A custom is a custom, so I did another one. Not so much fooling you, as making a fool of myself, but never mind.
I also advise watching it in IE, since I couldn't be bothered to figure out how to make firefox a) not flicker and b) tell me the size of the bouncing box. If anyone does know, please let me know.
April 2004
Mmmyess
1st April 2004 at 00:024 comments
Busy busy busy!
2nd April 2004 at 00:241 comment
I have so much work to do, so I started today. It's going well - I tidied my room, took out my text book, found a relevant page, and completed the taxi missions in vice city again.
In other news, Leela left for her holiday in Florida about half an hour ago - she's going to Gatwick, and her flight is at about 10am. Scary stuff - good luck!
In other news, Leela left for her holiday in Florida about half an hour ago - she's going to Gatwick, and her flight is at about 10am. Scary stuff - good luck!
Yay!
3rd April 2004 at 21:401 comment
Leela just rang! She didn't get lost at Gatwick, her plane didnt crash, she didn't get deported at Atlanta, and she got to her house last night without being abducted. But apparently she did get lost on the way home from shopping this morning :)
Me though, I'm stuck here till June! And in that time, I have to do some work and take some exams... fun fun fun!
And this is funny.
Me though, I'm stuck here till June! And in that time, I have to do some work and take some exams... fun fun fun!
And this is funny.
Happy Easter!
4th April 2004 at 00:055 comments
Having said it's all work for the next few months, I thought I'd put up the easter decorations. Well, there's only one week to go until the annual chocolate festival. And for once, I didnt rip off anyone elses pictures for the site, I drew it all myself. Hope you're suitably impressed!
You may also notice the new wallpaper section, something I have been meaning to add for a considerable amount of time... I drew The Egg Collection last June...
Oooh! Look at the date! 04-04-04!
I have also found FILExt.com, a database of file extensions, which looks as if it will be one of those websites which is extremely handy very occasionally.
The other day, the tonbschl site went down (related to the notnet disk filling up, I believe). I didn't notice, and only found out when someone e-mailed me - now, obviously, this isn't the right way to be going about these things. About 5 years ago, I wrote an automated script for this purpose, which checked websites and e-mailed me when they changed. The best bit was that it would e-mail my sms address, and it would forward it to my phone. Unfortunately, the e-mail to sms gateway has long since disappeared (if anyone knows of one, do let me know - I'm about to resort to plugging a PAYG mobile into a linux server), and when notnet crashed and burnt they lost my cron jobs, so that script hasn't been running since October. So I dug it out, rewrote it, and set it up on a couple of servers for redundancy - after all, what is the point of having the script running on the same server as the site it is monitoring? Anyway, when I changed radiac.net, it noticed and sent me an email. Bless! At some point, when I have tidied it up some more, I will release it in my perl section.
You may also notice the new wallpaper section, something I have been meaning to add for a considerable amount of time... I drew The Egg Collection last June...
Oooh! Look at the date! 04-04-04!
I have also found FILExt.com, a database of file extensions, which looks as if it will be one of those websites which is extremely handy very occasionally.
The other day, the tonbschl site went down (related to the notnet disk filling up, I believe). I didn't notice, and only found out when someone e-mailed me - now, obviously, this isn't the right way to be going about these things. About 5 years ago, I wrote an automated script for this purpose, which checked websites and e-mailed me when they changed. The best bit was that it would e-mail my sms address, and it would forward it to my phone. Unfortunately, the e-mail to sms gateway has long since disappeared (if anyone knows of one, do let me know - I'm about to resort to plugging a PAYG mobile into a linux server), and when notnet crashed and burnt they lost my cron jobs, so that script hasn't been running since October. So I dug it out, rewrote it, and set it up on a couple of servers for redundancy - after all, what is the point of having the script running on the same server as the site it is monitoring? Anyway, when I changed radiac.net, it noticed and sent me an email. Bless! At some point, when I have tidied it up some more, I will release it in my perl section.
77 days!
5th April 2004 at 14:262 comments
As you will have already noticed, I have added a countdown box under the links. Isn't it exciting?!
We're getting there!
6th April 2004 at 02:072 comments
Easter is in about 4 days and 21:52:37, so I thought it was about time to crack open the egg and stick the chick up in the corner. Matching wallpaper is available...
