Theophilus O'Shaughnessy and the Suicidal Tendencies
Nick McGuinness and the Chronic Arsebiscuits
Ulick McGee and the Pheasant Pluckers' Sons
Lord Aristotle of Chipping-Sodbury and the Splendiferous Nipple-Tweakers....
Teehee :)
Friday, November 02, 2001
Thursday, November 01, 2001
I think I'm still pissed
I woke up an hour ago :)
Here's what I did yesterday: woke up at 9, got to work at 10:10, got out at 6, and went home, picking up a Chinese on the way. Arrived to find two letters for me, one containing my long-lost credit-card and the other my German residence permit. Got to Scruff's for the Hallowe'en bash at 8:30, working at the door, charging the DM10 entrance fee and giving out schnapps shots. I had several of these myself, along with a couple of pints of Hefeweizen. Finished up at about 12:30 because the place was full and I had more or less graduated to a barman role instead of catching people coming in the door. The place was packed; I got exactly 100 people and god knows how many others arrived after I'd finished. Continued drinking Hefe and partook of a couple of shots courtesy of the proprietor, which oiled the wheels nicely. We closed up at 3-ish and me, Paul and Colin headed for the Old Dublin armed with the night's tips which would pay for our drink there. There followed a quest to find a taxi and when we did get one the driver was straight out of the Kit-Kat ad. He gave out to us for making him stop at a crossroads and continued in this vein right through the entire journey, with Colin eventually siding with him and leaning back to lecture myself and Paul who were in the back creasing up at the Kit-Kat thing. A few ciders and shots later, at around 5, I eventually got it together enough to ring a taxi and I came home.
Nothing went wrong, I didn't make an eejit out of myself (because everyone else was as pissed as I was), and basically a very pleasant evening was had. I spent about 10 marks playing Trivial Pursuit on this, paid not a penny for drink and got my wages and a groovy Guinness (staff) Hallowe'en t-shirt ("Zeig mir das Dunkle in dir") to boot! Today is the first day of a long weekend and I'm at the Scruffy's quiz tonight.
Rockin'.
I woke up an hour ago :)
Here's what I did yesterday: woke up at 9, got to work at 10:10, got out at 6, and went home, picking up a Chinese on the way. Arrived to find two letters for me, one containing my long-lost credit-card and the other my German residence permit. Got to Scruff's for the Hallowe'en bash at 8:30, working at the door, charging the DM10 entrance fee and giving out schnapps shots. I had several of these myself, along with a couple of pints of Hefeweizen. Finished up at about 12:30 because the place was full and I had more or less graduated to a barman role instead of catching people coming in the door. The place was packed; I got exactly 100 people and god knows how many others arrived after I'd finished. Continued drinking Hefe and partook of a couple of shots courtesy of the proprietor, which oiled the wheels nicely. We closed up at 3-ish and me, Paul and Colin headed for the Old Dublin armed with the night's tips which would pay for our drink there. There followed a quest to find a taxi and when we did get one the driver was straight out of the Kit-Kat ad. He gave out to us for making him stop at a crossroads and continued in this vein right through the entire journey, with Colin eventually siding with him and leaning back to lecture myself and Paul who were in the back creasing up at the Kit-Kat thing. A few ciders and shots later, at around 5, I eventually got it together enough to ring a taxi and I came home.
Nothing went wrong, I didn't make an eejit out of myself (because everyone else was as pissed as I was), and basically a very pleasant evening was had. I spent about 10 marks playing Trivial Pursuit on this, paid not a penny for drink and got my wages and a groovy Guinness (staff) Hallowe'en t-shirt ("Zeig mir das Dunkle in dir") to boot! Today is the first day of a long weekend and I'm at the Scruffy's quiz tonight.
Rockin'.
Monday, October 29, 2001
The "E" trams
The great thing about living where I do in Karlsruhe is that, at the end of the night, the last few trams all go past my stop on their way to their beds out at Rheinhafen. These trams are denoted by the letter "E", so the 6, which normally ends at Mühlburger Tor, continues on towards my place as the 6E. Ditto the 1 and the 4, none of which normally go my way.
What does all this mean? It means that I can stumble out of the pub at 1am on a Monday morning and not have to wait longer than 5 minutes for a tram, because no fewer than six of them can take me home. And that is why Weststadt rocks.
Oh, hi - I'm blogging again :-)
The great thing about living where I do in Karlsruhe is that, at the end of the night, the last few trams all go past my stop on their way to their beds out at Rheinhafen. These trams are denoted by the letter "E", so the 6, which normally ends at Mühlburger Tor, continues on towards my place as the 6E. Ditto the 1 and the 4, none of which normally go my way.
What does all this mean? It means that I can stumble out of the pub at 1am on a Monday morning and not have to wait longer than 5 minutes for a tram, because no fewer than six of them can take me home. And that is why Weststadt rocks.
Oh, hi - I'm blogging again :-)
Wednesday, June 20, 2001
Thursday, June 14, 2001
It's looking good...
This here hobbiton account isn't half bad, you know. From a pure free webspace point of view it rocks, in fact. Been sussing it out for the last few weeks and I've not been disappointed.
Mmmm...indeed...
http://lesinge.hobbiton.org! I even get a relevant sounding mailto!
This here hobbiton account isn't half bad, you know. From a pure free webspace point of view it rocks, in fact. Been sussing it out for the last few weeks and I've not been disappointed.
Mmmm...indeed...
http://lesinge.hobbiton.org! I even get a relevant sounding mailto!
Saturday, May 26, 2001
Bags and baggage
Well, LeSinge.org will arrive back at my old matrix account in 24-ish hours. I know that, in the great scheme of things, losing a shell account and having to move your e-mail/website is somewhere below, say, breaking a nail, but it's the manner in which it happened that really fucks me off.
A bunch of scumbags took it upon themselves to orchestrate a DDoS on an inconsequential little server for absolutely no good reason, and now one guy's pride and joy, into which he and many others poured hours of work in their spare time has to come down. Free shell accounts with all the mod cons, not to mention free DNS hosting on a machine on a major ISP's backbone do not come around every day.
I'm really sorry for Colin but at least thankful for his giving me an account some 2 years ago. I've learned an awful lot of UNIXey, webby stuff, first on the NetBSD SPARC and then the FreeBSD i386. The advantage of having a backbone connection became really clear to me when I went abroad and realised just how fast dialling in was compared to my TCD accounts. It was brilliant while it lasted (not to mention damn near irreplaceable).
Thanks for everything. Shit that it had to end this way.
Well, LeSinge.org will arrive back at my old matrix account in 24-ish hours. I know that, in the great scheme of things, losing a shell account and having to move your e-mail/website is somewhere below, say, breaking a nail, but it's the manner in which it happened that really fucks me off.
A bunch of scumbags took it upon themselves to orchestrate a DDoS on an inconsequential little server for absolutely no good reason, and now one guy's pride and joy, into which he and many others poured hours of work in their spare time has to come down. Free shell accounts with all the mod cons, not to mention free DNS hosting on a machine on a major ISP's backbone do not come around every day.
I'm really sorry for Colin but at least thankful for his giving me an account some 2 years ago. I've learned an awful lot of UNIXey, webby stuff, first on the NetBSD SPARC and then the FreeBSD i386. The advantage of having a backbone connection became really clear to me when I went abroad and realised just how fast dialling in was compared to my TCD accounts. It was brilliant while it lasted (not to mention damn near irreplaceable).
Thanks for everything. Shit that it had to end this way.
I did not need to wake up to this...
I was woken about a half an hour ago by an SMS from Jim, telling me that CSD is shutting down for good. And that is REALLY FUCKING SHIT.
I was woken about a half an hour ago by an SMS from Jim, telling me that CSD is shutting down for good. And that is REALLY FUCKING SHIT.
Thursday, May 24, 2001
I'm back, sorta
I got bored with being bored with the site so I may as well throw something up here.
So, the lads came over last week. We got pissed (and more), played chess, swapped abuse, and I was officially voted gey by their two-man committee. My computer's hard disk is considerably fuller than it was before, positively bursting at the seams with Photoshop and Illustrator and Fireworks and Flash and Jimi Hendrix and lots and lots of books. Apart from Will (at my behest, admittedly) deleting a rather vital system file because we reckoned it was spyware (inetinfo.exe is not spyware!) and my only finally recovering it this morning, all was well. Photos have been taken (one Jennifer Kelly is in for a surprise) and they're due to be posted on Neural Blade shortly.
Today is a public holiday in Germany and the sun is splitting the stones, so a bunch of us are heading to Schloßgarten with beer, food and a frisbee to get tans etc. This is The Life™.
I got bored with being bored with the site so I may as well throw something up here.
So, the lads came over last week. We got pissed (and more), played chess, swapped abuse, and I was officially voted gey by their two-man committee. My computer's hard disk is considerably fuller than it was before, positively bursting at the seams with Photoshop and Illustrator and Fireworks and Flash and Jimi Hendrix and lots and lots of books. Apart from Will (at my behest, admittedly) deleting a rather vital system file because we reckoned it was spyware (inetinfo.exe is not spyware!) and my only finally recovering it this morning, all was well. Photos have been taken (one Jennifer Kelly is in for a surprise) and they're due to be posted on Neural Blade shortly.
Today is a public holiday in Germany and the sun is splitting the stones, so a bunch of us are heading to Schloßgarten with beer, food and a frisbee to get tans etc. This is The Life™.
Wednesday, April 25, 2001
Tuesday, April 24, 2001
Intellectual labour
I'm now "working", that is to say: I'm preparing (my half of) the Highlander and Scruffy's quizzes for Wednesday and Thursday respectively. This involves wandering around news sites looking for tidbits, poring over uselessknowledge.com and lurking in DALnet's #trivia irc channel. Then it all has to be typed and translated into German and printed and photocopied (at our expense!). Then on the night we're correcting papers the whole time and then one of us does "the show"...I won't even tell you what we get for it, suffice to say that it doesn't justify the time and effort spent.
But it's fun and I get, like, rispekt 'n' stuff. Aarrrr.
