I love the little tacos. I love them gooood.
Monday, March 08
Ow Owwie Ow!
Okay, my auditory frequency response isn't shot. I can still hear up to about 17.5kHz, which is not much short of the 19kHz or so I could hear as a teenager.
Next time I test my hearing, though, I'll turn the volume down first.
Okay, my auditory frequency response isn't shot. I can still hear up to about 17.5kHz, which is not much short of the 19kHz or so I could hear as a teenager.
Next time I test my hearing, though, I'll turn the volume down first.
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Friday, January 01
Ow, My Appendage
The only thing more ignominious than injuring oneself in an attempt to squish a bug is injuring oneself in a failed attempt to squish a bug.
Fortunately I got the little blighter, and so was spared the added insult of him taunting me from a safe distance while I glued my thumbnail back on.*
* Actually the damage isn't that severe, but it hurt like the dickens for the first thirty seconds.
The only thing more ignominious than injuring oneself in an attempt to squish a bug is injuring oneself in a failed attempt to squish a bug.
Fortunately I got the little blighter, and so was spared the added insult of him taunting me from a safe distance while I glued my thumbnail back on.*
* Actually the damage isn't that severe, but it hurt like the dickens for the first thirty seconds.
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Monday, November 23
I Think That Cool Change Has Arrived
He said as his roof blew off...
Well not quite. But 42° ten hours ago, and 21° now. You don't get that much of a shift without a certain amount of atmospheric disturbance.
With any luck, my neighbour's blasted windchime will blow away too.
He said as his roof blew off...
Well not quite. But 42° ten hours ago, and 21° now. You don't get that much of a shift without a certain amount of atmospheric disturbance.
With any luck, my neighbour's blasted windchime will blow away too.
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Sunday, November 22
Later That Evening...
Well, it's a whole lot cleaner under there, and somewhat better organised. But the KVM switch seems disinclined to, well, switch, or indeed to K or V or M, which kind of defeats the exercise.
I do have considerably more legroom now. And I swapped my keyboard for a new one while I was at it, so it's no longer an all-you-can-eat buffet for ants.
Oh well. I could always read the manual, I guess.
Well, it's a whole lot cleaner under there, and somewhat better organised. But the KVM switch seems disinclined to, well, switch, or indeed to K or V or M, which kind of defeats the exercise.
I do have considerably more legroom now. And I swapped my keyboard for a new one while I was at it, so it's no longer an all-you-can-eat buffet for ants.
Oh well. I could always read the manual, I guess.
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Blergle Blergle Eep
If it's 42° in November, you could equally be in Sydney or Minneapolis.*
If during such weather conditions you find a venomous spider** while cleaning under your desk, probabilities favour the former.
* As I write this, that is indeed the temperature in those two metropoli.
** Only a redback; in other words, deadly but not dangerous. I promptly reduced it to a brown smear. A funnelweb would have seen me vacating the vicinity with extreme precipitousness.
If it's 42° in November, you could equally be in Sydney or Minneapolis.*
If during such weather conditions you find a venomous spider** while cleaning under your desk, probabilities favour the former.
* As I write this, that is indeed the temperature in those two metropoli.
** Only a redback; in other words, deadly but not dangerous. I promptly reduced it to a brown smear. A funnelweb would have seen me vacating the vicinity with extreme precipitousness.
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Saturday, August 29
The Daily Bleh
Had a power glitch here at Pixy Labs, and my UPS helpfully responded by dropping dead on the spot.
I also discovered that one of the drives in Pepper, my anime storage box, has failed. But it might have failed previously and the box only noticed when I rebooted.
It's RAID-5, so the data is safe for now, but there doesn't seem to be any way to rebuild the array. So I have to back up 2.4TB, replace the drive, and restore that 2.4TB.
Ick.
Do I even have 2.4TB of space to do a backup?
Hmm... Yes, in fact. Okay, good. Off we go then!
Had a power glitch here at Pixy Labs, and my UPS helpfully responded by dropping dead on the spot.