Think you've got ya wires crossed, luv
8th April 2004 at 17:135 comments
At about 8.30 this morning, while I am half asleep, my phone rings (the one in my room). I think to myself "Oh, that's ok, I'm ringing it from my mobile" (for some strange and unknown reason - I'm not, I'm asleep at the time), I leave it, the answer phone picks it up, I think nothing more of it. It rings again, I still don't get up. And then the doorbell rings. It's the BT Engineer, who tried to ring me this morning. He has come to fix my phone line - I have had overhearing on it ever since it was installed, and this is the third time I've reported the fault, so I thought I'd get them to come out this time. So I throw on some clothes and point him at my phone line. 3 hours later, he has replaced nearly all of the cable from me to the exchange, yay!
So I pick up the phone now, just out of interest, since I've heard her talking at this time in the past. And yep, there she is. Talking to her husband, who will be back a bit late tonight. I wonder what her daughter Lisa will think? Or her mother, who supports Chelsea. All I want is her phone number so I can tell BT to sort it out, but no, instead I get her bra size when she's ordering lingerie. What a joke.
And while on the subject of bra sizes, I have noticed some concern over the 'radiac' wallpaper; in particular, why I am wearing a bikini. It's a long funny story, but the short version which nobody will get is that I was drawing pictures of everyone on a certain talker for them to use as wallpaper. For all of their pictures, I just changed the name written next to them, but when it got to me, I drew on glasses, a moustache, and a bikini. It was funny, but I guess you had to be there...
So I pick up the phone now, just out of interest, since I've heard her talking at this time in the past. And yep, there she is. Talking to her husband, who will be back a bit late tonight. I wonder what her daughter Lisa will think? Or her mother, who supports Chelsea. All I want is her phone number so I can tell BT to sort it out, but no, instead I get her bra size when she's ordering lingerie. What a joke.
And while on the subject of bra sizes, I have noticed some concern over the 'radiac' wallpaper; in particular, why I am wearing a bikini. It's a long funny story, but the short version which nobody will get is that I was drawing pictures of everyone on a certain talker for them to use as wallpaper. For all of their pictures, I just changed the name written next to them, but when it got to me, I drew on glasses, a moustache, and a bikini. It was funny, but I guess you had to be there...
Pub, Work and Spam
10th April 2004 at 18:591 comment
I'm just about to go off to the pub again, hopefully to see several people I haven't seen in a while, otherwise I would stay in...
Why do I have so much to do? And I'm not talking about my work at uni, nor about the tonbschl site - I mean the 20 or so double-sided pages of things I want to do but didn't have time to do when I wrote them down. Some of these lists must be going back about 6 or 7 years to before my GCSEs, and I still want to do most of them - stuff for RISC OS, stuff for my website, not to mention the other totally random things. And you know how many of them will take me at least a fortnight? All of them. Although maybe I can combine some of them, like learning how to ride a unicycle and how to play the trumpet at the same time. I wonder if there are any teachers who teach both? But anyway, I digress. I only have 32 days to do my dissertation, which is scary. More scary than that is that they said we should finish our dissertation a month in advance, which means I have 2 days to do it. Argh. I probably shouldn't go to the pub. But hey, I've been working most of today, and I am making progress, so it's not all bad.
Nearly went out at about 4 this evening to buy myself a chocolate egg, it being Easter and all, but I decided against it, I think I've eaten quite enough chocolate recently...
Ok, that's odd. I just got over 50 spams to random addresses at radiac.net. Random addresses like lambert@radiac, fletcher, garza, harvey, ortega, hampton, banks, ford, gibson, reyes, cross, tucker, sutton, medina, malone, fowler, little, burton, stanley, nguyen, armstrong, davidson, chapman, olson, graves, becker, wlch, frazier, carroll, duncan, vaughn, bradley, bates, hale, rhodes, stevenson, ellis, schultz, hines, vega, hunter, alvarez, hudson, burke, day, mendoza, moreno, bowman, jennings, lowe, barnett it goes on... What's up with that?! At mid-day, I was on 269 spams, and now I am on 400... looking good for breaking the 500 mark today! So far this month I have recieved 4250 spams, which is an average of about 18 spams an hour, pretty good going! And for those of you interested by these things, in the first quarter of 2004 I got 30932 spams. In the whole of 2003 I only got 41192, so it looks like I'm going to break that in a third of the year. If this keeps going and expanding at this rate, I reckon I'll be on about 30 spams per hour, and I could easily break over 25,000 spams in December alone. This year looks set to be the year of 100,000 spams... I really must set up some kind of filter...
