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 :-)

Eh...hello
Another Wednesday, another quiz. Another cloudless sky, another afternoon in Schloßpark. Another Coke, another cigarette. Must go phone people and drag them out.

And I can now officially say that I know someone who knows someone who actually shagged a sheep.

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!

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.

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.