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Colour me surprised... NOT

2006-07-22T19:31:00.000+10:00

Back in the land of the living...

2005-07-28T11:34:00.000+10:00

The flu going around this year is a nasty one.
I'm planning on writing a new diet book, How to Lose 5 kilos in 4 Days...

Aaaargh! (again)

2005-07-16T01:25:00.000+10:00

I am surrounded by women who are emotionally unavailable to me.
Which is fine. Really.

But Jesus—who do you have to fuck to get a girlfriend in this town?!

Redundant tautologies... Aaaargh!

2005-07-12T13:54:00.000+10:00

From the lazy journalist files:

"Please contact Raincoast Books and return the copies of Harry Potter to our possession," pleaded Jamie Broadhurst of Raincoast Books on CTV News. "At one minute past midnight on the 16th we promise to return to them the hard cover version along with a signed autograph from J.K.Rowling and a t-shirt."

Full article at http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1121087346322_44/?hub=TopStories

No real surpises here...

2005-07-01T11:43:00.000+10:00

Apparently I am a Book and Language Snob...
Colour me surpised.

You speak eloquently and have seemingly read every
book ever published. You are a fountain of
endless (sometimes useless) knowledge, and
never fail to impress at a party.
What people love: You can answer almost any
question people ask, and have thus been
nicknamed Jeeves.
What people hate: You constantly correct their
grammar and insult their paperbacks.

What Kind of Elitist Are You?
brought to you by Quizilla

Yes, I am a statistic - it's official... :-P

2005-06-24T11:01:00.000+10:00

Oh dear, more religious idiocy...

2005-06-23T14:29:00.000+10:00

Well, who knew?

Apparently, it's OK to be a lipstick lesbian - just not a butch dyke. Oh, but only if your husband is OK with it...

Good Grief!

These people clearly are idiots. I really hope this is a satirical site - but somehow I don't think so...

Possibilities

2005-06-21T10:45:00.000+10:00

Today is a Good Day™

The world is full of possibilities...

The Bluehouse - wow!

2005-06-16T18:00:00.000+10:00

I went out to Belgrave to see The Bluehouse last night - courtesy of a free ticket from a Pink Sofa promo.

WOW!!!

These girls are amazing!

If they're playing anywhere near you, go and see them.

I'll be buying all their albums as soons as my cashflow picks up a little.

Ubuntu fun

2005-06-13T12:30:00.000+10:00

I've been putting together a system for a friend who doesn't have a PC at the moment. I scrounged a couple of old celerons from Freecycle to put together one useable system for her.

I installed Ubuntu 5.04 and it all seemed to go quite smoothly. I wasn't installing a modem though, so there may be pain to come. (I followed up her install by installing it to the second drive in my WinXP machine and it doesn't manage to recognise my internal PCI modem...)

My next trick is to theme up Gnome for her to make it look XP-ish so that the transition to Linux is as painless as possible.

First step is to configure nautilus to show desktop icons, next step is to create some directories under her home directory to guide her (My Documents, My Pictures, etc.), then drop icons on the desktop for "Word Processor" and "Spreadsheet" (OpenOffice).

<RANT>

I'm a little disappointed that Ubuntu doesn't have a "set this up for a transitioning Windows user" option that would do all this if selected. It's one of the things that stops adoption of Linux as a desktop by the average user IMNSHO. Oh, and putting up splash screens at boot and shutdown to mask all the verbose output would also help - with an installation option of course to switch off the splash screens for those already comfortable with Linux.

It's been interesting to see just how end-user-unfriendly even the "friendliest" of linuxes is for desktop use. To fill you in, I'm a loooong-time Windows user (prolly at expert/guru level in most things) and have been running my own RedHat server for commercial hosting for the last 4+ years. Even with a lot of command-line Linux admin experience (oriented heavily towards web server admin), I'm finding desktop Linux quite unintuitive. Mostly, I suspect, because I expect an end-user to be able to configure everything through the GUI (which they can't), and have everything accesible in relatively intuitive places (which they aren't).

OK, </RANT> now...

Another confessional blog like postsecret

2005-06-09T17:02:00.000+10:00

grouphug.us

Who knew?

2005-06-09T12:53:00.000+10:00

Apparently men don't hold the key to female pleasure.

Well, duh! I could have told you that for free...

Standing the test of time

2005-06-08T13:28:00.000+10:00

The language of love
Slips from my lover’s tongue
Cooler than ice cream
And warmer than the sun

Eurythmics, Who's That Girl (1983)

I'm still amazed by those lyrics after all these years...