I also discovered that one of the drives in Pepper, my anime storage box, has failed. But it might have failed previously and the box only noticed when I rebooted.
It's RAID-5, so the data is safe for now, but there doesn't seem to be any way to rebuild the array. So I have to back up 2.4TB, replace the drive, and restore that 2.4TB.
Ick.
Do I even have 2.4TB of space to do a backup?
Hmm... Yes, in fact. Okay, good. Off we go then!
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Monday, August 17
Peas, Corn, and Baby Carrots
And a 12 oz. rump steak marinated in red wine and garlic.
Damn. If I'd bought some of those little potato puffs as well, life would be perfect. Fattening, but perfect.
And a 12 oz. rump steak marinated in red wine and garlic.
Damn. If I'd bought some of those little potato puffs as well, life would be perfect. Fattening, but perfect.
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Tuesday, August 11
I Still Aten't Dead
But busy.
My day job involves stitching together social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube into a cohesive and accessible whole. Last Thursday (and continuing on into the weekend) that whole got DDoSed. The application providers responded by raising defences, and the combination of the attacks and the defences led to our cohesive and accessible whole decohering and inaccessibilising, and to my having to glue it all back together at several successive 4AMs.
Which general sequence of events is not unfamilar to me, of course.
Somewhere in there I got to go out and see Coraline, which is nicely animated but doesn't hold a lot of surprises if you've read the book, and to lay down rough cuts of the first four tracks of Summer Theologica. I'm pushing ahead with my ambitious tenth-anniversary schedule of four albums in four months, and damn the torpedoes.
Normality will resume as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway.
But busy.
My day job involves stitching together social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube into a cohesive and accessible whole. Last Thursday (and continuing on into the weekend) that whole got DDoSed. The application providers responded by raising defences, and the combination of the attacks and the defences led to our cohesive and accessible whole decohering and inaccessibilising, and to my having to glue it all back together at several successive 4AMs.
Which general sequence of events is not unfamilar to me, of course.
Somewhere in there I got to go out and see Coraline, which is nicely animated but doesn't hold a lot of surprises if you've read the book, and to lay down rough cuts of the first four tracks of Summer Theologica. I'm pushing ahead with my ambitious tenth-anniversary schedule of four albums in four months, and damn the torpedoes.
Normality will resume as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway.
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Friday, July 24
Sigh Of Relief
For the first time in two weeks I'm not insane.
Trying desperately to fix the failed RAID array (ugh) then finalise the server migration before they turned the old servers off (just made it), shore up the defences of Munuvia against a rising sea of spam (new filter in place), and clean house and tear out some fairly impressive weeds before a maintenance inspection (almost made it, then at the last minute my vacuum cleaner died, leaving my floors looking less than spotless
).
Of course, I also accidentally corrupted some of the tables on the replica database at my day job yesterday, leading to a 3:30AM support call today and some hasty creative thinking on how to repair 100GB of scrambled data. But I even solved that one, mostly.
This weekend, to celebrate, I plan to sleep for 36 hours.
Update: Yeah, right.
For the first time in two weeks I'm not insane.
Trying desperately to fix the failed RAID array (ugh) then finalise the server migration before they turned the old servers off (just made it), shore up the defences of Munuvia against a rising sea of spam (new filter in place), and clean house and tear out some fairly impressive weeds before a maintenance inspection (almost made it, then at the last minute my vacuum cleaner died, leaving my floors looking less than spotless
).Of course, I also accidentally corrupted some of the tables on the replica database at my day job yesterday, leading to a 3:30AM support call today and some hasty creative thinking on how to repair 100GB of scrambled data. But I even solved that one, mostly.
This weekend, to celebrate, I plan to sleep for 36 hours.
Update: Yeah, right.
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Monday, June 08
Damn Power Efficient Systems
One thing with my old computers - when sitting at my desk, even in the dead of Winter, my feet never got cold.
Nowadays even a quad-core system with 8GB of RAM, 4.5TB of disk, and a 1GB, teraflop video card doesn't make much of a footwarmer.
One thing with my old computers - when sitting at my desk, even in the dead of Winter, my feet never got cold.
