Guest siu99spj Posted December 11, 2006 Report Posted December 11, 2006 Hey all! Most of you probably don't have the foggiest who I am/was but I think I had probably one of the worst off-topic/on-topic post ratios in Modaco history (2:1). I cleaned up my act and I became a bit better balanced (About 1:1) but then I got sent to Korea (For work) and spent my time building on an FPSO (Thankfully I had some help with about 100 ex-pats and 3000 Koreans). I've attached a picture of the vessel when she left Korea on November 25th. When I left in April last year I had to leave my 2 year old beloved SPV (HTC Canary). Yep, I was an early adoptee then kinda 'forgot' to upgrade (Actually I was waiting for the MPx220, but it seemed to never come). It was a shame, but Korea does not/will not support internetional standards and no foreign phones work there (Not even quad band phones). Plus the company were supplying with a new phone out there. Now Korea being the most connected country I know of (1GB link to the internet from your house, yep!) I was expecting something quite special. The Company cheated us and got cheap tacky Samsung clamshell things which made me hate all clamshell and Samsung phones forever. If it was a smartphone, I never figured it out (Probably down to the fact my Korean isn't too good). But now, back in the UK, I've gone right back up to the top of the tree with a MDA Vario II (HTC TyTn/Hermes). Already I'm in love with the device and I can only see the love affair continuing. Get my microSD card, some real movie playing software (No WiMP for me!) and I can start where I left off, working out the best way to encode movies for a Smartphone, annoying the old regulars out in the forums, trying to figure out what the hell happened to Modaco whilst I was gone and generally make an ass of myself all over again!
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted December 11, 2006 Report Posted December 11, 2006 Welcome back (I remember you, you even made it to a meet didn't you)? :) P
Guest Disco Stu Posted December 11, 2006 Report Posted December 11, 2006 Welcome back. siu99spj was a member of the same glorious pub quiz team as me at the Birmingham event. :)
Guest siu99spj Posted December 12, 2006 Report Posted December 12, 2006 (edited) Welcome back (I remember you, you even made it to a meet didn't you)? :) P I made it to all three meets before my disappearing act, one in London and two in Birmingham. I believe I met you at all three too (Especially the first as I was about 30 mins early). It was also rumoured that you enabled the on-topic/off-topic post counting because I was shotting up the ranks with my off-topic shenanigans. Nice to see it's been deactivated (For now). Welcome back. siu99spj was a member of the same glorious pub quiz team as me at the Birmingham event. :D It was Disco Stu's brains that made us (Me, him and my brother I believe) come third in the Birmingham quiz (The third and last Modaco meet I attended). Before then I was relegated to lowly prizeless positions, though I did win a sync cable in the first meet for having done something (stupid, undoubtedly). Edited December 12, 2006 by siu99spj
Guest awarner (MVP) Posted December 12, 2006 Report Posted December 12, 2006 I also remember (fairly sure it was you) that you won the Visual Studio.net Enterprise edition in the raffle and then gave it to Florin as you did not have a need for it.
Guest siu99spj Posted December 12, 2006 Report Posted December 12, 2006 (edited) I also remember (fairly sure it was you) that you won the Visual Studio.net Enterprise edition in the raffle and then gave it to Florin as you did not have a need for it. Not me mate. I wanted VS.net, not for Smartphone development though. The only things I've won have been a sync cable, an [ahem] 'cool' coat (Modelled by Mono) and the third prize in the second Birmingham meet quiz. That's about it. Hell awarner, do you just post on here continuously? 4 years, nearly 16,000 posts, thats 10 a DAY!!! Edited December 12, 2006 by siu99spj
Guest awarner (MVP) Posted December 15, 2006 Report Posted December 15, 2006 Yep I know, I've slowed down this year due to other things happening.
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted December 15, 2006 Report Posted December 15, 2006 Simon, you missed the best event of all tho where all attendees received a MoDaCo C600 - http://www.modaco.com/index.php?showtopic=243014 :) P
Guest siu99spj Posted January 12, 2007 Report Posted January 12, 2007 (edited) Simon, you missed the best event of all tho where all attendees received a MoDaCo C600 - http://www.modaco.com/index.php?showtopic=243014 :) P Well, yeah, OK, I missed the free C600 phone. Wouldn't have been much use in Korea anyway, they have a private telecoms system (The sim is built into the phone usually, no exchange) so even those early 5/6-band phones won't work there. But I did get free accommodation with a free 1Gb internet link (God I'm suffering in the UK, I can tell you), have the most annoying phone ever (A Samsung clam-shell thing), eat lots of Korean food (Lots of chilli and otherwise very spicy food), froze to death (-23C with a -80C windchill), melted (+46C with 99% humidity) and helped the building of a 90,000 tonne boat/barge. On second thoughts, maybe the phone WAS better... Edited January 12, 2007 by siu99spj
Guest Monolithix (MVP) Posted January 15, 2007 Report Posted January 15, 2007 Alright :) What was the boat for?
Guest awarner (MVP) Posted January 15, 2007 Report Posted January 15, 2007 Looks like some form of drilling rig?
Guest James Posted January 17, 2007 Report Posted January 17, 2007 either that or a really crappy looking ferry :/ :) welcome back! (p.s. only just got back to modaco myself)
Guest nedge2k Posted January 17, 2007 Report Posted January 17, 2007 WB, I remeber you! :D Pretty sure you were standing next to me the day I b0rked the MPx at the London meet a couple years back? ...and WB officer James! :)
Guest James Posted January 17, 2007 Report Posted January 17, 2007 :D..... check out my blog for the Police pictures :) all will become clear!
Guest Pondrew Posted January 25, 2007 Report Posted January 25, 2007 Good to see you both back. I've been a little absent myself this last month (sorry Awarner!) but trying to catch up again...
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