I'm now "working", that is to say: I'm preparing (my half of) the Highlander and Scruffy's quizzes for Wednesday and Thursday respectively. This involves wandering around news sites looking for tidbits, poring over uselessknowledge.com and lurking in DALnet's #trivia irc channel. Then it all has to be typed and translated into German and printed and photocopied (at our expense!). Then on the night we're correcting papers the whole time and then one of us does "the show"...I won't even tell you what we get for it, suffice to say that it doesn't justify the time and effort spent.
But it's fun and I get, like, rispekt 'n' stuff. Aarrrr.
Monday, April 23, 2001
Mmmmmm
I'm slouching in bed, knees up to support the laptop and listening to an old edition of Geeks In Space. This is very pleasant. If I could find a cheap pizza-delivery place and someone to buy me bogroll and toothpaste etc I would never ever leave this place. I could carve out a little life for myself on the net, although perhaps avoiding individuals like this poor girl...
Will has relaunched. The other day he sent me this: 1.5MB of chunky kung-fu goodness. This looks like it's #3 in a series - anyone who can track down the other 2 (or more?) wins a free CDU nipple clamp. Nipple clamps make Baby Jesus go "Oooohh".
I'm slouching in bed, knees up to support the laptop and listening to an old edition of Geeks In Space. This is very pleasant. If I could find a cheap pizza-delivery place and someone to buy me bogroll and toothpaste etc I would never ever leave this place. I could carve out a little life for myself on the net, although perhaps avoiding individuals like this poor girl...
Will has relaunched. The other day he sent me this: 1.5MB of chunky kung-fu goodness. This looks like it's #3 in a series - anyone who can track down the other 2 (or more?) wins a free CDU nipple clamp. Nipple clamps make Baby Jesus go "Oooohh".
Sunday, April 22, 2001
Excess
This week has been a gastronomic extravaganza. I have eaten out every night from last Monday to last night. I have consumed much steak and chips and pasta and coke, and I've only been to an ATM once... Aren't mothers great? Herself and auntie left this morning. I should have gone with them to the airport but kind of slept in, and they were rather unimpressed with that. It was a crap way to end the visit, and everything else had been going well up to that point (amazingly). In a frantic attempt to get rid of money yesterday, my aunt even bought me two books, one of which is Sophie's World. Read a borrowed copy only a few weeks ago but, as those of you who've read it will know, it probably requires at least another run through before all the concepts are taken in. Etc..
Jesus, this is a boring post...I seem to have temporarily lost my artistic zing when it comes to blogging. That'll be the hangover, then.
This week has been a gastronomic extravaganza. I have eaten out every night from last Monday to last night. I have consumed much steak and chips and pasta and coke, and I've only been to an ATM once... Aren't mothers great? Herself and auntie left this morning. I should have gone with them to the airport but kind of slept in, and they were rather unimpressed with that. It was a crap way to end the visit, and everything else had been going well up to that point (amazingly). In a frantic attempt to get rid of money yesterday, my aunt even bought me two books, one of which is Sophie's World. Read a borrowed copy only a few weeks ago but, as those of you who've read it will know, it probably requires at least another run through before all the concepts are taken in. Etc..
Jesus, this is a boring post...I seem to have temporarily lost my artistic zing when it comes to blogging. That'll be the hangover, then.
Thursday, April 19, 2001
Joy overload?
It's 5:08am and I'm in my room. I'm absolutely exhausted but I'm terrified that if I leave the computer now, it won't work tomorrow morning or when I turn it on next, just like it didn't last time.
I've a 5m cable which should be just enough to move everything across to my bedside table, if I switch ends in the bed...this way I can stay on IRC as LeSinge-[asleep].
Now that's what I call achievement.
It's 5:08am and I'm in my room. I'm absolutely exhausted but I'm terrified that if I leave the computer now, it won't work tomorrow morning or when I turn it on next, just like it didn't last time.
I've a 5m cable which should be just enough to move everything across to my bedside table, if I switch ends in the bed...this way I can stay on IRC as LeSinge-[asleep].
Now that's what I call achievement.
Wednesday, April 18, 2001
Thanks, Jen...
Subject: LeSinge comment - How do I miss thee?
clcs4073-14.lcs.tcd.ie (134.226.72.113), 18:52
How do I miss thee? Let me count the ways
I miss try scathing scarcasm (sic) and thy pizza eating ways
I miss thy dry wit and thy sleeping all the days
I miss thy sciving (sic) off and thy drinking all the time
I miss thy bad influence and thy something that will rhyme(:o))
I miss thy constant dossing and thy always being late
I miss thy doing worse then me and making me feel great ;oD
How's that for a welcome back? Network's back, btw. I rule.
Subject: LeSinge comment - How do I miss thee?
clcs4073-14.lcs.tcd.ie (134.226.72.113), 18:52
How do I miss thee? Let me count the ways
I miss try scathing scarcasm (sic) and thy pizza eating ways
I miss thy dry wit and thy sleeping all the days
I miss thy sciving (sic) off and thy drinking all the time
I miss thy bad influence and thy something that will rhyme(:o))
I miss thy constant dossing and thy always being late
I miss thy doing worse then me and making me feel great ;oD
How's that for a welcome back? Network's back, btw. I rule.
Tuesday, April 17, 2001
Gasping for air
No time to blog - entertaining my mother and aunt who arrived yesterday and will be here until next Sunday. Swapped PC card today and hopefully this will be an end to my net deprivation. Proper update as soon as that happens. Are you all missing me? Tell me how much :-)
No time to blog - entertaining my mother and aunt who arrived yesterday and will be here until next Sunday. Swapped PC card today and hopefully this will be an end to my net deprivation. Proper update as soon as that happens. Are you all missing me? Tell me how much :-)
Tuesday, April 10, 2001
So close and yet so far
Finally got connected from my room last night after splashing out on a PC card, and for a while it was luverly, only problem being that I couldn't seem to send/receive cookies (?!). Then everything died. Tried to connect again this morning and nothing doing. Is the network just temporarily down (please, God), or did I change some setting and forget about it? (I was tired/drunk). Or, horror of horrors, is the f-...damned card after packing it in already?
I am particularly unimpressed at having to check mail and write this entry from an internet cafe, and yes, that is how far I will go to stop the memepool groupies mailing list (200 new in the last 18ish hours) from becoming unmanageable...
Finally got connected from my room last night after splashing out on a PC card, and for a while it was luverly, only problem being that I couldn't seem to send/receive cookies (?!). Then everything died. Tried to connect again this morning and nothing doing. Is the network just temporarily down (please, God), or did I change some setting and forget about it? (I was tired/drunk). Or, horror of horrors, is the f-...damned card after packing it in already?
I am particularly unimpressed at having to check mail and write this entry from an internet cafe, and yes, that is how far I will go to stop the memepool groupies mailing list (200 new in the last 18ish hours) from becoming unmanageable...
Thursday, April 05, 2001
Good and bad
Get a load of this. It's Ireland.com's breaking news section, but not as you know it - chopped and cropped so it'll fit on one of these or these. I'm rather proud of this, although in reality anyone with half an ounce of programming experience could do it in less time and with less code. I'll set up an AvantGo channel proper, just as soon as I ask Cliph. Gee, maybe the Irish Times will hire/sue me!
The user is specifically prohibited from modifying, publishing, transmitting, selling, participating in the transfer or sale or reproducing, creating derivative works from, distributing, performing, displaying or in any way exploiting any of the materials on this site or the software or materials relating thereto in whole or in part...
The irony of all this is that I can't check it myself because, as of yesterday, my computer is seriously banjaxed. As far as I can work out, the supposed defragger went and completely fragged either the bootloader or the (Mandrake) Linux (for Windows - yes I'm lame) system image file (c:\lnx4win\linuxsys.img) so now I can't boot past, er, "stage 1". Might be solved be reinstalling Lnx4Win and hoping it overwrites the previous junk but otherwise it's recovery disc time. Words cannot describe how much I hate Microsoft today.
Get a load of this. It's Ireland.com's breaking news section, but not as you know it - chopped and cropped so it'll fit on one of these or these. I'm rather proud of this, although in reality anyone with half an ounce of programming experience could do it in less time and with less code. I'll set up an AvantGo channel proper, just as soon as I ask Cliph. Gee, maybe the Irish Times will hire/sue me!
The user is specifically prohibited from modifying, publishing, transmitting, selling, participating in the transfer or sale or reproducing, creating derivative works from, distributing, performing, displaying or in any way exploiting any of the materials on this site or the software or materials relating thereto in whole or in part...
The irony of all this is that I can't check it myself because, as of yesterday, my computer is seriously banjaxed. As far as I can work out, the supposed defragger went and completely fragged either the bootloader or the (Mandrake) Linux (for Windows - yes I'm lame) system image file (c:\lnx4win\linuxsys.img) so now I can't boot past, er, "stage 1". Might be solved be reinstalling Lnx4Win and hoping it overwrites the previous junk but otherwise it's recovery disc time. Words cannot describe how much I hate Microsoft today.
Monday, April 02, 2001
Summertime!
Summer has arrived with a bang. The last two days have been scorchingly hot with nary a cloud in the sky. I moved into new student room last Friday, plonk in the centre of town, right beside the castle and the gardens. The room has a network connection (once I get a PC card), its own bathroom and more storage space than you can shake a large suitcase at. This is all stuff I was lacking whilst with those lovely Starshot people, so now we're happy.
Meanwhile, I'm not going to pass this year, but it's cool enough here that it might be worth (possible?) saving up enough cash to repeat. Must scope that idea out; I've got until July 31st to decide. I'm currently suffering from a serious case of Flanagan's and Cann's Karlsruher Vortex Syndrome, named after Lesley and James respectively, who finally escaped back to England on Sunday after coming here to play a gig some 14 years ago. This place won't be the same without them (stroking beard and gazing wistfully into the middle distance). Just for the record, I'll be here six months on the 10th of April and god has it flown...
