Nov.12 2008
So, as some of you might have seen, cakebox went down last night arround 05:00.
It came down to the motherboard that simply failed after 5-6 years in the service :)
Pore thing.
It first went online sometime in the fall of 2002, and had been almost constantly online except for downtime while in transport between hosting sites.
Last time it was a memory upgrade, dust-off and a cpu-fan change.
Ah well, until we get a hold on new hardware for it, I've sacrificed my dev/testing machine so we can all get to our mail etc.
That's all for now.
- Marco
Okt.22 2008
** Warning, there is some strong language toward the end of this rant. **
A few months ago, I bought 2 new laptop's to more or less replace my old IBM ThinkPad. But I keep caching myself wanting to use the old ThinkPad more than the newer machines. Must have something to do with familiarity or something. Who knows ^v^
Even if it's almost 10 times slower than the fastest of the new machines, I still feel more comfortable with this old brick than the other ones.
Strange, but still a little fun.
I've been pretty much in a long slump the last 2-3 (4?) months now, not much has been done. I've been thinking about a lot of stuff like the media db, gallery system and the system monitor thingy. Just haven't been able to get my sorry ass to work on them.
Due to this slump, I even had a small breakdown not to long ago, so I'm probably heading for another in not to long. I doubt anyone knows about it, as of yet. I was alone at the time. No suicidal tendency's, but it still sucks, big time! It was right smack in the middle of the LAN party that was last month.
There's been to much piling up, to much stuff that there just isn't anyone I can talk to about. Sucks.. But I'll just have to live with it and bite it the fuck down.
I don't quite know what's bringing it on, but it's real. I doubt it's got anything to do with summer being over or anything.
I've got no idea what's going on in my head anymore.. Whatever....
I've read Irreconcilable Differences through for the third time now, and I just started on Looking Glass for what I think is the third time since I got the book. I just can't stop reading them. The theme in the books hit my bullseye so absolutely centered that I just can't get them out of my mind.
I've also been digging around about some of the things that play mayor rolls in how some things are done in the books, and found that some of it is soon possible. Getting "wired" is still a long way away as far as I can tell, but other aspects seem to be allot closer than you'd think.
I'm wondering if I'll try to find some place here in Norway that does research on what I'm interested in and ask if they need a test subject :)
I'd love to get to be one of the first people with some of the rigs that are mentioned in the books; planted in my head.
Just imagine, flying across the net, with your mind. No gloves, no motion sensors on your head, no damn VR glasses all over your head, just close your eyes and fly.
One thing is that I know I'd probably try to kill off some of those fucking spam servers and basically kill the net links to those fucked up idiots that have been sucking up the net's bandwidth with they're spam and crap for nothing other than cash.
Geez, money is NOT, I repeat, _NOT_ everything in life. Do NOT take the fast lane and make life sour for everyone else with crap you think will give you a fast fortune.
I've got a gut feeling that if I ever meet anyone that openly tells me he/she has something to do with spam, cracking, and basically shitting on the net, I'd probably beat him/here to a fucking pulp.
... sorry
Anyways.. We'll see...
- Marco
Okt.03 2008
Mmmmoookay, so we're at the end of Polar Party 17 and I'm on grave yard shift watching over the sleeping gamers in case of fire etc.
It's Friday night/Saturday morning so there are a bunch of people that want to drink and still get inn to the party... That's a big no-can-do!! This is a private party and it is alcohol and drug free because of this.
Err... My point in all of this was that while sitting here, there usually is a lot of dead time, time that I can use to dig around the net or read my new book or just smurf around the net.
With that in mind, I came across the site of another fan of Paradise Kiss on a fan site that I also registered on after seeing the series.
After digging a little around here site, looking at some of the pictures of doll's she has there, I just had to mention them.
Some of the Photo's she got on her site are really nice.
Photo's like this, and this are just the right style for me :)
Me likes :D
Wooohaaaa.. I had no idea you could get dolls with this much detail...
That's just really awesome!!
Here's another one to, just look at the detail done on the face!
I could never start collecting these kind of dolls, I'd most likely find it to creepy having dolls with that realistic eyes and faces just standing/sitting there staring at me... O.o
Not that there not nice, I'd love to see them in real life some time, but I just couldn't collect them :D
Well, that's it for now... New updates to come in the future..
Cheers folks!!
- Marco
