Category: Geek

These are really pretty cool, you can read all about them
here .
If you are using mozilla to view this site you should get the little RSS
icon in the bottom right. Clicking on it will allow you to subscribe to an
rss feed for the site. Quite cool.

So I bought myself a sony clie from the outlet store when i was in the US.
No complaints so far, it was really useful while travelling, coupled with
avantgo i could download our etickets and check on the flight status while
sitting in borders. Or even sitting in the car at a gas station that had a
starbucks attached. Not to mention keeping laurel entertained on the flights
playing games on it.

We woke up round 8, with vinyl the dog licking my ear. Proceeded to pack up
all our stuff, or should I say, Laurel packed up our stuff. Im constantly
amazed by how she can fit so much stuff into the bags.
After Lunch at wendys (more vouchers :-)) we headed off to LAX to catch a
flight to San Francisco. Stupid US Airways didnt tell us we had to check in
at United, nor did they have any signs, so after waiting in line for a while
we got to the counter and got told we had to go to Terminal 7.
So we followed a US Marine who had to do the same thing and checked in.
After dealing with security which although tedious was less annoying than
MAF in nz (I hate those guys) we flew off to san francisco to repeat the
performance.
We boarded NZ007 in San Francisco and started the 12 hours and 20 minutes
flight to Auckland. It didnt start well when Ray (one of the flight
attendants) yanked the boarding pass out of my book, losing my place. He
then proceeded to annoy the crap out of Laurel and I for the remainder of
the flight. Poking Laurel with tongs to wake her to try and force a hot
towel on her went down like a lead balloon. If I could be bothered I’d make
an arsehat entry about him.
We landed in Dorkland where it was raining (it always seems to be raining
when we land there) and did the immigration and Customs and MAF dance.
Crackheads working at an international airport still can only manage to try
to communicate by yelling in english. Did I mention I hate those guys, with
their arbitrary random bunch of rules, jackasses. Anyway we headed out and
across to the domestic terminal and then home.
Now we are sitting in the lounge unpacking, the dogs have gone to bed but
snurrie still wont leave us alone. Its good to be home.

Ive been using this for a couple of weeks now and im loving it. Just like
their slogan says on their website install
it …
and everything goes faster
So if you are looking for a lightweight fully functional alternative to the
likes of KDE or Gnome, I heartily recomend XFCE

If you want to install linux on this, and have the onboard NIC work.
Remember to turn off PNP in the Bios. This bit me for quite a while as all
the devices were ending up on IRQ 0 and being unusable.

Im getting a lot of visitors to the blog at the moment. I can only guess its
because of my medal count tables. Ill update them again after the kayaking.
When hopefully NZ moves further up the tables.

Well after upgrading apache2 tonight, I got segfaults .. joy! So after
monkeying around a bit, it turns out libapr0 was the culprit. Downgrading it
to the previous version seem to fix things.

Well the wind has finally quit, and there is even blue sky. But now I think
the repairs must be starting because I have lost cable. So my net connection
and TV are down.
So now is a good time to fix the fence I guess.

Man what a waste of 3 hours. It turns out that if you deploy a tangram
schema under perl 5.6 then you cant use perl 5.8 to access it. At least
thats what I think went wrong. Working now with both machines running 5.6

Laurel was talking with me on aim last night, and shes off and bought a
compaq presario 2100 something or other laptop. For some ridiculously cheap
price in the US. It has built it wifi so shes gonna take it to starbucks and
see if she can get on the net from there. I seem to be infecting her with
the computer bug.