Hobbies and other interests

Computers

Computers have been a large part of my life since I was young. The first computer I recall using was a Commodore 64, cutting edge for computers at the time! I was too young to fully understand computers then, so I didn't really know much about them.
Later my parents bought me my first "IBM Compatible" 286 PC. This is when I learnt about DOS and started tinkering with computers.
A few years passed, and my parents bought me a 486, and eventually a Pentium I with a 200MHz CPU.
When I finished year 12, I got my first job in IT and bought my own computer. I'm a bit hazy on the specs, but it had a GeForce gfx card (one of the earlier models) and a Pentium 4 processor with 256MB RAM (boy did Windows XP chug on that much RAM.)
When I moved to Wagga a few years later, eventually the PSU kicked it in and took my motherboard and most of the other components with it, so it was time for an upgrade!
It had an AMD 64bit processor (which was pretty useless at the time as Windows XP 64bit had bugger all driver support at the time, and I'm pretty sure it never really did get proper 64bit driver support). My first decent gfx card was a GeForce 7800, which got me through many hours of Counter Strike: Source and Oblivion (damn that game was like crack!)
Eventually it was time to put that beast out to the pasture (and many Gfx card's later), and now my current PC:

Pets

I own two parrots. A cockatiel named Daisy, and a Green Cheeked Conure named Cornelius (it's a South American parrot.) See this link for more information on Green Cheeked conures.


A photo of Daisy and Cornelius (Daisy is the yellow bird and Cornelius the green)


Photos of Cornelius


Daisy