Don’t expect any updates for a while. Things are grim mmmkay.

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http://rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_mincing.shtml

Amongst my favourites:
I was just talking to a user who had been having problems with her machine — it was losing its settings every time she turned it on.

Her: “I asked my boyfriend about it. He knows about computers, and he said it sounds like it might need a new sea monster battery.”
It took me a while to figure out what she meant.

(It was a CMOS battery, if you didn’t get that)

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Wow, I’m not even in the top 30 hosts visiting Minilog.com anymore, according to webalizer.

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Wow. How many ISPs provide information this detailed about their network?

http://www.blueyonder.co.uk/blueyonder/getContent.jspx?page=h_glossary_hfc
http://www.blueyonder.co.uk/blueyonder/status/statuspage.html
http://www.blueyonder.co.uk/blueyonder/status/announcements/archives/pages/announcement.html

And they’re upgrading my 512k to 750k for free. I can’t complain about them at all right now.

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Freenet is sooooo damn slow. It reminds me of using the 14.4k modem I used to have. (In comparison, my 512k broadband is about 50 times as fast).

It also seems immature technically, like the web used to be. External CSS is a blatant nono, images suck because they take forever to download, etc.

And the routing problems are phenomenal. (YAY I NEVER GET TO USE THAT WORD).

But I’ll persevere for a while..

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Bought a 19″ monitor on eBay for like £25. Nice Belinea one, too. Can’t really argue with that. What I can argue with however, is the treatment recieved from Royal Mail. They’re refusing to deliver it because it’s too heavy under new rules introduced on May 1st. The package was sent on April 29th, so the new rules shouldn’t apply. I called East Croydon Delivery Office, who told me to call Royal Mail’s main customer services team. I did so and was told to call Post Office Counters’ customer service team, who in turn told me to call Royal Mail. On calling Royal Mail _again_ I told the person on the other end of the phone in no uncertain terms that I wanted my package. And fast. He was actually very nice (I feel guilty for being harsh with him at first, but I had been messed about excessively by that point) and worked very hard trying to sort it out, calling me several times during the afternoon. He’s going to kick some butt at East Croydon Sorting Office and get me my monitor.

Spoke to on the phone a few days ago. For some reason I had a bout of shyness and didn’t really say much. Sorry Danielle! (Apparently I wasn’t the only one though…).

James is getting me to do more sound engineering for the theatre, and for a concert down at the Bluebell railway I think… should be fun. I love doing that kind of stuff.

Went to see Cat over the weekend. She is going to pass her exams. Don’t listen to her if she says she isn’t. Grr, why can’t it be the Summer already? I want her back, dammit. :(

But yeah, while I was up there, we saw Kill Bill 2. Pretty good. Not sure which was better. It was a lot slower than the first one, but that was probably because there were less people left on name deleted’s list. However the whole thing with the beard guy was so funny. It was Monty Python-style surreal.

After that we went to The Empire in Middlesbrough, which was damn cool. They had an indie room, a pop (read R&B/hip-hop) room, and a rock room.

One of the rooms even had these dodgy 80’s games you could play (yes, even Pacman!). Shame it was in the “pop” room, though. I think it’dve fitted more in the indie room because of the whole retro factor but whatever. It was really really really cool. I want to go back.

Yesterday we watched the Spirited Away DVD. I miss that film. It was so good in the cinema. I think I preferred it in Japanese and subtitled, though. The English version detracted from the… authenticity(?) a little bit.

What is it with watching girls sleep that is so adorable? The way their hair lays around their head, and the cute looks on their face. What’s with that?

Why does it cost £76 a year to subscribe to Wired, when, paying shelf prices, you’d only spend £36 to £48? Anyone?

I wish xJournal would post to several journals at once. That way I could update my Minilog by making one post, hitting post and watch it appear on both LJ and ML. should sort this for me. :p

I was considering making a Wiki where people could post random things about me. Just out of curiosity, really. To see what people would say. That’s kind of why I want people to fill out the poll above. Curiosity. GO. ANSWER!

Minilog’s getting scarily big. Heh, I’m making a whole few cents a day on Google Adsense. Wowwww. </sarcasm>

Sorry this was such a random post. It was a cumulation of lots of things I haven’t posted recently.

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Long post coming up. Be prepared!

