Oldboy
After having it recommended it me months ago and having a copy of it gathering dust for nearly as long, I finally got around to watching Oldboy on Saturday night. Twisted and dark is the only way I could describe this movie. It begins with the main character, Oh Dae-Su, drunk and in a police station. He gets released from custody, gives the police the fingers, but on his way home is mysteriously kidnapped.
Jabber
I’ve been deep in Linux-country for the past 2 days and have finally gotten a Jabber server up and running, along with the MSN transport. I’m suprised I succeeded to be honest, but by following the instructions It Just Works. jabberd is listening on nulltheory.com, so I can be contacted via ‘steve’ at that domain (having multiple domains definitely seems too complicated at times…). I’ve practically no knowledge of the use of public-private key encryption (studied the theory at uni though) so, as with my mail server, all communication is in plaintext for the time being.
Postfix(ed)
After much frustration I gave up on using Virtual Mailbox Domains and gave Virtual Alias Domains a go instead, and it worked! I wanted to set my mail server up like that of a commercial webhost and not have to rely on having to create a local account for each mailbox, but my Linux-fu isn’t that good :( But I can now send & receive mail from steve {at} <$domain>, job’s a good ‘un!
Candy And A Currant Bun
Just finished tweaking the site presentation, the background image was begining to embarass me. Some work with Photoshop and playing with a couple of colour choosers and viola, a new look. I love the flexibility of CSS, especially when combined with the appropriate tools. Now if I could only get my mail server working properly…
Snootchie Bootchies
Instead of working, I’ve been reading a series of entries on Kevin Smith’s blog about Jason Mewes and his struggle to get clean [Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]. Not only can you read about the origins of the immortal “snootchie bootchies” but Silent Bob also talks about the countless rounds of rehab Jason had to go through and how he only got and stayed clean when he had fallen far enough.
Let Them Eat Cake
I was chatting to Phil yesterday and we got to talking about the antics in the staff room at break time: 2:52 PM Philip: what you up to atm then? me: trying to transfer a site over from one hosting account to another… 2:53 PM pain in the ass Philip: i imagine so any more biscuit site updates? me: not yet… I was thinking of maybe a blog entry concerning middle-aged women and cake…
X-Men: The Last Stand
Saturday night I decided to catch up with current going ons in the world of cinema, so I put on the latest installment of the X-Men franchise. I’d had a typical Saturday: I went to the afternoon meeting, fortified myself with some strong coffee afterwards and then hit the pool and did my usual 70-lengths of breaststroke. By the time I got home all I was in the mood for was occupying the sofa and eating like a champion.
Windows Genuine (?) Advantage
I made the mistake of blindly installing all the Windows Updates on my machine at work yesterday and so installed the lastest version of Windows Genuine Advantage… When I was creating a Ghost image for of our new desktops I didn’t have access to our legitimate Volume License Code and so just used a pirated one, big mistake! At login this morning I was welcomed with a dialog box like this (not my screenshot):
I Read The News Today Oh, Boy
My photo has appeared in not one, but two newspapers today :) This is the clipping from page 14 of the Daily Ireland. I appear by myself (and in colour) on page 8 of the Belfast Telegraph and when I get the chance to scan the photo I’ll post it here. This is the second occasion I have been in the media as a consequence of my involvement with voluntary work.
And So The Legend Grows
Just put the development site live, fingers crossed!