• Shared today on Facebook

    Mega productive. Got heaps done on M&S website, knitted, cleaned house, visited w/ guild cabal. Now: rain, wine, & Snook’s beer bread. YUM.


    My little brother Joey is jumping rope at school this week to raise money to fight heart disease. Please donate to him! http://bit.ly/ZmDjs



  • Creme That Egg!

    Creme That Egg! Awesome Rube Goldberg machine some guy created as part of a contest. My favorite part is how it’s basically all made out of cardboard, books, and trash he found lying around his apartment. (Link courtesy of Max.)


  • Shared today on Twitter

    Just completed a 5.22 km run with @runkeeper, check it out http://bit.ly/anppP #runkeeper


    Went for a 5K training run. Can’t let my Bay Run team down! Which reminds me – me, @Timmay83, @shanea, and Stef need a team name. Ideas?


    @mrs_sockvictim Got to chapter 2 of Red Mars last night. It’s REALLY good! Starts you in an exciting bit then jumps back several years.


    Productive Easter. Ran, knitted, & got loads done on TC site. (Glad I decided to go back to osCommerce 2.2.) Last day to sleep in…



  • Shared today on Facebook

    Went for a 5K training run. Can’t let my Bay Run team down! Which reminds me – me, @Timmay83, @shanea, and Stef need a team name. Ideas?


    Productive Easter. Ran, knitted, & got loads done on TC site. (Glad I decided to go back to osCommerce 2.2.) Last day to sleep in…



  • Shared today on Twitter

    Walking to Chippo Farmers’ Market to pick up veggie box and then Glebe Markets to check out @knitness’s stall. I love our neighborhood.


    We eventually found @knitness’s stall! To the left when you come in, not far from the fence. http://twitpic.com/34scf


    Stupid Quadrahosting is down again. The universe is telling me to play Guitar Hero instead of working.


    @shanea Srsly. Unfortunately whenever I ask for a host that doesn’t suck, no one can think of one. I think they all do. πŸ™


    I’m Mr. Brightside.


    Quadrahosting is kill me. 3 outages in 24 hours! Are there any hosts that don’t completely suck? MY KINGDOM FOR A NON-SHITTY WEB HOST.


    @mrs_sockvictim Feeling bleak? “The Road” by Cormac MacCarthy. Going to be a movie soon. Made me cry and cry. May shatter your world.


    Okay, I’m giving up on osCommerce 3.0. Non-optimised query was taking 200s. Cutting my losses and going back to old version.


    @mrs_sockvictim I can lend you it. I downloaded “Red Mars” free ebook last night. Famous sci-fi. Just started it. We could have read along!


    Awake. Barely. Happy Easter. We’ll be spending the day exactly as we spent the previous two. (Snookums is raiding in Azeroth right now.)



  • Shared today on Facebook

    Walking to Chippo Farmers’ Market to pick up veggie box and then Glebe Markets to check out @knitness’s stall. I love our neighborhood.


    Stupid Quadrahosting is down again. The universe is telling me to play Guitar Hero instead of working.


    I’m Mr. Brightside.


    Awake. Barely. Happy Easter. We’ll be spending the day exactly as we spent the previous two. (Snookums is raiding in Azeroth right now.)



  • Quadrahosting Woes

    I’m supposed to be spending these four days working on porting the Morris & Sons site to the new version of osCommerce. Unfortunately, I’m being hampered by the fact that Quadrahosting‘s servers have now failed 3 times in the past 24 hours, each for at least an hour. That is really unacceptable. And everybody says, “Switch hosts!” But seriously, name me one that doesn’t suck. I’m totally disillusioned at this point. They all suck.


  • Shared today on Twitter

    You know, it’d be a lot easier to install oscommerce if stupid quadrahosting’s SSH access was working properly!


    Oscommerce successfully installed without SSH access! Because I’m just. that. cool.


    If it’s not one thing, it’s another. Now SSH is up but web server is timing out. Getting very little work done. πŸ™


    With all these stinkin’ hosting provider issues, it’s probably time to finally set up a proper local test environment, right? But I’m lazy.


    @wookie_man Decision made when TC site was set up ages ago. Suits their needs. (Mac has php mysql etc. Just haven’t bothered to setup yet.)


    Frick. I think I may have caught @mrs_sockvictim and @knitness ‘s cold. Throat is suddenly sore in an all too crappily familiar way. πŸ™


    Beer is medicinal, right? I’ve got the good stuff, if it matters.


    Progress was made. I’ve still got a lot to do. I’m suddenly realising that I way, way underquoted on this job. Albie’s gettin’ a bargain!


    @FryingPan CONGRATULATIONS! I’m so, so glad to hear it. Catch me on chat and fill me in on the awesome details. πŸ™‚



  • Shared today on Facebook

    With all these stinkin’ hosting provider issues, it’s probably time to finally set up a proper local test environment, right? But I’m lazy.


    Frick. I think I may have caught @mrs_sockvictim and @knitness ‘s cold. Throat is suddenly sore in an all too crappily familiar way. πŸ™


    Beer is medicinal, right? I’ve got the good stuff, if it matters.




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