Bastiaan en Lily's blog

In the news today, we finally have a phone line, also have internet again, but the most smashing news of the day (well actually yesterday), our son was born!!

Well, loosing the recent content of our site was a bit of a downer, it also means that the latest updates of what has been going on have all disappeared. I'm not going to rewrite it all but just to bring those who are interested back up to speed...

Well, it's database management 101 and we advise it to all our clients, MAKE A BACKUP BEFORE YOU UPGRADE!!

Offcourse I did not and offcourse my latest backup was a month old. Brrrrr. Anyways, I've upgraded to Openblog 1.2.1 which hopefully will stop spammers in their tracks.

Unfortunately I've lost one of my latest Omnis tutorial blog posts (if someone has it archived somewhere...) and the latest posts about our situation here in Sydney. Awell, c'est la vie!!

Owh we've also moved house :D

I've placed my old Omnis tutorials back on this blog. They where originally posted on www.omniscentral.com. You can find them by clicking Omnis in the navigation on the right side of this site.

Note that these are already over a year old and I simply copy/pasted them over from my original transcripts. I will go through them at some point and clean them up a little so they show correct. I''ll also see if I can get the original demo libraries back online, not sure if I still have them somewhere.

The past year working actively with Omnis Studio 4 (at my previous work we were still doing most of our work in Studio 3) I have learned some new tricks and I''ve been writing actively on the omnis mailing list (http://www.omnis-dev.com/) about this. If I can find the time I may continue this series but I make no promises :)

Yup, i went out to the store today to buy DVD player #4 of this year today. We bought a cheap DVD player at Aldi when we just moved to Sydney because our DVD player from Holland hadn''t arrived yet. That DVD player desided to blow its amplifyer probably because the only way to get some resonable sound out of it was running it on its max setting. I had off course lost the reciept and since my old trusty DVD player had been sitting in a corner ever since it had arrived from Holland, I decided to use that instead. About a month back, after 4 trusty years of operation and abuse, it also decided it had enough.

So everything being closed I just ran into the local Coles, they had this cheap 50 dollar DVD player (it would be discounted to 29 a few weeks afterwards grrrr) so I thought I would give that a go. My trusty playstation only plays region 2 DVDs and my WII off course doesnt come with a DVD player software at all (go Nintendo!). This player from Coles turned out to be a region 4 player so I''ve been switching back and forth between the playstation and the MTV (yeah MTV!) DVD player.

Last week we decided to finally get a STB for free arial digital (not really worth the 29 bucks I paid for it but they are pulling the plug on the analog system soon). Plugging it in seems to have caused a small surge and blew the internal fuse on the MTV Player.. Hurray!

I had enough of this cheap stuff and went out to get a proper DVD player at Dick Smith today. I wasn''t ready to get a blue ray yet (we don''t have a capable TV anyways) but I did want to get a good DVD player and found a really nicely specced LG one. After making sure with the sales guy it was region free as I''m tired of switching we went home.. Its a good player, I''ve got Wall-E running on it now and I must say, sweeet! It is however, Region 4.... BLAST!