Which reminds me - there are 1,300,925,111,156,286,160,896 ways to spell 'viagra'.
Why do I have so much to do? And I'm not talking about my work at uni, nor about the tonbschl site - I mean the 20 or so double-sided pages of things I want to do but didn't have time to do when I wrote them down. Some of these lists must be going back about 6 or 7 years to before my GCSEs, and I still want to do most of them - stuff for RISC OS, stuff for my website, not to mention the other totally random things. And you know how many of them will take me at least a fortnight? All of them. Although maybe I can combine some of them, like learning how to ride a unicycle and how to play the trumpet at the same time. I wonder if there are any teachers who teach both? But anyway, I digress. I only have 32 days to do my dissertation, which is scary. More scary than that is that they said we should finish our dissertation a month in advance, which means I have 2 days to do it. Argh. I probably shouldn't go to the pub. But hey, I've been working most of today, and I am making progress, so it's not all bad.
Nearly went out at about 4 this evening to buy myself a chocolate egg, it being Easter and all, but I decided against it, I think I've eaten quite enough chocolate recently...
Ok, that's odd. I just got over 50 spams to random addresses at radiac.net. Random addresses like lambert@radiac, fletcher, garza, harvey, ortega, hampton, banks, ford, gibson, reyes, cross, tucker, sutton, medina, malone, fowler, little, burton, stanley, nguyen, armstrong, davidson, chapman, olson, graves, becker, wlch, frazier, carroll, duncan, vaughn, bradley, bates, hale, rhodes, stevenson, ellis, schultz, hines, vega, hunter, alvarez, hudson, burke, day, mendoza, moreno, bowman, jennings, lowe, barnett it goes on... What's up with that?! At mid-day, I was on 269 spams, and now I am on 400... looking good for breaking the 500 mark today! So far this month I have recieved 4250 spams, which is an average of about 18 spams an hour, pretty good going! And for those of you interested by these things, in the first quarter of 2004 I got 30932 spams. In the whole of 2003 I only got 41192, so it looks like I'm going to break that in a third of the year. If this keeps going and expanding at this rate, I reckon I'll be on about 30 spams per hour, and I could easily break over 25,000 spams in December alone. This year looks set to be the year of 100,000 spams... I really must set up some kind of filter...
Which reminds me - there are 1,300,925,111,156,286,160,896 ways to spell 'viagra'.
Aww man I have some vicious hiccups
11th April 2004 at 22:34Comment
Saw this on Kobe's website...
1: Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4. Write down what it says:
"Spot is behind the ball"
2: Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you touch first?
A monitor
3: What is the last thing you watched on TV?
What The Romans Did For Us, the episode where they talk about weaponry and armour and cool stuff like that.
4: WITHOUT LOOKING, guess what the time is:
10.30pm
5: Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?:
10.24pm
6: With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?:
The other computers.
7: When did you last step outside? What were you doing?:
12.30. I was going out for lunch, it was very nice.
8: Before you came to this website, what did you look at?:
The link to this website.
9: What are you wearing?:
Who wants to know?
10: Did you dream last night?:
Yes. About 'Footballers Wives'. Yes, I know...
11: When did you last laugh?:
About 9.20 when I was on the phone.
12: What is on the walls of the room you are in?:
An FM ariel, some cable ducting and some shelves.
14(a): What book are you currently reading?:
Where's Spot, by Eric Hill
14(b): What is the last book you finished?:
Spots First Walk, by Eric Hill
15: What is the last film you saw?:
The Conversation, a very good film.
16: If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy first?:
Spot Goes To The Farm by Eric Hill, and a taxi to gatwick.
17: Tell me something about you that I don't know:
I was born in Russia as Eva Petrovski, but after serving in the KGB for 27 years, I defected to MI5, who gave me a face lift and a new identity. However, I still pass on state secrets to my ex-KGB handler, who works as a fluffer for sex ed videos in his spare time - fair enough, times are hard in Russia.
18: If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?:
Relocate the french to Atlantis.
19: Do you like to dance?:
No. I LIVE TO DANCE!!1!
20: What is the last thing you ate or drank?
Drank some volvic. Before that, ate my chocolate egg.
21(a): Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?:
Ugly
21(b): Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?:
Ugly
22: Would you ever consider living abroad?:
It would depend on the country, ie not France. But for the right salary and benefits, I guess I might consider almost anything. But not France.
1: Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4. Write down what it says:
"Spot is behind the ball"
2: Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you touch first?
A monitor
3: What is the last thing you watched on TV?
