| Public service announcement |
[Apr. 16th, 2008|07:28 pm] |
If you tell me you're not going to talk to me, so that I can heal, then please don't. I'm busy healing.
ESPECIALLY if it's about one of the very, very few topics I would rather not know about.
Also, don't bother responding to this. If I'd wanted to enter in to a conversation, I would've. We're not talking so that I can heal. |
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[Apr. 10th, 2008|08:55 pm] |
Todays eating:
1 cottage pie thing
500ml of pure orange juices
a portion of grapes
2 packs of crisps
1 can of coke
... MMmm, I'm beginning to slack a bit on the food front. I need to sort that out. |
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[Apr. 9th, 2008|08:02 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  fixy fixy fixy | ] |
Updating from work, since I'm still there (we had a major catastrophe deploying today, and it's fixed now, but I'm running some tests on the production database to make sure it won't bite us in the ass in the future.
So, today I've eaten -
2x cottage pie things
500ml or so pure fruit juice
half a tub of grapes
a footlong subway melt
aaand a subway cookie (om nom nom.)
EDIT: Also, a 1/4lb cheeseburger and a can of coke. YUMZ.
Today hasn't been a bad day, TBH. Been pretty up-and-down but only in the 'expected after a breakup' range, so I'm happy with that.
Thanks again to those posting replies to my recent emo spate! |
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| HTTP error codes pertaining to my naughty bits |
[Apr. 3rd, 2008|02:55 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | lol | ] |
Just had the following gem on MSN with Ed
Alan:
ERROR 404: DONG NOT FOUND
Ed:
413, Request Entity Too Large
I irloled at work over this. :$ |
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[Mar. 31st, 2008|10:40 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | cheerful | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Jah Free - Behold dub | ] |
So yeah. Cool.
Spent the weekend really happy, oddly. I'd been looking forward to going to rockworld all week, only for the CEO of the company I work at to phone me on Friday evening and ask if I can get to work over the weekend (and when I say ask - I really mean it. The guy was practically groveling). So I say I can, and go without my rockworld trip and weekend of solid code. The boss pays me handsomely (by my standards) - I get just over double pay - £150 for the weekend. Not a lot of money by standards of people earning more than me (obviously) but for me, that will come in _very handy_ - especially since I've just started taking driving lessons again.
I've somehow managed to put on weight. It's really bizarre... I can actually pinch my tummy and get flab now. I never used to be able to do that. Maybe this is a sign of me eating properly :D Woo.
Then I got pretty upset on Monday, and that's carried on so far, but meh, it aint _that_ bad.
Saturday, I'm planning to buy a NEW SCOPE for an insane amount of cash. It is indeed an OX, but I will not be casemodding it with horns, nor beast-likefur.
I've been listening to reggae/dub a bit lately. Really liking some of it.. if you want to recommend any artists to check out, now is a good time to. 'tis a genre I'd like to get in to.
Bought a nice pci-express SCSI card on ebay, which should arrive soon. I'm really anticipating getting the 15k drives running again.
Not much else to report, really. Talking to some 'new people' on MSN I met through OKC (yes, yes, I know, I'm on an internet dating site, I know) who seem cool.. was nattering to one about the 4chons, which was nice. /b/tard girls are funky.. I really need to get one so we can have epic comedy sex.
I've spent ages working on my new site, mainly cataloging my Uni work and making it available there. This lead me to find out that my year-averages are in the 60% range.. roughly equating to a 2:1. Looking at the spread of my marks, I should be doing a lot better than I am/was - I've obviously just not put any effort in to some modules. Hope I can sort that next year and get a good pass.
This placement year is really forcing me to grow up. It's scary. I really hope I get to come back to Manchester later on in life.. the place is lovely. I mean, I have a balcony, FFS. That in itself is awesome. But seriously, the place is beautiful. I remember when I first came here, and first got on a tram.. and I thought 'I need to make an effort to appreciate trams every time I get on one. They're awesome. I never want to take them for granted.' And they are, don't get me wrong. Commuter life is ace because of them. But about six months later, I started to realize that one reason that Manchester is so ace, is that it is in constant upheaval. There are building sites everywhere. Always. It's not growing, it's not sprawling - it's actively regenerating, every second. And I love that, I really do. I suddenly realized that this constant change was the force that was causing the constant improvement - and my pledge to 'always appreciate trams' was standing in it's way. In order to grow, and build a successor, we _need_ to take the current situation for granted - and we need to design bigger and better things. And from that moment, I viewed trams as just a means to an end - they help me travel, but the bigger picture is how I use them.
