Easter madness

It becomes really hard to defend the life of being a student when you're constantly on holiday. Being the occaisionally slow person I am, I completely forgot that this week and next were Easter, and consequently, the two-week break I'm now abusing was a pleasant surprise last Thursday. My girlfriend is understandably jealous, but I'm fast running out of things to do.

God bless the internet then.

Firstly, I had to do something about my PC. 70 degrees c is far too hot for my processor to be running, I learned. The general consensus was that the Athlon 2800+ should be running at around 40-50 c, maybe up to 58 under a load. I got struck in to reading about case-fan configurations and FSB speeds and came across www.darktheywereandgoldeneyed.com on ebay.

They sell pretty much everything I needed at some pretty sweet prices. I bought myself a snazzy blue LED fan for another cooling intake, and got a cheap-o slot fan to cool my graphics card off. Thankfully, it seems to be sorted right now and even after 2 hours of Half-Life 2 the temperature was only 55 degrees. I think I may have started a new obsession.

In between freaking out I also stumbled across this. What is it? Well, it's sort of a puzzle and I warn you, it's only for the seriously genius-core of you out there. Browsing through its pages, trying to crack hidden codes, constantly Googling for new information, you feel a bit like Sandra Bullock in The Net (only not as shit) crossed with a creepy, Ring-esque feeling that you really shouldn't be here.

The puzzle itself is an impenetrably dense mixture of ancient myths, Native-American codes, obscure meta-physical Japanese fiction and good-old fashioned techno-geekery. And the feeling that something very bad is about to happen to somebody soon, peppered as the site is with references to drowning children and a date/time counting down to June 5 2005.

If it's all a little much for you, you may want to check out this thread on the Cellar. I read most of it, and the discoveries these talented Net-folk make are truely startling. Read from start to end and you uncover a vast story, worthy of a place on any best-seller list. And get this - it's happening right now.

Could the posting board become a new storytelling medium? The Cellar thread is complete, with reasoned arguements, interesting characters, disturbing discoveries and a compelling story. It could make an awesome movie...

Anyway, I have a lot more time off to come, so expect more updates soon, I just found some really cool stuff...