Novelty
Posted: Sat 4 December, 2004 Filed under: Festering Season, General Leave a comment »Amazingly, I’m in Manchester this weekend. I was supposed to be here next weekend too, but that plan has now changed, due to an interview down in Bracknell. Yes, the first interview, and about fucking time too.
Ah joy, a week to *cough* look forward to it.
My lovely hosts
Posted: Fri 3 December, 2004 Filed under: D4D™, Festering Season, Geeky Leave a comment »I use 34sp.com for the hosting of d4d™ (and a few others besides), and all things considered I’ve been bloody impressed with them so far. Service has always been quick and non-patronising, even when it’s turned out that I’m an utter twat when it comes to remembering certain passwords or whatever. (Yes, these things happen, even to me!)
Yesterday I got an email from them, and they’ve increased the webspace on every account. Not just mine – everyones. Now, OK, they’re a hosting company, and obviously disk-space isn’t a hugely expensive commodity for them. But a 30Mb account now is 50Mb. The 75Mb I’ve got (and which I’d recently increased from 50Mb) is now 150Mb.
And I can’t deny – even knowing it will have cost them close to fuck-all – that I’m impressed by that gesture. They’re very, very nice people, the ones at 34sp.
Familiarity
Posted: Fri 3 December, 2004 Filed under: Festering Season Leave a comment »It has to be said, someone (and she knows who she is) knows me far too well…
As with yesterday’s, click to biggify. And yes, the curtain behind it is vile – that’s one of the joys of rented property…
Counting Down The Days
Posted: Thu 2 December, 2004 Filed under: Festering Season, General Leave a comment »Ye Gods, we’re already in December. My last month in Manchester. Time’s flying past. Waiting for agencies to get back to me about jobs is becoming a frustration, and I just want everything to be sorted.
More frustrating is the current work. There’s no particular point in starting any new projects, and it just feels like I’m treading water. I want to move on now, and yet I can’t for another three or four weeks.
But still, I know it’s not long now, and it’s all going to bring 2004 to a good close. And 2005’s definitely going to be an interesting year!
Mystery Object
Posted: Thu 2 December, 2004 Filed under: D4D™, Festering Season Leave a comment »OK then – just for amusement value – what is this?
If you click on the image, you get a bigger version. Lucky you.
Goodwill to all men
Posted: Wed 1 December, 2004 Filed under: Festering Season Leave a comment »How can you tell when it’s truly the start of the Festering Season? That month that’s supposed to be about “Goodwill to all men”, “Peace to the World”, and all that shit?
It’s when you see about Church carol services being cancelled after councillors don’t get the best seats or at least ones they feel is commensurate with their supposed position. It’s when you see that Santa has been banned from appearing in two Leicester hospitals. And it’s when a war memorial gets defaced and covered in pro-Nazi graffiti.
Welcome to Advent.