What The Romans Did For Us, the episode where they talk about weaponry and armour and cool stuff like that.
4: WITHOUT LOOKING, guess what the time is:
10.30pm
5: Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?:
10.24pm
6: With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?:
The other computers.
7: When did you last step outside? What were you doing?:
12.30. I was going out for lunch, it was very nice.
8: Before you came to this website, what did you look at?:
The link to this website.
9: What are you wearing?:
Who wants to know?
10: Did you dream last night?:
Yes. About 'Footballers Wives'. Yes, I know...
11: When did you last laugh?:
About 9.20 when I was on the phone.
12: What is on the walls of the room you are in?:
An FM ariel, some cable ducting and some shelves.
14(a): What book are you currently reading?:
Where's Spot, by Eric Hill
14(b): What is the last book you finished?:
Spots First Walk, by Eric Hill
15: What is the last film you saw?:
The Conversation, a very good film.
16: If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy first?:
Spot Goes To The Farm by Eric Hill, and a taxi to gatwick.
17: Tell me something about you that I don't know:
I was born in Russia as Eva Petrovski, but after serving in the KGB for 27 years, I defected to MI5, who gave me a face lift and a new identity. However, I still pass on state secrets to my ex-KGB handler, who works as a fluffer for sex ed videos in his spare time - fair enough, times are hard in Russia.
18: If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?:
Relocate the french to Atlantis.
19: Do you like to dance?:
No. I LIVE TO DANCE!!1!
20: What is the last thing you ate or drank?
Drank some volvic. Before that, ate my chocolate egg.
21(a): Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?:
Ugly
21(b): Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?:
Ugly
22: Would you ever consider living abroad?:
It would depend on the country, ie not France. But for the right salary and benefits, I guess I might consider almost anything. But not France.
Hrmph
14th April 2004 at 04:23Comment
So, this afternoon I turned my computer on and it said "I can't read a bit of your profile", and helpfully deleted the rest for me. Of course, my e-mails were stored in my profile. Grr. So I have lost quite a few important e-mails which I hadn't replied to yet, so if you sent me something recently and I haven't replied by the time you read this, try sending it again!
I don't know what is more annoying - the fact that I have a machine sitting waiting for me to find the time to set it up as a mailserver, or that I looked at my outhouse express dbxs earlier today and thought "Hmm, should I back these up? Nahh". Or that I have spent about 14 hours trying various different file recovery programs, all of which can only seem to find the small files - the big ones, such as Inbox, tonbschl and uni, don't get recovered. I found one program that does a more probing scan of the hard drive, but of course my drive has errors and it crashes on 26%. Typical. Eventually you have to give up though, and I think I've given it a good go. Tis only e-mail, after all. Most of the other things (bookmarks etc) I have retrieved without problem.
So in a couple of days I start towards buying a replacement desktop. I nearly bought a new one in December after this refused to boot up for a day, but I can't take this any more, especially with the dissertation hand in only 29 days and 5 hours away. I think I'll just go with a new hard drive for now - rip out the raid drives (this onboard highpoint controller is more trouble than its worth), and bung in a plain IDE.
I don't know what is more annoying - the fact that I have a machine sitting waiting for me to find the time to set it up as a mailserver, or that I looked at my outhouse express dbxs earlier today and thought "Hmm, should I back these up? Nahh". Or that I have spent about 14 hours trying various different file recovery programs, all of which can only seem to find the small files - the big ones, such as Inbox, tonbschl and uni, don't get recovered. I found one program that does a more probing scan of the hard drive, but of course my drive has errors and it crashes on 26%. Typical. Eventually you have to give up though, and I think I've given it a good go. Tis only e-mail, after all. Most of the other things (bookmarks etc) I have retrieved without problem.
So in a couple of days I start towards buying a replacement desktop. I nearly bought a new one in December after this refused to boot up for a day, but I can't take this any more, especially with the dissertation hand in only 29 days and 5 hours away. I think I'll just go with a new hard drive for now - rip out the raid drives (this onboard highpoint controller is more trouble than its worth), and bung in a plain IDE.
Fantastic Friday
16th April 2004 at 11:12Comment
So, it's Friday in the last week of my holiday. What have I done this week? Cursed my failed hard drive, and installed a new one. ARGH. Really need to get on with some work.
