29/04/2002-30/04/2002 @02:47:23 ^03:22:05

Yeah I'm still here

I just had other stuff to do this weekend. Friend of mine has lost his mum. Was providing support for those affected by this.

I've still got this big list of things to write an update about. Ooh, suspense! I can't be arsed to write it though, but if I don't do them soon, they'll be old and out of date... Damnit...

I managed to avoid IRC today. No offence to the usual denizens but as I did mention I think it causes me "to probably WASTE ANOTHER DAMN EVENING typing into this program instead of DOING SOMETHING USEFUL" ["this program" being xchat]

Random Doom-related note: Doom Underground has finally updated again, with a review of Alien Vendetta. The guy who writes this site writes reviews that remind me of the ones I wrote (and never published) in 2000. Also I wish I knew what makes AV the largest WAD file ever. It's over twice the size of the next largest I currently have.

24/04/2002-25/04/2002 @02:11:55 ^04:06:04

More of the usual rubbish

And finally Once again I seem to be unable to do an update of decent length. One day I'll be motivated again to write a proper thing. It'd probably help if I didn't always end up doing these things at 3am.

23/04/2002-24/04/2002 @04:03:52 ^04:28:29

The usual poxy update where I don't really say anything

It would seem I have spent my entire evening

PS If you're really nice to me I'll post some quotes:-)

PPS Don't forget about update-blog

21/04/2002-22/04/2002 @01:03:55 ^02:20:21

update-blog, and why I don't like developing software in public

Well, there it is, you vultures, update-blog. I've bodged the archiving thing just to work very simply and highly specifically to the way I've got the site written already. It works - I mean, you can see it's worked. Hence, I can release it around the time I said I would, with the functionality I said it would have. Therefore it's completely undocumented and uncustomisable. You'll have to stare at it for ages to see how it works. This is pre-alpha crap, baby.

You can tell I'm not happy. I don't think it's ready. In fact I might just take it off again in a couple of days, it's that bad. It's the whole thing about developing software in public. Why must I feel like I have a responsibility to anyone else over something that is, after all, my (and only my) hobby project? I'm not being paid or getting degree credit or whatever! It's a hobby!!

This, by the way, is related to the reason why I'm so reluctant to get involved with Rutherford's idea to write an audio sequencer for GNU/Linux. This would be a very large project of which I would be responsible for certain parts. Actual real people would be relying on me. No. I don't need that. I won't get involved, it's better than be plagued by suspicions of letting people down. This is also why I didn't do the clubs and societies thing while I was at the university.

PS Since the page has been archived the sunset picture and the triv.org.uk homepage stuff have been removed. Sorry, I told you so!

The desk that my computers are on

In my room, there is a long white work surface on which the computers sit. Underneath, there used to be an old table, horribly low, with an evil shin-cracking crosspiece. Spent yesterday afternoon replacing this table with a better one. I needed to completely dismantle and rebuild the setup, but I think it was worth it... except I'm probably going to have to do the whole thing again...(!) The heights of this new table, and the other supports of the work surface, are all slightly different. I haven't got the padding quite correct, so I'll need to take it all off again and fix that. Damn.

Friday was my cousinish's(*) birthday

We thought we'd be going to his house but he came to mine instead. This was funny, because we get on well. Talked about stuff as wide-ranging as girls and spinning cushions on your finger. His taste in music continues to be good - in fact, we tried to make a record... That's two cousins I've got with cool tastes in music, shame the rest of the world isn't like that, but there you go.

(*)Cousinish: Well, his mum is my cousin. Therefore to me he's some daft long thing like my "first cousin once removed". I can't be bothered to say this, so we're cousinishes. (He's my cousin. Ish. Sort of. You know.)

Still any other business?

Yes. There's still some stuff I could write about here. I've got a list of stuff from the past few days that could go in an update. A few minutes ago I was feeling like I wanted to do them, but you know how the right music can really cheer you up...

19/04/2002-20/04/2002 @02:24:43 ^02:53:39

Possible downtime

I'll just quote the mail:

It is quite likely that there will be intermittent interruption to the interactive and Internet services provided by maxwell.triv.org.uk over the next few days/weeks.

Consider yourself warned, oh dear readers.

Any other business?

There's tons of stuff I could write about but I can't be arsed right now - see you soon:-)

17/04/2002-18/04/2002 @02:30:11 ^03:00:15

Cobblers gobblers

16/04/2002-17/04/2002 @02:13:14 ^03:33:59

Actually managed to make some record today

I dunno, I was just messing about. I'd loaded the sequencer to try and reconstruct a bit of track I'd heard - I couldn't work out how it had been put together. I slung a load of samples into the thing, coded them up, put them together and they worked really well!