Nowadays even a quad-core system with 8GB of RAM, 4.5TB of disk, and a 1GB, teraflop video card doesn't make much of a footwarmer.
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Saturday, May 16
Eating Mice
Anyway, I'm going to try a new recipe tonight - teriyaki beef with snow peas on jasmine rice. Was going to use lamb, but there was no appealing-looking diced lamb at the supermarket this evening.
Anyway, I'm going to try a new recipe tonight - teriyaki beef with snow peas on jasmine rice. Was going to use lamb, but there was no appealing-looking diced lamb at the supermarket this evening.
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Eaten By Mice
In theory, we're scheduled to move to a new server tomorrow.
That might still happen, though it's looking doubtful. The reason it might still happen is that if it doesn't, I'll be up for hundreds of dollars in fees to keep the old servers around for another month.
And the reason it's doubtful is that we had trouble with the systems at work every day last week. Every day, US time. So between 3AM and 5AM my time. And every time, I got woken up and had to fix it.
One hardware fault, one software bug, one software bug in an error-handling routine triggered by another site going haywire, one software bug in normal processing triggered by another site going haywire, and one instance of things just not working right for no apparent reason.
Then I finally got back to setting up the new server. I found some issues with my configuration of the containers for the CPanel sites - insufficent space allocated for the kernel structures, insufficient datagram buffers (which is hardly critical, but I fixed it while I was there) and a couple of other things were we were close to the limit.
So I fixed all of that, recreated the containers, and reinstalled CPanel.
Whereupon I came unstuck, because CPanel would not install.
Turned out - after considerable cursing and deleting and recreating of containers - to be a firewall issue. CPanel's installer couldn't access CPAN (no relation) because CPAN couldn't access the server.
Fucking FTP. Passive mode is there for a reason - though it seems to work about as consistently as secondary DNS servers.
Anyway, sorted that out, but noticed that 6GB of RAM had gone walkies without leaving a forwarding address. It was physically there, but unaccounted for inside Linux. A reboot sorted that out, but then I had a slight accident with a command run on the hardware node instead of inside a container.
So I decided to do a clean reinstall of Linux and load everything again. Since I've been experimenting on the box for two weeks now, this is not overall a bad idea.
The reinstall of CentOS went smoothly. The I went to load OpenVZ - and the OpenVZ repository, and indeed the site - and the list of mirrors - was down.
Gah.
It's back now, but I've pretty much lost a day.
Plan now is to move mee.nu (and the mu.nu Minx sites), and prepare to move mu.nu. That way I can cancel at least one of the servers.
In theory, we're scheduled to move to a new server tomorrow.
That might still happen, though it's looking doubtful. The reason it might still happen is that if it doesn't, I'll be up for hundreds of dollars in fees to keep the old servers around for another month.
And the reason it's doubtful is that we had trouble with the systems at work every day last week. Every day, US time. So between 3AM and 5AM my time. And every time, I got woken up and had to fix it.
One hardware fault, one software bug, one software bug in an error-handling routine triggered by another site going haywire, one software bug in normal processing triggered by another site going haywire, and one instance of things just not working right for no apparent reason.
Then I finally got back to setting up the new server. I found some issues with my configuration of the containers for the CPanel sites - insufficent space allocated for the kernel structures, insufficient datagram buffers (which is hardly critical, but I fixed it while I was there) and a couple of other things were we were close to the limit.
So I fixed all of that, recreated the containers, and reinstalled CPanel.
Whereupon I came unstuck, because CPanel would not install.
Turned out - after considerable cursing and deleting and recreating of containers - to be a firewall issue. CPanel's installer couldn't access CPAN (no relation) because CPAN couldn't access the server.
Fucking FTP. Passive mode is there for a reason - though it seems to work about as consistently as secondary DNS servers.
Anyway, sorted that out, but noticed that 6GB of RAM had gone walkies without leaving a forwarding address. It was physically there, but unaccounted for inside Linux. A reboot sorted that out, but then I had a slight accident with a command run on the hardware node instead of inside a container.
