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Today was a shockingly good day, which is why I bother at all. Spoiled somewhat by the ending (brave insecticide-assisted take over of singular - but humongous! - roachian adversary; for the first time, the vile forces of the Enemy having scaled the walls and assaulted directly upon the second floor. Not the first time ever, of course: reports of previous assaults being widely known and publicised at the times. But the first time I've faced this creature alone, and the first time in my bathroom and in a singular assault upon me! But the bravery was not mine alone; the insecticide, in there was the magic; I was a humble servant only. My bravery it is not shall we say very brave at all; not against insectile aggressors as the aforementioned).
So anyways; day was noticable for the beginnings of a rhythm likely to continue for a while; the passage of weeks and of Saturday; and of trips and friends and walks. And food! Good food. Mmmm. Also equally important the getting out there and exploring observing arriving departing lounging. Chatting is/was also nice. And looking forward to work on Monday! (yes well okay partially 'cos of new iPod hopefully arriving soon; but hey you know whenever whatever still ah still its nice to buy yourself things sometimes you feel happy important etc no not that that would be over the top don't you think?)
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Seriously, though. Seriously.
I really wish I could do this with punctuation and everything but my stupid keyboard etc you know the drill so no. Only fullstops. This is going to be all José Saramago and everything. Today was a really nice day not because anything special happened in it - nothing did - but because everything which happened what little that did happen happened nicely mostly well it's like this I got up on time or surprisingly close to I had a nice bath and a nice shave and I was a little late because I don't like using the toilets at work but there you go I wasn't very late and after a mostly unpunctual last week being anywhere near on time was nice. Also I was the first one into office which is always pretty nice just by itself too.
Work hmm what can I say work isn't quite as exciting this week as it was last week because we're sort of waiting on everybody at the moment. Which is nice mind as it gives me time to finish off a couple of tasks I'd hate to leave standing but it's still a pain. For instance I was in late today because I had to force myself to finish something; tomorrow is going to be even worse in that regard but once I finish it it'll be DONE which by itself is a great consolation a great and wonderful thing to know. I did get to fool around with some APIs which is always a little arsebackwards but there you go I suppose when you approach problems the way I do it is to be expected.
The big surprise for today was I went onto Flickr just before leaving work - or so I thought! My total photostream views were around 9,600-odd (aha! commas!) so I was really looking forward until it hit the big 10k. So you can imagine my surprise - nay! shock! horror! awe! - when I saw that my photostream count was at 10,[456?]00-odd! Unbelieveable! Such a huge jump? I quickly traced it to one fairly lacklustre photo (of the Joo Chiat complex lit up for Hari Raya last year) although I still have no idea why anybody would be looking at that photo or why anyone might possibly want to link to it! It's still very extremely odd. Anyway since then my photostream views has gone up to 11,349 views while that one photo has 1,915 views. Not much by Flickr standards of course but unbelievable for a little not-even-minor-league photographer like me.
So yeah either that or I dunno just the weather or something put me into a really good mood thereafter maybe y'know come to think of it it might be the lack of sleep from yesterday night yeah that's possible well something in any case put me into a really nice frame of mind and I found myself singing all the way home then having several nice conversations without being an asshole then watching TV and playing Sims and now look here I am going to sleep. Can't wait until I get paid it'll be nice to not have to run around behind my cash and to be able to buy a few little things to make things easier another shirt even a nice T-shirt maybe a music player I dunno get my phone fixed y'know that sort of thing yeah that sort of thing would be really really nice.
So okay off to sleep now kthxbai!
Labels: flickr, fun, good day, Jose Saramago, today
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So many things, so little time!
Saturday was nice, atleast in the sense that it was relaxing (slept until 2pm), laid back (did very little but watch TV and play computer games afterwards), and interesting (until we went to Clementi to get food, ate some very nice donoughts, and after getting back helped a small group of kids destroy a pool table maybe), and even more so a good way to start Sunday (saw an "Alexander" documentary until 3am, and played tons of The Sims 2 before and during that).
Only major change to report: thanks to all the fuss (and with a little help from a friend, also known as one of the few browsers which almost-effortlessly handles the strain of selecting 5,216 photographs in Flickr's Organizr), I've decided to go back to a full "All Rights Reserved" copyright license for all my Flickr photographs. While I fully agree that the photographer only licensed the use of his photo for any purpose (with attribution), assuming the user follows all other legal rules (including use of underage photographs, of women not wearing burqas f'instance, and - oh yeah - model release), I've got photos of friends and relatives up there, as well as random people off the street (not necessarily creepy voyeuristic photography, though: these guys not only walked into my frame, but were very aware I was photographing them), and I'd hate for any of them to be caught in this situation because of my beliefs viz-a-viz copyleft and all that jazz.
Hopefully, I'll move nice and non-controversial photos back onto CC-Attribution sometime, but seeing the vast numbers of untagged, barely titled photos I have, I wouldn't bed on it.
Haha, bet on it, not bed on it. I suppose this is a sign I should be heading to bed. Just barely enough time for a quick shower before hitting the sack maybe?
Labels: fun, licensing, photos, today
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Read that, and tell me it doesn't give you the creeps. Could this be the internet of tomorrow?
Suddenly the TV channels were kind to me, and presented me with Crazy/Beautiful (which was nice and cute and teen movie-ie, if a little bland and zomg that was an odd ending ...), and Where The Truth Lies (which was, to some extent, the opposite: all spice and no substance; but Kevin Bacon and the lead were really good, Colin Firth pulled his role off beautifully, making up for Bridget Jones' Diary somewhat, and the plot was convoluted enough to hold my interest ...), so I should consider myself lucky, I guess.