I kept it, and stuck some bass on it, and blah blah blah I've got this evil downtempo breaks record that's dark like a tune you'd get at a garage night where people get shot:-) It uses snippets of that LibertyX remix competition vocal sample and, as I promised I'd make a track with this name, is called technical difficulties (look back to (9,10)/3/2002)

PS this impulsive development probably means yet another delay in the release of update-blog. Oh well. You lot'll never use it anyway:-)

My evil tracks encoding plan works! Well, kinda.

Following on: After working on said record I decided to investigate the Mad Plan For Releasing MP3s as it is known. This involved both hardware and software; RISC OS, and the ARM processors on which it runs, are not known for floating point support:-) A better solution was needed. How about this gorgeous box with its 800MHz Duron processor?? Today we managed to get the hardware side to work:-)

The headphone socket on my old A3010 (with the tracking stuff on) is and always has been connected to the AUX input on my stereo so I can use it as a sound monitor. Today I connected the line out on the stereo to the line in on the soundcard in my Linux box. This worked beautifully - I found, by using sox I could quite happily sample stuff by (with gorgeous long horrible command lines like sox -t ossdsp -r 44100 -w -s -c2 /dev/dsp sample.wav :-) )

But I needed an encoder. I chose the most obvious one I could think of, that is Lame (see below) But I couldn't get the right command line for this. I'd get segfaults from my .wav input files and white noise from my raw data input files. Oh well - I'll keep trying...

Lame 3.92 released - so I built it for Debian:-)

Yeah, go over to Lame's homepage or the mirror and follow the download links, or click here. The real reason I'm posting this is to say how I built it as a Debian package. (sadly it'll never go into the archive - it's not free enough)

Inside the source tarball there is a debian subdirectory. This is good - most of the setup has been done already:-) What I found I needed to do was edit the changelog file to bring the version number up to date (this is important - it reads this to make up the package name) I also found I had to make the file "rules" executable.

Now what you do is, you install a few packages to build the thing with. Stuff like dpkg-dev, debhelper, maybe dh-make (I forget) and some stuff needed to actually compile lame with (according to the source package Build-Depends: line, anyway); I had to install a thing called NASM. Once you've got all this, and fakeroot and the usual stuff you build kernels with, you do dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc in the top level of the source. It should build a load of packages in the parent directory - you can install them with dpkg -i.

Or scratch all this and use Ogg Vorbis. Yeah I know! What the hell is Ogg Vorbis?!:-)

15/04/2002-16/04/2002 @00:39:23 ^01:39:51

Yet more about ease of pulling among the genders

So I got "e-yelled at" again today about being sexist, for my opinion that girls pull more easily than boys. I still don't think it's sexist, and neither do most people who've offered me their opinion. I still think that a girl who wants to pull can just go out and wait for the offers to roll in, and I still think that a guy who wants to pull has to go out and make all the effort, that is, start the conversation, offer to buy her a drink, or be a little more direct (if that's your thing)

I agree that confidence comes into it a lot. The act of chatting a girl up needs a lot of confidence (which, as you might expect, I personally don't feel I have; I mean how else could this topic have been raised in my mind, other than from thinking "why don't I pull as much as some other people?") It helps to be utterly convinced beforehand that something is going to happen between you and someone you know, because you go in and act like it's going to happen regardless and this moves the whole thing on. The lady gets swept up in it. But personally I need a hell of a lot of evidence here. This can a long time to accumulate.

Attractiveness is also said to play a part. Well, obviously. But there's a problem. Girls are better at being attractive. It can't have escaped your notice, and I'm not just saying this because I'm a bloke. Girls have nicer bodies: smoother skin, better shape, no ugly dangly bits etc. Furthermore, in general girls take much more time and effort over their appearance: clothes, makeup etc. They can. The products are available. Indeed, society kind of pushes them in that direction anyway...

But I digress. The point is, blokes can't really make themselves more attractive. If you're ugly, you're doomed. Indeed if you think you're ugly, you're doomed. That's back to the confidence thing, though - it helps if you feel sexy in yourself.

But back to my original point. Girls can go out, and they will get offers. Guys won't, unless they're very lucky (e.g. obviously rich, look like pop stars, or whatever) - instead, they have to make the offers. Really confident girls might make offers - but most won't. Really confident guys will make (many:-) ) offers, and some might be accepted. But for those of us who don't have that smug self-assurance, we're doomed to a life of surfing for porn.

