http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/ Jevon Wright's Journal en-us Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:10:34 -0700 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss journals.jevon.org widget support@jevon.org support@jevon.org http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/19902 It seems like forever since I've written anything on here :) I guess I never really have much to say. Life is going OK. I spend most of my online time on Facebook and Twitter, but neither of them are very good for doing good chunks of interesting content... My Ph.D () is stressful and busy and awesome, as always. My last entry said I'd be finished by May 2010 -- that date has long passed, and now my submission date has been extended to September 2011. Depressing, but at least I will finish it -- that is, unless there is just too much work left to do. Right now I am working on the proof-of-concept implementation code for two weeks, trying to get lots done before I have to go back to the thesis. Music-wise, I've started singing and guitaring at the same time, and having a stupidly fun time doing that. I've also started to learn the drums -- I had drumming practice this evening, and it went really well. I've continued to learn how to write and compose music, and I've written a few good tunes in the last year o... Wed, 27 Apr 2011 19:04:45 -0700 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/?showid=19902#19902 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/19902 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/19521 So things are getting kinda chaotic all of a sudden. I wasn't expecting Winter to be so harsh or sudden. I still haven't adapted to the lack of sunlight or the cold, and it's taking forever. I struggle to wake up before 9am, and I run out of energy by around 5pm in the day. I'm used to Summer and being able to do stuff 8am-1am. For quite a few days in the last month, I simply haven't gotten out of bed until 2pm, by which time the sun is almost gone. Tomorrow I have to take two cars to get fixed, and give a presentation on my work at Massey (I haven't yet practiced it). I also have to drive down to Wellington in the evening for the weekend. And somehow I need to mark nine 40% assignments by the end of this weekend, before a long band practice on Sunday. Our new flatmate is moving in this weekend. Hopefully I will receive my new power supply tomorrow, so I can fix my desktop PC before next week and get my Subversion server running again. Next week I need to practice lots for our next Solfonic gig at The Sta... Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:16:11 -0700 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/?showid=19521#19521 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/19521 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/16806 Just before 10pm last night, my kitty Mental got hit by a car while playing on the road outside our flat, and died instantly. :( She was a lovely unique kitty and I miss her very very much. I adopted Mental about four years ago when I moved into the Bryant St flat. We spent a lot of time doing crazy silly things, like carrying her around in boxes and washing baskets. She loved sleeping on keyboards, sleeping on my dressing gown, and peeking through my window in the morning. She liked climbing in my car, but didn't like going for a drive. When we lived in Bryant St she would walk with me to the supermarket, and welcome me home with meows. A big thank you to the lovely strangers who quickly took her off the road, found me, and told me what had happened. I haven't lost a pet before, and it is not very nice. I was in a horrible state this morning. :( But everybody has been really supportive and caring. Thank you. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3171/3055899706_b642be5dc1_m.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com... Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:23:03 -0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/?showid=16806#16806 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/16806 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/16182 I'm no longer going to be actively using my 021 cellphone. Somehow in two weeks I have gone through $20 of credit (a lot for a poor student). The culprits? A recurring TXT2000; sending two international text messages; and trying to send two e-mails (of which only one worked). One e-mail costs $2 to send on Prepay!! I've had this phone since I was 15!! and have been a strong supporter of Vodafone ever since I connected. I stuck by them while Telecom introduced their $10 text plans, convinced that Vodafone would beat and match them (they never did). But now it's just not worth keeping the phone topped up. I can't afford any of the phone plans. ($40/month just to be able to send e-mails!?) So I won't be sending any e-mails or browsing any web sites while mobile from now on. Which is a huge pity -- being online everywhere is such a massive productivity boost!! Here is hoping that Telecom releases a reasonable prepay data network in the future. Or I move out of this backwards country. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:56:22 -0700 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/?showid=16182#16182 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/16182 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/16151 Lame: Vodafone has changed the terms of their IOU service. You no longer get a free $2 to keep you going; you now get $5, but there's a 20c service fee. I use my 021 so infrequently these days that I'm really tempted to cancel the TXT2000 I have going. It's quickly approaching the point of not being worth it. I never would have thought the day would come lol. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:02:11 -0700 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/?showid=16151#16151 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/16151 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/15830 Huh, I get quite a lot of spam ;D Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:32:17 -0700 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/?showid=15830#15830 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/15830 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/15717 Woot, I love being on Xnet HSI for Broadband! We used to be on Quicksilver, which became Woosh... and the quality was so shitty and so slow, and you couldn't download a damn thing. (Bittorrent @ 10KB/s was a good day!) Now I'm on Xnet (full speed/full speed unlimited) and it's amazing! We get 6200kbps/700kbps transfer rates, and -- more importantly -- we can achieve 100KB/s+ on international Bittorrent! It's so empowering and awesome to actually have some decent transfer rates within New Zealand. :thumbsup: for Xnet! :D Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:17:08 -0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/?showid=15717#15717 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/15717 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/15175 Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:09:55 -0700 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/?showid=15175#15175 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/15175 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/14944 I just found out about this... how screwy. If you're using Windows Live Messenger, have a look. Pity the icon is so ugly. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Home/ Fri, 18 May 2007 11:49:08 -0700 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/?showid=14944#14944 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/14944 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/14650 I'm curious. What is the price of everyone's power bills? And also: Who are you with, how many people live in your household, do you have any other energy sources, and how would you describe your usage? We're in a flat of six people, prepaid power, no gas/coal, and our power bill is gigantic ($220 in summer to $390 in winter). Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:38:42 -0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/?showid=14650#14650 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/14650 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/14502 I've decided that I'm no longer going to be putting many entries in full public view, even though I don't do that many entries anyway. If you would like to continue reading my journal you will have to become a friend of mine on the Journals. PS: Happy new year! Wed, 03 Jan 2007 14:21:21 -0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/?showid=14502#14502 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/14502 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/14282 Things are going pretty... interesting at the moment. Over the last four weeks, I've been a sort of job-quitting limbo. I've been focusing more on my music, and have been quite surprised (and depressed) that it's quite hard so far to suddenly practice 8 hours a day! I'm trying to gradually focus on it instead, and doing quite well. I'm achieving most of my goals along my path to world domination, which I'm immensely pleased about. That's about it, really. I'm wondering what to do next year, I have a bunch of options but so far the most favoured one is moving out of this city for 2007. In the short term, I need to carry on practicing, carry on jamming, going out, meeting people, recording, and writing music. Oh how I wish I didn't have to work to survive! Luckily I've got a devious plan in action so I don't have to work again until next year. I have lots of other ideas screaming through my head. It's hard to describe. I wonder what creativity feels like? I'm considering rewriting the Journals but I'm not... Wed, 22 Nov 2006 19:56:48 -0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/?showid=14282#14282 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/14282 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/14027 Well I don't have much to write in here. My job isn't going very well. Music practice is going pretty well - we have our next practice tomorrow night, which should be long, hard and rewarding - just how I like it ;). I'm having a party next Saturday where we'll be playing a few songs. You should come along. All of a sudden I've become reacquainted with Linkin Park - Numb. Sigh! Another entry maybe later when I don't have to go to bed. Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:02:21 -0700 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/?showid=14027#14027 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/14027 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/13803 ;D Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:08:20 -0700 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/?showid=13803#13803 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/13803 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/13731 This is terrible - it's a Sunday night and I feel really exhausted. I think it's mostly because I fell sick with some flu thing on Thursday, and I'm still not feeling great. (Apparently I'll have it for a few more days yet. Bah!) I'm not looking forward to the next week, because it's another five days of hard long work until I can have another break. :( Some random thoughts?... Work is going fine, it's hard but it's getting there, I'm excited to see how it works out in the real world. is wonderful, we're having fun :P. I'm really getting back into Evanescence again. I do wish I had more people with similar music tastes though :P. Wondering if they'll come to New Zealand again for their next album (comes out in September)... Still don't play enough music, I spend as much time as I can on it though. I bought a 5-string bass guitar last week, it's awesome fun to play, even though I suck. Need to also find some more people to play with. I have decided that as of right now, I love the Internet. I love how it ... Sun, 13 Aug 2006 20:40:16 -0700 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/?showid=13731#13731 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/13731 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/13601 Yes - another America-based entry. An interesting study on exit polls of the 2004 US elections suggests that its statistically impossible for Bush to have improved his results in every state, which he ended up doing. Hmmmm. Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:38:48 -0700 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/?showid=13601#13601 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/13601 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/13496 Interesting video about 9/11: MIT engineer and research scientist Jeff King: what most likely happened http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8533904938803031452 I also tried to watch one contradicting this video, but it had no facts and no evidence - only emotional pleas from people. Who should you believe, people or science? Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:53:14 -0700 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/?showid=13496#13496 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/13496 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/13369 Someone cool convinced me to start writing this :P I've been terrible over the last while and have spent the last few weeks playing that horribly addictive game, World of Warcrack. It's a pity that game is so good - they've got it so well balanced, and it's based on a game I totally love - so it's no surprise it's been so easy for me to get addicted. But not for too much longer. Playing games is great, but I have more important things to do, that I have been neglecting for too long. Such as my music studies. 's drumset is still set up here, and probably for a while longer too :D, so I've been playing around on that for about five minutes a day. It's super fun! And apparently I'm getting better. I've been thinking a lot recently about what kind of person I've become and what's happened in my life over the last few years. Generally, I'm very glad that I'm the person I am. I've also been studying politics, religion and conspiracy theories - though they sound boring, they are intensely interesting, because ig... Sun, 25 Jun 2006 21:42:03 -0700 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/?showid=13369#13369 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/13369 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/13263 jevon and aaron playing Originally uploaded by jdub_dub. The photos from my 21st party are IN! View them here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdub_dub/sets/72157594160317301/ Am eagerly awaiting to put hers online as well. Did anyone else take some? :) Fri, 09 Jun 2006 14:41:42 -0700 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/?showid=13263#13263 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/13263 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/12983 From a meme which is doin' the rounds... Go to the music player of your choice and put it on shuffle. Say the following questions aloud and press play. Use the song titles as your answers. NO CHEATING. How does the world see me? Title: Eternal Flame Band: Atomic Kitten Comment: I'm an everlasting light on peoples lives? Awww how nice. lol Will I have a happy life? Title: A Plateful of Our Dead Band: Protest the Hero Comment: Obviously my life will be angry instead. Lol What do my friends really think of me? Title: Spirit Band: Chicane Comment: Aww. Well isn't that nice lol Do people secretly lust after me? Title: 60% Band: NOFX Comment: Lol. Three in five people lust after Jevons! How can I make myself happy? Title: Peaches and Cream Band: Beck Comment: More kinky sex you say? What should I do with my life? Title: Baal Reginon Band: Therion Comment: Make death metal music worshipping the Devil! Exxxcellent. Why should life be full of so much pain? Title: Kyur4 th Ich Band: Linkin Park Comment: Everybo... Fri, 28 Apr 2006 20:21:22 -0700 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/?showid=12983#12983 http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon/entry/12983