Uuuunnnngggggrrrrhhhh

I'm not well

I feel awful.

I’ve had a massive headache for the past 2 days and today, my stomache decides it wants to ponder venting it’s contents astern, or somewhere inbetween the pilothouse and the stern.

It really doesn’t help that I am having to debug serial issues again.

God I hate serial interfaces. Why oh why do manufacturers use them…? there are far better interfaces available. Ones that give feedback as to state and transmission errors… Ethernet for example.

So yes. I’m ill…

On the plus side, there’s 17 days between me and a holiday. I ...

Finally managed it!

Uploaded a load

I’ve finally managed to upload a shit load of piccies that were hanging around my desktop, laptop and on compact flash cards etc…

I’ve still got a shit load to do (1.2 gig at last count)... but I’ll do those as I get more time… lots of sorting needs doing.

You've got to be twisted...

... to twist with twisted.

So, I’m attempting to build a suitable RTOS for an internal project.

It’s part of a network management application and provisioning server that has to look at a variety of sources and information to be able to make a decision as to how to proceed, then once the decision has been made, needs to then inform the relevant components in the system, which are located in disparate locations. THe project is based in Python at the moment, because I’m comfortable with the speed and the amount of code I actually have to write compared with lower level ...

MySpace getting personal

... really personal

I have to laugh when I see articles like this

It seems MySpace are on a PR floosey with the whole “Partership” thing with Sentinel.

I’m already laughing my socks off and the feasability, or lack thereof, of such a project. Surely Sentinel must realise that it’s a dead end? Sure it may buy a brownie point with the technically inept, but those points will soon vapourise once someone, say, the media, clues them in on the fact that the whole process is so easily circumvented that it would be trivial for the slightly technically clueful vulture to ...

Keyboard manufacturers are cunts

No more sugar coating shit.

I’ve had enough.

This problem has only really been a niggle in the UK, but now that I’m living in spain it’s become a real problem.

Keyboards.

What the flying cuntskull fuck is wrong with keyboard manufacturers these days. They’re fucking over my productivity and I’m not impressed.

Why-oh-why are all the new keyboards that are being made now using the US keyboard layout with some swapsies for some keys? Why do I have to have a little enter key? What’s wrong with logically locating the backslash on the left side of the keyboard ...

Christmas Festivities

bah humbug

Christmas has never really held much sway in my book.

I used to be quite enthused by the whole thing, but these days, I’ve little time for it. In fact, the truth be told, I hate Christmas. It reminds me of a time which I would much rather forget.

It also doesn’t help that it’s no-longer about the family… It’s about buying presents for everyone. It’s about being “generous”. You’ve got kids on the play ground counting presents and besting everyone with how many presents they have. You’ve got parents, putting themselves into ...