A waste of bits and bandwidth

I really thought I had considered everything when I moved to a sub-domain. Statistics. Damn, my stats. They don’t log anything in my sub-domain *duh* so that’s gonna be a problem.

Still, nothing ventured, nothing gained. I have a good install and I confirmed that the upgrade didn’t go all that well. So I guess I’ll re-install on the root and call it good. It took me about three hours on Sunday so I figure I can cut an hour off of that now that I know what needs to be done.

Not sure when I’ll do it; there’s a bug in MT that is going to be patched soon, so maybe I’ll wait for it. I’m not sure why I’m telling you this because none of you know what I’m doing. By the time you know what’s going on, it’ll be done.

Not than any of this is all that earth-shattering anyway. It’s just a blog… Well, I should go to work or something.

So I was sitting here this afternoon and I thought “You should set up a sub-domain” so I did. I then thought that I should do a new install of MT, so I did. Good idea too; I don’t think my last update worked all that well but this one seems much better. I even managed to import all my entries from the my installation so I haven’t lost any of my past ‘insights and observations’.

I ‘hardened’ the install while I was at it in an attempt to thwart the comment spammers but we’ll need to see if it’s enough. Probably, it’ll just put them off for a while. It’s not going to solve anything in the longer term.

I also decided to use FileZilla to FTP all the files up: what an awesome client. Much better than any other client I’ve used. Well this is boring… I really enjoy working on the site so much more than I do blogging.

The upside for now is that no one knows the new address so I can say anything that comes to mind! Hey Rogé, it was sunny and 8c here today! Did you dig your chopper out of that snowdrift yet? “Scarf, scarf, scarf…” This is cool!

Hmmm…. December 19th and no declarations of festivity. That’s a shame.

RLD

Well drinking is fun but the resulting hangovers are bad. Hep me… Friday evening was the co-op party as their term is up and man, did we tie one on. Do people still say ‘tie one on’? Whatever.

We went to The Soho and basically started drinking like fools as the company had set up a tab for us. An unlimited tab. Naturally dinner didn’t really occur to any of us so we just had more beer.

My apologies to Paul, Rachel, Karan and Claire for missing out on movie night. “One more Corona couldn’t hurt…”

I wasn’t obscenely drunk but it was enough. Today I woke up feeling ok but it wasn’t to last. I went out but quickly returned as I figured I wasn’t going to last long. A nap helped a little but I spent most of the day wishing I had backed off a little last night. No regrets though!

RLD

I have an uneasy feeling that I am about to suffer a hard drive failure. I had a bsod this morning which was alarming, now it sounds like a washing machine full of bowling balls and the event viewer is saying it has a bad block. Hmmm… Time to run it off a Linux CD perhaps.

We had our Christmas party at the Aquarium last night and it was a good time. One of my parters in crime was asking me how I liked it there. She then said it’s damn near impossible to get fired and that it’s like a dysfunctional family… Well screw it, I’m going to 5 hour days if that’s the case.

RLD

Hello, good evening and welcome. I come to you from my bunker complex, deep below the Manitoba crust. I will not be accepting callers as I prepare my 2005 predictions. To wit: I predict abundant harvests next year, despite acute shortages of seed, fertilizer, equipment, sun, rain, land and financing for farmers.

Before I retreated to my enclave, I did indeed register for a course at BCIT. I had given thought to doing the Securities Course again but it’s $800 these days! WTF? I paid $375 when I took it the first time. Then there’s the fact that I’ve already done it…

I don’t know how far I’ll go; I just want to take the class and see what happens. Maybe I’ll go for the certificate if it goes well. I think my previous economics and law credits should be valid so that would give me 4 of the 22 credits I need before I even start.

It’s something. I’m content with what I’m doing these days but it’s not what it used to be. I used to passionate and willing to do whatever it took. Now, not so much… I think I’ve become a little jaded and cynical with the tech industry. I do my job, I go home and then repeat the cycle.

I hope to be in tech for a good while yet but I think it’s a good to look for something that will re-ignite that fire again.

RLD