LTYER
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Interesting Statistics
May 13th
So the above are the stats for the “views” per day on my blog.
May 4th was the day after the Spirit jailbreak was released. I had over 200 views on my blog post regarding jailbroken iphone apps.
May 9th was the day I took down that blog post as it was irrelevant and that post was subject to a lot of attention by spammers.
May 15th was the day that people stopped visiting the jailbroken iphone apps blog entry. I more or less singlehandedly killed 50% of my page views.
Not that I care anyway.
This game is chess, not checkers
May 11th
Some people start playing chess young. Some are late starters and are stuck with checkers.
Poor naive souls.
How do you tell?
The kids kissing the teacher’s ass are all playing chess.
The kids working their butts off, keeping quiet, doing their homework are playing checkers.
People play to win. I play to win. You don’t get anything for losing, perhaps the sympathies of those around you…if you’re lucky.
Playing checkers is easy.
The ultimate goal is clear.
There’s always a clear winner.
Chess…not so clear.
I still have a rook, bishop and knight. I can’t see my pawns, blinded, but they’re there…sitting on the baseline. The offence is strong, my defence is weak.
Will my pawn reach the other end?
Staubach 1975
Just another dream
May 9th
I’m awake. Alarm hasn’t gone off yet. What time is it?
8:30am.
*Checks emails*
Nothing.
I should just go back to sleep.
What if…
Hey I wonder what happened…oh…wait…it was just another dream.
I know now how Cypher feels.
Walk away
May 6th
12:35am
Close that tab.
But…
Don’t hit enter. Don’t. You can’t handle it.
Backspace. Backspace. Backspace.
No. Rewording it isn’t going to help.
Backspace. Backspace. Backspace.
Press it.
Command-W
Breathe. Just breathe.
But what if?
No. Ideas are always nice. Reality…
…
It’ll pass.
How do you know?
It always does
What if it doesn’t?
It will
I hate you.
No you don’t.
I don’t care.
Yes you do.
What does it feel like?
What?
You know…
You tell me…
3:51am
So how did it go?
You should know…you were there
Well?
We’ll see…
I’ll help you just this once…
May 4th
Hey John!
I haven’t spoken to you for ages! How’s it all going? Are you still working at IBM? How’s uni? You’re doing IT right? So are you graduating soon? Wow that sounds awesome. Hey look, I know this is a bit out of the blue but I was wondering if you can help me out. My computer doesn’t work! Like it’s all broken! I’ve even tried turning it off and on but the same thing happens!
Do you have any idea what’s going on? In fact can you come over and fix it? Or perhaps I can bring it to you.
Also I need the latest copy of Windows, have you got that? Maybe I can grab it off you. Be better if you can give it to me when it’s most convenient for me. Can you also help me install it? Cause inserting a dvd into my dvd drive and then following the onscreen instructions is just waaay too difficult for me.
My brother also managed to get a virus on his computer. I installed like a billion anti-spyware and anti-virii software but they don’t do anything! What’s going on?! Do I need to format? How do I do that? What about my data, should I back them up? What if I get the virii again?
My cousin is also thinking of buying a new laptop! What laptop should he get? What do you mean what does he want? He just wants a laptop. For what? For everything! No that laptop is too heavy. No, that laptop is too small, that one doesn’t have a graphics card, and that one is too expensive, maybe this one but it looks ugly. Maybe you can compile a list of laptops for me? Thanks!
One more thing, when you bring back my computer can you also pick up my dry cleaning? It’s on the other side of town but I’m sure you’ll manage.
Thank you so much! You’re so awesome!
We should catch up some time!
Person X
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Disclaimer: Person X is TOTALLY fictional. True story.
To OS X
Apr 30th
So I’ve finally made the switch to OS X completely. Now my main monitor is connected to my laptop whilst my 2nd monitor is connected to my PC.
PC is more or less a file “server”.
Here is a pic of my tri-display. Generally I get the “wow that’s so cool” response from girls. When it comes to guys though I get the “meh” response. Guys seem to turn everything into a competition regarding the size of their penis.
“Well I had a longer penis tri-display earlier!”
“Have you seen blah’s penis displays?”
“My penis size display setup could be as awesome as that…I just choose not to”
Guys, it’s okay, it’s not a competition.
Oh and 10 points for the first person to get the reference in the picture. There’s actually 3 references…but I’m thinking of one in particular. So if you want to guess, leave a comment 
I have my keyboard/mouse setup through synergy. So basically, my mouse keyboard is still connected to my PC but I can control my macbook seamlessly. Cool huh? (IT Guys: No not really, I’ve done that like a billion times before)
Then I had a problem. Whenever someone used the wireless, synergy would just lag hardcore. Bummer. Solution? Bridge the connection between my Mac and PC. I always wondered “Why the hell does my PC have two lan ports?!”. Today I was grateful I had two. Sharing my internet connection in Windows was extremely easy. A couple of clicks and *poof* internet on the mac. Now there’s no lag. Happy days!
I now need to work out how to get the keyboard shortcuts and extra mouse buttons working in OS X.
Command-tab should also need to be fixed, likewise for the behaviour of the “Home” and “End” keys. Driving me insane.
Did you find any of the above funny/interesting?
If you got this far without losing interest then I’m pretty impressed, so here’s some non-IT stuff.
I told a particular someone that if I were to fail honours, I would not regret it. Why? Well, I could still graduate with Computer Science and Technology (Advanced). “But then wouldn’t you have wasted a whole year?” they asked.
No. I’ve met more people this semester than I have for the past 2 years. No joke. It’s probably due to the fact that I actually a joined a society outside of IT. Through meeting people you learn a lot, things that you will never realise by yourself.
I also realised my perception of people changes really quickly. Within a couple of minutes I went from “This guy seems like a douchebag” to “This kid is actually pretty cool”. I’m not too good with first impressions but it’s a good thing, I like surprising myself when people turn out different to what I expected.
Anyway, I’m tired going to sleep.
I wish you would stop confusing me.
Carpet
Apr 28th
I woke up this morning to my alarm clock on the other side of the room. Why is it on the other end? Too tired to care, I strutted across the room and turned it off, brought it to my bed and checked my emails like I usually do. Went back to bed thinking “Thank god it’s a Saturday!”.
It’s not Saturday. It’s Wednesday. I work on Wednesdays. Fuck…it’s cold. Now I remembered why it was on the other side of the room…so I would have to get up to turn it off…
Somehow managed to crawl myself out of bed and put on my fat boy pants. God I love my fat boy pants.
I caught up with Tim for lunch today. Haven’t seen him since…oh God…like end of uni last year?!
Has it really been that long?
I think I’m going to write up a simple “webapp” and host it on my site. I’ll add people to the list and then specify the last time that we’ve “caught up”. It’ll be sorted by time and will be colour coded to see how many people I haven’t bothered keeping in touch with. Then I will call them up one at a time and meet with them Isn’t that a nice idea? *adds to list of random projects to do*
So I was talking to Tim about the usual stuff we used to talk about. It was nice.
Towards the end when we had to go he said something that was quite interesting.
Apparently, God spoke to him during our little meeting. He said “carpet” but Tim wasn’t 100% sure.
God may work in mysterious ways but really? Throw me a bigger bone here.
You know, I’ve only really ever “prayed” once. When you’re desperate you do anything right? But nothing happened.
Who knows?…only You do right?
