A cricket bat! Twelve years, and four psychiatrists! Four? I kept biting them! Why? They said you weren't real.
Saturday, December 21
Holiday! Celebrate!
I have three weeks off starting today.
My air conditioner is busted but apart from tomorrow (well, today now, it's well past midnight) the next week's weather is expected to be pretty mild.
I'll be working on the new system again. I started back in on it a couple of weeks ago to make sure I was ready to dive in right away. My dev system has 100k users and 3.5 million posts in it right now for performance testing.
The back-end is complete and passes the test suite, and I've settled on the front end design. I'll be posting the first previews in a few days.
I'm tempted to call it Minx 1.1.7, since it's a top-down rewrite that shares no code or even database definitions with 1.1.6.
Posted by: Rick C at Saturday, December 21 2019 06:01 AM (Iwkd4)
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It'll get fixed (or replaced if needed), it will just be a few days before they can get someone to come out. I can get through one hot day on willpower and ice cream. It's only expected to reach - oh - only expected to reach 42C / 108F where I live, and 47C / 117F in the western parts of Sydney.
I might try turning it off an on again...
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, December 21 2019 10:30 AM (PiXy!)
Me: Yes, next Friday is fine. I'll be working from home all day.
Them: Great, we've scheduled you for 6:49 AM.
Me: ...
Also, Google Hangouts is still garbage. Crystal is good but there's no Jetbrains IDE for it, just a third-party plugin without much support. Virtualisation and containerisation are festering piles of garbage. And after it looked like we swerved at the last moment and headed for Brave New World, it turns out that 1984 is well and truly back on the cards.
Orwell wasn't a prophet, he just paid attention.
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Saturday, March 09
Mundania and Trivia
So I blew out my back, apparently during the strenuous exercise of washing the dishes. I can't currently sit at my desk at all, so I'm giving kneeling a try. Not looking promising so far.
Daily News Stuff will likely appear in abridged form for a few days...
The money from that domain sale didn't last long. Two notebooks, an external disk drive (those 8TB LaCie drives are really cheap now), a new ADSL/VDSL modem/router (since my router is old and my model is older), a bunch of cables (USB-C cables are bloody expensive) and other minor bits, and that new desk chair I'd been promising myself.
And I think a week's worth of groceries got paid along the way because the money was sitting in my PayPal account at the time.
Well, it was nice while it lasted. Anyone want to buy idiotpedia.com? No, I think I let that one lapse. Never mind.
Status Update
NBN: We'll get back to you in a year. Maybe.
Domain sale: Unpaid.Paid. Spent.
Laptop: Out of stock.In stock.Out of stock. ETA Wednesday.
Shiny wonderful all-singing server: Obtained! Currently testing RAID-6 RAID-10 RAID-5 RAIDZ. Currently configuring for production with LXD 3.4 and RAIDZ1.
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Monday, July 16
Freezing
Literally. Zero degrees C overnight in my part of Sydney, and -3 in the western suburbs. Not something that would fret those who live in temperate climes, but Sydney is subtropical; it hardly ever actually freezes here.
Brrrr.
Update: Official low at the closest government weather station was 1.4C last night, and a rather brisk -4C out in Richmond.
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Huh, I thought you got snow there.
Wait...do you have heat?
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Monday, July 16 2018 04:09 AM (3bBAK)
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We sometimes get snow in the Blue Mountains that border Sydney to the west, but basically never in the city itself. (As in, yeah, it happened on one day in 1836 sort of thing.)
I don't have central heating; no-one does. Air conditioning, yes, that's basic life support. I do have a couple of little electric heaters, one of which is busy keeping my toes from falling off this morning.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, July 16 2018 10:24 AM (PiXy!)
At my day job we've done our San Francisco and New York launch events (and both went very well), and that just leaves London this week. This is the first weekend in a month when I haven't had to work.
I was doing something about a new social network, as I recall.
....
Nope, gone now. Well I'm sure if it was important I'll remember it.
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Wednesday, January 31
Where Has Pixy Been This Past Month?
One, busy working on stuff at my day job.
Two, busy working on taking on Facebook, Google, Youtube, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Slack, and Reddit.
Three, poking the animals on Twitter:
Update:
Update 2:
We're back in jail,
Although I know it's crazy,
Right back in jail,
My mind becomes so hazy,
I gambled again because I feel lucky when I see
There is my tweet insulting NBC! pic.twitter.com/lXISvZw1s7
First day in about six months when I haven't been rushing about in a total panic about something or other.
I'm on holidays until the 8th, the server migration is complete, the shopping is done, the bills are paid, and nothing is actually literally on fire right at this very moment.