Actually, I think I'll stay here and open a bar. Yeah.... :-)
Summer has arrived with a bang. The last two days have been scorchingly hot with nary a cloud in the sky. I moved into new student room last Friday, plonk in the centre of town, right beside the castle and the gardens. The room has a network connection (once I get a PC card), its own bathroom and more storage space than you can shake a large suitcase at. This is all stuff I was lacking whilst with those lovely Starshot people, so now we're happy.
Meanwhile, I'm not going to pass this year, but it's cool enough here that it might be worth (possible?) saving up enough cash to repeat. Must scope that idea out; I've got until July 31st to decide. I'm currently suffering from a serious case of Flanagan's and Cann's Karlsruher Vortex Syndrome, named after Lesley and James respectively, who finally escaped back to England on Sunday after coming here to play a gig some 14 years ago. This place won't be the same without them (stroking beard and gazing wistfully into the middle distance). Just for the record, I'll be here six months on the 10th of April and god has it flown...
Actually, I think I'll stay here and open a bar. Yeah.... :-)
Wednesday, March 28, 2001
Did I forget to post *again*?
Here's why:
[insert actual quiz here....]
Comments, queries, abuse etc to be directed to Dave or Charlotte
No mobile phones, fax machines, pagers, PDAs, ham radios, GPS receivers or portable encyclopaedias please, or we'll set Emily on you, you cheating bastards.
(No animals were harmed in the making of this quiz)
If you're bothering to read this, you've waaaay too much time on your hands
They won't know what hit them...
Here's why:
SCRUFFY'S IRISH PUB QUIZ
29th March 2001
[insert actual quiz here....]
Comments, queries, abuse etc to be directed to Dave or Charlotte
No mobile phones, fax machines, pagers, PDAs, ham radios, GPS receivers or portable encyclopaedias please, or we'll set Emily on you, you cheating bastards.
(No animals were harmed in the making of this quiz)
If you're bothering to read this, you've waaaay too much time on your hands
They won't know what hit them...
Wednesday, March 21, 2001
Terror bombing
I was chatting to a lad from Kassel yesterday and he mentioned that his home town wasn't really the prettiest of places, full of grim 50's architecture, mainly because the Allies had pretty much razed it to the ground in the autumn of 1944. Apparently there is only one - one! - building over fifty years old in the city centre. So the question arose in my head just now as to why armies bomb cities at all, what with the high probability of civilian casualties etc. A quick Google search brought up this chilling article. In short: that's exactly why they do it. Aren't humans great?
I was chatting to a lad from Kassel yesterday and he mentioned that his home town wasn't really the prettiest of places, full of grim 50's architecture, mainly because the Allies had pretty much razed it to the ground in the autumn of 1944. Apparently there is only one - one! - building over fifty years old in the city centre. So the question arose in my head just now as to why armies bomb cities at all, what with the high probability of civilian casualties etc. A quick Google search brought up this chilling article. In short: that's exactly why they do it. Aren't humans great?
Tuesday, March 20, 2001
du -kc
...is a UNIX/Linux/*BSD command which, in this case, returns the total disk usage (ie size) of any given folder and its subfolders, in kilobytes. I just looked at how much space my web folder is taking up and ohdearieme...
I've got the fear of god all of a sudden, so it's been decided: the Junk page is going in a few days, and with it the contents, all 73 MB's worth. Pay attention, Rob and Andrea: this is your last chance to get anything you want out of there! I might keep a few of the best, like the Matrix farting vid, the explantion of the word "fuck" and so on, but the rest will be purged mercilessly. Most of them are crap anyway and god knows how many duplicates there are. Any attachments I get in my mail from now on will be held up there for probably not longer than a week, just so that I can get a chance to download them myself - which was the original function of that page anyway.
...is a UNIX/Linux/*BSD command which, in this case, returns the total disk usage (ie size) of any given folder and its subfolders, in kilobytes. I just looked at how much space my web folder is taking up and ohdearieme...
I've got the fear of god all of a sudden, so it's been decided: the Junk page is going in a few days, and with it the contents, all 73 MB's worth. Pay attention, Rob and Andrea: this is your last chance to get anything you want out of there! I might keep a few of the best, like the Matrix farting vid, the explantion of the word "fuck" and so on, but the rest will be purged mercilessly. Most of them are crap anyway and god knows how many duplicates there are. Any attachments I get in my mail from now on will be held up there for probably not longer than a week, just so that I can get a chance to download them myself - which was the original function of that page anyway.
Monday, March 19, 2001
Palm and her V sisters
You know something, I came very close to scripting a version of this site suitable for AvantGo just now. But then I realised how much work brain-power would be required and I thought "Nah, sod it - I'll go for a pizza instead".
But before I go, guess who's gone all mushy on us! Apparently she doesn't even dig UNIX. On a tangential note, my favourite sig that I've seen on Slashdot is: "UNIX? They're probably not even circumcised. Savages".
Oh yeah...pizza...
You know something, I came very close to scripting a version of this site suitable for AvantGo just now. But then I realised how much work brain-power would be required and I thought "Nah, sod it - I'll go for a pizza instead".
But before I go, guess who's gone all mushy on us! Apparently she doesn't even dig UNIX. On a tangential note, my favourite sig that I've seen on Slashdot is: "UNIX? They're probably not even circumcised. Savages".
Oh yeah...pizza...
Sunday, March 18, 2001
Lech mich; ich war beschäftigt
I don't know how true this is of anyone else, but the frequencies of my postings are in inverse proportion to the scale/importance of my activities in the real world, ie. the more of a life I have, the less I blog.
I bought one of these, in "ice" (clear plastic to you). Technically, I can't afford it but this at least will force me to stay in my job until I've earned it back. Consider it an advance. It's frightfully cool, though. Same memory and innards as this, not quite as pretty and lacking a rechargeable battery (2x AAA, alas), but pretty much half the price. I've a meg and a half's worth of newspapers to trawl through now, and later on I'm going to install the Gameboy emulator!!!. Toys rule.
I don't know how true this is of anyone else, but the frequencies of my postings are in inverse proportion to the scale/importance of my activities in the real world, ie. the more of a life I have, the less I blog.
I bought one of these, in "ice" (clear plastic to you). Technically, I can't afford it but this at least will force me to stay in my job until I've earned it back. Consider it an advance. It's frightfully cool, though. Same memory and innards as this, not quite as pretty and lacking a rechargeable battery (2x AAA, alas), but pretty much half the price. I've a meg and a half's worth of newspapers to trawl through now, and later on I'm going to install the Gameboy emulator!!!. Toys rule.
Thursday, March 15, 2001
Tuesday, March 13, 2001
dave+green+wanker?
[1674][22:37 11/03][deviant.demon.co.uk][ $HTTP_REFERER ]
This is definitely the best refer I've ever got. Who at demon.co.uk thinks Dave Green is a wanker? Who, indeed, is Dave Green? A slightly more focused search on my part came up with this Dave Green. His page is W3C compliant and his hobbies are coxing, cricket and croquet. Maybe, just maybe.
But a little more digging (ie. scrolling) unearths this Dave Green who even has a spoof page devoted to him and this is the very same Dave Green from whom I (and thousands others) get my weekly Need To Know mail.
Does this, like, make me famous or something?
Update: ...and why did Win98 BSOD immediately after I blogged this? Dark forces are at work, methinks.
[1674][22:37 11/03][deviant.demon.co.uk][ $HTTP_REFERER ]
This is definitely the best refer I've ever got. Who at demon.co.uk thinks Dave Green is a wanker? Who, indeed, is Dave Green? A slightly more focused search on my part came up with this Dave Green. His page is W3C compliant and his hobbies are coxing, cricket and croquet. Maybe, just maybe.
But a little more digging (ie. scrolling) unearths this Dave Green who even has a spoof page devoted to him and this is the very same Dave Green from whom I (and thousands others) get my weekly Need To Know mail.
Does this, like, make me famous or something?
Update: ...and why did Win98 BSOD immediately after I blogged this? Dark forces are at work, methinks.
Monday, March 12, 2001
Hmph...
"Hewlett-Packard, for instance, certifies its Omnibooks for Linux. The company doesn't sell laptops complete with Linux, but the configuration is certified to accept the OS. Linux developers already have been setting up such laptops, said Webb McKinney, vice president of the personal computing organization at HP."
(from C|Net)
So why can't I get XFree86 up? Oh yeah, I forgot - I'm lame...
By the way: note the time of this post, people! This is against the very Law of Nature herself!
"Hewlett-Packard, for instance, certifies its Omnibooks for Linux. The company doesn't sell laptops complete with Linux, but the configuration is certified to accept the OS. Linux developers already have been setting up such laptops, said Webb McKinney, vice president of the personal computing organization at HP."
(from C|Net)
So why can't I get XFree86 up? Oh yeah, I forgot - I'm lame...
By the way: note the time of this post, people! This is against the very Law of Nature herself!
Sunday, March 11, 2001
Playin' Solitaire 'til dawn...
I have this great tendency to get really absorbed in anything not related to an upcoming deadline, absorption being directly proportional to said deadline, hence my having got really good at Solitaire over the last 48 hours. I have my first class tomorrow and I'm a tad nervous, pathetically enough. There's quite a bit of preparation to be done on my part beforehand and yet...and yet I really can't be bothered. Other times it's been this and other web-pages, Quake, a good book or just plain old getting pissed in the pub. Those who know me well will instantly recognise the same self-destructive tendency that caused me to fail second year in college, not to mention the likelihood of it happening again this year. I am in dire need of motivation. Any takers? (not Caz).
And yesterday I actually did play Solitaire 'til dawn...
I have this great tendency to get really absorbed in anything not related to an upcoming deadline, absorption being directly proportional to said deadline, hence my having got really good at Solitaire over the last 48 hours. I have my first class tomorrow and I'm a tad nervous, pathetically enough. There's quite a bit of preparation to be done on my part beforehand and yet...and yet I really can't be bothered. Other times it's been this and other web-pages, Quake, a good book or just plain old getting pissed in the pub. Those who know me well will instantly recognise the same self-destructive tendency that caused me to fail second year in college, not to mention the likelihood of it happening again this year. I am in dire need of motivation. Any takers? (not Caz).
And yesterday I actually did play Solitaire 'til dawn...