I felt very enlightened when I had that thought. |
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| Why would anyone do that?! |
[Mar. 31st, 2008|12:48 pm] |
Looking through some code that my company maintains, and I come across this...
catch(Exception ex)
{
ex=ex;
} |
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[Mar. 30th, 2008|11:58 pm] |
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Please note, world - from now on, pornstars are required to have names other than that of my ex-girlfriends. Seriously - there's nothing worse to break the moment than just getting relaxed.. then hearing the name of one of the ex's. Seriously. |
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[Mar. 30th, 2008|07:58 pm] |
This made me lol while I was looking at some code of mine that I haven't worked on for a couple years:
int init()
{
#error THIS CODE IS FUCKED. It'll work, but go debug it...
long ret;
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[Mar. 28th, 2008|11:05 pm] |
Spot the difference!
Think I can get away without anyone noticing? ;)
( give up? )
In unrelated news, I've just volunteered to go to work Saturday and Sunday, thus sacrificing my rockworld trip I'd been _really_ looking forward to. Damnit. |
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[Mar. 28th, 2008|11:41 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | work lol | ] |
| [ | mood |
| | bitchy | ] |
Just overheard from the 'smug guy' at work -
"[the client] asked why we hardcoded the login [to the _big_ company's stock/work/etc database] in to the client software. The answer, of course, is so that you can't just open the app.config and read it."
HHRRRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHH
AARGHHHH
STUPID PEOPLE DO STUPID THINGS |
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| Rick on Rickrolling |
[Mar. 26th, 2008|08:32 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | cheerful | ] |
| [ | music |
| | NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP, NEVER GONNA LET YOU DOWN! | ] |
So, an interview with Rick Astley about the RickRoll is bubbling up the blogosphere (hee, I feel so hip and web2.0 saying that!) so I thought I'd repoast it here, too.
Now I gotta run, or I'll be late for work. |
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[Mar. 24th, 2008|06:18 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | sleepy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Prodigy - Out of Space | ] |
So, I promised myself I'd blog about my Eventful Weekend, but didn't get time (or just didn't prioritize it highly enough) and still haven't yet (despite it now being about ten days after said eventful weekend started).
So, the plan for this weekend was to do something epic on Saturday (ask me IRL if you know me), to go to some gig with Femi on Saturday night, then on Sunday, go house shopping (since I move out in what, 3 or 4 months?) and then meet Hev in the pub. Satuday's Epic thing was indeed epic - as I Say, talk to me IRL about it - and then the chilling with Femi went pretty well too. He took me to see some band best described as 'noisy as fuck'. There was lots of crazy crazy 'mathy' stuff (although it sounded like 'mathy', in this sense, meant that 'a lump of unstructured noise'). As they were playing out to the last song, the drummer was madly banging on a cymbal with all his might, and walked off the set carrying his cymbal, still banging it for all it was worth, and in to the backstage rehersal room. Crazy kids. What made it crazier, was that he then emerged and ran around the (small) crowd still furiously banging said cymbal, and eventually stood it on the bar, still hammering it, where the bar staff just gave him a 'crazy kids' look. It was insane. Same guy, incidentally, said to femi earlier '[the gig you missed] WAS SO MENTAL! I SMASHED MY GUITAR! .. bummer, now I need a new one'. By far the best bit was when me and Femi walked in though - the 'people he knew' turned out to be a couple of old school friends, who pretty much jumped on him and hugged him - seriously, this drummer dude looked so elated to see him, it was awesome.
I've just realized that I found a bug in the project I'm working on _at work_, while I was asleep. I actually dreamed 'i wonder if it's (thing)' and saw some nondescript code fly past in my dream. And I was right. That's insane.
Then this weekend I went back to my mum's house to stay with her for the weekend and stt my brother, who I am quite worried about. He's dropped out of Uni, and is aiming to resit the final year next academic year. Apparently he dropped out due to 'problems with his sleeping pattern'.. I worry about him far too much. :/ He needs to get a job while he's out of uni, but I can't see it happening. Oh well, eh, what can I do? I've told him where I am, and have told him and mum both, that they shouldn't hesitate to call me if there's anything I can help with. Hope that's enough.
In other news, I've learnt that one of my friends not only takes five hour binges on World of Warcraft, but has taken to wearing a glove on his mousing hand to soak up the sweat. I feel that this deserves at least a slight mocking.
Anyway, talk later - I've promised myself I'm going to tidy the place up at least a little bit tonight, so I best go do that. |
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[Mar. 23rd, 2008|11:50 pm] |
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Have you ever done an LJ interest search of your name? I did one the other day, and found this. What the shit? |
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[Mar. 12th, 2008|06:21 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | work lol | ] |
| [ | mood |
| | spendy | ] |
Soooo, I'm at work while my (well, not _my_) soloution compiles.
My lovely lovely analogue storage scope died on me the other day. Well, not 'died' so much as the niggling fault getting more common and an additional one developing. It's only to be expected, since the 'scope dates from the '70s. I'd like to fix it, but, you know, time.
So I've decided to replace it, with something that'll last.
Ed put in contact with a guy who is offering an Metrix OX 2000 for £300. Lots of money, I know, but it does digital storage, has 4 channels, and a bandwidth of 150mhz. Integrated FFT, integral, PC comms via RS232 (and an industry standard protocol) and VGA out. It's _way_ overkill for me now, but it'll last me at least 5 years, I think.
