I just had the least painful workstation restore process EVAR. I decided to repartition the drive on my mac, and because I had stuff all over the current drive, I figured it’d be a good opportunity to test Time Machine, so I imaged the drive onto a spare disk,…
Downloading and installing and patching World of Warcraft and the Burning Crusade upgrade. To a WINE installation on a Linux desktop box. A box at my work. Doing this via remote desktop. From my iPhone. While I’m at a friends housewarming party. I don’t know how many utter…
After work today, I dropped in on the only local maker of traditional kilt of my people, the Scots. Versions of this garment were often worn while the Scots were fighting their traditional hated enemies[1]. So naturally there’s a lot of history wrapped up in the kilt. For…
Annette and I went out to get dinner tonight, and on the way I filled up the car at the local petrol station. As I approached the counter, there was a dude (who I shall refer to as “Fuckstick”) already there and in conversation with the attendant. The following conversation…
When I read about someone killing another person, my reaction is pretty much “That’s terrible.” – I’m slightly saddened for the deceased, for society, and indeed for the killer (in decending order of sadness) and I hope that the family of the deceased can cope, and that humans continue…
I spent a little bit of time today wondering why a particular web site of mine couldn’t be browsed to, actually ended up checking my bind config to make sure that the domain was present and resolving, only to realise that “.vom” is not a valid top level domain.…
Me: “What do you want to watch over dinner? The new episode of House, or a CSI?” Annette: “I don’t like House.” Me: “You don’t like House? Who doesn’t like House?” Annette: “I’m already paranoid enough about medical things …” Me: (Interrupting) “It could be lupus!” Annette:…
I’ve just watched a trailer for something called “Top Gear Australia” which shows three Australian gentlemen drivin’ about in cars, crashin’ into things, makin’ sarcastic comments to each other, etc. Towards the end of this trailer, superimposed text says something like “Over 1,000,000 Australians regularly tune in…