What better time to stroll down to the river for lunch under a shady tree.
Sadly, I think it’s overheated something at my ISP. I sense a disturbance in the force, and the net’s somewhat slow at the moment.
Archive for November, 2005
Ah, summer…
Wednesday, November 16th, 2005Who knew?
Wednesday, November 16th, 2005CSIRO have an on-line magazine (no sign of an RSS feed though).
For Carl…
Thursday, November 10th, 2005Some quotes from Carl Sagan. They may not have heard of him in Kansas.
Your friendly neighbourhood…
Saturday, November 5th, 2005 |
You scored as The Amazing Spider-Man. After being bitten by a radioactive spider, Peter Parker was transformed from a nerdy high school student into New York’s greatest hero. Peter enjoys the thrill of being a super hero, but he struggles with the burdens of leading a double life. He hopes someday to win the heart of his true love Mary Jane, the woman he’s loved since before he even liked girls. Right now, he just wants to make it through college and pay his bills.
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Iodine
Friday, November 4th, 2005Was watching a documentary on iodine deficiency in Tibet on the ABC. Apparently in the 1990’s Australian dairies stopped using iodine based chemicals to clean their equipment and started using chlorine based chemicals instead. The consequences of this were that the ‘positive contamination’ of our milk with iodine has stopped, and it’s possible that the reduction in level of iodine consumption has lead to decreased IQ.
Perhaps this explains the re-election of the Howard Government. In the meantime, use iodised salt.
Random thoughts…
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005Things that I’ve been wanting to blog:
- Batman Begins - I want to be rich enough to hire Michael Caine as my butler
- Serenity - I wish I hadn’t seen the spoiler. But wow, the film was what I was hoping for. Now if only it didn’t end.
- Medical - I got given a certificate for 2 days off work today because of what my doctor (first time I’d seen this one) thought were insect bites.
- Who would have thought - I’ve been playing cricket at lunchtime. Suffering from my inability to catch hard cricket balls though. I’m hoping my thumb is merely bruised.
- Who would have thought 2 - Went to the Ireland v Australia International Rules match with my workmates. First time I’d been to Subi oval for a game of anything (been to a Billy Joel concert there though). Lots of fun. (Too) Large queue for the pub afterwards. Crowd was most enthusiastic about the pitch invaders evading the security staff after the game though. This week, a cricket match at the WACA.
- Sydney tunnel collapse - Umm… If you pour 2000 tonnes of concrete into the hole you created, you’d better be damn sure the surrounding dirt can support it
- Finishing Works in Progress Month: Currently at 2647 (Fiction), 3592 (Non-fiction semi-autobiographical).
- Received very cool e-mail. Had the plague. Went to fab-o wedding. Made czechuan chilli chicken (yum!). Continued battle to tidy study. Read Calculating God
Playing catch-up
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005So, here’s the story:
- Server stops booting off its normal boot disk
- Attempts to get the drive to boot again fail (including system restores etc.)
- Create a new boot disk and boot off that, but it’s of course missing most of the data files. E-mail is now working though (for me at least), and that’s mission critical.
- Try many and varied different booting options (fix privileges, delete prefs files, check the logs, etc). Unable to boot off anything except the new boot drive.
- Some time passes.
- Apple release the 10.4.3 update yesterday. I apply it to the drive that no longer boots. Try booting, and bingo!
- Transfer all the mail across from the old drive.
- Rejoice a little
