Word Art

May 312011
 

There’s this automated word cloud generator that uses the frequency of words appearing in your document and generates a picture with the size of the words in proportion to how often the word was used.

So I decided to feed it the top posts of Ultimates Sigh’s RSS.
wordart

Looks like the most used word on the recent posts is “Pretty”, although “Sigh” does rank up there but not as much as you would think. It’s a pretty interesting way of quickly displaying what a document or page is talking about. 😛

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The migration is complete

May 292011
 

So I’ve officially moved onto Just Host for all my hosting services. No longer is Ultimate Sigh sitting on my PC. This should be good in terms of better uptime and availability.

One thing I have sacrificed though, is the discontinuation of the Sigh Chat service. Rest assured though, those chat logs have been saved for posterity. This was due mainly to the lack of interest and dare I say it, pretty unreliable service resulting from a combo of corporate firewalls and my own server being a bit precious.

In its place is the new and improved Sigh Forums now with fixed layout and colours for easy reading. And of course the much delayed Ultimate Sigh Email Addresses.

So if you want to get yourname@ultimatesigh.com addresses, head over to this forum topic and leave your preferred username. I’ll give you your personal address pronto. Of course alternatively, you can just leave your username preference as a comment.

For those already with an @ultimatesigh.com address, I’m sure you know by now to access it via google here: https://www.google.com/a/ultimatesigh.com.

A new Ultimate Sigh begins now!

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So the times they are a changing

May 232011
 

Over the coming few weeks, I’ll be migrating the Ultimate Sigh to a new host. Most likely Just Host. So during the migration there may be outages while I port all the files and setup over. Hopefully everything will transition nicely without too much messing around on my part.

Why am I moving the site off onto an external host? Well that’s because I will be moving to……………..
Samoa* for a year.

Sunny Samoa
*Well pending visa approval and pre-departure approval, but there’s an agreement in place now.

How come Samoa?

I hear people ask when I tell them about Samoa. Well it’s simple really. I figure this is pretty much the last chance in my life to do something a bit risky and adventurous. I still have time after I return to progress in my career, and I don’t really have any responsibilities or dependents right now. If I don’t do it now, I will probably just find a higher paying job and stay in Sydney, settle down, that type of thing. That’s not bad. Life is pretty cruisey here. But I know I will regret it if I don’t set off this one last time to experience something completely different and to go work and stay overseas for a while. So in short, if I don’t go overseas now for a career break type of thing, I never will.

Here’s to less sighs, and more awesomeness hence forth.

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Fort to the Street

Apr 142011
 

This post is a long time coming. But I just haven’t had the time to write about it.

Last month I made a return to Fort St, for a friendly kickabout. It’s the first time I’ve been there in 10+ years. God that makes me sound old. As you can see, a lot of the old school grounds look pretty much the same as before, just with more construction stuff around.

The quad
quad

The “New” Kilgour area
Kilgour

The field itself is still as crap as ever. I almost twisted my ankle on the first run since I had forgotten all about the many potholes that lie underneath the overgrown unmowed lawn. The ball would bop up strangely and randomly. Ahhh…brings a tear to the eye.

We ended up playing on the old sandy tennis courts, where strangely there was a thin piece of almost undetectable string in the middle of the court serving, presumably, as the net. So we had to play on the top court instead. The walls are higher but the grounds are just as dodgey, the grass just as messy, and Leondios and a few other teachers are still there.

It was the best of the times, it was the worst of times…In short: the school still looks shitty, but it still brings back good memories. And the students there are still just as awesomely funny. On one of the new high fences I saw the words “Pedestrians area” crossed out and made to read “Pedos area”. Classic.

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Walk

Apr 082011
 

This is a long delayed post about my and Salsa’s walk around the Pacific coast, in this national park I’ve forgotten the name of. Anyway, it was very pleasant and the scenery was pretty stunning.

pacifc walk

Definitely !sigh or un-Sigh.

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Sigh! Ads

Mar 262011
 

Ultimate Sigh has ads now, to your right. So remember to disable your ad filter (they are only text ads) and click on them if you will. Every cent goes towards keeping this PC on, so you can enjoy the sighs.

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SighCQ Officially Online

Mar 062011
 

SighCQ is now online. You can navigate to the web client from the top menu now. So far these are the cool people on it:

  • Hotung
  • Yan
  • Sutit
  • Yman
  • Salsa

Sutit, I will email you your login and password, but all your buddies are set up already. Vadas, it’s not too late to go on this largest internet sensation of all time.

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Chat service online

Feb 262011
 

Chat server is online. You may now join in my private chat server. Anyone who wants a login, let me know. You can login through this website here, once I give you a user name.

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