the last few weeks working with archicad have gone really well. doing a lot more after only three weeks than i thought i would at this stage. next up: 3dmax 5.

archicad has turned out to be a bit of a revalation. after spending the last eight years or so working in autocad and getting to know it very well, i scoffed a little bit at archicad, thinking of it only as some sort of light version of a cad programme. but its turned out to be fantastic. it does have some limitations, but for what its lacking in some areas, it more than makes up for it in other ways. no more endlessly changing multiple drawings; in archicad one change in a plan for example works its way through to the elevations, sections, 3d model and so on. this työharjoitellu is turning out to be fantastic. seven weeks left. doh.

if i had some disposable income these days, i would perhaps get some of the super cool mp3s from warped records new online shop.

bleep music has no drm or copy protection built in. we believe that most people like to be treated as customers and not potential criminals - drm is easily circumvented and just puts obstacles in the way of enjoying music.

they have lots of good stuff from luke vibert and aphex twin and chris morris and things along those lines. good work

i finally got around to analysing my web log stats for 2003.

hits 570597 total data transferred 308.28 gigabytes total visiting users 92897 time period january 01, 2003 to december 31, 2003 average hits per user 6.14 average users per day 254.51 average data transferred per day 864.86 megabytes hits cached by client 111055 (19.46%) report generated on january 11, 2004 at 03:36:34 pm incomplete downloads/file requests 1174 (0.21%) log spans a period of 365 days total failed requests 16391 (2.87%) unique ip addresses 48115 average data transferred per user 3.40 megabytes average hits per day 1563.28 average data transferred per hit 566.51 kilobytes each user has visited approximately 1.93 times hits on pages 51646 hits on files 167961 hits on images 334599

one of the sigur rós files (viðrar vel til loftárása) im hosting for sigur-ros.co.uk was downloaded almost 70000 times (that alone was 150gb). pretty crazy. altogether, the sigur rós part of my site took up 302gb out of 308gb total traffic. so when we get our new servers for sigur-ros.co.uk (soon) this site should be a bit quicker with all that traffic gone. also, this blog was viewed 12000 times. really crazy!.

i love the super furry animals. they cant write a bad song. (if they have, then ive erased it from my mind). so for christmas i bought päivi the “phantom power” dvd. we already had the album, but going from the quality of their last dvd “rings around the world” i decided to splash out and get it.

i shouldnt. it is dreadful. the music part of it is fantastic. but the extras are woefull, the videos can be viewed two different ways, each way producing two different boring videos. two thumbs down. left this reviewer feeling cheated. boo.

this photo was taken by dec on new years eve on the hill beside the pub where we were all celebrating new years.

decs photos
adams/paolas/michaels photos
flos photos

hours of fun.