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Bad nights sleep

Laurel was having some whacky dreams last night, which didn’t help me sleep much at all.
Someone screaming “Why dont you just grow the fuck up” in your ear at 3.15am is not a pleasant way to be jolted awake. She assures me it wasnt me in the dream she was yelling at. To paraphrase Mr T “I pity the fool who it was”.

Working on Koha more

With some changes at work, I know have more time available to work on Koha. So hopefully there will be a lot more commits by me in the coming months.

Its all absurd

After a big discussion with Laurel last night, we came to the conclusion that its absurd. What is absurd? you ask, the answer is, EVERYTHING IS ABSURD.
I could start listing examples, but Id be here this time next year and only have scratched the surface. Everyday we bump into more and more absurd situations.

So with the ephihany that the world is simply retarded and is never going to make sense, it makes you appreciate the small things that actually do make sense a lot more.

Borked network

There’s something really broken at telstraclear today, has been since at least 9am. Im getting really horrible connections to most nz based machines. Which is making work pretty damn hard to do.

UPDATE it seems to be working again now.

Oh no, its not, its broken again

Playing with Planet

Today while I was bored and hiding inside to get away from the crappy weather, I decided to have a play with planet. Ive screwed something up as it should be serving the page as utf-8 but it doesnt seem to be. Other than that its working well. I’ve put it behind some auth until I check with the people whose blogs I have on it that they dont mind. Until then its just for my use.

16 week Obstetrician Check

We went yesterday to our 16 week checkup, lil crayon was dancing around in there like a russian cossack. No worries, next thing is the 20 week scan.

Eclipse IDE

Lately I’ve been playing about using Eclipse, plus EPIC as my IDE for doing perl work.
It has some really nice features, particularly version control integration. It wont replace screen and jed, but I think it will complement them nicely.

First ruby script

Well technically not my first, but the first ive written from scratch. Its just a simple hello world example. Im going to try to extend it to do more now.
Heres what it currently looks like.

#!/usr/bin/ruby
# first cut of a ruby script
require ‘cgi’

# create a cgi object of type html 4
cgi = CGI.new(“html4”)
cgi.out {
cgi.html {
cgi.body {
cgi.h1 { “Hello Ruby!” }
}
}
}

And here is what it does.

You Wouldn’t

If you are like me, you are sick to death of the MPAA and their stupid video that they have put at the start of hundreds of thousands of DVD’s and at movie theatres. Heres a movie that points out who the real pirates are.

5 Million Litres

I don’t know how much it rained last night, but it sounded like a hell of a lot, and its still going. The dogs are refusing to go outside, which is fair enough. The yard is pretty much one big boggy mess now.