So, as of monday I started interning at Black Ginger [link] And as far as I can tell I'm going to love working there, everyone is really great and it has a great atmosphere.
At the moment I'm just modeling for a new project but they will bump me up to rigging as soon as our new work stations arrive and I'm using XSI instead of Maya, currently only 1 rigger in the whole company so he's lank stoked to be getting a trained monkey to do all the fiddly jobs he hates.. Joy?

Apart from that there isn't much to say except that I will only really have time for my work on the weekends now, because getting home at 6:30-7:00pm is a drag.

While working very hard on my super awesome showreel which ~Zeiphex can attest to, I was looking for a keygen when I finally found something that looked promising. After having just updated to the latest AV signatures I was confident that everything would be fine, I mean my AV had never let me down before.
So after running the thing and realising it didn't work I quickly deleted it and carried on my search, then something popped up from my AV "virut!HOSTS" something or other detected within my system restore point folder, and CLEANED! so what ever right? Two days later after having to reboot I get asked to login to my windows, WTF? Never needed to login before, so what the hell, I log in and as I see my wallpaper I get logged straight back out. I didn't know whether to cry or punch my monitor in it's face.

I'm sure you all know that feeling when all your work and media about to be lost, I'd imagine it's like seeing your child fall into the crocodile pit at the zoo. So I got Sophos on a cd booted into safemode with command prompt and scanned, 44hours 11min and 33sec later 461127 file were scanned containing 4212 viruses (Scribble-B) which is pretty gay.
Boot up again still getting logged out :/ Install windows to a 10gig partition browse my C:\ and notice 99% of all my exes are deleted because sophos was too lazy to clean them..
Eventually like 2 days later I findout my userinit file was missing from my original windows so copy paste it over from new windows and voila! I can login again But taskmanager revieled 1.6gigs of ram being used just on startup and my DU meter packing a heavy upload rate I decided it wasn't worth the effort of fixing since all my exes were gone anyway.

So back to the new windows, bootup as it gets to the loading screen my pc just reboots, 3 times..
So I'm over this shit now seriously, put it in my dads car so he take it in somewhere the next day when my friend phones me, the same friend who bought me a new router just so I could play games with him online better. He asks how things are going when I explained my predicament to him. Turns out his company had the same virus problem which caused a total downtime of 2 weeks while they had to format every machine. So plan of action was to format my 500gig drive which all my games, movies and series are on, make a partition, install windows on it update AV etc then grab only my work and music off my original 200gig drive and format it aswell.

I'm half way done with all this rubbish now and I can tell you one thing, I hope the guy who coded this thing dies by impalement on a rusty pole up his rear end.

Longest journal ever.

Monitor - Keeping an eye on the braai
Download - Get the firewood off the bakkie
Hard drive - Trip back home without any cold beer
Keyboard - Where you hang the bakkie and bike keys
Window - What you shut when it's cold
Screen - What you shut in the mosquito season
Byte - What mosquitoes do
Bit - What mosquitoes did
Mega Byte - What mosquitoes at the lake do
Chip - A bar snack
Micro Chip - What's left in the bag after you have eaten the chips
Modem - What you did to the lawns
Dot Matrix - Oom Jan Matrix's wife
Laptop - Where the cat sleeps
Software - Plastic knives and forks you get at KFC
Hardware - Real stainless steel knives and forks from Spur
Mouse - What eats the grain in the shed
Mainframe - What holds the shed up
Web - What spiders make
Web Site - The shed (or under the verandah)
Cursor - The old bloke what swears a lot
Search Engine - What you do when the bakkie won't go
Yahoo - What you say when the bakkie does go
Upgrade - A steep hill
Server - The person at the pub what brings out the lunch
Mail Server - The bloke at the pub what brings out the lunch
User - The neighbour what keeps borrowing things
Network - When you have to repair your fishing net
Internet - Complicated fish net repair method
Netscape - When fish manoeuvres out of reach of net
Online - When you get the laundry hung out
Off Line - When the pegs don't hold the washing up

If you've seen this before, have a noddy badge.
If you havn't I hope you have learned something about technology challenged South Africans.

1. Are you single or taken?
Taken

2. Chocolate or flowers?
Erm.. Neither?

3. Will you do anything special for Valentines Day?
Maybe

4. Do you like anyone?
love the redundancy

5. Were you dating anyone last Valentines?
No

6. What would be your dream Valentines date?
Dream date? I'm not a girl, men don't think of crap like that.

7. Do you make a big deal about Valentines?
Never.

8. Have you ever had a secret admirer?
Never, that I knew of?

9. Would you ever write someone a love letter?
Depends, on how badly I screwed up.

10. Do you believe in Cupid?
No.

11. Do your parents give you presents on Valentines?
Again, not a girl.

12. Do you still send out Valentines cards?
Never.

13. Do you like candy hearts?
wtf is those. Engirshwin!

14. What is something you got last Valentines?
Nothing.

15. Is Valentine's day depressing?
It's just another day.

16. How do you feel about PDA?
Personal diary assistants? Wtf is that for a retarded question..

17. How is your love life?
Pretty good

18. Have you ever been dumped on Valentines?
No.

19. How many roses would you want?
Penis, remember.

20. Will you have a girlfriend/ boyfriend this Valentines?
I hope so? o_O

^{I've finished 2nd year!} _{Omg last year of college left then I get to be pwnt.}

Ok so I'm on holiday now till February and as you can see I finally uploaded my avatar tutorial, not to dA because their file size limit is useless, how can the film limit be 20min or 200mb but the normal file limit is 30mb. My tutorial was between both too long for film and too big for normal file 55mb and 33min.
Anyway it's up and I'm sure people will learn stuff from it

So since I have abit of free time now it would be a good idea for those who need it to ask me for a tutorial from one of the following programs:
Maya 2008
Cinema 4D R10
Photoshop CS3