Power’s out, gone shopping

Posted on October 10, 2003 by admin.presshost

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OK, so this has been a big week of not updating. For some reason the mail has been quite heavy this week, leaving me with less time on my hands than normal. Coupled with the fact that I have a few new sites in the development stage, and a largish assignment for TAFE that I haven’t even started yet. Yikes!

This week has been getting progressively warmer. I am not going to say farewell to the cold weather just yet, that would be asking for it, but it did get to 31.7ºC which for my metric deficient friends is 89ºF.
It’s nice that its warmer now, but it is playing havoc with my hay fever. I don’t always suffer from it, but currently I am sneezing repetitively and my eyes feel like someone has been rubbing sand in them.

My power supply seems a little unreliable at present. Both yesterday and today at around 6am the RCD on my house flipped. The RCD is the safety switch, its an earth leakage device designed to kill the power if someone does something stupid like take a toaster into the bath or stick forks into power outlets. I don’t know what is causing it to break as I am at work at the time. If it keeps up I may have to try an elimination process thingy, or call an electrician.
Then, as if having partial power losses two mornings in a row, the power went out fully this afternoon as well. Phoning the Western Power faults line indicated that the power may be out until 10pm. With the power out I went shopping instead and thankfully it was back on when I got returned at 4pm

Footnote: It was a fault in the aquarium heater!

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Interior

Posted on October 5, 2003 by admin.presshost

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The Interior light in my van

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Photo Friday – Heights

Posted on September 28, 2003 by admin.presshost

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This weeks Photo Friday is up. I seem to be increasingly good at posting it on a Sunday Evening. I contemplated doing one of the high rise buildings in the city, but then a lot of people were doing that. There were some really good ones there too and I do have a bit of a passion for architecture.
For a while I nearly ran with the idea of going up to the top of Greenmount hill and taking a photo of the truck warning sign. Steep decent next 5km. Trucks use low gear… And a 40km/h limit on heavy vehicles.

Instead I went with this

Climbing to great heights (for a 4 year old)

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Smells like summer

Posted on September 26, 2003 by admin.presshost

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Yesterday was an insanely busy day. I had set aside some time for client appointments in the afternoon and early evening because I knew that Thursday is a light mail day and shouldn’t be a problem.

Wrong!

It actually turned out to be quite a heavy day, and then just as I was nearly finished, I had a call from a client who on extremely rare occasions needs a courier.
By the time I got home it was nearly 1pm leaving just two hours before my first client was due to arrive. There goes my planned sleep!

I did a little housework and at 2.30 I jumped in the shower…
Ding-Dong

Great, nothing like your client arriving half an hour early. Oh well, such is life!

Today was a glorious spring day here in Perth and as such I had a compulsive urge to have a barbecue, so I invited my parents around and indulged in that great Australian past time of cooking copious amounts of meat, lightly garnished with a very light salad.
Food pyramid be buggered, GIVE ME MEAT

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Wankers

Posted on September 25, 2003 by admin.presshost

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In the spirit of insanly stupid concepts, I found this while reading someone’s blog.
It’s the Masturbate for peace website…

It includes gems like “Touch your sack, not Iraq“, “I cum in peace” and “I’m going blind for mankind”
Seek help people!

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Some Ramblings

Posted on September 24, 2003 by admin.presshost

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Idle thoughts
I deliver the post to one of the major central city department stores and noticed they had a large collection of Christmas trees in their dispatch area.
You know its September when the Christmas stock starts to arrive. I love rampant commercialism

People in Perth just do not know how to drive on wet roads. This morning watching a truck nearly jack-knife his large trailer stopping for an amber light had me thinking “why?”
There was no way he was going to stop, why did he even try?

Simple, the car in front of him, the car with ABS brakes, hauled them on when the lights started to change.
Hey here’s the deal, amber means you must stop if it is safe to do so. Moron!

I just realised that even though I just blogged, my ISP is upgrading their webservers tomorrow and have disabled FTP from this morning while they do. Apparently they are upgrading the hardware and have decided that it would be a good time to do software upgrades too, so by the time I post this blog it will be tomorrow, except it will be today for you and I would have wrote this yesterday…
That’s clear, isn’t it…

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Site Revamp

Posted on September 23, 2003 by admin.presshost

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I have been busy doing some major recoding of this site. It is now XHTML compatible.
What that means to you the reader is… well, not a lot really, unless you’re running outdated browser software that doesn’t render the site correctly.
This really shouldn’t be a problem, viewing server logs tells me that no one comes on the site using older browsers anyway (I’m talking Netscape 4).

Another thing I have added is a site search engine, It works quite well, but is very basic.
Next project is to clean up the lower corner of this page, including depreciating the guest book.

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Photo Friday – Found

Posted on September 21, 2003 by admin.presshost

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Photo Friday for this week is Found and I have gone with the abstract again. I was thinking “needle in a haystack”, but my mother thought of this interesting twist. This is my “also ran”

A needle in a (Monet) haystack
Snow Effect [1891]
Image from the book Monet and Japan, National Gallery of Australia (Thames and Hudson)

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Completed Updates

Posted on September 20, 2003 by admin.presshost

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The backend updates to the site are completed. Hopefully there are no more dead links and navigation errors, time will tell.
I was hoping to use a simple 301 redirect in my .htaccess file to make sure people who have bookmarked defunct pages (or enter via search engines) don’t get a 404 error, but for some reason it just isn’t working. I don’t know why this would be the case as it is an incredibly basic line of code and .htaccess is available to me.

Instead I rewrote all the old html files that have been replaced with a simple meta refresh and a cuteish message asking that bookmarks be updated.

I have an assignment due … yesterday and I really haven’t done much on it, so I think tonight that will be my project… so why the hell am I blogging???
Actually I know the reason. Procrastination! The hardest part of any assignment (for me) is actually starting it. It was the same with the last one, me putting it off and doing other things (like cleaning the aquarium) until I had built up the motorvation

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