Mmmmm, clean sheets!

2005-06-08T11:45:00.000+10:00

Nice clean sheets. Bed is much more inviting now. Electric blanket to stave off the cold.

*bliss*

What kind of lesbian am I?

2005-06-07T16:19:00.000+10:00

Hmmm, not so sure about this one...

You scored as The Student Dyke. Your entire life is defined by two things: your intellect and your sexuality; moreover you often merge the two to lure in women.

The Surprise! Dyke

50%

The Student Dyke

50%

The Femme Fatale

45%

The Stud

40%

The Vaginal-Reference-Making Dyke

40%

The Pretty-Boi Dyke

40%

The Quasi-Gothic Femme

40%

The Sprightly Elfin Femme

30%

The Granola Dyke

30%

The Little-Boy Dyke

20%

The Hipster Dyke

10%

The Bohemian Dyke

10%

The Magic Earring Ken Dyke

10%

What Type of Lesbian Are You? (Inspired by Curve Mag.)
created with QuizFarm.com

Sci-Fi fancy dress party

2005-06-06T15:29:00.000+10:00

Jane invited me to a friend's birthday party with a sci-fi/aliens theme. I wish I had more notice (not Jane's fault I hasten to add), but managed to put together a costume regardless. Trill must be the easiest species ever, no?

Elvis & Javvick certainly looked the part.

(If you remember, Elvis isn't dead - he just went home.)

Wow! Amazing blog.

2005-06-03T15:23:00.000+10:00

postsecret.blogspot.com

Check it out. Now.

The Time Traveller's Wife

2005-06-01T14:31:00.000+10:00

Have just finished reading The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. I started it on Saturday afternoon while lazing in front of the fire, and finished laaate last night.

It's a wonderful story of timeless love (pun intended) and longing. I'm not sure that it's really a good prescription for how to live one's life, but I'm no stranger to longing so I definitely relate.

To me it had a similar feel to Somewhere In Time, one of my favourite soppy movies. Which incidentally has my favourite piece of music in the whole world, Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (particularly the second movement).

I highly recommend The Time Traveller's Wife if you're looking for something engaging and moving. Ditto for Somewhere in Time actually.

Aaaargh!

2005-05-25T16:54:00.000+10:00

Geeks are hard work™

Today's emotional forecast

2005-05-25T10:24:00.000+10:00

Becoming fine, scattered showers clearing...

Oh FFS, get over it!

2005-05-24T10:15:00.000+10:00

I got an IM last night - even though I'd asked her to leave it a few weeks before contacting me.

In fairness though, I was really only hanging around online in the hope that she would IM me, so I guess I got what I asked for... I'd deliberately removed her from my contacts list just so I wouldn't see when she was online - I just didn't want to know.

So anyway, is the spaces between the words, it's obvious that her new relationship is still going well. Or at least, it's still going. More than that I can't really judge.

Seems like the waiting thing isn't going to work out, huh?

Guess it's time for me to pull myself out of my self-induced misery once again and get on with life. And if that means that the timing remains sucky and we never do get together, well - that's life I guess...

Life imitating art...

2005-05-23T11:17:00.000+10:00

"Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something."

[The Princess Bride]

How true...

Aaaaargh!

2005-05-22T23:21:00.000+10:00

I hate feeling like this...

The evil nasssssty side of me wants her new relationship to fail. Quickly.

Oh yesss it doess, precioussssssss......

While the more *ahem* sane side of me says I hope it works and brings her happiness.

That unhelpful part of my brain though says, so maybe it won't work out, and she'll let me know and we can give it a try.

Before that self-presenvation mechanism kicks in and I start distancing myself emotionally to save my sanity...

Aaaaargh...!!!

Je pleure

2005-05-19T18:20:00.000+10:00

Luv sux

2005-05-17T15:16:00.000+10:00

OK, well maybe like sux...

Long story short...

We were friends, getting to be very good friends...
At some point, she started to like me
...which I didn't realise

Then I did

I knew that I liked her, but didn't think I liked her
...so that's what I told her
Soon after which she started getting close to someone else
...at which point I realised that I really did like her
So that's what I told her

And she went away to think about it
...and decided "too little, too late"...

CRAP

As I said - like sux...

Is this the world's most boring blog?

2005-03-23T14:07:00.000+11:00

Welcome to what is quite probably the world's most boring blog. If you're reading this, you're probably a friend, or insane (or - obviously - both).

Anyway, this is a place I've set up where I can vent on random topics and events that irritate me. And if you know me, you'll know that a lot irritates me...

So better I vent it here than on my patient, loving friends.