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|  __  __                     __  | History is the fiction we invent to       |
| |__||  |_.-----.---.-.----.|__| | persuade ourselves that events are        |
| |  ||   _|__ --|  _  |   _||  | | knowable and that life has order and      |
| |__||____|_____|___._|__|  |__| | direction. That's why events are always   |
|                             	  | reinterpreted when values change.  We     |
|                     Estab. 1999 | need new versions of history to allow     |
|                                 | for our current prejudices. -- Calvin     |
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| "first entry for 2006!" ::                             [2006-11-24 07:21PM] |
|                                                       music: diamanda galás |
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| Hmm, this year is almost over and I hadn't written a single line in here.   |
| Shame. It's a new low, even for me...                                       |
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| It's, ahh, hmm, raining. Scratch that, it's /pouring/!                      |
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| (Yes, I clearly have a _lot_ to say.)                                       |
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| "the frantic pace of modern life" ::                   [2005-06-01 02:53AM] |
|                                                                 mood: tired |
|                                                           music: lila downs |
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| These last few days have been hectic. Gah.                                  |
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| Going to crawl to bed now, and pass out.                                    |
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| "pragmatism, not idealism?" ::                         [2005-05-24 08:54PM] |
|                                                    music: Madeleine Peyroux |
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| News of the day: apparently, I'm "very forceful" in my opinions, "almost    |
| aggressive". No kidding. I tend to be very binary, on a lot of matters --   |
| things either are or aren't, there's not in betweens. And if they aren't    |
| (and should be!), something has to be done, quickly. I don't like to        |
| pussyfoot about, I don't like to waste anyone's time, and I most certainly  |
| don't like to waste mine.                                                   |
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| Time is a very precious thing these days, people seem to have it less and   |
| less. And, incredibly, they seem to be all too keen to wash it down the     |
| plughole.                                                                   |
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| Hence the pragmatism, not idealism. Although not in Thom Yorke's soulless,  |
| drone-like, empty sense.                                                    |
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| "blackout tuesday?" ::                                 [2005-05-24 05:37PM] |
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| Power loss. Again! And during the day... for three hours! ffs               |
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| Weird, isn't it? Not a single outtage since mid September, and now two of   |
| them, over two hours long each, all in a single week. Gotta love the odds   |
| of that!                                                                    |
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| I need bigger UPS's. Strike that, what I need is a diesel generator.        |
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| Urgh.                                                                       |
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| "Tiger, it's grrreat." ::                              [2005-05-20 00:59AM] |
|                                                       music: Chiara Civello |
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| Well, that was quick.                                                       |
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| calvin:~ nuno$ uname -a                                                     |
| Darwin calvin.itsari.int 8.1.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.1.0: Tue May 10      |
| 18:16:08 PDT 2005; root:xnu-792.1.5.obj~4/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh       |
| powerpc                                                                     |
|                                                                             |
| So, the pristine install of 10.4 lasted exactly one week. Are we going to   |
| get 8.2.0 next thursday? Stay tuned!                                        |
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| ;-)                                                                         |
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| "electricity, a shocking lack thereof" ::              [2005-05-16 03:06PM] |
|                                                           music: coco rosie |
|                                                                             |
| Gah. Massive power outtage during the night, my poor brave little UPS's     |
| valiantly survived between 52 and 64 minutes but, in the end, they all      |
| died sometime around 5AM GMT. Bollocks. Most of my boxes hadn't been        |
| rebooted since November, eris for example had over 170 days of uptime.      |
|                                                                             |
| Since I'll probably be brewing new kernels for them all, to make the most   |
| of this downtime, maybe now is the perfetct time to try swsusp (suspend to  |
| disk, in linux speak). Hopefully next time they'll suspend nicely, instead  |
| of simply halting/dying (and thus preserving the uptime). Let's see how     |
| well it copes with machines other than laptops -- my only experience with   |
| swsusp on anything other than a laptop is on my AMD64 desktop, which        |
| happens to Just Work (eh, um, isn't that Micro$oft's motto?). But, since I  |
| don't have anything that isn't plain, boring, ordinary hardware, my hopes   |
| are high. The only bits that may put a spanner in the works are RAID and    |
| LVM... Well I sure hope it doesn't decide to eat my backups server ;-)      |
| Maybe I should ask around, first.                                           |
|                                                                             |
| But, back to ranting, I really hate Endesa. Truly.                          |
|                                                                             |
| Oh, and by the way, in case you haven't noticed, I added a new rss feed to  |
| itsari.org yesterday. In between two loads of laundry (you do your laundry  |
| on sundays, don't you?) on an otherwise dull and rainy afternoon, I hacked  |
| on the old rss generator a bit, now it tracks down the images section as    |
| well. If, for any really mysterious reason I can't possibly begin to        |
| understand you have any interest in it, go to http://itsari.org/images.rss  |
| Have fun.                                                                   |
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| And it's still raining.                                                     |
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