I'm off to sunny Düsseldorf for a long weekend of drunken debauchery. Or not. I'm sure there will be plenty of alcohol, doubtful of any opportunity to get debauched. In any case, you'll be spared my random wibblings for a few days. See ya!
With the new film out soon, the merchandising has been ramping up again including new releases on the confectionery front. For want of anything better to do, here's my overview of the various HP sweets and chocolates I've come across over the last year or so:
...in about 8 1/2 months. Finally took the plunge and signed up for Nimbus 2003 (the temptation of a free "Early Bird" T-shirt did the trick. One can never have too many T-shirts) Flights and hotel reservations can wait until I figure out the details - but I may as well make the most of it and go for a few extra days. The Babylon 5 convention I went to back in '97 was one of the most fun weekends of my life, so I'm hoping that this will be just as good. Of course, there's the bit where I have to tell the boss why I want the time off, but then again I had to bring up the B5 convention at my interview, so...
Yes, I know the subject is over-dramatic, but never mind. I got started on the cooking without any problems, but it all went wrong when I came to do the rice - it comes in one of those laughably "re-sealable" packets (which maybe re-stick once, but never more, and chances are you rip the packet six ways to Sunday when you first open it) - I pull it down from the cupboard and sure enough it got split when I first opened it and rice goes everywhere. By the time I've actually got the rice on, then cleaned up the mess (under-powered vacuum cleaner etc) the food is done - except that the distraction led me to miss out a vital ingredient that I should have added when I put the rice on. Argh!
Oh, the joy of power cuts on a Sunday. I'm looking forward to a nice lazy day doing various stuff on my PC, watching the odd DVD, etc. But no, the electricity cut's me off half way through an episode of Buffy, leaves my laundry stuck in mid-cycle and leaves the server needing a good fscking. Grr.
To add insult to injury, I fall back to a non-electric entertainment - reading - only to have that come to a screeching halt when I find that pages 41-88 have been replaced by duplicates of pages 313-360. Argh!
Dabs today put in their bid for the excessive packaging award with this impressive entry: A 3m DVI-VGA cable. Now this would easilly fit in a fairly small Jiffy bag, but not at Dabs. Oh, no. They have to send things out in boxes. In this case, a box measuring around 24"x18"x6"...
Another fun day in colo-land. Todays hardware rant
(apart from the keyboard with a non-functioning
space-bar - how much use is that?) is the people
at Intel who designed a server with 1 serial port
(RJ-45) which for some reason they made COM2 and
not COM1 as you would expect. Of course, I only
discover this after trying several different
cables (including one I crimped myself). Argh.
OK, that's enough lynx posted LJ for one day. Time
to go home...