Saturday, March 10, 2001
Poutain du merde
Gotta love those crazy Brits!
Gotta love those crazy Irish!
Links shamelessly ripped from NTK.
Gotta love those crazy Brits!
Gotta love those crazy Irish!
Links shamelessly ripped from NTK.
Shut Down TMB!
I wonder if The Misanthropic Bitch is running out of steam? At the height of her powers she attracted quite a bit of attention, both good and bad, for her articles on everything from politics to censorship to stupid names for kids - and then there are the teen mothers... There's a wealth of articles stretching all the way back to '97 and some are absolute classics.
Today she put up her first article in two months, in reply to a mail from yet another irate reader and once again on the teen mothers subject. Funny and all as it is, one wonders just how far you can flog this one topic. Maybe it'll pick up. Join her mailing list and you can keep tabs.
I wonder if The Misanthropic Bitch is running out of steam? At the height of her powers she attracted quite a bit of attention, both good and bad, for her articles on everything from politics to censorship to stupid names for kids - and then there are the teen mothers... There's a wealth of articles stretching all the way back to '97 and some are absolute classics.
Today she put up her first article in two months, in reply to a mail from yet another irate reader and once again on the teen mothers subject. Funny and all as it is, one wonders just how far you can flog this one topic. Maybe it'll pick up. Join her mailing list and you can keep tabs.
Thursday, March 08, 2001
IHRE GANZE UNTERSEITE SIND GEHOEREN NACH US
So says Babelfish. To see just how bad it can get once you cycle from English to German and back again a few times, look at this.
Shouldn't I have been at work at 7am today? Didn't I wake up at 12? Isn't this a bad thing? So I'm a little ill, nothing I can't ha- (collapses into furious coughing fit, during which time face goes from red to purple). Somebody bring me an aspirin, for the love of God!
Here's something every man needs to know. Ta, Rob.
So says Babelfish. To see just how bad it can get once you cycle from English to German and back again a few times, look at this.
Shouldn't I have been at work at 7am today? Didn't I wake up at 12? Isn't this a bad thing? So I'm a little ill, nothing I can't ha- (collapses into furious coughing fit, during which time face goes from red to purple). Somebody bring me an aspirin, for the love of God!
Here's something every man needs to know. Ta, Rob.
Wednesday, March 07, 2001
Yipe
[1458][23:17 06/03][host213-123-63-59.dialup.lineone.co.uk][]
<Adam-uk> I made a visit to your page and I think it is downright awful I am going to scoop out your brain with a sharp hook for making such an atrocious website.
Adam-uk is Air@host213-123-63-59.dialup.lineone.co.uk
Isn't this sort of thing, like, illegal? (The threat, not the editorial comment...) Couldn't I call LineOne and give abuse? Could I not, in fact, should I wish to pursue the matter, get him arrested? Little (expletives deleted) like this are the reason that parents and politicians get in such a lather over their kids using the internet. Argh!
[1458][23:17 06/03][host213-123-63-59.dialup.lineone.co.uk][]
<Adam-uk> I made a visit to your page and I think it is downright awful I am going to scoop out your brain with a sharp hook for making such an atrocious website.
Adam-uk is Air@host213-123-63-59.dialup.lineone.co.uk
Isn't this sort of thing, like, illegal? (The threat, not the editorial comment...) Couldn't I call LineOne and give abuse? Could I not, in fact, should I wish to pursue the matter, get him arrested? Little (expletives deleted) like this are the reason that parents and politicians get in such a lather over their kids using the internet. Argh!
Monday, March 05, 2001
$HTTP_REFERER: "http://lesinge.org"
My, er, thousands of loyal readers will no doubt have noticed the shiny new addition a few days ago on the right of this page. Having just tweaked it to include the date of inclusion too (this involves me writing it down by hand, mind!), I reckon it's done. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Memepond. Inspired in name and function (albeit considerably simpler) by this, it's just a place where I'll be dumping cool links I find, and consists of the most recent entries on the right-hand column of most of the pages, backed up by the entire (and currently rather small) collection in an archive. And yes, the right-hand bar showing the most recent and the archive page both run off the same source.
In other news, Cliph has ditched Blogger in favour of Greymatter for his 'blogging activities, so well done there. There are also unsubstantiated rumours of a joint CDU/LeSinge (http://chicks-dig-monkeys.net?) design effort for our mothership's site. It's all very exciting.
My, er, thousands of loyal readers will no doubt have noticed the shiny new addition a few days ago on the right of this page. Having just tweaked it to include the date of inclusion too (this involves me writing it down by hand, mind!), I reckon it's done. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Memepond. Inspired in name and function (albeit considerably simpler) by this, it's just a place where I'll be dumping cool links I find, and consists of the most recent entries on the right-hand column of most of the pages, backed up by the entire (and currently rather small) collection in an archive. And yes, the right-hand bar showing the most recent and the archive page both run off the same source.
In other news, Cliph has ditched Blogger in favour of Greymatter for his 'blogging activities, so well done there. There are also unsubstantiated rumours of a joint CDU/LeSinge (http://chicks-dig-monkeys.net?) design effort for our mothership's site. It's all very exciting.
Sunday, March 04, 2001
Smoking? Why no, officer
So Elaine, who'd been gracing Karlsruhe with her presence for the last 10-ish days, is on the plane back to Ireland as we speak - assuming she's capable of standing upright. We celebrated her last night (she's pissing off finally!) by staying at Highlander and then going back to Les and James' place (and if you don't know any of these people, deal with it) at 8:30am on a Sunday and partaking of some Grade A Class B herbs. The word "debauchery" springs to mind. Some serious body-clock readjustment is now in order. At least I got to sleep this afternoon, though; the intrepid traveller is probably hallucinating now...
With the departure last week of that other loser (who apparently lives 50yds from this week's loser), we are again reduced to three Corkonians: myself, the other Blonde and the Hustler. If/when I can be bothered, one of these days I'll do a lovely "My Friends in Karlsruhe" page with pretty pictures and everything so you'll be able to put faces to all these names when I start libelling them etc.
On a different note, here's something funny at This Is My D.N.A..
So Elaine, who'd been gracing Karlsruhe with her presence for the last 10-ish days, is on the plane back to Ireland as we speak - assuming she's capable of standing upright. We celebrated her last night (she's pissing off finally!) by staying at Highlander and then going back to Les and James' place (and if you don't know any of these people, deal with it) at 8:30am on a Sunday and partaking of some Grade A Class B herbs. The word "debauchery" springs to mind. Some serious body-clock readjustment is now in order. At least I got to sleep this afternoon, though; the intrepid traveller is probably hallucinating now...
With the departure last week of that other loser (who apparently lives 50yds from this week's loser), we are again reduced to three Corkonians: myself, the other Blonde and the Hustler. If/when I can be bothered, one of these days I'll do a lovely "My Friends in Karlsruhe" page with pretty pictures and everything so you'll be able to put faces to all these names when I start libelling them etc.
On a different note, here's something funny at This Is My D.N.A..
Saturday, March 03, 2001
Broadcast Message from csd@csd.dot-ie.com
(/dev/ttypd) at 23:06 GMT...
ALL YOUR BASES ARE BELONG TO US!!
-----
Broadcast Message from cliph@csd.dot-ie.com
(/dev/ttyp1) at 23:07 GMT...
BASES?!?!?!
base*s*?!?!?!?!?!?!?
That's our Clifford, always a stickler for the correct misspelling.
(/dev/ttypd) at 23:06 GMT...
ALL YOUR BASES ARE BELONG TO US!!
-----
Broadcast Message from cliph@csd.dot-ie.com
(/dev/ttyp1) at 23:07 GMT...
BASES?!?!?!
base*s*?!?!?!?!?!?!?
That's our Clifford, always a stickler for the correct misspelling.
Friday, March 02, 2001
Broken clocks and other stories
Crap day. As soon as my flatmate buggers off out of this room I'm attacking a half bottle of cheap red; that'll cheer me up. Canonical alcoholism, if only for an evening. Cliph's depressed too, and we're sitting here trading melancholia through CSD. I'm starting to feel better already - and did I mention that Cliph and I have never met in real life?
Crap day. As soon as my flatmate buggers off out of this room I'm attacking a half bottle of cheap red; that'll cheer me up. Canonical alcoholism, if only for an evening. Cliph's depressed too, and we're sitting here trading melancholia through CSD. I'm starting to feel better already - and did I mention that Cliph and I have never met in real life?
Wednesday, February 28, 2001
Tuesday, February 27, 2001
A Pome for James
*ahem*
Oh James of the shitting-the-pants pool stance
And more gel than a garage floor
Oh how we'll miss your Chandler dance
Though it won't stop us showing you the door
So, that's one less person I have to beat in pool/darts... Seriously though, he will be missed; Scruffy's loss is the Darby's gain. Plus, now I have a further reason to go home for a week or two during the holidays. Amsterdam, snowboarding, home, job: if I pull all this off I'll be some sort of genius :-)
Some things I never want to hear ever again, ever:
*ahem*
Oh James of the shitting-the-pants pool stance
And more gel than a garage floor
Oh how we'll miss your Chandler dance
Though it won't stop us showing you the door
So, that's one less person I have to beat in pool/darts... Seriously though, he will be missed; Scruffy's loss is the Darby's gain. Plus, now I have a further reason to go home for a week or two during the holidays. Amsterdam, snowboarding, home, job: if I pull all this off I'll be some sort of genius :-)
Some things I never want to hear ever again, ever:
- "Ich bin so schoen, ich bin so toll, ich bin der Anton aus Tirol!"
- "Heeeeeyyyyy baby! (ooh! ah!) I wanna knooowwww, if you'll be my girl!"
- "Halloooooooooo!"
Sunday, February 25, 2001
Of course, I could just be lazy...
...and leave the layout like this. We'll have to see how good/bad it looks in Netscape first.
