This post might even be controvertial, which is why I’ve been holding off putting it up. It’s been a work in progress for several weeks and I’m not sure how it will go down.

I feel like I’ve killed someone, maybe I have and I blacked it out, or did I not bother to and thats why I feel this way now. Maybe something inside me died, will, spirit, hope all come to mind. This has come about as a combination of several things. Compounded Negativity, working to live or living to work and even work expectation going above and beyond what can be reasonably expected. Now even my extra curricular activities are threatened by work. I seem to go from place to place and only seem to compound the problem rather than working towards a solution. Perhaps the solution will end up with blood on my hands.

Time is a problem. I either have too little time with too many things to do in it, or too little energy to do anything useful when I do have time. Since moving to perth 2.5 years ago I think I’ve achieved so few of my personal goals that it’s not worth using a counting system. The majority of my goals and aspirations have either been dumped or at least put on indefinite hold. Life is a chore.

Tangent change !

Approaching record smashing time. The uptime of ike and my snapgear passed 1 year of uptime a few weeks back and is only 1 month off the record set by wendy all those years ago of 433 days (ended due to the UPS failing it’s own self test, when mains power was on). In this year the gear has moved rooms, all without dropping a single packet thanks to clever planning and a trusty UPS. The irony is it’s the exact same UPS. Though it’s been modified since then.

I’ve finished watching Weird Science, and much more recently Farscape. Great shows, both of em. I have been watching both of them in the only way worth watching TV these days, on demand. I’ve also been chowing down on lots of movies and stuff.

My phone had no dialtone, thanks to remarkable service from everyone’s favourite phone company. It was fixed, but only after a few days of no service WHICH I STILL GOT CHARGED FOR. They have also screwed up several calls on my bills of late and I’m seriously considering taking further action if it continues.

In case anyone missed it (I did post it to popular lan sites); Microsoft published a guide for parents about learning leetspeak.

If anyone noticed I was a bit annoyed about how slow my file server panda was, not only throughput but even browsing directories was very slow. Well I fineally bit the bullet and reinstalled the OS drive in it. As everyone knows I’m such a Mandrake fan so I put Fedora core 3 on it. Panda went from being a fluke to get it to boot properly, slow to browse and generally annoying but tiny install (Mandrake) to a bloated as hell but it runs fast, browses fast and boots every time FC3 box. I was rather pleased, and very surprised to see the throughput max out the onboard 10/100 nic. Those Epia boards can pack some punch when running fine, even with software raid5. This isn’t the final stop though, there are moves afoot to improve it further, but that will necessitate spending money which is why I’m hesitating. Though my new case arrived so there might be progress soon.

I’m sure everyone saw the recent news reports about the raids on swiftel’s offices. As a swiftel (now People Telecom) customer I’m concerned about the legality of what was actually done especially considering the raids were conducted without police involvement. These raids seem more of a scare tactic than actually improving anything. Sure they did target a DC hub and a BT tracker site which was probably involved in dodgy stuff (I wouldn’t know because I didn’t know they even existed). My opinion is surely online tv and film delivery should be the entertainment industry’s holy grail. The consumer’s viewing habits could be recorded for better targetted advertising complete with demographic and location information to boot. Not to mention the near zero distribution costs (and if we used IPV6, multicasting !). If I was in the film and music industry I’d be trying to adopt a new business model that can survive into the future, rather than grasping at the remains of an old outdated model using scare tactics and legal threats. But what would I know really.

I recently got an iriver mp3 player. It’s uber. It has FM radio on it. Yay for me, I can now listen to Triple J at work.

Martian spring water is nearly on the market here.

We have a forced proxy at work, and if you hit it’s ip (internally der) you get this page. Scary.

Despite the date, this isn’t an april fools joke.

I can be googled, therefore I am.