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October 31st, 2008 6:00
Heading off to Sydney today. Actually, Zaubi already left at 5AM, has to give a talk at some uni or other, and I’ll be heading out after work today. Should be fun – I haven’t been to Sydney is a while, the weather is nice, tomorrow’s the first of the month so there will be a lot of outdoor markets on. Also a lot of places to go for live jazz so that is exciting. Zaubi’s friend/workmate will be looking after the house & pets as usual. Very helpful guy, that!
Got only 3 hours of sleep last night but it hasn’t hit me yet. I’m sure that I’ll crash about halfway through the day when I’m supposed to be doing something useful… Still, it’s nice to be up at 4:45 AM when the sun is just rising and the silence of morning is only broken by twittering birds. Am dfebating whether or not to go into work early too… Hmm.
October 28th, 2008 23:53
I find it extremely entertaining that the moment I changed my Facebook profile picture from one of my face, to one where I am in a dress, but not looking at the camera, I am getting dozens of hits from people via ‘Are You Interested’, the application which I do not understand how/why I have it (nor how to uninstall it), though I’m happy to announce it no longer thinks I am a lesbian.
Ergo, perhaps I should put a bag on my head and walk around in a dress all the time. Then would I become magically and tremendously popular?
October 28th, 2008 23:07
There are two people in the world in front of whom I consistently act the ass. This never happened until I came here. I can’t work out if I am just becoming stupider, or just plain unlucky because the two people that bring out the stupid in me both happen to be here in Brissie. It’s not their fault, it’s mine, but I don’t know how/why. Consistently, I am doing something vaguely simpleminded when we interact. One of them is a woman I sometimes do contract work for (this is bad, as she pays me) and the other is Zaubi’s ex trombone instructor, aka CTG, with whom I used to play orchestra. Inevitably I read emails wrong, ask questions that have already been answered, walk into things, become unable to figure out how doors open, get lost, shove half a muffin into my mouth right before they speak to me so I can’t do anything but mumble and choke as they ask me questions (why do people do that??)… etc. etc. etc….
Yesterday I was doing some work for a guy that the woman had put me in touch with, and I found out he had only 100MB storage space on his hosting account, so, stupidly, I said (well, wrote in email) something to the effect of "that’s the tiniest hosting account ever!" Turns out the woman I was doing the contracting for, who had put me onto the guy’s project, was in fact his host! Man. How stupid can you (er, I, that is) be? I felt so dumb. She wasn’t too happy with me, understandably. What possessed me to say such a thing? I know how much telecom stuff sucks here in Oz… nothing like the States. I should have left my opinion out of it. And I NEVER do things like that. It’s just because somehow, Kirilisa got hit with the stupid stick again.
Does anyone else have this problem?
October 25th, 2008 23:58
Whew, concert went well I think, better than last year, but unfortunately turnout was worse. Then again, last year we had two performances, and this year only one! I’m sorry it’s over now, I really love these Philanthropic rehearsals. But only 6 weeks per year. Aw. CTG was there playing ahahahahahahaha. Great repertoire. Good players. Had a grand old time, hand only fell apart once or twice. Good stand partner. Nice hall. wENT out to the pub afterwartds for chips and wine and conversation. Was fun.
how is it two little glasses of wine over 1.5 hours takes me out? Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
<lurch>
October 23rd, 2008 18:20
Wow. I am incredibly thankful. I just discovered the Facebook ‘Ignore All’ button.
Ubuntu network problems continue. Fury at cheap-domainregistration.com’s attempts to cheat me continues. Work goes. Building a pretty slick new website.
Playing concert this Saturday. Should be good: awesome repertoire. Not enough rehearsals for this concert though. Having excess of rehearsals in general: Tuesday night, Wednesday night, Saturday afternoon, plus inevitably some kind of gig on Saturday or Sunday or something. And have to squash in actual practising too  Maybe playing with three groups is too much. Ah well. After Saturday it will only be two.
Ugh. Think brain is falling out.
October 20th, 2008 22:09
I have a mysterious problem. It is driving me crazy.
When I try to upload something to my web server (shared hosting), or when I access Joomla administrator and try to save an article, the connection drops and the thing can’t be saved/uploaded. Resuming doesn’t help. For example, uploading via FTP it creates an empty file, then drops the connection, then reconnects… ad nauseum. Saving Joomla articles results in hanigng for a long time and then it asks if I would like to open or save index.php. i.e. dropped coennction during save.
Mystery is: this happens ONLY from my house, ONLY in Ubuntu linux, and ONLY with this hosting service (hostgator). If I do it from work or using Windows, it works fine, and FTPing anywhere else from home & ubuntu, or editing Joomla sites not on hostgator, also works fine.
Moreover it is not machine or browser dependant. I tried it here at home on 3 different ubuntu machines on both Firefox and Opera. I have tried it with GUI FTP, command line ftp, SCP, cpanel (browser upload). I can SSH in and create files etc. no problem. Moreover, 1.5 weeks ago uploading via FTP and saving Joomla stuff worked fine. And I haven’t changed anything.
Does anyone know what could be causing this problem? I may go insane. What am I missing?
October 19th, 2008 23:18
There is a lot of good fodder on Youtube about Meredith Monk.
Why did I never search before?!
October 17th, 2008 18:38
Every night about this time I start hearing these splattery thunks outside the window. Look out, can’t see anything. After a lot of holding my breath and squinting I’ve finally realized that there are giant fat winged bugs flinging themselves at the window.
Creepy as. (teehee!) Yuk.
Have been mucking about on Facebook recently and realized that Scrabulous is no more. How can this be!? Scrabulous was the only redeeming quality Facebook had (aside from providing the ability to spy on long-lost acquaintences).
Am angry at my hosting company, Hostgator. I’ve been a client of theirs for 2-3 years, I run about 12 websites there. They’ve always been good: excellent ratings, fast on the support, allow SSH, huge amounts of server space, unlimited everything, PHP5, etc. But lately they have been the suck from a slowness/crashing/dropped connection point of view. And moreover, when I asked them why I had an ancient version of cpanel they quickly upgraded it and LIED about it. They LIED. They told me I had had the newer version, but the skin was just different, which was a load of crap, as I SAW the version number displayed, which is why I had asked in the first place!
Bleeeegh. Why in the heck would you LIE about a cpanel version? Might as well admit it was old, do the upgrade, and get brownie points for having good tech support. Why lie????
October 17th, 2008 1:10
Over the weekend, C & L were both running around screaming "we’re beached AS!" every time we managed to beach ourselves. I had no idea what they were talking about, until they sent me this movie.
Watched this about 4 times and just laughed. It’s completely random. Not even technically funny. But for some reason, this is exactly the sort of thing I find hilarious. I think I’ll buy a shirt.
Have been scratching blasted sand fly bites until I’m bleeding out both ankles. I read once that if you submerge something that itches in extremely hot water, it will stop itching.
ergo, I should boil my feet.
October 16th, 2008 9:05
Wow, I’m feeling super annoyed with all things internet right
now.
Trying to work out if this ping.fm thing is cool or not.
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