so I really should return to my accounting homework - this standard cost and budgeting stuff that I'm doing at the moment just confirms my thoughts that I want to be a financial acccountant, and not a management accountant. The annoying thing is that doing the work for this subject is cutting into time I'd prefer to spend on subjects such as HCI, which is much more interesting. That's uni, I guess. Even more scary is the thought that it's already week 5 - and it sure doesn't feel like I've been there for five weeks.