Vista Sucks April 18, 2008
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Vista takes such a tediously long amount of time to install. And 3 reboots? Why? When you install Mac OS X, you install it, 20 mins max, and you’re done. Your mac is now useable. But not with windows, oh no. You wait 40 minutes for it to bugger about, with it giving you no indication of what it’s doing, or even how long it will be doing it for. Then, it reboots, buggers about a bit, then reboots, then buggers about a bit. And then you’re left to your own devices, and have to install all the drivers required to make things work.
What, in the name of all that may or may not be holy, is that funny translucent window thing all about? It looks like everything is set in frosted glass, its ridiculous, obtrusive, and annoying. It in no way lends itself to nice integration, because all the windows look like their contents is embedded in glass, there is no smooth transition between contents and frame. It’s just content BAM frame. In your face, and very ugly.
This new blog theme reminds me of BeOS. Ah, the good old days.
Fat Veggie April 16, 2008
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So, I went to see a neurologist yesterday. I was feeling quite happy, unstressed and at peace with the world. By the time I left, I felt like hitting something, very hard. She basically told me, I was an overweight veggie. And that all my problems would go away if I lost weight. Of course this all hinges on the fact that the NHS version of “ideal weight” is accurate, which it isn’t. Because, of course she has no idea that I used to powerwalk 8 miles a day, and go rock climbing every week. Most of my body mass was, and still is, muscle.
She said it was all because I don’t sleep. I don’t sleep because I have headaches, and I have headaches because I don’t sleep. I should get more excercise, by going swimming at 8 in the evening. But, if I wan’t to sleep, I can’t excercise in the evening. I need to do balance excercises. So she gives me a sheet, telling me to play basketball and go bowling. I think tenpin might take offence to me turning up, flailing a bowling ball about, then falling over.
Now, I’m stressed.
Anyway, meme.
I saw this around, and none of the posts I’ve seen it on actually explain what it is. So, I shall. It takes your bash history, sorts it, and counts and displays your most used commands. So, here we go:
Paradox:~ zane$ history | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head
40 ./mileage.pl
32 ls
30 cd
28 ssh
27 emacs
19 sudo
16 clear
9 history
8 rm
7 scripts/WebKit-nightly-updater.sh
Explanations:
- mileage.pl is an old perl script I was writing that takes a plain text file with my dad’s fuel receipts in, processes them, and returns things like fuel consumption, average pence per litre and mile, and so on. I don’t use this anymore, It’s gone up in the world, and been converted to php with the receipts in a MySQL database. Much nicer.
- ssh – for access to my webserver.
- emacs – for editing aforementioned perl script.
- Webkit-nightly-updater.sh downloads and installs the latest nightly build of webkit.
- the rest are self-explanitory.
Now, feel free to do it too. Post in the comments if you do.
*sigh* April 13, 2008
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Ah dear. It would seem that Alyson isn’t on GTalk because it “bothers her”, so she’s on msn. The words “be right back” really don’t mean anything when said to me, apparently. But, she’s not in a mood, she just can’t be bothered to come back online, or… indeed, come online at all. Or answer my texts, or reply to my comments on her blog that she insists that I comment on.
So, y’know what? Sod her.
There, I feel better now.
Moving on. I’ve put up some of the stuff from my old blog. Not the best material, and I’ve tried to update it where necessary, but I don’t have all that much time at the moment. Ciao.
Moved April 13, 2008
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Blogger did not agree with me, or with the posting of images, so here we are, with the WordPress.
Anyway, today has been rather interesting. I stayed in this morning to get my delivery (City-Link are pretty damn good) from Amazon. I bought a new watch, my first designer watch, I believe. Police, dual time-zone, 24h time, and it looks awesome. I bought a box set of all the Angel series, and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd Gig. I also bought a new 2.5 inch portable hard drive, a Western Digital E-something. Anyway, when I got the box out, I genuinely believed that I was unlucky enough to have received a empty box. Fortunately, upon opening it, I discovered that it was just insanely light.
Also went out with my dad later on, because I needed some more bottles of Evian (Tap water makes me feel sick), on the way to the store some little dude (aka, a kid) was stood in the middle of the road and waving us to stop. It turns out some idiot had driven his clapped out old fiesta over the embankment, through a fence and into a field. To add to this, some other idiot was trying to drag it back up the almost vertical embankment, using a 40 year old clapped out old tractor. Needless to say, we were sat there a while waiting, while the tractor kept stalling.
Some people are silly.
I shall post some photo’s later on, as soon as I can be bothered to sync my iPhone.
Also, for some inexplicable reason, Alyson has stopped talking to me again. I have no idea why, we were gettign on quite well, back to normal I suppose. Except she said brb, and hasn’t returned for three days (I know she’s on msn, I checked, she’s just not on GTalk). Paranoia perhaps, but I wish she wouldn’t give me reason to be.
Also, as WordPress can handle seperate pages, I was thinking of returning my reviews/hints/tips pages of oh so long ago (about 3 blogs previous to this).
Holla April 8, 2008
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I registered on the macrumors forums, and have spend the last few days solving peoples problems. It helps me in a few ways, because in a vague sort of way, I get the social contact that I so long for being stuck at home, I get to help people, which always feels good, andIt passes the time. I’m thinking of possibly registering on other forums too, like macosxhints. We’ll see.