Rod over at The Editing Room has two new abridged scripts. But before you read Star Wars: A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back, I recommend you look at the Phantom Menace script first, so as to fully appreciate lines such as:
(Alec Guiness) "Mark. Go to Yoda. He will be quirky and entertaining. He will also teach you how to use your high number of Midichlorians.. oops, Lucas didn't shit that idea out yet. I meant he will show you the ways of camera tricks and wire stunts."
In other news, it's been snowing like a bastard in Karlsruhe for the last 24 hours. Fasching (German equivalent of Mardi Gras) is reaching its pulsating, throbbing climax - expecting much craziness on Tuesday. I have a nice big cold. Played Liam "The Hustler" Tyers at pool today: I won the first game and the last game and he won the seven in between. Oh, and Karlsruhe's most glam couple is once again on hiatus.
...and leave the layout like this. We'll have to see how good/bad it looks in Netscape first.
Rod over at The Editing Room has two new abridged scripts. But before you read Star Wars: A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back, I recommend you look at the Phantom Menace script first, so as to fully appreciate lines such as:
(Alec Guiness) "Mark. Go to Yoda. He will be quirky and entertaining. He will also teach you how to use your high number of Midichlorians.. oops, Lucas didn't shit that idea out yet. I meant he will show you the ways of camera tricks and wire stunts."
In other news, it's been snowing like a bastard in Karlsruhe for the last 24 hours. Fasching (German equivalent of Mardi Gras) is reaching its pulsating, throbbing climax - expecting much craziness on Tuesday. I have a nice big cold. Played Liam "The Hustler" Tyers at pool today: I won the first game and the last game and he won the seven in between. Oh, and Karlsruhe's most glam couple is once again on hiatus.
Friday, February 23, 2001
Spring cleaning
As you can see, I've done some pruning of the layout. For a start I need a decently composed CSS file and maybe a simple little DHTML drop-down menu, which would give me a lot more space. And then a few applets and lots and lots of Flash...but nothing too complicated :-P
And there still won't be graphics! Or Slashdot headlines! Deal with it!
As you can see, I've done some pruning of the layout. For a start I need a decently composed CSS file and maybe a simple little DHTML drop-down menu, which would give me a lot more space. And then a few applets and lots and lots of Flash...but nothing too complicated :-P
And there still won't be graphics! Or Slashdot headlines! Deal with it!
Tuesday, February 20, 2001
Okay, my turn
Another meme to be propagated (see next post down). I'm just hanging on the coat-tails of these two as per usual.
1. What was the first record you owned (bought for you)?
The Mini-Pops LP
2. What was the first record you ever bought?
Went halves with my sister on Now (That's What I Call Music) 12
3. If you had someone of the opposite sex coming over and you wanted to impress them, which cds would you hide?
Too many to list all of them: highlights include D:Ream On Vol. 1, Best of Jimmy Somerville and Best of Huey Lewis & The News
4. Is there a song that reminds you most of your childhood?
More than any other, Karma Chameleon by Culture Club might have been the first song I noticed on TV/radio and where I knew the band's name, not to mention a fair few of the lyrics. I was 5; Sr. Theresa didn't appreciate my singing either.
5. If you could spend a night with five musical artists - three for their minds and two for their bodies - who would they be?
Minds:
Liam Howlett
George Michael
Tom Morello
Bodies:
Nelly Furtado (saw her vid on MTV today - OH was that the sun...)
Uh...Salma Hayek sang on the Desperado OST! Woohoo!
6. If your life was a movie, what song would play over the following:
Opening Credits: Prodigy, Climbatize
Love Scene: George Michael, Cowboys and Angels
Closing Credits: Massive Attack, (Exchange)
7. If applicable, name a song or concert that moved you to tears.
No one particular song has done this, but lots of songs hit the mark on a particular day and I sometimes find my eyes watering and the hair on the back of my neck stands up. It's not an emotional thing as such; it could be Limp Bizkit (opening chords/build-up from Take A Look Around, anyone?) or RATM or even Britney Spears, but it'll do something on the day. *shrug*
8. What do you listen to when you are...
Fucking: It was the Smashing Pumpkins last time, if I recall...
Waking up: Currently: Doedel Up by Guano Apes
Bored: Er...I play UT :-)
Excited: Propellerheads, The Crystal Method, random progressive house if it's around
9. Name one musical artist you would like to see banished:
Only one? Who remembers Roy "Chubby" Brown's hilarious rendition of (Who The F*** Is) Alice?
10. Name one musical genre you would like to see banished:
There is a particular style of music unique to Germany, listened to by the over 50s. It's not traditional, necessarily; its only prerequisite is that it be easy to sing along to, usually whilst drinking (and preferably clapped to on the 1-3 instead of the 2-4). It will be warbled by someone for whose hairpiece an entire colony of yaks was put to the sword and it is far, FAR worse than ANYTHING Susan McCann or Daniel O'Donnell and their hell-minions could throw at you in Ireland. It's called Schlagermusik and, for the record, this is the category both Johnny Logan and David Hasselhof fall into.
11. Name a song you would rather hear never again:
Bryan Adams, Everything I do (I do it for you) - I second Cliph.
12. What now-defunct band would you most like to see reunite (living or dead)?
The Doors
13. Name an album that is perfect all the way through.
Radiohead, OK Computer
14. Music you like that could be considered a guilty pleasure:
A surprising amount of Lou Perlman's progeny, not to mention Limp Bizkit (I hate Durst too, but the band play well, OK???)
15. If your music collection was about to go up in flames, which five cds would you save?
Chemical Bros - Surrender
Asian Dub Foundation - Community Music
Radiohead - OK Computer
Jimi Hendrix - Blues (as soon as I buy it!)
Leftfield - Rhythm and Stealth
16. Is there a song that describes you or a situation you've been in so well that you could have written it?
George Michael, Cowboys and Angels
17. Which underrated artist deserves more attention?
Hybrid
18. Has a song or artist changed your life in any way? If so, how?
There have been artists that have caused huge changes in my taste in music, but nothing that has really spilled over into my life. 'Cept maybe for Jimi :-)
19. What is your favorite soundtrack?
Pulp Fiction
20. Best music-related movie:
The Commitments
21. What would your dream band be?
The Dewaele brothers + Liam Howlett + Thom Yorke + Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
22. Do you miss the days when MTV used to, like, show videos and stuff?
I've not had access to MTV for as long as others might have, but even I've noticed a decline in standards.
23. What is your favorite all-time video?
Pearl Jam, Do The Evolution
24. Current favorite radio hit:
Guano Apes, Doedel Up
25. What's your favorite artist/band(s) of all time?
Sergey Rachmaninoff
P. I. Tschaikovsky
Chemical Brothers
Massive Attack
George Michael
Another meme to be propagated (see next post down). I'm just hanging on the coat-tails of these two as per usual.
1. What was the first record you owned (bought for you)?
The Mini-Pops LP
2. What was the first record you ever bought?
Went halves with my sister on Now (That's What I Call Music) 12
3. If you had someone of the opposite sex coming over and you wanted to impress them, which cds would you hide?
Too many to list all of them: highlights include D:Ream On Vol. 1, Best of Jimmy Somerville and Best of Huey Lewis & The News
4. Is there a song that reminds you most of your childhood?
More than any other, Karma Chameleon by Culture Club might have been the first song I noticed on TV/radio and where I knew the band's name, not to mention a fair few of the lyrics. I was 5; Sr. Theresa didn't appreciate my singing either.
5. If you could spend a night with five musical artists - three for their minds and two for their bodies - who would they be?
Minds:
Liam Howlett
George Michael
Tom Morello
Bodies:
Nelly Furtado (saw her vid on MTV today - OH was that the sun...)
Uh...Salma Hayek sang on the Desperado OST! Woohoo!
6. If your life was a movie, what song would play over the following:
Opening Credits: Prodigy, Climbatize
Love Scene: George Michael, Cowboys and Angels
Closing Credits: Massive Attack, (Exchange)
7. If applicable, name a song or concert that moved you to tears.
No one particular song has done this, but lots of songs hit the mark on a particular day and I sometimes find my eyes watering and the hair on the back of my neck stands up. It's not an emotional thing as such; it could be Limp Bizkit (opening chords/build-up from Take A Look Around, anyone?) or RATM or even Britney Spears, but it'll do something on the day. *shrug*
8. What do you listen to when you are...
Fucking: It was the Smashing Pumpkins last time, if I recall...
Waking up: Currently: Doedel Up by Guano Apes
Bored: Er...I play UT :-)
Excited: Propellerheads, The Crystal Method, random progressive house if it's around
9. Name one musical artist you would like to see banished:
Only one? Who remembers Roy "Chubby" Brown's hilarious rendition of (Who The F*** Is) Alice?
10. Name one musical genre you would like to see banished:
There is a particular style of music unique to Germany, listened to by the over 50s. It's not traditional, necessarily; its only prerequisite is that it be easy to sing along to, usually whilst drinking (and preferably clapped to on the 1-3 instead of the 2-4). It will be warbled by someone for whose hairpiece an entire colony of yaks was put to the sword and it is far, FAR worse than ANYTHING Susan McCann or Daniel O'Donnell and their hell-minions could throw at you in Ireland. It's called Schlagermusik and, for the record, this is the category both Johnny Logan and David Hasselhof fall into.
11. Name a song you would rather hear never again:
Bryan Adams, Everything I do (I do it for you) - I second Cliph.
12. What now-defunct band would you most like to see reunite (living or dead)?
The Doors
13. Name an album that is perfect all the way through.
Radiohead, OK Computer
14. Music you like that could be considered a guilty pleasure:
A surprising amount of Lou Perlman's progeny, not to mention Limp Bizkit (I hate Durst too, but the band play well, OK???)
15. If your music collection was about to go up in flames, which five cds would you save?
Chemical Bros - Surrender
Asian Dub Foundation - Community Music
Radiohead - OK Computer
Jimi Hendrix - Blues (as soon as I buy it!)