Television: huge dilemma!!

Normally on a Monday night I'd watch the thing with Billy Connelly in it, because he's really funny. But tonight there was this thing on the other side about lesbian sex! How could I miss that?? It's good research (yeah, yeah, laugh all you want) A bunch of girls talking about how they like to be screwed; useful information, you know?? But I could hardly go downstairs and record one of them - what would I have said to my mum? "Hi, Ros, can I tape this programme on the other side about women screwing each other"...

PS I was quite pleased with myself, they did this bit where they got 3 lesbians to each look at and talk to 3 random women and they had to pick out the one who was gay; I got two out of three correct. I'm quite good at that sort of thing, or at least I'd like to believe I am:-)

14/04/2002-15/04/2002 @01:27:50 ^02:06:41

Blah blah why the hell does every update need a title anyway?

14/04/2002 @05:05:38 ^05:24:58

Should do update; really can't be arsed

Hi, it's 4am and I'm really, really annoyed for some reason. I don't know why. Some guesses:

I mean what's the point. I'd just not go to bed but I'm so uncomfortable sitting at this bloody desk I don't think I could stay here any more. I've got some more to say about that allegedly sexist thing from the other day but it will have to wait. Bye bye bye bye bye.

11/04/2002-12/04/2002 @03:28:58 ^03:57:37

Hello, Felix!

This update is especially for you! Now stop whinging when I don't write anything:-) The reason I didn't update yesterday was that update-blog was being rewritten. I'm sure you'll be pleased to hear that said rewrite is now complete, and functionality has been restored!

Although at the moment it doesn't do much more than it did before, but now its internal workings are such that it is possible to write the archiving code. Hence I might be able to beta-release it when I said I would (sometime next week, I don't know exactly when - let's hope for the weekend!!:-) )

Gubbins updated

Andys well duff homepage has been updated again. At last. Interesting choice of distribution, sir, given all the trouble Mr. Heywood has had with it...

Is this sexist?

Am I sexist to think that girls have a much easier time of pulling people than blokes do? Or, more precisely, is the following "sexist bollocks"?:

Girls meet more people because guys come up to them. We have to put the effort in, you get the choice. This sucks.

Or is it the case that the same effort is put in by both genders, but girls are more likely to get a positive reaction out of the man they're flirting with, because "all men are sex-mad wankers"? Tell me!

09/04/2002-10/04/2002 @01:48:36 ^01:54:27

I said I'd post this homepage thing

Go here. It'll be deleted the next time this site gets archived, along with the sunset picture.

Yes. I am obsessed with sunsets. And this is all you're getting for today. Good night.

08/04/2002-09/04/2002 @04:15:27 ^04:41:39

Threshold Points: When Does A New Day Begin, Anyway?

See that date above? See how there's two of them? In today's second update, let me tell you a story...

Long ago, there was a time when I'd actually be asleep before midnight. But as I got older, it began to be the case where I'd be still up after the clock had struck twelve. Nothing brought this change into sharper relief than in 1996, when my mum and I moved out of my dad's house. No longer living with a man both accustomed to early rising and retiring, and such a light sleeper that you couldn't do anything that wouldn't wake him up, my day quickly shifted several hours forward.

This came with difficulties, not least getting up for school in the mornings. But a major one was what to do about my diary and so forth. If I did something after midnight, did that count as today, or tommorrow? Well, it was always counted as "today", as I wrote my diary last thing at night before going to bed. But there were other troubles too, for example, I wrote a program that made my Risc PC log when it was switched on or off, and it put blank lines between days. But when could we be sure a new day started?

The solution hit me later. Redefine midnight. More specifically, invent a new "start of day" concept, called the Threshold Point. This was the time that I'd most likely be asleep, so it would be a new day when I woke up. In 1996, in fact on 3/11/1996, this was chosen to be 05:00.00. This has held up, most of the time; out of five and a half years of life, it can't have been much more than two dozen occasions since have I been awake at 5am.

Therefore, by my reckoning, right now, at half three, it's actually still the eighth. But when you're thinking more accurately than to the nearest day, it looks weird: you'd have 8/4/2002 02:00.00 actually after 8/4/2002 22:00.00, for example.

Hence the small modification to update-blog - if it's after midnight but before the threshold point when an entry is added, it inserts two dates into the title, because depending on how you look at it, it could be today, or it could be tomorrow, at the same time.

