Posted by Johnnie
Sun, 26 Aug 2007 13:29:00 GMT
I’m writing this from one of the public-access terminals at my local library. It’s a thin client system, which needless-to-say runs Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6. Gah!
Every two minutes, the system tray pops up a balloon to helpfully tell me that A Java update is available. Apparently I also have unused icons on my desktop – click here to clean them up. Every three minutes, that one.
Finally, the most annoying Helpful Windows Prompt™ of all time, Your computer needs to be restarted in order for the new updates to take effect. Restart now? No, Windows! Don’t restart now, thank you very much! In fact, don’t restart at all. As I’m not logged on as an administrator, I don’t have the privileges to restart anyway, so if I clicked the restart button, you’d just tell me I couldn’t. You know it, and I know it, so stop bugging me! Goddam it! Every five accursed minutes!
God, this site looks fugly on IE, doesn’t it? Sorry about that, those who are forced by circumstance to use The Cancer Of The Internet. Those who do so by choice have earned my eternal hatred. I’m not going to fix it – I spend far too much of my life making websites work under IE.
Oh, for heaven’s sake. The restrictions on this computer are crazy. I just tried to open up a second IE window to grab some urls for this post. Apparantly This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Are you kidding me? Two browser windows is too much anarchy for you? Give me a break.
Ah-ha! I’ve just remembered – I’ve got Portable Firefox on a USB stick in my bag. Happy browsing here we come … nope. Can’t use external storage either.
Bollocks to it. I’m going home. There’s a *nix box with my name on it.
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Posted by johnnie
Mon, 09 Apr 2007 08:27:00 GMT
Right. After much to-ing and fro-ing, and hitting mySql with a big stick, I’m back online (only Overman knows the real, rather embarassing, reason that the site was down for so long, and I’m hoping he’ll keep it to himself). Sorry about the downtime there – I know there were thousands of eager readers desperately spamming F5 in a pitiful attempt to bring the site back up. Fear not. We’re rolling.
I seem to have lost a couple of posts through database corruption, but – quite frankly – it’s not a major loss to the literary world. The last post i made before it went a merde seems to have permanently locked itself as private, as well. If you want to read it, you’ll have to register as a site user, and log in. I’m not going to tell you what it was, in a pathetic attempt to tempt you into registering.
At the moment, this site runs on Wordpress, on some cheap hosting that I bought for five pence and a bit of string a couple of years ago. I’ve now got much better dedicated hosting, so I’ll be moving IHS over there when I get a moment. I’ll probably also move from Wordpress to Typo, because I feel more comfortable with Ruby on Rails that I do with PHP.
Anyway, welcome back. Tune in again soon for more witticisms and insightful comments of the high standard that you’ve come to expect.
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Posted by johnnie
Sat, 22 Jul 2006 22:39:00 GMT
Have you noticed how my last three posts have all started with a question? I’m making a stand and breaking that habit right now.
Damn.
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