So I decided to do a clean reinstall of Linux and load everything again. Since I've been experimenting on the box for two weeks now, this is not overall a bad idea.
The reinstall of CentOS went smoothly. The I went to load OpenVZ - and the OpenVZ repository, and indeed the site - and the list of mirrors - was down.
Gah.
It's back now, but I've pretty much lost a day.
Plan now is to move mee.nu (and the mu.nu Minx sites), and prepare to move mu.nu. That way I can cancel at least one of the servers.
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Friday, April 24
Dreams
So humans and aliens finally make contact - in a horrific starship collision, where the warp fields of the two ships interact in such a way as to draw them inexorably together into a gravitational singularity. As time dilation effects spread out differentially from the engine cores, giving everyone more than enough time to realise their fates, the aliens resign themselves to the inevitable, while the human captain (yours truly) figures out a way to save his ship and crew, while dooming himself and the alien craft - and takes it.
The aliens respond, punishing the captain by trapping him in a time loop, where every morning he awakens to find an unfamiliar pistol on his dressing table, and slowly comes to the realisation that he is trapped in a time loop on a strange planet, with no way out, no way to ever see his family again, no escape except to end it all with a bullet to the head, whereupon he awakens to find an unfamilar pistol...
And manipulates the idea of quantum immortality to survive his own death, escape the time loop and the growing gravitational singularity both, and return to the real world, where he finds that he has been reading a little-known story by Fritz Leiber (or George R. A. Murray, whoever he is) in a small-press limited-print collection at Galaxy Bookshop, the old one on Bathurst St, where his 19-year-old self is trying to update his store discount card, only they won't accept his identification, and he has to get his mother to sign for him.
I don't think my mother ever set foot in Galaxy, though I do remember her buying Dragon magazine for me, back in the day.
So humans and aliens finally make contact - in a horrific starship collision, where the warp fields of the two ships interact in such a way as to draw them inexorably together into a gravitational singularity. As time dilation effects spread out differentially from the engine cores, giving everyone more than enough time to realise their fates, the aliens resign themselves to the inevitable, while the human captain (yours truly) figures out a way to save his ship and crew, while dooming himself and the alien craft - and takes it.
The aliens respond, punishing the captain by trapping him in a time loop, where every morning he awakens to find an unfamiliar pistol on his dressing table, and slowly comes to the realisation that he is trapped in a time loop on a strange planet, with no way out, no way to ever see his family again, no escape except to end it all with a bullet to the head, whereupon he awakens to find an unfamilar pistol...
And manipulates the idea of quantum immortality to survive his own death, escape the time loop and the growing gravitational singularity both, and return to the real world, where he finds that he has been reading a little-known story by Fritz Leiber (or George R. A. Murray, whoever he is) in a small-press limited-print collection at Galaxy Bookshop, the old one on Bathurst St, where his 19-year-old self is trying to update his store discount card, only they won't accept his identification, and he has to get his mother to sign for him.
I don't think my mother ever set foot in Galaxy, though I do remember her buying Dragon magazine for me, back in the day.
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Monday, April 06
I Is Goings To Beds
Cause I tireds.
Nights.
P.S. Watched the first ep of K-On! Not spectacular, but an agreeable little bit of fluff in a way that the previousfive thirty-seven four outings from Kyo-ani haven't been. Will continue to watch.
P.P.S. Upgraded the RAID array in Akane to 4TB (5x1TB drives, RAID-5). Glad I did this before installing a few hundred blogs on there, as it required a controller swap, a full OS reinstall, and an estimated twelve-hour array rebuild (still going!)
On the plus side, I now know that even during a rebuild I can sustain 100MB/sec off the aray. I'm hoping to see 300MB/sec once the rebuild is complete.
P.P.S. Seems that the automatic installer at SoftLayer uses old-style partitions, and so has a 2TB limit. So I now have two RAID volumes, a 100GB system volume and a 3.9TB everything else volume. Which actually suits me perfectly - the base system goes on the 100GB volume, and the 3.9TB goes under LVM for the VPSes.