For the interested - http://shop.micronplus.ro/pdf/metrix%20ox8050.pdf . Anyone more skilled than me have any advice on if its a good scope, or if theres a better/cheaper way? |
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[Mar. 9th, 2008|07:02 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | FUCK YEAH SEAKING | ] |
| [ | music |
| | PJ Harvey - Silence | ] |
FUCK YEAH ACTUALLY GETTING SOMETHING DONE!
So, I had the entire weekend free, so I intended to spend it working on the home automation system. On Saturday however, I got all moody and just sat about doing nothing instead (which greatly frustrated me). Today, however, I feel like I've turned a corner with the home automation project. I'll do a proper post to the techy blog 'gamesfary' later, but suffice to say that the 'wireless' part of it should be done soooon :D! This is great, because it had _really_ been pissing me off, as had my apparent inability to actually sort it out and make it do _anything_ reliably.
This describes how I felt :
I spent most of sat's moping reading all of the Girl Genius comics. I love it, I really do, it's a wonderful comic (although I must admit it confuses me a little). No techy skills are required to understand it, just go read!
Also, Hev sms'ed today to tell me she misses me. Aww :) |
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[Mar. 8th, 2008|06:39 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | patriotic | ] |
Is it petty to be annoyed by this? ;)
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[Feb. 26th, 2008|09:37 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | accomplished | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Led Zeppelin - In The Evening | ] |
Tired.
Returned to the home automation project today. Wired it up as I would expect, added some magic filtering, and did some clever/kludgey stuff in the driver software - and the PC now talks to the PIC over a wireless link (albeit of about 5cm). The pic still talks over a wire ATM, but that'll be sorted soonish. I'm dead pleased I've managed to get that working.
Dead pleased.
Next steps : fix a newly-discovered bug in driver SW that _just_ reared its head, find out why the nodes won't report their names correctly, and wire up the other direction of wireless, too. Ponder building more complex PC-side transmitter hardware. Add sensor description commands, and finish off GUI. Then I can do the release I was going to do last weekend. I'm planning on having it done before or on the 20th of next month.
Also to do : make my site, fix PXE/etherboot issues, work out if I want to get back with my ex-gf, build CNC machine, build PC to control CNC machine. Spend time CNC'ing pictures of dongs.
*yawn* sleepytime. |
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[Feb. 25th, 2008|07:37 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | sleepy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Craig Connor - The Fix: DSP / Ride / Lagerstar | ] |
OK people, can anyone recommend me a CMS? I don't really want to waste time writing my own site, I'd much rather just write the content.
I've only got basic needs. Single user, preferably able to read RSS, not an awful lot more.
All I want is a basic site to showcase my achievements to potential employers when I hand them my CV. My web design skills are pretty crap - I've dipped my toe in CSS then ran away screaming - so something fairly simple would be good. IIS on win2k or php/whatever in linux, anything is good.
PLZ ADVZ! |
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| can has music meme? |
[Feb. 12th, 2008|09:15 pm] |
Saw this on a friend's list and thought I'd give it a go.
* Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
* Step 2: Post the first line from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
* Step 3: Strike through or italicize the songs when someone guesses both artist and track correctly.
* Step 4: For those who are guessing -- looking the lyrics up on a search engine is CHEATING!
* Step 5: If you like the game post your own.
Here's my list:
1 In one moment, I'm going all the way
2 you keep your distance i can't deny
3 As soon as I'm left alone The devil wanders into my soul - PJ Harvey - The Devil
4 Halls of Justice Painted Green - Metallica - And Justice For All
5 Something ain't right / I'm gonna get myself .... - Stereo MCs - Connected
6 It's my life / take it or leave it, set me free
7 Ten fold, Ten fold, We grow ten fold, Ten fold, Ten fold - Machinehead = Ten Fold
8 Too tragic to stay with you
9 Giant steps are what you take - The Police - Walking On The Moon
10 Ahhhh, caught you smiling at me
11 Sister midnight comes blaspheming - Cradle of filth - Of Dark Blood And Fucking
12 I see you better now, shaded in deeper blue
13 Uhhh, Life's like this - Avril lavigne - Complicated
14 Hey, girl, stop what you're doin!
15 In the morning, going to get my things together/packing up and leaving this place
16 So Ya/ Thought ya/ might like to / go to the show - Pink Floyd - In The Flesh?
17 If you're feeling down depressed and lonely/ I know a place where we can go
18 Hey, you, get off my cloud / You don't know me and you don't know my style
19 You're not alone, I'll wait till the end of time - Olive - You're Not Alone
20 I murder a rhyme one word at a time / You never, heard of a mind as perverted as mine
Sweeties for the one that gets most (and I know IRL!)
Femi correctly identified 19 and 3. |
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