The Age of the Disconnect is at an end...

We're back online as of 9.00 AM.

Giddyup.

Cómo me gusta la primavera blues...

Wow. That's an odd title.

Hell of a nice day, but moses I am feeling worn out.
Not easy to enjoy one's self when the job search becomes (at least in the mind) more and more vital with each passing day, and the results are less than stellar.

Ah, well. All things in time. O así espero.
On the upside, I did get out of the office for about an hour, doing necessary errands. Seriously.
Kicking it right here in the after work establishment, doing a bit of unwinding and Blackberry blogging, and maybe a wee bit of thinking.

Well, let's not get carried away.

On the playlist:
Rancid (tracks from ...And Out Come the Wolves, Life Won't Wait and Indestructible)
The Pogues (tracks from Hell's Ditch)
Ted Leo + Pharmacists (tracks from Hearts of Oak and Shake the Sheets)
Joy Division (tracks from Substance)
Pennywise (tracks from From the Ashes and an album whose name I cannot recall)
Manu Chao (tracks from the Live Album)
Ramones (tracks from the King Biscuit Flower Hour)
Bad Religion (tracks from The Empire Strikes First and the New America)
Eric Clapton (tracks from Crossroads)
Eagles Of Death Metal (tracks from Peace Love Death Metal)

Now *that* is some good times.

Cómo me gusta la primavera....

Viva primavera

Wow... It's been a pretty good week weather-wise.
Sitting out on the patio right now having a coffee, and waiting for the order to get here.

Windows Sharepoint Services is beginning to vex me, and vex me mightily at that. Trying to get this to run on a machine with IIS 6 and some tweaked socket pooling, *and* ip-specific host headers on every site is not as easy as one would think.

Hell, I cannot even get the admin vitrual server up and running.

I suspect I can make it work in the end, but I also suspect I'll be doing a fair amount of work with httpcfg again before this is done.

Oh, well. It could be worse; I could be bored...

The Doctor returns...

...and I didn't see it, likely because I was sitting above Yonge Street finishing a beer with some friends before heading out to the 360 for the Black Mountain show.

Hopefully some good samaritan taped it (provisional thanks in advance to Jeremy, Hannah and Hannah's mom), as I was interested in seeing how the Beeb handles the Doctor with an fx budget. The actual presence of an fx budget was probably why they chose the Autons as the first villians on the new series; plasticity is always a fun thing to see on screen.

If anyone has seen the new Dr. Who, comment on this post with your thoughts... thanks.

Rock and Roll (and KOTOR)

Just got in from the Black Mountain show. That was some good "Stoner Rock".
Elements of 60s and 70s rock and roll blended with other more modern influences (soem trainspotters maintain we heard a riff from Daft Punk's "Da Funk", as well as some Franz Ferdinand-influenced bits).
Honestly this band put on a good show, and, yea verily, did they rock in a most hardcore fashion..

Yeee... Two hours sleep last night (I'd like to thank Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic) plus the exertions of the day are now beginning to take their (not inconsiderable) toll.
Eyelids impossibly heavy, motor skills lacking... Consciousness fading....

A dreich morning; April showers of wet snow

Ach... It's one ugly morning out there. Thoughts of productivity are banished by this weather: fortunately we have season one of the Family Guy on DVD.

Hung out with my friend Brad last night for the first time in ages. Good to see him, fatherhood seems to agree with him. As does grabbing a couple of beers at Sneaky Dee's while seeing Pinch. Good band.

As it turns out, I can blog from the Blackberry. Well, if you are reading this then I can say yes, I can blog from the Blackberry. Otherwise I am just typing in vain.

We're using the crap weather as an excuse to geek out big time. I'm trying to blog from a mobile device, and Stef is hunting up ringtones. Ah, Saturday...

April Fools

Well...

We are in April and still looking for a new roommate.
We are also without cable or internet at the house right now, which is becoming somewhat frustrating. Hopefully Rogers and I can come to an understanding and they can begin to bill me for service soon...

I recently caved and bought a Blackberry... Telus Mobility's retention special was too good to pass up, so I ended up buying the 7510. Given that there is no net connection in the house currently this has been something of a boon as it means I can still read my email in the interim. I even tried blogging from it, but the browser couldn't find the submit link on the composition page.
Just as well. I'm already too geek for my own good anyhow.

So why am I blogging from my desk today? As it turns out, there was some bad media in the tape drive last night, so I am running an emergency backup run right now and watching it to make sure that it goes well so I can send it off to head office ASAP.
Fortunately this should be the last time I have to do this as the autoloader is scheduled to be repaired today, and for this I am extremely grateful.

I still haven't got around to reinstalling my machine with FreeBSD 5 yet... the lack of internet connection has slowed that initiative somewhat. I'll get around to it.

Slashdot's April Fools gags are stellar as always, as is Google's Google Gulp Beta page. Almost as good as the pigeons.

Good times, and geeks with too much time on their hands....