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Ramblings / August 18, 2009 / John / 0
So I was gabbing with Shen on MSN and the subject of Warcraft came up. As it does. So I thought I’d have a stab of writing it in pseudocode. So here it is. while(1){ if($n00b){ acceptLols(); print(“GIEF GOLD PLX KTHXBAI”); } else { if($pvp){ spawn(); die(); acceptLols(); } else { grindMindlessly( $bodyPart, $mob );
Geekery / August 12, 2009 / John / 0
j.daniels: 15 minute job to move disks and filesystems? That’s impressive. What’s your secret? j.dow: no, fifteen minute job to shut down box, add disks, and bring box back up j.daniels: Ahh. j.dow: the rest of it can be done hot. This is the cunning nature of sysadmins. j.daniels: Sadly, not cunning enough to dodge
Geekery, Music / August 11, 2009 / John / 0
It doesn’t do this, by default, unless you’re syncing your whole music collection automatically. Which is a bit rubbish if, like me, you have an 8Gb iPod Touch and a 60Gb music library. See, what I tend to do, to make sure I actually rotate my music and listen to more than one album (:-))
Ramblings / July 21, 2009 / John / 0
I’ve just made an awesome discovery! I was having a surf and came across this page detailing the chemical composition of the human body broken down by element. This is an awesome, awesome thing because armed with that page, knowledge of my own body mass, and a periodic table, I can calculate my own atomic
Geekery / July 20, 2009 / John / 0
Ok, so there I was standing in my kitchen and gazing with a little horror and a touch of disgust at my fruit bowl. It had, as memory serves, contained a couple of bananas, a chinese pear, and a solitary wizened looking apple. Imagine my shock to discover a small colony of unexpected grapes lying
Geekery / July 13, 2009 / John / 0
(15:19:21) j.dow/Home: Matey – can I schedule a two hour outage some evening to take a cold backup of live? (15:19:41) Dave: aye (15:19:54) j.dow/Home: or morning would work just as well (and be quieter) (15:20:01) Dave: get a date in mind and then i’ll pass to Simon to notify the clients (15:20:13) Dave: Morning