Exciting news here, though somewhat more trivial than my last post:



A. My brother is a genius (we already knew that!)

B. My new computer is working

C. The two are not connected



To expand on B. I bought a new computer from Discount. It is quite nice: 3.0Ghz, 1Gb RAM, 120Gb HDD, 17" LCD monitor. It was going really well until I booted it up on the second day, after leaving the Adobe Acrobat Professional 6.0 installation CD in the drive. The computer would not boot from the hard disk and after a lot of testing here we figured that the Master Boot Record was corrupted (we could access the drive as slave but couldn't boot from it). So, I now have a new HDD in the new computer.



The only side effect? (Apart from 1 week without my nice black & silver computer.) I had to activate Windows XP Professional over the phone!



So that is my little story, hope it didn't bore all my non-techie friends. I'll have a nice human type blog in the coming days, I'm sure.

I has such an inspiring time at PlanetShakers. I went to the night sessions from the 7th - 10th of January. This year, for the first time, it was held in Perth (usually PS only runs in Adelaide). On the last night we had 5 000 people jammed into Challenge Stadium, they even had to open up seats behind the stage. You can see some photos here.



More than the music of the legendary PS band, the excellent speakers (Russell Evans, Reggie Dabbs, Jurgen Matthesius and Glen Berteau and more I didn't get a chance to hear), I loved the feeling of being among so many people who are totally devoted to the One they serve.

Ok I apologise profusely for the fact that this has not been updated for such a long time - what have I been doing?



Well, apart from working full time and studying 1 subject part time - I had 2 21st Birthday parties, 3 work Christmas parties, Christmas, Boxing Day, plenty of shopping and visiting with friends New Year's Eve party, plus I have also been able to play keyboard at Church (Whitford).



The latest news? Kyleigh is back in the country!



I will write again soon! (Hopefully)



Melissa

Just to let you know I am back safely from Adelaide, I really enjoyed the conference and all the related social events. It was great to meet a lot of people I've seen posting to the Aus-Archives list serve and I met a lot of people from WA over there too!

Now that is official, I can tell you why I am going to Adelaide. I won the Student Category Mander Jones Award from the Australian Society of Archivists.



The Australian Society of Archivists and Edith Cowan University are paying for my travel, registration and accommodation so that I can attend the national conference, and the Cocktail Party at the State Library of South Australia where I will receive the award.



This is my first plane flight!

Just have a look at this Panda! It is sooo cute!

Thanks to Yahoo! News Photos - Pandas

Hi people

My apologies for the couple of pages missing content. When I get back from Adelaide (yes, I have to tell you about that too) I'll update the site.