You get me??

08/04/2002-09/04/2002 @02:33:08 ^03:38:30

Let's do another list

I like lists. Bullet points are good. Plus it means I'm less likely to get deep on some point or other, because I know they have to be short.

That's all for today. Not very interesting, was it... I'll try harder to get myself really upset about something tomorrow, so I can write an update that doesn't bore the pants off'f you.

07/04/2002-08/04/2002 @03:30:57 ^04:37:32

These lists aren't as common as I thought they'd be

So I'm going to do another one. Lots of small stuff, don't warrant proper <h2>s, you know the deal.

(*)&(**) Actually, these items probably deserved headings, oh well. In fact this just deteriorated into another whinge, yeah. Oh, well, it'll give someone a laugh on Monday morning at work, with any luck. If I actually get any hits, that is...

06/04/2002-07/04/2002 @01:38:11 ^04:10:51

Foood

Yeah so remember I said earlier I was hungry? I was... I had about twice as much dinner as usual. I didn't feel stuffed at all. A while later, I decided to have the lunch I hadn't had earlier. Even if I keep this up, I doubt it will make me any fatter; I'll still sound like a hollow wooden box if you tap me on the chest.

Why didn't I have lunch earlier? Given the time I got up, and not being bothered to make lunch at lunchtime, I had breakfast at lunchtime instead. Yes, it was breakfast. It was cereal. In fact it was branflakes, heaped with a quantity of sugar so great that if Homer Simpson found it on a roadside he'd steal it and try to sell it.

Potential traffic increase

At last, we've been trawled by Google. crawl3.googlebot.com, 216.239.46.76 appeared in the httpd logs. Hooray! Might get some more hits now!

Another source of inspiration

No, I haven't done the final box on the form;-) Apparently another of the blogs that inspired me to do this one has reappeared. This one is a porn site as well, so no wonder it gets so many hits. Although I doubt I'll ever post pictures, I might do "link of the day"...;-)

Actually you know what? I am going to post a link. This is a picture of Sarah Michelle Gellar, with a friend. The reason I'm posting this it because I want to know who the other one is. Answers to the usual address.

Drunk and Disorderly

Here's a post on AAW. I think its author is a bit pissed. What do you think?

I'm not pissed. It's Saturday night, but I'm not pissed. I made one of ROB'S HOMEMADE ALCOPOPS but that was all. I'm not drinking alone, you know. My mum's somewhere in the house.

ROB'S HOMEMADE ALCOPOPS: Put some sort of exotic-flavoured cordial in a glass e.g. pink grapefruit, tropical fruits, peach and apricot, whatever. Fill it up with cider. Delicious - but if you make it in a bottle and take it to a party, BE CAREFUL HOW YOU OPEN IT.

06/04/2002 @17:39:33 ^19:15:56

Only one box left!

Inspiration struck: I've actually managed to write something that I don't hate for one of the two remaining boxes on my DC form. First actual change for like two months..!

I'm underweight!!

So my dad comes round this afternoon and, for various reasons I won't bore you with, he brings the bathroom scales from his house. So, let's use them: turns out I'm eleven stones, four pounds, that's 158lb, or about 71kg. I was shocked! The last time I weighed myself (which was years ago, admittedly) I was twelve and a half stones! I wondered, does this mean I'm underweight?

So I looked around for a bit, I vaguely remembered there being this guideline formula involving squaring your height or something, and found this page which basically jogged my memory. You do:

(weight in kilograms)/(height in metres squared)

I'm about six foot three or four (believe it or not, I think I'm quite short, you should see my cousin...) but I got a tape measure to check, and arrived at the result of being 1.92m tall, so we get a score of, um, about nineteen and a half. The range is supposed to be twenty to twenty-five, so I am actually underweight.

Right now, I'm hungry, so let's kill two birds with one stone...

05/04/2002-06/04/2002 @03:41:53 ^04:11:40

"Two Topics Of Conversation"

Yep - another update about blah computer blah. Indeed, more crap about kernels. But all I'm going to say is I've recompiled my 2.4.18 source loads of times today, tweaking various options and stuff; I'm not going to say what I did or why, I mean, who cares?

I did however manage to hack the source for the ACPI daemon package acpid to set up log rotation using logrotate. It built. It installed. WHO RUNS T'INGS?!?:-)

Oh yeah, if you're wondering what the second conversation topic is, well, guess...

