Archive for November, 2009

Power window switches

Posted: 6th November 2009 by Striker in XR6 Turbo

The power window switch for the drivers window stopped working a few weeks ago, so today I stopped by Macarthur Auto Parts at Narellan and picked up a set of the illuminated switches from the GT. I’ve only fitted the switchbank in the drivers door so far, which means my window now works. I’ll fit [...]

Moving house

Posted: 5th November 2009 by Striker in Striker

With many thanks to Nathan for lending me a trailer, Mark for picking it up for me and Adam for helping load and unload, I’ve now got most of my loungeroom and bedroom stuff moved to mum’s. The work fridge is now sitting in the garage also. Another load, and I should be out if [...]

Electricity

Posted: 4th November 2009 by Striker in EvilHouse, EvilHouse Tech

Everything that I have had to do since mum’s death has been horribly difficult. From getting up of a morning, to eating, to making arrangements for bills or services. Everything except the electricity. I phoned Origin Energy, and told them that mum had passed away, at which point they became very cooperative. Electricity for the [...]

Broadband situation

Posted: 3rd November 2009 by Striker in EvilHouse Tech

It looks like mum had a 1gb/month plan for her broadband, which was demolished in two days of web browsing. Being shaped is not fun. Seeing that I do not have the certificate of mum’s death yet, I couldn’t do anything to move my iiNet connection over. There had to be a way, so I [...]

Foxtel technical problems

Posted: 3rd November 2009 by Striker in EvilHouse Tech

Having moved in to EvilHouse(4) around a week ago, getting the Foxtel moved over was no more troublesome than a phone-call. The technician appeared on the next business day, I was extremely impressed. That said, WauloK and I did not find out until that night that we had some issues on the downstairs cable box. [...]

New EvilHouse website.

Posted: 2nd November 2009 by Striker in General

I have no idea how many incarnations there have been of the EvilHouse website.

We’ll call this one number 7. I always liked the number 7.