Leftfield - Rhythm and Stealth
16. Is there a song that describes you or a situation you've been in so well that you could have written it?
George Michael, Cowboys and Angels
17. Which underrated artist deserves more attention?
Hybrid
18. Has a song or artist changed your life in any way? If so, how?
There have been artists that have caused huge changes in my taste in music, but nothing that has really spilled over into my life. 'Cept maybe for Jimi :-)
19. What is your favorite soundtrack?
Pulp Fiction
20. Best music-related movie:
The Commitments
21. What would your dream band be?
The Dewaele brothers + Liam Howlett + Thom Yorke + Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
22. Do you miss the days when MTV used to, like, show videos and stuff?
I've not had access to MTV for as long as others might have, but even I've noticed a decline in standards.
23. What is your favorite all-time video?
Pearl Jam, Do The Evolution
24. Current favorite radio hit:
Guano Apes, Doedel Up
25. What's your favorite artist/band(s) of all time?
Sergey Rachmaninoff
P. I. Tschaikovsky
Chemical Brothers
Massive Attack
George Michael
All your memes are belong to us
So, you have this game waaayyy back in the 80s called Zero-Wing, with the most dazzling intro sequence ever seen in 16-bit computing. So dazzling, in fact, that they ran out of money to pay for a decent interpreter/script writer. Then, just recently, some lads over at a computer gaming clan site started doctoring some images. This was drawn to the attention of Memepool, so it wasn't long before someone threw together a little Shockwave movie*.
This, boys and girls, is what we call propagating a meme.
* local copy hosted at CDU
Update!!
allyourbasearebelongtous.com - registered Dec. 6th, 2000
allyourbasearebelongtous.net - registered Jan 30th, 2001
allyourbasearebelongtous.org - registered Feb 14th, 2001
So, you have this game waaayyy back in the 80s called Zero-Wing, with the most dazzling intro sequence ever seen in 16-bit computing. So dazzling, in fact, that they ran out of money to pay for a decent interpreter/script writer. Then, just recently, some lads over at a computer gaming clan site started doctoring some images. This was drawn to the attention of Memepool, so it wasn't long before someone threw together a little Shockwave movie*.
This, boys and girls, is what we call propagating a meme.
* local copy hosted at CDU
Update!!
allyourbasearebelongtous.com - registered Dec. 6th, 2000
allyourbasearebelongtous.net - registered Jan 30th, 2001
allyourbasearebelongtous.org - registered Feb 14th, 2001
Thursday, February 15, 2001
Ireland? Oh, you mean England...
It's 40 times the size of Ireland and 7.5 times the size of Germany; population of 16.7m; more natural resources than you can shake a stick at; capital Astana (moved from Almaty in 1998). Its president is one Nursultan A. Nazarbayev and its prime minister is Kazymzhomart Tokayev. And I bet you haven't a clue where it is.
I find the Irish in particular are always a little surprised when they're abroad and meet a foreigner who knows absolutely nothing about our little country, bar maybe having a vague (and generally wrong) notion about Northern Ireland. I've had this a few times until it occurred to me: why should they? Especially when I meet a Kazakhstani (re)immigrant who knows more about the Irish/Celts in general than I do. My mission in life is now to read up on Kazakhstan (link above) and every other country, er, in the world; then I'll be entitled to be outraged at some Johnny Foreigner's ignorance of the Emerald Isle :-)
Also, history of the Irish republic in a nutshell, courtesy of the CIA World Factbook:
"A failed 1916 Easter Monday Rebellion touched off several years of guerrilla warfare that in 1921 resulted in independence from the UK for the 26 southern counties; the six northern counties (Ulster) remained part of Great Britain. In 1948 Ireland withdrew from the British Commonwealth; it joined the European Community in 1973. Irish governments have sought the peaceful unification of Ireland and have cooperated with Britain against terrorist groups. A peace settlement for Northern Ireland, approved in 1998, has not yet been implemented."
It's 40 times the size of Ireland and 7.5 times the size of Germany; population of 16.7m; more natural resources than you can shake a stick at; capital Astana (moved from Almaty in 1998). Its president is one Nursultan A. Nazarbayev and its prime minister is Kazymzhomart Tokayev. And I bet you haven't a clue where it is.
I find the Irish in particular are always a little surprised when they're abroad and meet a foreigner who knows absolutely nothing about our little country, bar maybe having a vague (and generally wrong) notion about Northern Ireland. I've had this a few times until it occurred to me: why should they? Especially when I meet a Kazakhstani (re)immigrant who knows more about the Irish/Celts in general than I do. My mission in life is now to read up on Kazakhstan (link above) and every other country, er, in the world; then I'll be entitled to be outraged at some Johnny Foreigner's ignorance of the Emerald Isle :-)
Also, history of the Irish republic in a nutshell, courtesy of the CIA World Factbook:
"A failed 1916 Easter Monday Rebellion touched off several years of guerrilla warfare that in 1921 resulted in independence from the UK for the 26 southern counties; the six northern counties (Ulster) remained part of Great Britain. In 1948 Ireland withdrew from the British Commonwealth; it joined the European Community in 1973. Irish governments have sought the peaceful unification of Ireland and have cooperated with Britain against terrorist groups. A peace settlement for Northern Ireland, approved in 1998, has not yet been implemented."
Wednesday, February 14, 2001
Look look!
As a result of the previous post + idleness, I threw in a new link. Bottom left, between "feedback" and "uptime"...oh alright: here. Satisfy your stalking cravings even more and laugh at my pitifully low hit count (not bad since January 5th, really).
As a result of the previous post + idleness, I threw in a new link. Bottom left, between "feedback" and "uptime"...oh alright: here. Satisfy your stalking cravings even more and laugh at my pitifully low hit count (not bad since January 5th, really).
Tuesday, February 13, 2001
Why do we never - ever - hääh?
Buying tomorrow, single or whole album I dunno yet. Probably just the single. Aye.
Buying tomorrow, single or whole album I dunno yet. Probably just the single. Aye.
IndirectX
Check this out: a magazine goes to great lengths to promote a big demo on its coverdisc, but fails to supply necessary driver to run said game. I must have been asleep when Microsoft bought Mechwarrior from Activision, but they're sure going to town with MW4, especially since it requires that blessing/curse of all PC games: DirectX, version 8 being the latest incarnation. PC Player included DX7 on the disc, of course, 'cos that's useful...
...which is why I've to spend nearly an hour downloading 8...not impressed.
Check this out: a magazine goes to great lengths to promote a big demo on its coverdisc, but fails to supply necessary driver to run said game. I must have been asleep when Microsoft bought Mechwarrior from Activision, but they're sure going to town with MW4, especially since it requires that blessing/curse of all PC games: DirectX, version 8 being the latest incarnation. PC Player included DX7 on the disc, of course, 'cos that's useful...
...which is why I've to spend nearly an hour downloading 8...not impressed.
Monday, February 12, 2001
Rad
So, yeah, I can snowboard now, sort of. It's theoretically possible for me to get all the way down a piste without falling, and not falling became a very major issue on Sunday (second day) when I woke up and realised I couldn't move. Anything. At all. Mind you, this morning was as bad, as will be the next few, most likely; such a sudden transition from couch potato to Alpen-trash is bound to be a little traumatic. Still, I have an assortment of colourful bruises in improbable places to show off not to mention a nice colour after being out in the sun for two full days. I just wish I could do anything other than blink without wincing.
Fuck it - chicks dig it, bruises heal, pain is temporary, glory is forever!*
(Who am I kidding? I want my Mammy...)
*with apologies to No Fear.
So, yeah, I can snowboard now, sort of. It's theoretically possible for me to get all the way down a piste without falling, and not falling became a very major issue on Sunday (second day) when I woke up and realised I couldn't move. Anything. At all. Mind you, this morning was as bad, as will be the next few, most likely; such a sudden transition from couch potato to Alpen-trash is bound to be a little traumatic. Still, I have an assortment of colourful bruises in improbable places to show off not to mention a nice colour after being out in the sun for two full days. I just wish I could do anything other than blink without wincing.
Fuck it - chicks dig it, bruises heal, pain is temporary, glory is forever!*
(Who am I kidding? I want my Mammy...)
*with apologies to No Fear.
Saturday, February 10, 2001
I don't need no steenkin' body clock
So it's 3:17am CET and I've just got out of bed. We leave for Feldberg at 6:30; that's where the snow is (or isn't, as the case may be, seeing as how it's been so warm all this week). By the way, a solemn resolution: I'm never staying out after pub closing during the week again. Hopefully someone I know will read this and hold me to it...
Here's something pretty. Oh look, I can see my house!
4:22 - time to get dressed/packed. No gloves, no waterproof clothes, no sunglasses, no idea if I should bring a sleeping bag or not...
So it's 3:17am CET and I've just got out of bed. We leave for Feldberg at 6:30; that's where the snow is (or isn't, as the case may be, seeing as how it's been so warm all this week). By the way, a solemn resolution: I'm never staying out after pub closing during the week again. Hopefully someone I know will read this and hold me to it...
Here's something pretty. Oh look, I can see my house!
4:22 - time to get dressed/packed. No gloves, no waterproof clothes, no sunglasses, no idea if I should bring a sleeping bag or not...
Thursday, February 08, 2001
Lamer than "Jesus Christ"
From --------Thu Feb 8 01:30:28 2001
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 15:23:11 -0600 (CST)
From: --------
Reply-To: groupies@memepool.com
To: groupies@memepool.com
Subject: Re: MY FINAL WORD
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Dave Michael Denis Whyte Esq. wrote:
>Ya reckon? I just registered lamerthanjesuschrist.org with namezero; you
>can even have ------@lamerthanjesuschrist.org if you ask nicely.
Dave, you are not only the most surpassingly intelligent person I have seen in my life of stints at Sorbonne, Trieste, Oxford and Harvard, not just the most courageously initiative among any I have read about from Alexander the Great to Field Marshall Rommel, not merely the saintliest I have encountered in my long line of spiritual communions from Cyprian of Carthage to Pope John Paul, but also a surprisingly interesting guy for a memepool groupie and an exemplar to us all. It is perhaps the only combination of virtues which would ever lead me to ask, courteously and with the utmost humiliity--will you please fucking give me that lame address?
