Well good news is to come in this area, for those of you that dont know I use the DSL connection at my parents place to host a webserver, a DNS server and an IRC server. All has been going quite well with it, its stability cant be questioned due to the installation of one of these babies: APC Smart-UPS XL 2200VA, which is used to power 3 computers a modem and router. In the very near future one more UPS will be purchased for a far greater chance of uptime in case of a prolonged power failure, at the moment I have estimated approximately four hours worth of battery usage if there is a power failure - this should be ample time as most of the power failures (or black outs) seem to last from 2 minutes up to an hour.

Some time in the near future, possibly when my hosting at 2m runs out, I will move shintara.net onto my own webserver for hosting. At present shintara.org and irc.shintara.org reside on this webserver. I still need to spend time securing and configuring the apache webserver, and then configuring a mail server before all this can take place.

WA, Perth and Fremantle...
I have come back home from a recent trip to Perth for work and I even had the luxury of spending the weekend there. What a fantastic part of the world, and just the thought of the great expanse of Western Australia made me feel small, I should rather say tiny in the whole big picture. I wanted to visit Monkey Mia, I also wanted to go to Exmouth and possibly have a fun day out fishing at Albany, but the state is so large that even the thought of doing such travels made me feel car sick.

Working in the surrounding suburbs of Perth was relaxing in itself, whenever I go interstate I am always comparing the cities to Sydney, and every other city makes Sydney feel like your sitting in a formula one car trying to hold on to each day is it ever so quickly passes by. I think that Perth is one of the most livable cities, kind of like a large scale Adelaide with all that and a lot more, looking through my hotel window in the morning you can see people walking to work, it can almost be described as a lazy stroll, I would like to feel like that every day!

Over the weekend I spent half of the Saturday driving and walking around Fremantle seeing its sandstone buildings and enjoying the fabulous day. Sunday was spent on the tourist drive along the Sunset Coast, the only problem was the weather, a combination of wind, rain and shine got the better of me and I headed home quickly. I was able to see the Swan river from my hotel room, its an amazing river and the width is enormous - I would say its larger than Sydney harbour but not as congested.