I've now got an 80gb drive in here - I thought it would be a good idea, since I don't really need the space now I have my fileserver. But I had no idea how hard it was to cut hard disk usage down by 1/3. Still, I've done very well, I have over half free. Although true, I haven't installed any games yet (apart from Quake 2, of course)... But the main thing is that I have a working computer with nearly all of my stuff installed again. Which is nice. Also bought Trillian Pro, and am very pleased - if it wasn't for losing all my e-mails, I'd be very satisfied with this week. Apart from for the fact that I have got virtually nowhere on my project. Yikes.
I have, however, devised a cunning method of positioning my webcams at the right height - it involves unused speaker stands, rubber bands, a wheely chair with the back rest removed, and a small Spanish child called Miguel.
And you may be interested to know that my 500-spams-in-one-day barrier has been well and truly smashed - on the 14th, I got 689 spams. That's about 29 spams an hour.
Well, I'd love to stay and chat, but I am off to Tesco to buy some food. Bet you're jealous now!
I will leave you with this animated gif (thanks Kobe).
I've now got an 80gb drive in here - I thought it would be a good idea, since I don't really need the space now I have my fileserver. But I had no idea how hard it was to cut hard disk usage down by 1/3. Still, I've done very well, I have over half free. Although true, I haven't installed any games yet (apart from Quake 2, of course)... But the main thing is that I have a working computer with nearly all of my stuff installed again. Which is nice. Also bought Trillian Pro, and am very pleased - if it wasn't for losing all my e-mails, I'd be very satisfied with this week. Apart from for the fact that I have got virtually nowhere on my project. Yikes.
I have, however, devised a cunning method of positioning my webcams at the right height - it involves unused speaker stands, rubber bands, a wheely chair with the back rest removed, and a small Spanish child called Miguel.
And you may be interested to know that my 500-spams-in-one-day barrier has been well and truly smashed - on the 14th, I got 689 spams. That's about 29 spams an hour.
Well, I'd love to stay and chat, but I am off to Tesco to buy some food. Bet you're jealous now!
I will leave you with this animated gif (thanks Kobe).
Back at uni
20th April 2004 at 01:522 comments
Right, so I'm back at uni now, came back on Sunday. Sunday was also my gran's birthday - she was 98 - so I took her out for a birthday lunch on Saturday. Saturday evening I spoke to Leela, and then, as I said, came back on Sunday. We left at 2, and found ourselves in Basingstoke a couple of hours later. I think we were lost. Still, arrived in Bath eventually, when I went to the pub and drank cocktails. Today I walked up to uni with Tristan, had a lab and did Laura's experiment. Zozo was in town, but had left by the time I was finished at uni, so I didn't see him. Went home via Sainsburys and bought a lot of food. Have decided to eat breakfast, so bought some cereal. I wanted some corn flakes, but they only had Sainsburys own brand - the Kellogs ones have funky tops to them, that you have to fold in on themselves. Very exciting. Still, will have to make do with a normal one this time. Then watched Alias, very good. Oh, and my new desk lamp that I was so happy with has now broken. Right, my throat is hurting, as it does after it bleeds, so I'm going to go to bed.
25th April 2004 at 12:27Comment
I think I am suffering from hayfever; either that, or a cold that has lasted a week. Leela told me to take some Loratadine, but it's not working very well yet, so I'm still sniffing.
This week I have had lectures, I have walked up to uni each time, and had a Shakeaway every time I was in the town. It was Shakeaway's birthday yesterday - happy birthday, Shakeaway! Oh, and it was Laura's too. She had a birthday party, where it was bring-your-own food, so Tristan and I brought burgers for the barbeque. He then got very very drunk, and passed out in the middle of the floor - expect some photos of things balancing on his face.
My project is still going. Badly, but it's going... which reminds me. Really should do some work today.
This week I have had lectures, I have walked up to uni each time, and had a Shakeaway every time I was in the town. It was Shakeaway's birthday yesterday - happy birthday, Shakeaway! Oh, and it was Laura's too. She had a birthday party, where it was bring-your-own food, so Tristan and I brought burgers for the barbeque. He then got very very drunk, and passed out in the middle of the floor - expect some photos of things balancing on his face.
My project is still going. Badly, but it's going... which reminds me. Really should do some work today.
brrrrrrrrrrRRRRRR-CHK!
27th April 2004 at 16:032 comments
brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR-CHK!
brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR-CHK!
This is the sound I have been listening to for the past 24 hours. Well, a lot of the past 24 hours, but I did go to sleep.
What is it?
It's the sound of inevitability. It's the sound of Okama's imminent death.