From --------Thu Feb 8 01:30:28 2001
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 15:23:11 -0600 (CST)
From: --------
Reply-To: groupies@memepool.com
To: groupies@memepool.com
Subject: Re: MY FINAL WORD
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Dave Michael Denis Whyte Esq. wrote:
>Ya reckon? I just registered lamerthanjesuschrist.org with namezero; you
>can even have ------@lamerthanjesuschrist.org if you ask nicely.
Dave, you are not only the most surpassingly intelligent person I have seen in my life of stints at Sorbonne, Trieste, Oxford and Harvard, not just the most courageously initiative among any I have read about from Alexander the Great to Field Marshall Rommel, not merely the saintliest I have encountered in my long line of spiritual communions from Cyprian of Carthage to Pope John Paul, but also a surprisingly interesting guy for a memepool groupie and an exemplar to us all. It is perhaps the only combination of virtues which would ever lead me to ask, courteously and with the utmost humiliity--will you please fucking give me that lame address?
Sunday, February 04, 2001
Ye Sunday Pilgrimage
So, I'm not black and blue in the Black Forest yet - "Nein, nein - das machen wir am nächsten Sonntag!". Ach so...
Because of this, the hour of the pilgrimage draws near. I refer, of course, to my weekly trip to the train station here to get a dead-tree copy of the Sunday Times for a whopping 10 Marks (about IRP 4). Worth every pfennig, even if it's the English version (natch) and it doesn't have the magazine. As long as I get News Review, Sport, Culture and Doors I'm happy. I can see all the tabloid readers wrinkling their noses at the mention of "culture" but don't worry, it's just a glorified TV Guide.
Usually my next destination on leaving the newsagent is to walk around the corner to McDonalds and partake of some junk but not today! (audience gasps). Today I'm being fed by same non-boarders with whom I thought I'd be on the slopes today; it's just their way of apologising for my stupidity, I'm sure. I'm sure it'll be lovely and I know it'll have lots and lots of salad and I really like salad and I hope in fact that there's nothing else but salad 'cos that'd be delicious. Yes indeed. Another lettuce leaf? Oh thank you. Oh no, I normally nibble like this; don't have much of an appetite, you know. If you'll excuse me, I just have to nip down the street to McD's to, er, check something...
So, I'm not black and blue in the Black Forest yet - "Nein, nein - das machen wir am nächsten Sonntag!". Ach so...
Because of this, the hour of the pilgrimage draws near. I refer, of course, to my weekly trip to the train station here to get a dead-tree copy of the Sunday Times for a whopping 10 Marks (about IRP 4). Worth every pfennig, even if it's the English version (natch) and it doesn't have the magazine. As long as I get News Review, Sport, Culture and Doors I'm happy. I can see all the tabloid readers wrinkling their noses at the mention of "culture" but don't worry, it's just a glorified TV Guide.
Usually my next destination on leaving the newsagent is to walk around the corner to McDonalds and partake of some junk but not today! (audience gasps). Today I'm being fed by same non-boarders with whom I thought I'd be on the slopes today; it's just their way of apologising for my stupidity, I'm sure. I'm sure it'll be lovely and I know it'll have lots and lots of salad and I really like salad and I hope in fact that there's nothing else but salad 'cos that'd be delicious. Yes indeed. Another lettuce leaf? Oh thank you. Oh no, I normally nibble like this; don't have much of an appetite, you know. If you'll excuse me, I just have to nip down the street to McD's to, er, check something...
Saturday, February 03, 2001
Fame and fortune
Whee, I got linked! That young fella Cosgrave has gone and added me to his Irish blogs list. Tom actually gets regular hits from people he doesn't even know in real life, so I'm only too happy to hang onto his coattails and pick up a few fans (ahem). Sooner or later I'm also going to have to submit this steaming pile of crap to Doras for review. That might conflict with the disclaimer I just had to put on the jokes page though. Hi Rob - Booyakasha etc. No, actually I enjoy hitting n(ext message), e(xport file), public_html/lesinge/jokes/anotherfingjoke, y(es), return - for half an hour every day! I'm going to organise some sort showdown between Rob and my other big contributor, Dara. What, I don't know, but it'll be ugly.
You saw it here first, ladies and gentlemen! Spam Wars, only at LeSinge.org! Put that in your Doras and, er, slam it.
Whee, I got linked! That young fella Cosgrave has gone and added me to his Irish blogs list. Tom actually gets regular hits from people he doesn't even know in real life, so I'm only too happy to hang onto his coattails and pick up a few fans (ahem). Sooner or later I'm also going to have to submit this steaming pile of crap to Doras for review. That might conflict with the disclaimer I just had to put on the jokes page though. Hi Rob - Booyakasha etc. No, actually I enjoy hitting n(ext message), e(xport file), public_html/lesinge/jokes/anotherfingjoke, y(es), return - for half an hour every day! I'm going to organise some sort showdown between Rob and my other big contributor, Dara. What, I don't know, but it'll be ugly.
You saw it here first, ladies and gentlemen! Spam Wars, only at LeSinge.org! Put that in your Doras and, er, slam it.
Friday, February 02, 2001
Wednesday, January 31, 2001
Physics of pain
2 weeks from Friday and then total freedom for 2 months! Plans include a trip to the land of tulips and clogs, although not for a tulip/clog appreciation field study, let me tell you.
I might also find myself on an Alp somewhere, a plank of wood/composite anchored to my feet, speeding towards an impact with an immovable object (a ski-instructor called Jürgen, for example) at a force of µmg (sin A) Newtons, where µ is friction, or lack thereof; A is the angle of incline of said Alp, m = my mass (minus blood shed en route) and g = 9.81ms-2. Hey, Applied Maths might have been the "seventh subject" of my Leaving Cert, but I remembered some stuff, dammit! Now, knowing the coefficient of restitution of my jawbone is required to calculate how far I will fly when Jürgen takes a swing at me because he was chatting up two blondes when yours truly ploughed into him. This in turn will give my take-off velocity u and angle B, which, in conjunction with A above, will allow us to work out exactly where I will land/where the rescue team can pick me up: - u (sin B) t - ½g (sin A) t2, you know? I need to go lie down now.
2 weeks from Friday and then total freedom for 2 months! Plans include a trip to the land of tulips and clogs, although not for a tulip/clog appreciation field study, let me tell you.
I might also find myself on an Alp somewhere, a plank of wood/composite anchored to my feet, speeding towards an impact with an immovable object (a ski-instructor called Jürgen, for example) at a force of µmg (sin A) Newtons, where µ is friction, or lack thereof; A is the angle of incline of said Alp, m = my mass (minus blood shed en route) and g = 9.81ms-2. Hey, Applied Maths might have been the "seventh subject" of my Leaving Cert, but I remembered some stuff, dammit! Now, knowing the coefficient of restitution of my jawbone is required to calculate how far I will fly when Jürgen takes a swing at me because he was chatting up two blondes when yours truly ploughed into him. This in turn will give my take-off velocity u and angle B, which, in conjunction with A above, will allow us to work out exactly where I will land/where the rescue team can pick me up: - u (sin B) t - ½g (sin A) t2, you know? I need to go lie down now.
Mummy, what does "kernel panic" mean?
Finally brought my new baby back into the shop to get that missing 64MB of RAM dealt with. Laptop was still in standby mode so I nearly had a heart-attack when this jolly fellow in a big red lab-coat flipped it upside-down and started screwing the access panel off. He ignored my plainitive squeaks of protest naturally and handed it back to me all of 30 seconds later. Probably could have done it myself; I felt like one of those people who bring their computer, monitor, mouse and printer all back to the shop because they got an error message saying the modem wasn't connected properly... Unfortunate upshot of this noticeable increase in speed (Windows reboots faster than ever before) is that Linux isn't so happy. Ah, sod it; I wanted Debian anyway :-)
Also got the most bog-standard bag possible for the princely sum of IRP 32. It carries the laptop, cordless mouse + receiver and power adaptor + cables...just; if I try cram a PC card in there it's gonna explode. Probably, like.
Finally brought my new baby back into the shop to get that missing 64MB of RAM dealt with. Laptop was still in standby mode so I nearly had a heart-attack when this jolly fellow in a big red lab-coat flipped it upside-down and started screwing the access panel off. He ignored my plainitive squeaks of protest naturally and handed it back to me all of 30 seconds later. Probably could have done it myself; I felt like one of those people who bring their computer, monitor, mouse and printer all back to the shop because they got an error message saying the modem wasn't connected properly... Unfortunate upshot of this noticeable increase in speed (Windows reboots faster than ever before) is that Linux isn't so happy. Ah, sod it; I wanted Debian anyway :-)
Also got the most bog-standard bag possible for the princely sum of IRP 32. It carries the laptop, cordless mouse + receiver and power adaptor + cables...just; if I try cram a PC card in there it's gonna explode. Probably, like.
Monday, January 29, 2001
Been busy. Site has a few new little tweaks. I've been devouring books since Christmas: Andy McNab, Remote Control; Flann O'Brien, The Best Of Myles and The Dalkey Archive; Bill Bryson, Made in America and Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep. And I still have L.A. Confidential and some other one whose name I've forgotten to go through - great stuff. And I've installed Mandrake 7.2 on the Omnibook and I'm starting to r00l a little more at UT and I won the legendary Scruffy's pub quiz last Thursday and got plastered on the subsequent whiskey...
And you expect me to sit down and do a blog entry daily as well? Gtf!
Links: Limmy.com, TER's take on Castaway, "Hentai" Helena Kim.
And you expect me to sit down and do a blog entry daily as well? Gtf!
Links: Limmy.com, TER's take on Castaway, "Hentai" Helena Kim.
Wednesday, January 24, 2001
This article on Slashdot about a new informant system in North Carolina schools, designed to weed out "dangerous" kids, led me in turn to this story. That's it - I'm never going to the US...
\´\´3 0\´\´n j00
("we own you", for the perplexed).And those are only media companies! Can you name all of Mitsubishi's products, for example? (btw, take a look at the source code of the Mitsubishi page, right down at the bottom - Hi Mum!)
Update: answer to Mitsubishi question and an apparently rather famous article about the Zaibatsu, or Japanese super-corporations. This is good shit, people! Read!
