JSR - The Less Than Awesome Thoughts of JSR (Page 5)

Backups. So 90's.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F02%2F1546214 Journalspace.com has fallen and can’t get up. The post on their site describes how their entire database was overwritten through either some inconceivable OS or application bug, or more likely a malicious act. Regardless of how the

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Call this the future?

So, it’s now 2009. Only a year until the time frame of the sequel to 2001: A Space Oddessy. And I do not have any of the following: – A jetpack – An atomic-powered anything – A robot butler – A ray gun – Food pills Unacceptable. We can do better than this.

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I feel dirty. And not the good kind of dirty.

So today I vaped my gaming rigs XP partition and replaced it with Vista Ultimate 64bit Super Hyper Turbo Edition. I did this because DirectX 10 seems to be Vista-only, and because my gaming rig has 8GB of ram of which XP could address 3.75GB or so, which seems

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Here, chick chick chick! Actually, I've changed my mind. Go away.

Work put on an xmas lunch today – KFC and Indian food. Which is an awesome thing for work to do. I wasn’t in an indian food mood, so I had a couple of bits of KFC. This is the first time I’ve had KFC chicken bits, with bones

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A scratch? Your arm's off!

So I drive home from work and go to park in my spot, and someone is in it. A couple, in fact. They’re sitting in their car, in my spot, looks like they’re talking. This sort of thing is not an infrequent event. I honk my horn, and

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PWND X0R D ED LOL

So, over the last week or so, apache on my mail/web server has crashed a couple of times, leaving itself in a zombie state. This is new behaviour for it, as it’s been stable as for ages. A restart fixed it each time, so meh. Then this morning,

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Kawaii vs Spooky ... FIGHT!

I just watched the following happen with Annette playing “Saltcake”, her new Death Knight character in WoW: “Saltcake gently pats The Lich King.” After I stopped laughing, this made me think – I wonder if anyone, instead of saying stuff like “You’re a monster!” and “We will avenge your father!

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LIES!

I just opened a letter personally addressed to myself, which turned out to be from “Apartment Specialist” Daniel Horrobin, of Ray White real estate. In this letter, Daniel has taken the time to “keep me up to date on our apartment market” despite my never having had dealings with him

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The Event Horizon producers are on the phone. They sound pissed.

So, I’ve started playing Dead Space, for when Annette can’t (or doesn’t want to) play World of Warcraft. I keep imagining a meeting like this: “Ah, Mr Perkins! Come in, come in, we can’t wait to see your presentation!” “Thank you. Gentlemen, I give you the

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I herd you liek dragonballs?

After a lengthy torr .. uh, acquisition, I have begun my Dragonball watching. I fear I have set myself a difficult task. I’ve now watched the first few episodes of Dragonball (not DBZ) and it’s .. quite painful. I suspect a lot of that is because I’m watching the

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Maybe Black Mesa?

This is mounted on the ceiling in the Elliot Street mall where Annette and I go for sushi. I’m making a note here: Huge Success.

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Who cares about flying cars?

I am very very glad that I live in a time where I get to seriously say the phrase “I’m just downloading an update to my ocarina.”

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O BAI

So long, Winston. Be sure to let those bastards know if you need a helicopter for the ride home, yeah?

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Voted eccellente!

Went out and voted this morning. Made up my mind who to vote for about 5 mins before walking into the voting .. place. We had lunch at a new cafe down the road, which does all kinds of italian food. I had pizza and it was GREAT, so surely they

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The lesser of two evils

I’m not really sure how to vote. I’m kinda pissed off at Labour over the extraordinarily cynical exercise of the EFA, I’m definitely pissed off at them over this whole “ISPs have to disconnect customers based solely on accusations of copyright infringement” thing (which appears to be

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"Harmonix tech support, The Doctor speaking."

So, we had some woes with Rock Band and our new LCD TV today – we tried to ROCK OUT with it, only to find that there were serious timing issues with drum fills, and as we found out later, also with the vocal tracks. The drum fills are where instead

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Bawk-bawk-BAWK!

I wrote the following stuff on a local web forum and I have since been told I should repost it here. This is a response to a forum user that’s a fan of the Sword of Truth series of books by Terry Goodkind, and was bemoaning the shittyness of

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First Richard Hammond ... now THIS.

Everyone who just crashed their car, take a step back. Not so fast, me!

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I laughed. Then I felt bad for laughing.

Stuff.co.nz ran an article on the cause of the tragic death of toddler Nia Glassie. The headline was “Force killed Nia, says pathologist.” My friend peterfitz commented on it thusly .. [09:19] Anakin! Nooooooo! [09:19] The younglings! He is a Bad Bad Man. A funny man, but

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Oh No, It's The Pigs!

I have a meeting on Wednesday morning at the headquarters of the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand. At this meeting I, in the capacity of an ISP technical rep, will be given a demonstration of the software the NZ rights holders will be using to identify infringement of copyright

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Oh, I've regenerated? ... 'citing!

So, Russell Brand has resigned from his radio show due to feedback from voice-mail messages that he and Johnathan Ross left for Andrew Sachs, the actor who played Manuel in Fawlty Towers. That’s fairly surreal. I haven’t actually heard that show yet, but based on the descriptions of

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8999 ... and climbing

I’ve been talking to friends recently about how keen I am on The New Sincerity, and basically doing away (except when it’s really merited) with being only ironically in favour of stuff, and indeed also doing away with generally being sarcastic about more-or-less everything in the world. It’

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Kemosabe, jump on it!

This afternoon I complained to a co-worker that thanks to him, I had the Sugar Hill Gang’s “Apache (Jump on it!)” in my head, and it wouldn’t get out. Whereupon he started singing the song, and he, I, and another co-worker proceeded to perform a small snippet of

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2.0 enterprise social etc!

Posting this test message via new iPhone livejournal app. Let’s see how it goes. I’m including (I hope) a test picture of newly arrived Rock Band. Posted via LiveJournal.app. [Edit – It worked, but it posted two copies of the entry, for some reason. Weird!]

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DELICIOUS MURDER

On friday night, we went to Murderburger for dinner. We went again on Saturday. And then we went again for dinner today. And frankly, I could eat another one, right now. Burgerfuel … you are out. Please leave the runway.