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Well well well...

Its been a while, hasnt it…

And many a thing hath ‘gone down’ hehe.

For one, I got a job, spent two months walking to work through the English countryside and creating a Sonar program in C#.

After which I spent around a month doing very little, apart from screwing with my server so now it doth-not work.

And for most of that month (from the weekend that I finished work to about 2 weeks ago) my internet was down/flakey as hell. On the Saturday after I finished work, our phoneline got struck by lightning. Our phoneline magically gained a massive dose of intermittent static. It took 5 phone calls to my ISP, 3 of their technicians and 2 BT technicians to fix it. Eventually they replaced the ancient wiring between our house and the pole, and after that it was pretty much clean.

Whilst I was with no nets, I read a selection of books, including Alastair Reynolds’ epic in Relevation Space, and then the Old Kingdom trilogy by Garth Nix which I thoughtfully enjoyed. I then headed for the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini, reading the last book, Brsinger, for the first time.

After getting back web-side I caught up with my feeds, which were OVER 9000!…only kidding, though they were probably close to 5k, with at least 2k of which being tech-news. And over 300 were comics, which was great, I laughed for a prolonged period

I also re-discovered Dragonmount and their spam boards, upon which I met some great people. Upon one of which this post was inspired and is dedicated to. Her nickname is Meesh, and her caricature a squirrel. She spammed with me, and I spammed with her. (Now I know what your thinking…but alas! Twas not so! :D )

We added each other upon MSN and became avid chatterers, both major WoT fanatics (obviously) and also great fans of fantasy fiction in general. Her in love, and in a LDR, me in not very much at all. She a fresh(wo)man starting courses in many interesting subjects, me a computer-science and maths second-year. Her interested in psychoanalysis, me in need of a shrink ( :P ). So yeah, we have been talking quite a bit for about a month and a bit.

Then she comes on today and starts saying stuff like “you’re awesome” and “its been great” and I am like…”shıt, she thinks I fancy her, or I am being overbearing or something”. It turns out that would have been a simpler situation, and at least one I would have experience in dealing with. Lets just say she has now got me blocked pending a time upon which she stops considering me a threat upon her welfare. That sounds so bad, but dont worry, it was I that suggested it. I cant help but feel responsible in part to this, due to my over-enthusiastic (maybe??) complementation of her…Ahh well, I am happy to wait as long as she isnt unhappy :)

Not been here for a while

Yeah, the internet has gotten seriously boring for me…kinda. Twitter has stopped being so awesome, and I have no real sites to visit. I still track changes on SC4D but thats really out of habit rather than enjoyment.

I started reading Saga of the 7 Suns again (after a restbite period over the holidays) and was amazed at what I had forgotten. SPOILERS:

• Reynald dies? :o I could remember the other brother dying but not Reynald :(
• The heroism of the old Adar was pretty awesome.
• loads of other stuff.

I read most of book 2 this week, and am now a good part way through book 3 :D

I also found git-php and “branched” it, taking the main file decompression bits from it, as I couldnt work out how to do it without the removal of the first two “characters” from the filecontents. I also think I might use a git-php thing to power ClassyCMS: Each document/page/thing is stored in xml file, but instead of having the hash the name of the file, just contain the whole thing in a —bare git repo. might work nicely :D

the 3rd age....

Maybe I am going over the top by far…. but it feels like this maybe the 3rd distinct part of my relationship with the internet.

First there was slownet, the5thrace, spacis, carolynf and sifichronicals. lots of stuff transpired. I got banned from someplaces and others disapeard.

Second came Banning, SC4Devotions and SC4E. I rebuilt my place on the internet after the devistating end of the first part. I expanded into Dragonmount, XKCD and other places for a short while. This proved unsustainable and thus came to an end this chrismas. My dedication to the wiki stopped. I got bored of an activity that I had given 10000 posts of my internet too, and countless hours of time. I stopped wanting to talk to my friends that I banned with. The money I spent on subscribing to these places was wasted, my time spent as a sub could not stop me from becoming, as a friend put it, bored. TeenLUG/TeenLinux and #leesykate were fun, had nice time with them.

Now I am still visiting SC4D and intermitently PS3F. But I have moved on, to Twitter and blogging.

more coming…..