Simon's having his party like *right now*

Yeah, you remember one of the things I was stressing about travelling to? No, I never did build up enough wossname to actually go. Oh well. I wonder what I missed. With any luck the girl he likes actually turned up and stuff happened. I certainly hope it did.

Speaking of "stuff happening"

It seems everyone's getting themselves sorted out in that department right now. I mean, Elliot, another friend of mine, has just met someone who I think sounds like his absolute fantasy. The phrase "so turned on that it hurts" was used. It's all good.

It is all good. What can I say? It's springtime, new life is beginning, and blah. Everyone starts getting randy, well, more randy. Which reminds me: Sarah, hurry up and come back to Coventry!!!

(You were wondering what the second topic was...)

04/04/2002-05/04/2002 @02:54:48 ^05:14:07

My stupid IRC bot is being shelved for the moment

Hmm. I think it's actually too ambitious a project at this stage. I don't know enough about perl in general, yet. I'll continue to screw with other stuff instead, like update-blog, in the meantime. Don't run before you can walk.

The last of the four

...yeah, there are no more extra drum and bass shows. Oh, well. They were really good. Digital Nation were very cool, I mean, being Bad Company doing their thing live, I thought it'd be all dark heavy stuff but they had some nice chords and whatnot going there, yeah, sweet.

Found ACPI! (see the last update, "Linux Boxes")

You have to enable CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL a.k.a. "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers". I found this eventually, by looking in arch/i386/config.in. This was after I went and used Simon's fast connection to download source for 2.4.16-18, and see if you got the option in make menuconfig there. I think this is a bit of a documentation omission, really...

As for CONFIG_PPP_FILTER it's a similar thing, you have to set CONFIG_FILTER as well. It needed lots of hunting round the kernel-source-2.4.18 archive, using grep.

Seems the only reason I wrote this was to get as many <tt></tt> pairs into one paragraph;-)

Apologies to all on #warwick this evening

...But please stop telling me to sort my life out and get the form sent and have job interviews and stuff. It only depresses me, because it causes my brain to whinge, and I don't like whinging directly at people. This is what I have this page for, I can say stuff and no-one has to listen. I don't think I have the right to whinge at people to whom I'm talking. Whatever I'm on about, it's not their problem, why should they have to listen to it?

Isn't it typical... I was in a good mood this evening, until this happened... I'd got some funny email, lots to reply to... and they've started repeating season 2 of Buffy... I mean, it was all good, up until then, you know... I replied really harshly to some mail from a couple of people (you undoubtably know who you are), I'm so sorry...

04/04/2002 @23:33:29 ^00:08:57

Black Coffee!!

I feel weird, I've been drinking black coffee and now I feel really really spaced out and stuff. I feel really tired, but alert at the same time, I dunno, it's pretty cool though!!

The doorbell rings...

...so what do you do? Answer it? Not me! Well, round here it's always people selling stuff, especially during the day. The way to tell is if they hang around, then it must be important:-)

I usually look out the window and see who it is. If it's my dad I can tell. If it's the electricity board they'll stick a card through the door. Otherwise it's someone selling something, and I'll just wait for them to go away because if there's one thing that pisses me off it's having to deal with pushy sales people. I wish I was more assertive and could get rid of them, but it's easier just to ignore them.

Linux Boxes

Well I've installed a 2.4 kernel at last and it hasn't crashed yet, although there's weirdness with configuring it - make menuconfig doesn't have any ACPI options, when dialling up I get this message kernel does not support PPP filtering but I'll be damned if I can find CONFIG_PPP_FILTER in the menus, ...

Also I solved the problem with apm and anacron, in that if you leave your computer on but apm-suspend it overnight, anacron doesn't get run; if the thing was switched off, anacron would be run by the bootup the next day. The solution was to stick a thing in apm's config scripts that runs anacron when the system is resumed after a suspend. anacron won't run anything unless its datestamps tell it it can, so it'll just immediately exit after a quick suspend during the day.

By the way I'm utterly stumped about the whole GNOME thing on Rutherford's computer. It just doesn't make sense, and I don't know how to fix it.

