This may be the most pathetic Christmas ever.

Both my hubby and I are sick. We've both got a terrible stomach flu, and well, it isn't pretty. We've already had to cancel out of festivities tomorrow night, and I don't hold out much hope for Christmas Eve either.

On the bright side, we're catching up on a lot of movies...

A strange thing happened to me yesterday. Not sure what to think about it, or even whether to think about it.

I am working in my hometown's downtown core, which is a rare treat. We have a +15 system here, where many buildings are connected by a whole bunch of 2nd story walkways, to keep us from having to go outside. Often, musicians will set up in the walkways, to play for change.

I couldn't help it, they had a martini bar and a kickass DJ. Nuf said.

I really was watching the girls, and I really have finally learned to be one - not that I'm Paris Hilton or anything, but I'd say I'm firmly in the fat part of the distribution curve now. Being me, I've applied a ridiculous amount of analysis to the process, and I think I've learned a few interesting things:

1. There is a *big* difference between fashion, and style.

fun night.

shit. cant spell straight.... except I love you all... damn I had big thoughts about laying out my last bit of life to you but I can't actually express it cause I 'm too damn drunk.

I'm reading stuff and thinking of you all.

My microdrive in my Palm LifeDrive is dead. Actually it died a while ago, I just haven't had time to even contemplate what to do with it.

I could pay $150 for a fix/replacement from Palm.

OR.....

I'm going to Europe this fall, to speak at a conference! Cool, huh? I'm going to stay for an extra week after, and soak up some culture.

The reason why I can go, is that the company hosting the conference is paying for my airfare & hotel, so it isn't a burden on my company, who just couldn't justify the expense otherwise.

Can I be Heather Armstrong when I grow up? I grinned for an hour after reading this...

Dooce is my HERO

Different server, same web hosting company:

$ uptime
13:16:43 up 1 day, 23:52, 9 users, load average: 949.54, 1004.56, 988.20

I think this one will be tough to beat :)

Pix

Remember the guy who dumped the propane bottle into the campfire and blew it up?

Well he was back at it this July long weekend. This time, the adults appear to have gotten completely wasted on various substances including but most definitely not limited to mushrooms and alcohol, just in time for the fireworks display.

I will try not to belabour this, but I need to put it down.

I recently attended a conference, one of the favorites of my year. I've been attending forever and ever. Last year, one of the speakers was (gasp) female. She is an analyst, smart and pretty and matter-of-fact. She gave a fantastic presentation that didn't mince words, and received a lot of praise for both her content and her style.

Is there such a thing as BSD-licensing for dummies? Because I'd buy it.

I get that this is the license template. Now WTF do I do with it?

I love it when a plan comes together :)

Turns out I was right to worry. So -- there are 3 kinds of partitioning schemes for a disk, when you go to partition, you have to know to click on "options" and then you'll see the three types:

It's sunny - I'm at home listening to music on my stereo, with the back door open and a madras curry bubbling in the crockpot on the other side of the kitchen counter. I'm fixing bugs, staring down the inimitable gullet of C14N xml canonicalization, and smelling the lilacs in bloom.

[eggnog]$ uptime
09:13:22 up 29 days, 1:44, 3 users, load average: 116.15, 94.25, 63.14
[eggnog]$

Seems that it's been 29 days since I last posted uptime for my server :) 10 bucks says they reboot - and here I almost made it a month with no reboots. Best of all, the support site is down too so I can't even whine to the sys-admins.

I'm pretty sure 116 is an all-time worst score for any box I've ever seen...

Hope this isn't too stupid a question:

I've run an rsync backup of my Mac to an external drive, and now I'm trying to prove to myself that my backup is capable of being externally booted in the case of disaster.

I reboot holding down the option key, and I select my external drive as the boot drive -- then the machine comes up and looks identical, regardless of which drive I boot from.