P.P.P.S. Oh yeah, beds.
Cause I tireds.
Nights.
P.S. Watched the first ep of K-On! Not spectacular, but an agreeable little bit of fluff in a way that the previous
P.P.S. Upgraded the RAID array in Akane to 4TB (5x1TB drives, RAID-5). Glad I did this before installing a few hundred blogs on there, as it required a controller swap, a full OS reinstall, and an estimated twelve-hour array rebuild (still going!)
On the plus side, I now know that even during a rebuild I can sustain 100MB/sec off the aray. I'm hoping to see 300MB/sec once the rebuild is complete.
P.P.S. Seems that the automatic installer at SoftLayer uses old-style partitions, and so has a 2TB limit. So I now have two RAID volumes, a 100GB system volume and a 3.9TB everything else volume. Which actually suits me perfectly - the base system goes on the 100GB volume, and the 3.9TB goes under LVM for the VPSes.
P.P.P.S. Oh yeah, beds.
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Sunday, February 22
I Think I Just Dodged A Tactical Nuke
Almost.
Sakura, the third server in the mu.nu cluster, used for offsite backups and for offloading some sites during the election overload, just dropped dead.
Now the two main servers, Aoi and Midori, do daily backups and then exchange backup files. I'd intended to apply that to Sakura as well, but Sakura went live about the time I went insane, and it never happened.
The first sign of trouble was earlier today, when Protein Wisdom started running slow, and then stopped entirely. I logged in and poked around a bit, but couldn't see any problem. Restarted Apache. Ran a check on the database. All fine.
Took a look at the system log. Reporting 6 bad sectors on the disk. Okay, that's not great, but not the end of the world. I'll take a backup, copy it offsite, and get them to replace the disk.
Start the backup to the second disk, and everything's fine for a few minutes, and then it's nothing but I/O errors. Uh-oh. The system disk has gone offline, taking with it the databases and the operating system.
I'm still logged into the server, mind you. But I've lost /bin, /usr/bin, everything bin. What still works? Well, let's see. I have cd. I have echo, because that's built into the shell. And I have cat.
And that's about it.
And using cd, echo, and cat, I managed to rescue the main Protein Wisdom database from a disk that I couldn't access, because the entire thing was cached in RAM.
The reason why I only almost dodged the nuke is that it came up with a bunch of I/O errors, and I thought it hadn't worked, so I had tech support reboot the server.
Mistake. The server wouldn't boot from the drive, so they had to replace it. They put it in an external caddy, but it still wouldn't recognise it. So all I had was a corrupted backup of one database.
But I was able - thanks to myisamchk and repair table and a spare copy of the Wordpress database structure - to rebuild that database and merge it into the last off-site backup.
If I hadn't rebooted at that point, I might have been able to do the same for the other databases.
And then I got a call from my business partner. He had a site - a business site - hosted on that server as well. And I'd just lost all his data... Except not, I realised, after my blood pressure had hit 180/140. He's running a hosted app that was linked from the site he has on that server, so all he needed was for me to restore the static content of his site, which was backed up safely. Twice, in fact.
The third site on there wasn't so lucky, and lost a couple of month's data. Fortunately, it's a less busy site, and a couple of hours spent trawling Google's caches let me dig out most of the missing posts; the site owner will just need to cut-and-paste those and re-load the associated media files.
I just spent five solid days - as in, 120 consecutive hours - panicking about the servers at my day job. And the minute I get that fixed (and in the end, a lot better than it ever was before) and everyone is happy, boom!
And now I'm dead. I'm so dead my deads have dead on them. I hadn't even been grocery shopping for two weeks, until I hauled myself up the hill to the shops just now at 8:30 on a Sunday night.
I need some Popotan.
Almost.
Sakura, the third server in the mu.nu cluster, used for offsite backups and for offloading some sites during the election overload, just dropped dead.
Now the two main servers, Aoi and Midori, do daily backups and then exchange backup files. I'd intended to apply that to Sakura as well, but Sakura went live about the time I went insane, and it never happened.
