Today I managed to grab the DVD’s of the closing nights for each campus for the Tattoo, I of course did not realise just how bad the Tattoo was, especially on DVD. I at least thought Castlefield’s show was alright, however the DVD proves me wrong.

Also Michael’s artsy camera angles look terrible, and the sound recording was shocking (you heard me).

You should all be aware by now of the ’scandal’ surrounding Haileybury and its commencment scholarships for Haileybury Girls, of course ‘The Age’ has been covering this scandal very closely and Haileybury has twice found itself on the front page. Of course Pargetter has hit back and released a scathing statement that is on both the website and in the newsletter. Anyway I was reading the ‘Insight’ section of the Saturday Age and saw this from cartoonist ‘Ron Tandberg’ anyway I found it rather amusing and thought that I should post it.

On a different note, Saturday Athletics was its usual mundane self, however I managed to score some really good pictures so hopefully I will only have to attend the APS Championship, rather than all the meets. Well I’m back to school tomorrow after my three day break, which should prove to be exciting as something major always happens when I’m gone (Editorial related), however Mr. Twist and Mr. Davey didn’t mention anything on Saturday so I know it wont involve them.

Another week is over, and I recently learnt that its only three weeks until the holidays which will be good, anyway sport tomorrow is at Murrumbeena (Duncan Mackinnon Reserve) which is rather convenient so I hope to get some good shots of athletics so that I don’t have to go back. I got my camera back from Newlands after they intelligently gave their only camera to the Ski Academy, anyway back to playing Civ 4.

Well my weekend has been rather eventful. After the formal on Friday night I got home to find my computer not switching on. I pulled it apart and concluded that the power supply was to blame, so after pulling the power supply apart I discovered a blown fuse, which meant that I would have to buy a new power supply. So I went down to Dick Smith Electronics at Carnegie and bought a 420W PSU which would supply all my power needs. Since my computer was apart I decided to clean all the dust out with a couple of cans of pressurized air, so I went back to DSE and bought two cans for $16. I then preceded to spend all of Saturday afternoon removing the fan off my processer, graphics card and I of course pulled out all the RAM etc.

So after deciding that everything was indeed clean enough, I began to assemble everything again which took me about 30 minutes, I then preceded to install my new dual fan power supply. I switched my computer on and everything was working for about 15 min and then all of a sudden this strange noise starting coming from the computer, so I shut it down and pulled the cover off and discovered that there was nothing wrong with it that I could SEE, so I pulled some cables out and plugged them back in. I then put the cover back on and powered up, this time an error message came up on the screen telling me that I need to insert a boot disk, which surely meant that I was having a hard drive problem. So I pulled the cover off again and found that the IDE cable leading to the Hard Drive was loose, so I put it back in correctly, I then decided to boot up with the cover of the PC off so that I could see inside while it was booting. So after powering up again the suspicous noise was still coming from the PC, so I spent a good 30min trying to discover what was wrong before I realised that I had forgotten to screw the fan back onto the graphics card after I had cleaned it, so when I put the computer back (vertically) the fan had fallen down beside the graphics card and was hitting my LAN card. So after two trips to DSE, $116 (for the cans of air and power supply) and 3 hours I successfully got my computer running again.

My renewed Victoria Racing Club membership has arrived (VRC are the people that run the Melbourne Cup etc.) which means I will be going to a fair few race meetings this spring. Anyway next year I will be eligible to be a Full Financial Member which promises to be good. Anyway today was House & Middleschool Cross country and as usual I ended up taking photos, anyway I got some good action shots of people walking in the fun run.

Also I’ve been trying to convince Mr. Lawson to give me the day off on Saturday to save me having to go to Edithvale Velodrome to take photos of Girl’s Triathlon (It would have to be the most exciting sport Haileybury offers), anyway he said he would think about it.

The Tattoo is over, after an incredibly boring closing night, however Panther’s comments over the headsets proved to be highly entertaining. Anyway today was very relaxing for me, I had lunch at Zanuba’s in Toorak and then went and bought some goodies from JB Hi Fi before heading home to finish some work. The equipment for the Tattoo is being taken away, and its goodbye to Johnny, Stu and hopefully the junior campuses until next time.

(By the the way if you are a real techie, you will have noticed that there is a huge flaw with my heading for this post)

We’re now well into the Tattoo, with Castlefield having finished their Tattoo. We are now into Newlands, whom will have their final night tonight, it will then be onto Edrington. Anyway the Castlefield nights were pretty good, however the Newlands nights are very boring, however hopefully Edrington will be better. Anyway Luke is sitting here annoying me with some network cable while im attempting to do some IT work which I needs to catch up on because I’ve missed so much damn class. You can still buy tickets for the Tattoo if you want to see it, tickets are $20 for adults, $12 for concession.

Well its finally Friday night and I deliberately didn’t plan anything so that I can finally relax. Anyway my weekend will be short lived, tomorrow I have to go to work to pick up some paperwork and then head back to school for 9:00am where I will spend a couple of hours taking photos. After photos I will of course head to the Aikman hall to help out there as quite a lot needs to be done tomorrow to be ready for Castlefields full dress rehearsal on Sunday (Don’t ask me why Castlefield are having a rehearsal on a Sunday) so I will virtually have no time to do anything except eat, sleep and of course “Tattoo” for the next week and a half.

The Tattoo looms ever closer and things are beginning to fall into place. Edrington rehearsed in the Aikman hall today, meaning that only Castlefield are left before the full dress rehearsals begin. We finally have some cameras in the hall to film everything, we will be using the Drama, Library and IT cameras, as well as one we borrowed off Newlands giving us four cameras which Panther seems happy about.

Tattoo commitments will take up most of my day tomorrow, and all of my weekend and of course all of next week, so hopefully I will be able to get some school work done on the way to and from school however this is unlikely. Tickets for the Tattoo are selling fast so grab them while you can, they’re $20 for adults and $12 for concession, call 9213 2222 to book your tickets.

Senior School is eerily quiet with the buildings themselves preparing for the onslaught of Tattoo madness. I was rather busy today with Tattoo related things to sort out, I was down at Newlands three times today which is a good indicator as to how painful the other campuses are likely to be. The live feed equipment is working, and although it is not ’state of the art’ equipment they are reliable and fairly easy to use. Mr. Bell has finally decided on camera positions, he wants no more than three cameras, while Mr. Panther wants as many as he can get, so hopefully it can be all sorted out on Saturday or even Sunday at the latest.

Anyway if you have time the tattoo is definitely worth seeing, tickets are $20 for adults and $12 for concession, call 9213 2222, or 9213 2280