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--- BEGIN IRC LOG ---
     <rh_pr> We are announcing Red Hat Project! A community-based
             distribution!
 <oss_crowd> rh_pr: Neat.
    <rh_dev> rh_pr: Uh... I'm not ready.
           * rh_pr is away: promoting rhel
 <oss_crowd> rh_dev: what do we do?
    <rh_dev> oss_crowd: I'm not sure.
  <rh_legal> rh_dev: don't do anything until I say it's ok.
 <oss_crowd> rh_dev: what can we do to help with Red Hat Project?
    <rh_dev> oss_crowd: uh... file bugs and help test things.
 <oss_crowd> rh_dev: didn't we always do that?
  <rh_sales> hey, all, if you really want a stable system, don't use
             fedora project. It will eat your brane. Buy RHEL instead.
    <rh_dev> rh_sales: stfu
         --- rh_pr removes voice from rh_sales
 <fedora_us> hey, all, check out our neat community-driven system for
             red hat development
 <oss_crowd> fedora_us: ooooh!
     <rh_pr> fedora_us: I like your name
         --- fedora_rh joined the channel
  <rh_legal> much better
     <rh_pr> We are announcing Fedora Project! A community-driven
             distribution!
 <oss_crowd> rh_pr: Neat!
           * fedora_rh waves
 <fedora_us> I'm not dead yet.
 <fedora_rh> fedora_us: don't confuse things.
 <fedora_us> fedora_rh: does this mean we're merging?
 <fedora_rh> fedora_us: maybe
  <rh_legal> fedora_rh: don't do anything until I say it's ok.
         --- fedora_us joined #limbo
 <oss_crowd> fedora_rh: so, what can we do to help?
 <fedora_rh> oss_crowd: uh... file bugs and help test things.
 <oss_crowd> sigh... didn't we always do that?
 <fedora_rh> oss_crowd: I know, let's all go in the circle and say our
             names.
           * oss_crowd goes in the circle and says their names. This
             lasts several months.
 <fedora_rh> So, there will be the following features in the next
             release of Fedora Core.
 <oss_crowd> Uh... Hold on. Who gets to decide?
  <rh_sales> We do. That stuff will be neato for RHEL-4.
 <oss_crowd> MMkay, then. When do _we_ get to suggest things?
 <fedora_rh> oss_crowd: feel free to talk among yourselves.
           * oss_crowd talks among themselves about new features.
 <fedora_rh> btw, feature X will be disabled in the release.
           * oss_crowd glares at fedora_rh
 <oss_crowd> fedora_rh: nice of you to tell us while we were sitting
             here talking.
    <rh_dev> oss_crowd: sorry, it's just not happening.
 <oss_crowd> rh_dev: when do we get to decide what's happening?
    <rh_dev> oss_crowd: Dunno, I'll ask rh_legal
  <rh_legal> rh_dev: ugh, /msg me
  <rh_sales> rh_dev: let's not do anything rash here.
           * fedora_us gets tired of sitting in #limbo
 <oss_crowd> fedora_rh: I want to see more of the "community" part of
             the whole "community-based" thing
 <oss_crowd> rh_dev: how about at least a publicly accessible CVS/SVN
             tree?
    <rh_dev> oss_crowd: Yeah, that would be cool.
 <oss_crowd> rh_dev: finally, some movement. When is that going to be
             up?
           * rh_dev is away: talking to rh_legal
           * oss_crowd tries to occupy themselves and do things like
             fedoranews and fedorapeople.
 <oss_crowd> Uh... ping?
 <fedora_uh> oss_crowd: what's up?
 <oss_crowd> fedora_rh: We're feeling kinda useless. What exactly is our
             role, again?
 <fedora_rh> oss_crowd: well, it would be really helpful if you could
             test some things and file the bugs.
 <oss_crowd> fedora_rh: ugh. We ALWAYS did that.
           * oss_crowd begins to wonder what exactly is the purpose of
             fedora_rh
 <fedora_rh> oss_crowd: it's the open-development, proving-grounds for
             new technology component of Red Hat, as opposed to RHEL.
  <rh_sales> Told ya it'll eat your brane.
         --- rh_pr kicks rh_sales from the channel (you're a dolt)
 <oss_crowd> fedora_rh: so, let me get this straight. Effectively, you
             want us to download the packages you release, test things,
             file bugs, and submit patches.
 <fedora_rh> oss_crowd: Sure, why not?
 <oss_crowd> ...but when it comes to things like features, direction of
             the project, and which software to include in the
             distribution, it's the decision of Red Hat?
           * fedora_rh is away: I AM RH
 <fedora_us> I'm still not dead.
 <oss_crowd> fedora_rh: How is that different from how things were
             before the whole "publicly-supported distribution" thing?
 <oss_crowd> rh_dev: where is that long-promised public CVS/SVN repo?
    <rh_dev> dunno, talk to fedora_rh
 <fedora_rh> oss_crowd: look, such things don't happen in a week, ok?
 <oss_crowd> IT'S BEEN A YEAR!
         --- rh_sales joined the channel
  <rh_sales> EAT YOUR BRAAAAAANE.
 <oss_crowd> /mode +b rh_sales
         --- You're not ops in here.
 <oss_crowd> figures
--- END IRC LOG ---

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