Y'know, on second thought, it's probably just 'cos I stayed up late .. staying up late is such sweet sorrow, or, y'know, like the sweet, just without the sorry. Or something. I'm not even that sleepy now, but it's 4:30am, so, erm. Yeah. Anyways. Y'know. Life's like that, sometimes. Late night movies are the bestest. Wish I'd had a chance to play the Sims though, but hey; you win some, you lose some.
Good night.
Labels: grumble, movies, mumble, nights, predictions
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I'd repost 'em on my Flickr or somewhere, but I can't honestly think of anywhere where these photos would be safe. So while I'll just link to them for now, rest assured they're going to stored on my hard disk immediately and on other media ... eventually. Really unbelievably awesome photos seriously. Wow. Unbelievable.
If I could name 'em, I'd call 'em Exploration and Outside The Frame, which is probably why I don't get to name stuff. Ah well, ah eh. Wonder what's next.
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So, what's on television this weekend? My Best Friend's Wedding (IMDB: 6.2), She's The Man (IMDB: 6.5), and The Stranger Beside Me (IMDB: 6.3). I'm watching the last one, 'cos it's all exciting and stuff. But the Mrs. Rule character is getting on my nerves a bit, she's so incredibly defensive all the time. There's no joking with that (fictional) woman. Maybe I'll switch over to MBFW later. Anything but Ms. Bynes, even if she's backed by the incomparable Mr. Shakespeare.
In other news, I ended up watching Enough, which I find hilarious for all the wrong reasons, and Just Friends, which kinda made up for the others because Ryan Reynolds is always fun to watch. It also has a tense prefinale climax, and a really good sequence with reindeer. The ending is also hopelessly adorable in its predictability.
I have irresistable writing urges, which will probably be de facto resisted anyway. Hmmm. Saddening, that. Should be plenty of time to develop the creative urges and all that, no? Pshaw. On the better side, movies aside, I've had a very nice evening so far, with a lot of fun The Sims 2 playtime. So I guess it (for different values of "it") can't be all that bad.
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This iteration of the rms vs. lbt flamewar feels ... different, somehow. Maybe the moderation's still ongoing or something? Normally, us rms-siders are in the vocal majority, with a few anti-rms posts (as well as the inevitable showering jokes) thrown in for good measure. This time, not only is the discussion more fifty-fifty, but there's a lot more "doesn't GPLv3 restrict your freedoms? Isn't this all about the freedoms?" and "Without Linus open-source would be nowhere"-type comments. While the latter point atleast makes a reasonable argument (read it again: GPLv3 does not impose usage restrictions, only distributional ones), I'd still give the vote to rms. I value a free-as-in-freedom software stack a whole lot more than a kernel. The GNU toolchain is behind Mozilla Firefox, probably the most talked about open source software at the moment. I love being able to get wget or curl for my machine no matter what bizarre combination of systems I might be using (okay, one of those isn't GPL, I know this ... okay, wget->GPL(exception), cURL->MIT). And holy cow, GCC compiles MySQL and PHP, which together run the modern day library of Alexandria.
<I was going to argue that Firefox is the most used OSS around, but - come to think of it - Firefox has what, a 10-20% share of the browser market? Optimistically? Google has 70+% of the web search market, and every time anybody hits Google for a search, all those Linux machines in the great Googlebrain are activated. But I suppose nobody really knows about that.
Ho, hum. I was going to write about work, but now I'm all written out. Maybe tomorrow or something. Man, this weekend could potentially get unbelievably busy. And House is back on Monday! Hallelujah!
Labels: free software, linus, open source, opinion, ramblings, rms
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Just rushing through, just rushing through. Please, no autographs.
Labels: astronomy, links, missing persons blog, night sky, podcast, poetry, space
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So, here we are!
My new job is turning out very nicely thus far. They're a great bunch of people to work for, work is interesting and (so far) relatively stress free. Mostly, right now, I love getting to learn and study and work on C# on somebody else's money; next week, what I learn will (hopefully) net dividends are Work begins! It's nice being productive again.
Speaking of productivity, my Flickr account is feeling incredibly happy, having being refresh by some, then a few, and finally a lot of photos. Check them out! I'm also going through my London/Greenwich/Windsor/Bath/Leicester/Birmingham photos, trying to atleast title all of 'em. Once that's done, I'll think about doing all the others. Total photograph counts have now surpassed 5,000. I'm so impressed with myself.
Oh, and selfadolation has now hit a new high: my Google Desktop at work now rotates through my photos. I'd do my contacts' photos, but then I'd be tempted to click-in and comment; this way, the urges are kept at a low ebb.
I'm still desperately searching for a hobby; my teach-myself-to-play-piano plan has received unexpected encouragement, and there's some new and interesting meetup.com groups appearing - which I can go to again, now that I have set working hours again! Luckily, tonight was not a complete waste like yesterday: Lord of War was on TV tonight, and as that's one of my favourite movies, it gave me something enjoyable to do; but it's fast approaching my bedtime, and the "not-doing-something-involved-and-fulfilling" thing is getting on my nerves.
Grumble mumble sigh sigh.
Labels: grumble, job, photography, photos, today
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"A beach house," he said, "doesn't even have to be on the beach. Though the best ones are. We all like to congregate," he went on, "at boundary conditions". "Really?" said Arthur. "Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where body meets mind. Where space meets time. We like to be on one side, and look at the other."