Also, Alyson, who had a grump the other day, finally signed in to talk to me. It was, in fact, to moan, because my server, which she uses for free, is playing up. However, she’s stressed at the moment, because she’s got her photography portfolio to complete, and she had a bad week last week, although she hasn’t yet explained to me why. So, I shall let it slide, as always. At least we’re talking again. This is good.
I’ve upgraded my iMac to a 120Gb hard drive, and am currently looking at ripping it apart and replacing the cooling fan with a silent one, that would be awesome.
I seem to remember saying this would be interesting. Whoops.
Welcome April 7, 2008
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I’d like to welcome all my new visitors, after looking at my stats it seems my visitors have doubled, and people are starting to return. Not bad considering I haven’t been going for long. So welcome, enjoy, feel free to come back, and post some comments!
I’d like to make an apology though for faffing about with the themes recently, because I really can’t be bothered to create my own. But I kinda like the look of this one, and thus it’s staying.
Anyway, CONTENT. Yes. Well, I don’t think I mentioned, but a few of my mates returned from uni for the holidays the other week. Unfortunately, I was too ill to go out, but Alan was staying here for an extra week, so I sent him a text asking if he wanted to go out, and I’d try and get someone to drive me in. He didn’t reply. This was almost two weeks ago. It turns out that his granddad died, and he spent all his time arranging/attending the funeral. Damn that sucks.
Talking of granddads, mine.. is a bit… podgy. As in he wears XXXL clothing. This morning, he tells me he’s loosing weight, and says “I bet I weight less than you now!” Um, yea. Way to make me feel good. Besides, you might weight a stone less than me, but I ain’t podgy (I have a bit of a belly, but a 36″ waist isn’t bad, his is 48″ or something.)
Also, ended up having an argument with Alyson again. fun fun. Basically, I use jabber (Gtalk), and I made her install it to talk to me, only she had a mard about it, as so I caved in, and said I’d install MSN just to talk to her. Bearing in mind, I have a Mac, and MSN ain’t too good on Macs (Both adium and aMSN sign me in, but show me as appear offline). So, I installed it, and after much faffing, signed in. Whereupon she had another mard, and refused to talk to me. *sighs* I don’t know why I bother.
ANYWAY. *ceases whinging* It makes my head hurt. Next post will be more light hearted, I promise.
Or not. April 6, 2008
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*throws them in the bin*
It would seem, that although my software is great for my dad’s colleagues, it would also seem that they are so tight, they won’t even open their pockets for a collection for a dead guy’s family. So, although I could always open it up to others, I’m lacking the funds to set up the server etc in the first place. A start up fund as it were. So, all plans are out the window.
Which is a shame, because damn it was well coded. The google home page is 21kb and loads in roughly half a second. Mine loads completely including database access and processing, help, faq and about pages (it all loads at once) in 12Kb, and 100ms. Pretty impressive if I do say so myself.
Ah well, it seems that it’s doomed. It’d given me a splitting headache too, slaving over the code for the last few days getting it all done and multi-user ready. What a waste.
A certain suggestion from Harlan over at so very alone, I should write these posts all in one go, no re-reading, no checking grammar. Just throw drivel at you. You never know, I might take his advice.
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. April 4, 2008
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I have had a few arguments with Alyson over the past few days, which is unfortunate. It seem that when I go offline normally, she assumes I’m sulking. Wrong. I’m usually getting really aggravated, and I go offline to give us both a chance to calm down for a bit. Because, quite often, she’s being a damn arse too, only she would never admit it. Anyway, what I’ve been doing now is staying on, trying to calm myself down, and work it out. I do realise that it’s quite often me, but not always. I’m also quite willing to apologise when I’ve gone off on one. Unfortunatly, she isn’t, and often, her points are low blows, of the “you suck” and “i’m better than you” variety. Still, it seems to be working.
Kelly spoke to me for the first time in a while too, which was nice. We have drifted apart quite considerably though, and with her new stupid-hours job, and the fact I can’t get out the house easily, I find it unlikely that we’ll drift back together again.
Religion April 4, 2008
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My beliefs are quite simple. I choose not to worship any god. I believe there may perhaps be some higher being out there, possibly more than one, however, I won’t believe in any one specifially unless he/she/it chooses to reveal itself to me. I refuse to adhere to any rigid belief structure, or to label my belief. I believe that we all have our own choices, and those choices affect our future. I refuse to believe that our future is already mapped out for us. See, wasn’t that simple. I will not, ever, force this belief upon someone else. I will not try and convince someone with religion that they are wrong. I am quite happy to debate theology, and often I will win, as I have actually read a good portion of the bible, and I think it’s a very nice collection of stories. But only stories. A lot of which don’t actually portray their god in the best of lights.
Anyway. I think people should choose what they want to believe, and that belief is personal, and therefore, I see no reason why people who believe different things cannot live together without starting arguments, or wars, over it. I think people who are fanatical about their religion, and see anyone who doesn’t believe as heretics or infidels, should be herded up, and forced to live together, and forced to listen to recordings of their own bullshit. Then they can hear how stupid they sound. I think that people who go mad over a cartoon of their god are stupid, and need to get a life. IT’S A CARTOON. I think that people who arrest somone because they allowed a child to name a teddy after their god should stop and think for a moment, this is a child, who knows the name of their god. Surely thats a good thing? Surely the woman is not responsible for what the kids decide they want to name their damn teddy?
Stop being so ridiculous.
That is all.
Is that a tweet I hear? April 3, 2008
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I’ve just remembered that I have a twitter account. And thus I shall start using it. Properly this time. BreathOfFire. Add me.
Short post, I know. But who cares?