The first sign of trouble was earlier today, when Protein Wisdom started running slow, and then stopped entirely. I logged in and poked around a bit, but couldn't see any problem. Restarted Apache. Ran a check on the database. All fine.
Took a look at the system log. Reporting 6 bad sectors on the disk. Okay, that's not great, but not the end of the world. I'll take a backup, copy it offsite, and get them to replace the disk.
Start the backup to the second disk, and everything's fine for a few minutes, and then it's nothing but I/O errors. Uh-oh. The system disk has gone offline, taking with it the databases and the operating system.
I'm still logged into the server, mind you. But I've lost /bin, /usr/bin, everything bin. What still works? Well, let's see. I have cd. I have echo, because that's built into the shell. And I have cat.
And that's about it.
And using cd, echo, and cat, I managed to rescue the main Protein Wisdom database from a disk that I couldn't access, because the entire thing was cached in RAM.
The reason why I only almost dodged the nuke is that it came up with a bunch of I/O errors, and I thought it hadn't worked, so I had tech support reboot the server.
Mistake. The server wouldn't boot from the drive, so they had to replace it. They put it in an external caddy, but it still wouldn't recognise it. So all I had was a corrupted backup of one database.
But I was able - thanks to myisamchk and repair table and a spare copy of the Wordpress database structure - to rebuild that database and merge it into the last off-site backup.
If I hadn't rebooted at that point, I might have been able to do the same for the other databases.
And then I got a call from my business partner. He had a site - a business site - hosted on that server as well. And I'd just lost all his data... Except not, I realised, after my blood pressure had hit 180/140. He's running a hosted app that was linked from the site he has on that server, so all he needed was for me to restore the static content of his site, which was backed up safely. Twice, in fact.
The third site on there wasn't so lucky, and lost a couple of month's data. Fortunately, it's a less busy site, and a couple of hours spent trawling Google's caches let me dig out most of the missing posts; the site owner will just need to cut-and-paste those and re-load the associated media files.
I just spent five solid days - as in, 120 consecutive hours - panicking about the servers at my day job. And the minute I get that fixed (and in the end, a lot better than it ever was before) and everyone is happy, boom!
And now I'm dead. I'm so dead my deads have dead on them. I hadn't even been grocery shopping for two weeks, until I hauled myself up the hill to the shops just now at 8:30 on a Sunday night.
I need some Popotan.
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Tuesday, February 03
Pig Bums
Broke my glasses.
Amazingly, I managed to find both my spare pairs despite my optically-challenged condition. Now looking forward to raging headache kicking in about 4PM.
Broke my glasses.
Amazingly, I managed to find both my spare pairs despite my optically-challenged condition. Now looking forward to raging headache kicking in about 4PM.
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Sunday, February 01
Avoiding Work
Making omelettes.
Making omelettes.
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Thursday, January 15
You Could Take A Shower In It
Don't have a working cold water tap today. Have a hot tap, and a slightly hotter tap.
The hot water at my place is locked to a child-friendly 50°, while outside it hit a not-so-friendly 43° today.
I bought a little water cooler just before Christmas. Best $99 I ever spent.
Ah. The promised 'cool change' (a.k.a. violent thunderstorm) looks like it's arriving right about now. Not a minute too soon, either.
Update: Temperature dropped nearly 15° in two hours. That's better!
Don't have a working cold water tap today. Have a hot tap, and a slightly hotter tap.
The hot water at my place is locked to a child-friendly 50°, while outside it hit a not-so-friendly 43° today.
I bought a little water cooler just before Christmas. Best $99 I ever spent.
Ah. The promised 'cool change' (a.k.a. violent thunderstorm) looks like it's arriving right about now. Not a minute too soon, either.
Update: Temperature dropped nearly 15° in two hours. That's better!
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Monday, December 29
Who's That Knocking At My Door?
At 9AM on December 29? Probably Jehovah's Witnesses. Roll over and go back to sleep.
Except, as I discovered later, Jehovah's Witnesses don't slip notes under your door saying that they tried to deliver a package from Singapore.*
Fortunately - just like Jehovah's Witnesses - FedEx keeps coming back.
