fedora
…. but not without dramas. The move wasn’t as smooth as expected. The actual furnishings/equipment move was fine, but the technological move was not. Thanks to the wonders of the monopoly telecommunications company here (Telstra) who, despite being privatised and made to compete with other carriers treats the public
fedora
The lease on my apartment here in Fortitude Valley has expired and my landlords have opted not to offer me an extension (well, they DID but then rescinded it after I agreed to it, lusers). I’ve not settled on anything else as yet – still going over a whole raft
life
Not much of this is going to be coherent, but here goes: Metafilter [http://www.metafilter.com/65071/I-want-to-sit-in-a-hole-and-drink-chardonnay-while-reading-a-book-thanks-very-much/] posters can be cuttingly funny: > “When I think of Sydney I think of the Crocodile Hunter and Paul Hogan jousting against each other in speed boats, while Yahoo Serious referees
fedora
Why yes, it has been a little while since I’ve posted anything of note. Hope the quote from Sean tided over the tragics who just couldn’t stay away. There has been quite a bit happening, most of it good. Dad has come back from Bangkok after his stem-cell
technical
> sean: it’s kind of like you stuck your head in a concrete mixer, that’s full of midgets with drum kits and now your complaining about the banging, you daft fucks My friend Sean, on a customer who has every single Windows non-info-level event log entry emailed to
buddhism
China tells living Buddhas to obtain permission before they reincarnate [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article2194682.ece] Apparently if you’re a living Buddha (ie pretty much anyone, potentially) and you happen to reside in China you need a permit before you can reincarnate(!) Um, yeah, that’
web
I was a NANAE (news.admin.net-abuse.email, the Usenet anti-spam frontline) regular back when Sanford Wallace decided – with great fanfare and all manner of self-aggrandisement – to cease email / usenet spamming. $DEITY knows how many cyberpromo-sourced spam messages IÂ got back in the (pre-DNSBL pre-Bayes pre-anything-but-procmail-filters) day. Those that thought
networking
Sorry to readers / visitors again for another extended outage. This one is again not my doing but this time there’s been a happier ending. I elected on Friday to churn my ADSL service to Internode [http://www.internode.on.net/] (a fairly large ISP here in Australia) as they
life
In case you’ve been living as a hermit for the last 9 months, the new Harry Potter book has been released this weekend. I’m not that much of a fan (seen the movies though) but each to their own. However the hardcore fans, they’re a worry. The
networking
Apologies for the outage even though it’s not really my fault. I gave Webcentral (who supply my ADSL service) the necessary 30 days notice for account closure on Monday only to find the service cut off on Wednesday afternoon because two staff members failed to read the ticket and
friendsdonewell
Good Things: * Tina Wallmann has gotten a Zoo Weekly [http://www.zooweekly.com.au/] cover, a fairly good photoset (wish they’d lay off the airbrush though, she doesn’t need it) – nicely done, proud of you mate ? * Dad leaves for Bangkok on Friday night for a heart operation – hopefully
web
I’ve historically been loathe to take on social networking sites, knowing from past experience both as a user and administrator the pitfalls and headaches they can be. Plus, some people using them are just plain fucking weird and/or gratuitously offensive because they think they’re anonymous (have I