Tuesday, January 23, 2001
Once I sorted out some teeny-tiny security problems, such as having a version of this, LeSinge.org was finally deemed worthy enough of hosting, meaning no more http://csd.dot-ie.com/~dave/lesinge...unless you want to, like...
Message from jas@matrix on ttyq8 at 16:56 ...
+------------------------------------------------------+
|where in this new page to you acknowledge my brillance|
+------------------------------------------------------+
EOF
Monday, January 22, 2001
There is a direct correlation between the lack of posts and my having UT to play.
Managed to read Enigma by Robert Harris in one go last night, from 12-6am. It's a good yarn, better written if maybe quite as much fun as Cryptonomicon, another Enigma/Cryptography/Bletchley Park saga by Neal Stephenson.
I also have some mystifying bruises on my legs after the weekend. Just thought I'd mention that too.
Met this guy at a party on Saturday. Apparently .de domains are quite easy/cheap to get...alas, mine's taken.
Managed to read Enigma by Robert Harris in one go last night, from 12-6am. It's a good yarn, better written if maybe quite as much fun as Cryptonomicon, another Enigma/Cryptography/Bletchley Park saga by Neal Stephenson.
I also have some mystifying bruises on my legs after the weekend. Just thought I'd mention that too.
Met this guy at a party on Saturday. Apparently .de domains are quite easy/cheap to get...alas, mine's taken.
Wednesday, January 17, 2001
I wonder why my laptop only has 64MB of RAM rather than the advertised 128MB? Can't believe I have to bring the fucker back to the shop tomorrow and give more abuse. You could argue that the comp was running satisfactorily fast with its 64MB, and I never would have noticed had I not gone snooping around the System Monitor and subsequently HP's own diagnostic program - but that's not the point!. I may not need it now but in a year's time when I want to run Photoshop 7 (or just X-Windows!) I'm going to suffer then.
Besides, I paid for 128MB so all that's moot. Thought I'd rant regardless.
Oh, and Cliph moved and I may soon be getting that long lusted-after DNS hosting. And the laptop problem will be sorted eventually so I'm basically happy in cyberspace. Just don't ask me about college.
Besides, I paid for 128MB so all that's moot. Thought I'd rant regardless.
Oh, and Cliph moved and I may soon be getting that long lusted-after DNS hosting. And the laptop problem will be sorted eventually so I'm basically happy in cyberspace. Just don't ask me about college.
I'm sitting on one of these. Bouncing, too. They're right: it is therapeutic!
*boingaboingaboingaboingaboinga*
*boingaboingaboingaboingaboinga*
Well, I got it. It's heavy and lacks a network card or any decent software whatsoever, but it's MINE! *hug*
It has a cool little set of buttons on the forward edge which allows you to play CDs even when the rest of the machine is on standby so, yeah, it's an oversized discman too. Unreal Tournament runs like a dream; I've already got that familiar neck cramp from sitting in the same frozen position (w/ sniper rifle - *TAK*) for too long.
Jim doesn't know it yet but he's going to be sending me all manner of software/utils/games, 'cos I've got 9ish gigs to fill and I can't play UT all day...or can I?
It has a cool little set of buttons on the forward edge which allows you to play CDs even when the rest of the machine is on standby so, yeah, it's an oversized discman too. Unreal Tournament runs like a dream; I've already got that familiar neck cramp from sitting in the same frozen position (w/ sniper rifle - *TAK*) for too long.
Jim doesn't know it yet but he's going to be sending me all manner of software/utils/games, 'cos I've got 9ish gigs to fill and I can't play UT all day...or can I?
Sunday, January 14, 2001
How was your weekend? Mine was a non-stop rollercoaster of alcohol, new friends and old enemies (not mine, thankfully). I learned (and then forgot) how to say cheers in Kazakhstani and Croatian on respective nights. Then, last night I watched one person (who really should have known better) get very drunk and start antagonising one of the most hypersensitive people on the planet, and then a third person almost losing the rag trying to stop the first two from fighting...god forgive her but she's a very determined little girl... Meanwhile the rest of the table had to just sit back and enjoy the show.
You Know Who You Are, and I bet you all had worse hangovers than I did, ha!
And in other news:
http://www.google.com/search?q=grarg
Funny the way an old nick hangs around long after you've ditched it. I even went and put a giant link back to this page on grarg.freeshell.org. style="font-size:100px" - aaarrr.
You Know Who You Are, and I bet you all had worse hangovers than I did, ha!
And in other news:
http://www.google.com/search?q=grarg
Funny the way an old nick hangs around long after you've ditched it. I even went and put a giant link back to this page on grarg.freeshell.org. style="font-size:100px" - aaarrr.
Thursday, January 11, 2001
It's amazing how many people go and do all out essays when they post blogs. Who do they think is reading this shit? Who do I think is reading this shit? Absolutely nobody. Hits may or may not improve if/when Mr. Dalton finds time to stick lesinge.org into that little httpd_conf file deep in the bowels of this server. Until then, it's a bit of a 4-person audience....hi Andrea, Tanja, Aidan, Cliph...*sigh*
Thu 11 12:07AM [lesinge] =>> mv index.php3 elsewhere.php3
Thu 11 12:07AM [lesinge] =>> mv blog.php3 index.php3
Thu 11 12:08AM [lesinge] =>> chmod o+r *
There: that's my front page problem solved!
It's a bit annoying that I always have to write a minimum amount in these entries, or else the little nested table in which each entry sits won't fill out to the right and everything ends up looking arseways...which is an accurate description of how this page generally looks in IE. Is Netscape whore mise und stolz darauf. All IE-only people can go here. Pssst! Mike! NS 4.5 looks at your page and laughs! Laughs, I say!
Thu 11 12:07AM [lesinge] =>> mv blog.php3 index.php3
Thu 11 12:08AM [lesinge] =>> chmod o+r *
There: that's my front page problem solved!
It's a bit annoying that I always have to write a minimum amount in these entries, or else the little nested table in which each entry sits won't fill out to the right and everything ends up looking arseways...which is an accurate description of how this page generally looks in IE. Is Netscape whore mise und stolz darauf. All IE-only people can go here. Pssst! Mike! NS 4.5 looks at your page and laughs! Laughs, I say!
Tuesday, January 09, 2001
My pal Jim is getting a Powerbook. Tax free. While not an Apple fan in any strong sense, I do realise that a 500MHz G3 would pound a 700MHz PIII into the ground. But that's offset by the weight, the shite battery life and the general lack of easily available (read: bootleggable) software. This will be the source of friendly debates for many months to come, involving some or all of these words. Yes, Dave, linking to your own pages is sad.
Monday, January 08, 2001
TMB has got herself into some real hot water this time. Very frightening article, all the same...
...what happens when the overly sensitive turn their attention to the Web? Will the Web become as diluted as our local dailies? At least broadcast and print journalists have the benefit of company lawyers and funding to provide a defense. What of the lone online writer, who has to bear the brunt of the frivolous lawsuit?
...what happens when the overly sensitive turn their attention to the Web? Will the Web become as diluted as our local dailies? At least broadcast and print journalists have the benefit of company lawyers and funding to provide a defense. What of the lone online writer, who has to bear the brunt of the frivolous lawsuit?
Blast and buggery! I've been looking around at some other blogs in the last couple of days, mainly the ones linked from one tomcosgrave.com, and I come across Kitsch Bitch. Nice page; click the "about" link and notice her use and, in particular, spelling of the term "verbal diahorrea" (sic). Oh, the shame...what must you have thought of me?
Sic(k) isn't the word. So now I have to change this page's title. To verbal diahorrea (sic). Obviously.
Sic(k) isn't the word. So now I have to change this page's title. To verbal diahorrea (sic). Obviously.
Holy shit. If you have Netscape and IE on your comp, fire up whichever of them isn't on, and then go to http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/, the World Wide Web Consortium's offical page on all things style-related. Note the differences? If even the W3C are allowing effectively different pages for different browsers, what hope have the rest of us?
IE 5.5 PC: red box on left
IE 5.0 Mac: red box hovers (rather groovily) on right
NS 6.0 PC: red box on right, obscuring text
NS 4.5 Mac: no red box at all!
Looks like we're back to the old //--> hide from old browsers days...
IE 5.5 PC: red box on left
IE 5.0 Mac: red box hovers (rather groovily) on right
NS 6.0 PC: red box on right, obscuring text
NS 4.5 Mac: no red box at all!
Looks like we're back to the old //--> hide from old browsers days...
Message from cliph@csd.dot-ie.com on ttyp5 at 00:41 ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ " helena links us! " " helena links us! " ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ EOF
Sunday, January 07, 2001
Remember that Dell (see link below)? Well suck on this. And they have a shop just down the road from me! Tomorrow I hope to walk in there and come back out clutching (for the benefit of those who didn't hit the link) a HP Omnibook: PIII 700MHz, 128MB RAM, 10GB HD, 14.1" screen...and an 8x DVD-ROM drive...for barely over IRP 2000. Oh yea, my pretties. Network cards can be bought later, Windows in English can be re-installed when I go home and I can put up with the keyboard, dammit! I just wanna watch The Matrix!
And that wan helena off netsoc linked here too. So I may as well return the compliment. /me waves. Honestly, the things I do for a better PageRank...
And that wan helena off netsoc linked here too. So I may as well return the compliment. /me waves. Honestly, the things I do for a better PageRank...
Thursday, January 04, 2001
Drinking, sleeping, socialising, shopping and generally experiencing real life has led me to neglect my poor weblog. I think it's significant that the last one I posted was on my first day back in Ireland, and that this will be my last before Germany. I fly out from Dublin at 7am tomorrow. Good news is that I may finally be getting that laptop, the conclusion of a mission begun over 2 years ago and interrupted by failure of a year and a summer spent in Tesco's. So we're happy-ish.
Ok, so I'm homesick! I wanna stay here! *whiiine* - the Dell'll keep me warm though :-)
Auf Wiederbloggen
Ok, so I'm homesick! I wanna stay here! *whiiine* - the Dell'll keep me warm though :-)
Auf Wiederbloggen
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