A title this would be, had I the originality.

I woke for the last time in my flat, my phone waking me after just two hours of sleep. I went one more time through my checklist: rubbish and recycling was out, a note was stuck to the letterbox to ask people not to stick newspapers through the letterbox, and so on.

( I was ready. )

No, WE are married :)
More later.
Please don't phone/txt about it though, it costs crazy money in Canada.

Photos here:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/album.php?aid=100404&id=574621894

More later.
So tired.

It's getting close!

http://dewimorgan.livejournal.com/41687.html has our plans for the trip.
I'll try to take pics and stuff of the wedding, and stick 'em up here and My FaceBook.

We'll be meeting GT there too! Whee!

In English, there's no good way to autopluralise just by looking at the last letter.
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Solipsism is the philosophical theory that the only thing you can be confident in knowing is that you exist, in some form, by some definition of "exist". "I think, therefore I am."

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The Hero sets out, in the footsteps of his Mentor, tracking him, and ultimately finding him. they have time for a brief chat, then the master dies. Whether in a noble act of self-sacrifice, or a terrible act of betrayal, it doesn't matter, so long as he's dead.

Don't ever, EVER write this story.

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It's that time of life again! I had an enjoyable yearlong busman's holiday from my jobhunting, working for ABI. But I've pretty much worked myself out of a job now: the last of the projects I was hired to help them finish should be polished off by the end of the week, and it's time to dig out the old job harpoon and set sail again.

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Read an interesting post over at the aptly named Elder Game, about a brave attempt by City of Heroes to add user created content to a grind-based MMO.

People commented that the outcome (exploit quests galore) was natural: people don't like the grind, the grind is stupid. Making exploit quests to get around the grind is just common sense!( Read more... )

Every nation surveils their citizens on the net. So do ISPs. So do criminal organisations. But I repeat myself.

They do this because they can. Because we let them.

And by "let", I don't mean we give them permission: I mean we make it possible for them to do so. The US has proven that merely legislating against snooping will just mean they do it secretly.

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Anyone know of a good, up-to-date YUM repository for Centos, with Mysql 5.1 and matching versions of PHP 5.2 and Apache 2.2?
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How hackable are they?

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OK, we've set a date!
Ish, sorta.

Here's the itinerary for the wedding and activities this coming June/July, as best we have it for now. I'll update this post if/when anything changes.( Read more... )

OpenID is a great system which means you can log into lots of sites, but only reveal any personally identifying information to one central, trusted (by the user) server.

A chap named Simon Willson wrote a blog post saying "An OpenId is not an account!" and many people are pointing to this to support some rather poor arguments.( Read more... )

The ORG (which you really should join, damnitt! They need another 500 subscribers by last December!) continues to raise awareness of how crap our country is about personal data.

http://www.openrightsgroup.org/dataloss/ is their new survey, which shows how likely you are to have had your data lost in the 28 most recent reported data leaks. I'm low-risk, it appears... or rather, I'm low risk, of the ones that have been reported.

In other news, I've been too happy to post for some time - sorry peeps :) Blame my Heidi!

People seem to hate people with metal detectors. Archaeologists loathe them with a particularly deep hatred. Why?

But people don't seem to hate archaeologists. Why not?

Seems to me the only difference is that one probably has a degree in archaeology, and the other might have a degree in something.

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If McCain had got in, I was dreading having to tell my fiancée "Sorry, I'm not going there. Maybe in four years."

But I would have. I would have given up on the country. Any country which voted the Bush family in for a third term prettymuch already deserved to be given up on as it was, but a third term of them

Last night I read a lovely comment, well before the results were in:

In reading the comments,on other threads I noted several that mentioned a "christmas morning excitement". Well I must admit that even an old (71) fart like me sort of has that feeling, but then why shouldn't we? We are getting an enormous present today, we are getting our country, our self respect, the respect of the rest of the world back. we are getting the future of our children, our grandchildren,in my case great grandchildren returned to us, so it is a time for rejoicing.</quote>

Reading that was what solidified my heart. A country that had voted against that would have been no country at all.

But you didn't. You Did The Right Thing.

And I love you, every one of you who voted for him, or encouraged others to vote. Thank you.

Now if only the UK could buck up and get a better leader. Not that I have a huge problem with our current one. He keeps himself to himself and gets on with the job of running the country. Or running it into the ground, I don't know. That's the point: he's not deliberately going out of his way to trample on everyone in sight.

Speaking of which, Bush is still president until Jan 20th. You poor bastards, he's going to have no mercy now.

[Edit: did I call it, or did I call it?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/opinion/04tue1.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin ]

I was lucky enough to have a great zombie dream a couple nights ago, so I thought I'd write it up.( Read more... )

My neighbour below me, who's 80, has decided I'm a nice person. So she rings me day and night to help her with things, lies in wait in the hallway for me, things like that.( Read more... )

To-Do lists are great causes and cures of procrastination.

Writing a to-do list is a good way to procrastinate from working. But it's also a great way to get organised. But my procrastinating, I've discovered, isn't disorganisation any more than it's laziness. Are to-do lists pointless, then?( Read more... )

It's taken me more than 30 years, but I just yesterday had an insight into procrastination, which has helped me today to overcome it somewhat. ( Read more... )