Next Friday I am going to Lisbon with a guy from work and a friend of his to see Tool. Well … Tool is not playing until Sunday but we are going on Friday anyway. Hopefully we will find a nice cheap place to stay and some nice bars with some good beer. :)
Yesterday was not a good day for me. My gateway and development machine called starcrow (Jan Cogo’s spaceship) have had some problems lately, so some weeks ago I ordered a new machine that will replace it. There are some issues with the chipset on the mainboard on the new computer and linux, so I have not been able to get it up yet (not like that you perv!). I was kinda hoping that my old gateway would live a bit longer.
Yesterday I was coding away when I suddenly heard some pretty f*cked up noises from the basement where starcrow is. Suddenly I lost my internet connection and the fans on starcrow went silent. It turns out that the system disk on starcrow died a horrible death. I was kinda expecting this so I was still calm.
When I moved to my new apartment this summer I was moved to another provider and I got a new IP address and I had to use another gateway and bla bla bla. I could not remember all this, so I thought I could just connect to the internet using my mobile phone so I could set up my laptop to connect directly instead of via my now deceased gateway. I rebooted my laptop to get into windows (I have not set up the bluetooth stuff in linux yet) and then I saw some strange error messages fly by. I had to boot into linux again to see what was going on, and now something really scary happened… I could not mount anything because I could not write to /etc/mtab … WTF?! I kinda panicked and did not know what to do. I managed to get the laptop I got from work online and asked Mats (you know him as the guy who invented the Web 2.0 term) for some help. After some stupid questions later we kinda figured that the / partition was somewhat f*cked. I fired up a rescue cd and ran reiserfsck on the / partition and it said I had to use the –rebuild-tree option to fix the partition. That was fine I thought since I could just mount another partition to back up the important stuff on /… oh wait … /etc/mtab is not writable, so I could not mount anything. :( Beeing the wild child that I am I just went for it! I ran reiserfsck with the –rebuild-tree option without any backup and lo, everything went fine. :)
Hopefully I will get my new shiny gateway online soon!
Picked up something called The Dock along with a couple of pod speakers (Micropod SE) today. :) Finally I can have some music in my bedroom (I like to listen to music when I sleep)
I noticed a rather fun fact about the term “Web 2.0″ today. Check out the Trivia part of uncyclopedia’s Web 2.0 article.
Some minutes ago I heard some noices outside… I walked over to the door and then I could hear Stratos outside! The first thing to do once inside is to eat like a maniac, drink some water and then take a dump in the litter box. :)
The good news first (with a hint of bad):
I received my iPod today along with the iSkin case which did not fit properly on the 80GB model. :(
Then the bad news:
Stratos (one of my cats) has been gone a couple of days which has never happened before. :( I hope she is back when I get home from work today.
Edit: Another thing to add on the bad news side … I got a new machine yesterday that will replace my server at home, but it turns out that the chipset on the mainboard is not fully supported by the kernel that debian uses, so I can’t install that either… wohoo!
I went for a walk with my camera earlier today and managed to take some pictures. You can check them out in my gallery. I took some pictures of my junior high school. As you might see the school is abandoned now. I also took some pictures of my cats. :)
I have several other photos that I have taken with my new camera that I have still not uploaded! More to come! :)
Just got back from the post office. I got a note in the mail today telling me that a package had arrived at the local post office. I thought it was the iPod I ordered earlier this week so I drove straight there and picked it up. The package was kinda large and heavy but I was obsessed with the iPod so I did not think about it. When I got home and opened it , the package contained a box from Amazon… Then I remembered that I ordered some books a while ago! :) The books I got was:
all by Stephen R. Donaldson. I also got Extending and Embedding PHP by Sara Golemon. Hopefully I will get the Ipod early next week. :)
Received a bunch of new cd’s from cdon today. :) Nice to have some “new” music in the shelves. I like to download mp3’s and stuff, but I usually end up buying the albums anyway. Some albums I buy might be stuff I had a long time ago but have “lost” or borrowed to friends and forgotten about. At least I am not that eager to let people borrow my cd’s anymore. :) The stuff I got today was:
Also got the Alice in Chains - MTV Unplugged DVD.
As you might see I have very varied music taste. :) Some of the albums listed above are Norwegian stuff.
Just found a nice clip on youtube of Greg Graffin(vocalist and co-founder of Bad Religion) doing Sorrow acoustically. Check it out, sounds very nice. :)
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