Good class this week. Not sore, which is a good / bad thing but at the moment its good – at least I can walk this week. Weekend involved the beach, sleeping in and parkour. Just a few shots of the guys after class.

The instructors having a meeting after class to discuss how better to improve the classes:

Everyone is always willing to give a hand – considering the cold, cold water below..

The difference in height when aiming for a precision and an arm jump:

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Just had a reencounter with a laptop from about a year ago with the same problem. It’s a Sony VIAO VGN-C25G/B. The problem is that the computer will not wake from hibernation. It gets past the bios, but no further. One thing to note is that this laptop has always gone without a battery, so I’m not sure if that is a crucial factor in this or not. It is running Vista Home Premium.

The solution, or workaround – depending upon how you want to look at it, is to take out both sets of memory and only insert one stick. Basically to change the amount of memory in the system. Swapping the memory will not make any difference. You will need to force the bios to realise there is a change in the amount of memory which then causes the following error message to appear:

Your computer can’t come out of hibernation

Status: 0xc0000411

Info: A fatal error occured processing the restoration data.

File: \hiberfil.sys

After this message, you are prompted to hit the enter key to continue. Vista will startup just fine. Properly shutdown the machine and then reinsert all the memory and everything should be fine again. The owner of the laptop will be taking it to Sony this afternoon regardless to hopefully find out that there is a patch of some sort to remove this issue.

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Turned up to classes today for the first time in a while to actually participate. This is just all a part of my new plan to get back into shape and focus a bit more on parkour and parkour related photography.

A few quick shots of what happened after class.

Quite a scorcher today. Body is aching a bit too much to be able to do anything right now.. and possible not even for the rest of the week. It was a good session.

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Currently sitting at Le Montage here in Leichhardt/Lilyfield on their free wifi. Well before I start talking about these endless weeks, I’ll run through whats happened since I got back from my trip.
My first week back was… not the worst thing in the world. I ended up leaving work a bit earlier than usual because driving at about 6pm or so was kind of dangerous considering how tired I was. I’ve been placed on a few projects to get me back into gear. Of course these projects have stretched on a bit, not my fault necessarily but rather having to deal with other people and awaiting responses on testing and correct information.
I’ve been developing my own IDE for our “Dynamic” forms that we have at work, which I also developed. It allows me to simply drag and drop and align widgets on a window and calculate all the necessary information and create me insert statements to stick into the database. On top of that, I’ve written a procedure which creates another procedure once run. With the dynamic nature of these tables, to run a report on the particular table, you would normally need to statically name each attribute. Here I would rerun my procedure which will recreate the procedure with all the correct attributes negating the need to change any existing stored procedures when the table structure changes. I’ve also been writing a few stored procedures to move data around because new databases needed to be set up.
With all my photos, I’ve been trying to write my own slideshow application – suggested by Kenny – who just got a summer internship with Google! So I’ve been trying, but its been a bit buggy, so I’m nearly there to show you all my photos. I’ve finished the design of my album / coffee table book and its been printed and distributed… only 5 copies were printed… I’ll have the images up as soon as I get my slideshow app going. I’ll give it another 2 weeks or so, since I’ve been a bit busy.
I’ve been training a lot more – in fitness and parkour. Its been going quite well. Supposed to be meeting up with Kenny every tuesday – not for the past 2 – been busy and hard a car accident… Otherwise, since daylight savings kicked in early, I can get home and still go for a run and its still a great temperature.
So since I’ve gotten back… this is the 6th wedding – 5 which I’ve worked at… I don’t feel as though I’ve had much of a break as yet… At least the follow few weeks it’ll be just a single wedding for the weekend and I can end up having a day to myself. Cousins wedding yesterday, so it was one which I could actually turn up to and enjoy. Some how I ended up with a few responsibilities like working the video and taking a few photographs here and there… but overall, it was a great wedding – relaxing – not the waking up at 5:30 this morning though.
Car accident – in short, a guy rear-ended me. He was a nice guy, spoke to him, he wanted to sort it out privately… most people recommend against that, but he returned my phone calls and sms’s. I got a few quotes for the damage – $1500 as a starting quote – he gave me a cheque on friday for that amount and hopefully thats as much as its going to cost. Most people don’t end up trusting others – saying people may run away and refuse to pay… but I think that there are some kind hearted people out there and so I guess my first accident wasn’t so bad. At the end of the day, he has to pay one way or another, and so I’ll run by whatever he suggests.
Oh – I got glasses – I need them for seeing in the distance – like driving… at night…
This week – full driving license and possibly make these projects end so I can move onto others.
In a few weeks I should have a bit more spare time on my hands.

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