Update: Just arrived. In fact, they sent me both the Windows and Mac versions, which would be great if (a) I had a G5 or Intel Mac (I have four Macs stashed away in various closets, but none of them are exactly recent), and (b) I had the Mac-version CS3 install disks from which to upgrade. Why they insist on sending out upgrade-only disks for a subscription-only product requiring online activation will forever remain a mystery.
Update: It comes on four DVDs.
* Singapore? Took me a minute to work that out too. It will be my update to Adobe Design Premium CS4, which I've been waiting on for weeks. Perfect timing too, now that I have my new PC all set up and running happily.
At 9AM on December 29? Probably Jehovah's Witnesses. Roll over and go back to sleep.
Except, as I discovered later, Jehovah's Witnesses don't slip notes under your door saying that they tried to deliver a package from Singapore.*
Fortunately - just like Jehovah's Witnesses - FedEx keeps coming back.
Update: Just arrived. In fact, they sent me both the Windows and Mac versions, which would be great if (a) I had a G5 or Intel Mac (I have four Macs stashed away in various closets, but none of them are exactly recent), and (b) I had the Mac-version CS3 install disks from which to upgrade. Why they insist on sending out upgrade-only disks for a subscription-only product requiring online activation will forever remain a mystery.
Update: It comes on four DVDs.
* Singapore? Took me a minute to work that out too. It will be my update to Adobe Design Premium CS4, which I've been waiting on for weeks. Perfect timing too, now that I have my new PC all set up and running happily.
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Thursday, December 25
Merry Christmas-Type Thingy Everyone!
I slept and played FFIV.
It's the first day I've really had off in six weeks.
I slept and played FFIV.
It's the first day I've really had off in six weeks.
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Tuesday, December 23
Christmas Shopping
Just say aargh.
I have four presents for my brother - he's easy to shop for. Now I just have to get things for everyone else.
Last year I did potluck Ghibli movies - bought a bunch of Ghibli movies (and a copy of Millennium Actress, just to keep it interesting), wrapped them identically, and let people pick one each.
Which worked out great - we all ate too much and then lounged around watching Pom Poko. But I don't know if it's something I can do two years in a row. Nor can I think of any other anime I'd want try it with.
Just say aargh.
I have four presents for my brother - he's easy to shop for. Now I just have to get things for everyone else.
Last year I did potluck Ghibli movies - bought a bunch of Ghibli movies (and a copy of Millennium Actress, just to keep it interesting), wrapped them identically, and let people pick one each.
Which worked out great - we all ate too much and then lounged around watching Pom Poko. But I don't know if it's something I can do two years in a row. Nor can I think of any other anime I'd want try it with.
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Monday, November 17
Drowning In Buttermilk
I had two goals today: Buy some socks, and install Vista SP1.
As for how that worked out, well, I have plenty of socks now.
I had two goals today: Buy some socks, and install Vista SP1.
As for how that worked out, well, I have plenty of socks now.
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Sunday, October 05
Aargh! Time Thieves!
It just got an hour later all of a sudden.
It just got an hour later all of a sudden.
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Wednesday, September 10
Sorries
For the lack of posts.
For the slow responses to emails.
For the not-exactly-rapid progress of Minx recently.
I turned into a pumpkin.
Back very soon, with a little luck.
For the lack of posts.
For the slow responses to emails.
For the not-exactly-rapid progress of Minx recently.
I turned into a pumpkin.
Back very soon, with a little luck.
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Monday, August 25
A Perfect Place
Just millimetres from where I am at the moment.
I don't have to move after all.
It would be even better if I hadn't just spent two weeks running around looking for somewhere to live, but I'll take what I can get.
Also, all that money I had set aside for moving expenses? I'm thinking a 24" monitor and a new PC.
Just millimetres from where I am at the moment.
I don't have to move after all.
It would be even better if I hadn't just spent two weeks running around looking for somewhere to live, but I'll take what I can get.
Also, all that money I had set aside for moving expenses? I'm thinking a 24" monitor and a new PC.
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