Well, actually it's the sound of my chipset fan spinning irrationally and occasionally pausing for breath. And it might not make much difference if it fails, but then again it might, so I've ordered a new one anyway, and it should get here tomorrow - with my dissertation deadline just round the corner, I don't want to risk working on an unstable system.
It was for that reason that I also bought a fancy hard drive cooler, which arrived today. My previous drives messed up, so I bought a new one, but it didn't fit in the 3.5" bays at the same time as the covers for the bays. Which wasn't really very good. So I now have something big and shiny in a 5.25" bay, with a button that lets me change the fan speed. At the moment it's on 'low' and running at 29C (or 84F) - even though that's currently 20F hotter than Gainesville FL, I'm told that it's a very nice temperature for the hard drive to be at. Most woosome.
And as for the broken lamp I mentioned, I got some superglue and glued it back together. Only I forgot that the cable was supposed to go through the middle of the bit that I superglued shut. Still, on the plus side, I think the superglue has made the break as good as new, it's as solid as a rock, despite many prising attempts...
Dissertation is making progress. Well, at least I hope it is, I haven't looked at it for a while. I told it to finish off the chapter by tonight, so I'll have a look then.
Anyway, time to leave you, singing:
brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR-CHK!
This is the sound I have been listening to for the past 24 hours. Well, a lot of the past 24 hours, but I did go to sleep.
What is it?
It's the sound of inevitability. It's the sound of Okama's imminent death.
Well, actually it's the sound of my chipset fan spinning irrationally and occasionally pausing for breath. And it might not make much difference if it fails, but then again it might, so I've ordered a new one anyway, and it should get here tomorrow - with my dissertation deadline just round the corner, I don't want to risk working on an unstable system.
It was for that reason that I also bought a fancy hard drive cooler, which arrived today. My previous drives messed up, so I bought a new one, but it didn't fit in the 3.5" bays at the same time as the covers for the bays. Which wasn't really very good. So I now have something big and shiny in a 5.25" bay, with a button that lets me change the fan speed. At the moment it's on 'low' and running at 29C (or 84F) - even though that's currently 20F hotter than Gainesville FL, I'm told that it's a very nice temperature for the hard drive to be at. Most woosome.
And as for the broken lamp I mentioned, I got some superglue and glued it back together. Only I forgot that the cable was supposed to go through the middle of the bit that I superglued shut. Still, on the plus side, I think the superglue has made the break as good as new, it's as solid as a rock, despite many prising attempts...
Dissertation is making progress. Well, at least I hope it is, I haven't looked at it for a while. I told it to finish off the chapter by tonight, so I'll have a look then.
Anyway, time to leave you, singing:
I've got ninety thousand pounds in my pyjamas,Monty Python Rocks
I've got forty thousand French francs in my fridge,
I've got lost of lovely lire,
Now the Deutschmark's getting dearer,
And my dollar bills would buy the Brooklyn Bridge.
There is nothing quite as wonderful as money,
There is nothing quite as beautiful as cash,
Some people say it's folly,
But I'd rather have the lolly,
With money you can make a splash.
There is nothing quite wonderful as money,
There is nothing like a newly minted pound,
Everyone must hanker for the butchness of a banker,
It's accountancy that makes the world go round.
You can keep your Marxist ways
For it's only just a phase...
For it's money money money makes the world go round.
Yargh
28th April 2004 at 16:52Comment
Ok, am overworked. I have my dissertation which I have to finish by the end of the weekend, and tonbschl are desperate for me to spend from now till the end of my weekend updating their website. Fun and games.
Computer people:
In other news, my replacement chipset fan arrived. I unscrewed and unplugged the old one and then noticed that it had the wrong number of pins; old one had 2 pins, new one has 3. Yay. But then I had a look and found a spare 3 pin fan header, which is a bonus because I can now get an RPM reading off it - it's going at 6000rpm. How exciting!
Non-computer people:
I have a new computer fan. It goes wrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rather than brrrrrrrrrrRRRRRR-CHK!
Computer people:
In other news, my replacement chipset fan arrived. I unscrewed and unplugged the old one and then noticed that it had the wrong number of pins; old one had 2 pins, new one has 3. Yay. But then I had a look and found a spare 3 pin fan header, which is a bonus because I can now get an RPM reading off it - it's going at 6000rpm. How exciting!
Non-computer people:
I have a new computer fan. It goes wrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rather than brrrrrrrrrrRRRRRR-CHK!