03/04/2002-04/04/2002 @03:40:32 ^04:22:46

More crap with perl

How to annoy people in an IRC channel: make the world's dumbest bot. For example:

--> cstats (rjy@bts-0322.dialup.zetnet.co.uk) has joined #warwick
     <RjY> this is perl baby:-)
  <cstats> who said that?
     <RjY> go on, say something
  <cstats> who said that?
         * debecca sighs
 <debecca> OK, I am saying something
  <cstats> who said that?
 <debecca> Me you thick shit
   <i124q> sweet!!
  <cstats> who said that?
  <cstats> who said that?
 <debecca> Do you do anything else
  <cstats> who said that?
 <debecca> Oh ffs
  <cstats> who said that?
 <debecca> My program was better
  <cstats> who said that?
 <debecca> And less annoying
  <cstats> who said that?
   <i124q> i'm collapsing with laughter
  <cstats> who said that?
<-- cstats has quit (Read error: EOF from client)

Guess why it has the name that it has, and you'll know absolutely everything I have planned for this little thing;-)

Ctodseers 2002

I shouldn't post this because it could be seen as insensitive, but... on the other hand it might be seen as funny, and I believe it certainly will be in the fullness of time, so... you know.

I think we're witness here to an event that can only be known as ctodseers 2002. Just go see AAW. You'll know which post(*) I'm on about, especially if you compare it to the original.

See what I mean..? (......LUVOO!!)

(*)This link might not work: at this time the post hasn't actually propagated to Google yet; I guessed the URL.

03/04/2002-04/04/2002 @00:45:54 ^00:56:51

I want to do an update that's not about computers!!

See the last three or four updates have been about nothing but computers! You'd think I was obsessed, or something..!

Well, what could it be about? Sleep? Yeah, why not. I got shouted at today for being asleep too much. I suppose my mum had a fair point. Oh well. Yes, as you might expect I still haven't got my life sorted out. I received the comment:

"GET YER FORM SENT OFF!"

via email today.

No, it can't be helped - computers have to be mentioned!

I'm seeing a lot of interest in update-blog, and it's not even very good, I mean, it's not anything cool, like a CGI script. Oh well.

Look, I'll stick it up here once the archive functionality is written, okay? That's on the feature list. I say, pester me about it if it's not here within two weeks (yes I know that's ages, but I work slowly, okay?)

02/04/2002-03/04/2002 @01:47:02 ^02:18:49

Destroying boxes

You may remember from 25/3/2002 that it's just gone past being six months since I built this computer. Today, I finally got round to getting rid of the boxes it all came in; we'd kept them for ages in case returns were found to be necessary. So I had a lot of fun ripping all this cardboard up as manically as I could;-)

My new home page design for triv.org.uk, again

I finished my crappy design and stuck it somewhere (not telling you where, yet:-) ) and asked for comments. Memorable ones so far have included:

update-blog, yet again

It seems to be getting a fair amount of interest from people who want to at least see it. Well, I shall probably post it here once I'm happy with it.

Uptimes

It seems that if you APM-suspend your system (as opposed to powering it off completely, before you go to bed) your uptime stops increasing. Oh well, who cares about huge uptimes anyway?!

Now I've got source for the Linux kernel 2.4.18, so I might be able to use ACPI instead. Which might be good.

01/04/2002-02/04/2002 @04:13:41 ^04:33:13

Well that's been an interesting day for sure!

Last night I got like one hour's sleep. I don't know why, I didn't think I'd had that much of a nap the previous afternoon! Eventually I dozed off, only to be woken by the usual round of extremely unpleasant dreams an hour later. Oh well. So you'd think I'd have been like a zombie today.

Well, you'd be wrong:-) I've basically finished my design for the web host front page; the graphics are done, just a few bits of HTML to write and validate. I'd say what it looked like but I don't want to spoil it;-)

PS As you can see I'm still playing with the exact format in which update-blog adds entries. Tell me what you think, damnit:-)

PPS Have you noticed I've done two separate updates today? Can you see now why I wanted an update time as well as a date?!?:-)

More #warwick stuff

Seem to have spent the entirety of the past week in that damned IRC channel. Oh well. It's fun;-) Tonight however seemed to be ruled by people prodding bisc into calculating love matches and nickname lameness ratings; real conversation included the usual round of yadda about computers e.g. this post about who'll maintain Linux in the future.

Oh yeah, and people on at me about getting my life sorted out, which is bound to depress me, but hey! What are friends for;-) They all laughed at my stupid CV, for one thing. Maybe I should post that ("Interests: computing, especially electronic audio sequencing") here... Nah, can't be arsed.

01/04/2002 @20:25:10 ^20:53:47

Did this site vanish today?!

Hmm, obviously update-blog isn't working as well as I thought:-/

Update: Okay, the moral of this story is, always close your files when you've finished writing to them!!:-)

Other nerdy stuff (and you know this)