Chris’ Blog

(13:21:49) ***#### played waaay too much NWN2 last night O_O
(13:21:53) Me: lol
(13:21:58) ####: i had a dream about my Teifling hero :p
(13:22:15) Me: you sure you just weren’t still playing?
(13:22:40) ####: dude, she was naked.. that dont happen in NWN2 i doubt
(13:22:47) ####: oddly her horns dissapeared, but hey
(13:22:52) Me: erm
(13:23:02) Me: bash.org tbfh
(13:23:09) ####: LOOOL

… about this. Well more likely is I am just being too lazy. But it has been quite a while since I wrote anything of much substance up here, currently I am unable to sleep which sucks somewhat. I’ve been very busy as of late, I’ve finished my quite frankly ludicrous 5 week “Easter” “break” where I did not much but work, bum around, and drove places. So I am back at the grindstone that is university, ploughing through coursework at such a rate I guess I could describe as “relaxed” but that maybe pushing definition boundaries. I’m looking forward to next week when the last of my coursework is handed in and I am free to revise for exams, oh heck!

I’ve had a new desktop for the latter part of April inspired by a trip to Weston’s Cider of Much Marcle, Herefordshire over me holiday.

I am moving towards a landmark on last.fm, 100 000 tracks played. Not decided what will be my 100 000th track hopefully I don’t go over it by mistake with something non-worthy.

I leave you with the thought, why would a dairy company write “Allergy information: contains milk” on the side of a bottle of milk? Surely that is the whole idea? Or maybe I am missing something…

Once again me and my dad went to Donington Castle, home of rock in England and more (or less) importantly hosts an annual Lotus event. I took a few photos with the camera whilst we were there, as usual they can be found in my gallery.

Donington Meal (28^th March) and Donington (29^th March).

(12:46:35) Arthur: I write a “perfect Englisch”
(12:46:38) Arthur: *English

The Telegraph ran an article on the 100 most beautiful cars as rated by their readers, I do agree with some of their opinions but not all.

(08:23:11) Me: dude
(08:23:43) Me: we’ve been on keyboard websites for nearly 45 mins xD
(08:23:52) Squire James: sad eh?
(08:24:01) Me: maybe xD

Look I found an extra day!

… gone senile.

So it is the other side of the festive period and I am slightly better for it, financially. Next pay day should be even better, worked over 70 hours plus in 2 1/2 weeks. I bought myself a new phone over Christmas, it is a Nokia 3110c, and I got it for cheap using staff discount - not complaining. I’ve filled it up with a 2GB SanDisk MicroSD card from the ever fantastic SVP and now use it as my music player as well.

I started up a little project after I got a new phone with the basic aim to write a basic webmail client in PHP optimised for portable devices, its untitled so far. But it is very light on resources making use of PHP 5 with the IMAP Extension, and memcached for caching of IMAP data. I will make the source available via Subversion soon enough.

Over the holidays I have just had a made some serious changes to my server configuration, doing away with my reliance on Linux-VServer because it is just not stable enough. One of the instances crashes it generally will not sort itself out in a reasonable time without a reboot of the entire host, what I was trying to avoid. So instead I have moved most stuff back onto sandman proper now, the exceptions are a couple of things which need Debian Testing which still run on a VServer host. I hope to remove the need for these and then remove VServer totally and install OpenVZ which appears to be much more robust.

I am now using Lighttpd to serve the bulk of my web content because it has much lower resource usage than Apache and is fairly extensible and customisable, certainly more so than Apache until I discovered mod_macro. It does have some draw backs to Apache, like I cannot do PAM authentication or run Subversion without piggy backing it through Apache and certain configuration drawbacks. But considering the only VHost that really needs PAM authentication is my Subversion repository and that cannot move away from Apache I think I am okay.

Merry humbug to everyone who believes that some bloke called Jesus was born 2007 years ago today, Merry Christmas to others who joins in the madness just because its ‘easier’ that way. Christmas is overly commercialised nowadays and has lost its religious meaning, boo-hoo. Any how it is two years since I started this little blog as a trash can for the crap that accumulates in my head, although apparently some of it is useful to others. Enjoy the festive period, as it means a lack of work and academia for some variable period, in my case 4 weeks. *grins*