This Geek

My friend sent me this self portrait one morning when he woke up. (Don’tcha just love MMS?)

And he’s just gonna LOVE me posting this.

I’ve added ESF feed support to my blog now. If you’re looking for an ESF capable reader, check here. I’ve never used this software, and I’m not endorsing it. I found it in the readme for the plugin. Use it at your own risk.

Hmm. While keeping the spammers away, it seems my mucking around with the comment system has totally stopped ALL comments. Oh well. Can’t please everyone.

I’ve been catching up on my reading while I’ve been off work. It’s been great to finish a book in a day or two instead of spending two weeks grabbing a few paragraphs while I’m on the bog. A friend of mine introduced me to John Connolly. I’ve read all his books, except for his latest, which is sitting on my night stand waiting for me to finish reading Bad Men — Admittedly, I’m taking my time with this one.

Stephen King has always been my hero; I just love the way he writes, but John Connolly has neatly kicked him off the number one spot on my top author’s list. John Connolly is my new hero.

I’ve been busy mucking around with my laptop while I’ve been on vacation. I’ve set up a development environment for Mambo, because I want to use it as the front/backend to a project I’ve had in mind over the last year. I’ve finally pulled my finger out my ass and gotten around to visualising the database I require for the project. I still need to design the application, and I’m procrastinating a bit about that. I know what I want to see, but I still need to get into the nitty gritty of how the application will work. It’s probably gonna take me quite awhile to get it going, as I’m doing everything on my own, and I’m busy reading documentation at the moment, because my programming skills SUCK. I’m going to use canned graphics for now (mambo themes) because I just don’t have the skills to come up with decent graphics, and I’m too cheap to pay for it right now.

Man, reading that, I don’t know what the hell I have skills for. Oh well.

I’m also thinking about setting up a Wiki. Don’t ask me what for, I just feel like mucking around with one. I like the concept. Maybe it’s not such a good idea, as I’m such a slacker when it comes to updating this site.

… The end of the year, that is.

Wow, what happened to it? Did the whole thing just go by when I blinked? I guess I’d better stop blinking then. I need to slow down and smell the roses a bit. There’s just too much happening (in my life) right now.

My son had his 4th birthday in August. My daughter will be 2 on 1 April… I’ll be hitting the big three-oh in March. Fuck, what happened?

My daughter has been randomly bashing my wife’s computer’s keyboard while I type this. I swear, I have seen Windows do things I’ve never seen in my life before.

For, eg, it has now restarted twice, and both times Windows has returned to the Welcome screen with the same info (2 programs running) on my wife’s login. It’s like a hibernation reset or something. Weird. And this time round, she somehow paused the Windows startup, so that it shows you a message that Windows restoration has been paused, continue, or delete restoration data & return to the system menu. Wtf?

Ahh well. Kids. Gotta love em.