History of Everything is a song by The Bare Naked Ladies and has been loved by me for the past two years as the theme song of The Big Bang Theory, the best show on earth, but more on that later. This post can only be done justice by your watching the following video.
A few days ago I got kind of fed up of relying on a free hosting service provided me by my friends at unimatrix-one and shelved out the moneys needed for dreamhost. It's surprisingly little for what you actually get if you ask me.
Upon registering I was offered a free domain to go with the hosting and having no better ideas at the time I did what any geek with a girlfriend would do. I made a domain out of my wench's nickname. Sure, at first I did intend it to be her blog because she is using something completely unfit for a geek's girlfriend, but as she said she doesn't need one I put up a picture of her. She loved the gesture, hates the picture … and that's exactly why I chose that particular one.
As for dreamhost, they seem quite nice so far. Responsiveness is superbly quick and I have more space than I could ever imagine I'd need, with said space increasing weekly, amazing. The monthly, I think it's monthly, transfer is also something I will probably never exceed … and also increases weekly. Should the need ever arise I can even get a dedicated host … lovely.
So yeah, so far I'm pleased with dreamhost and it gave me a fun day, because what better can a geek want than a completely new hosting account to play with and set stuff up?
Well yesterday was the last day of A-levels making it the final day of having to even remotely worry about something high school related. Sure I still have to wait for the results, but that doesn't trouble me much because all I need to be accepted into my chosen university is a pass. My gut tells me I'll get heaps more than just a pass, we'll see.
In the meantime here are somehighspeedwater balloon videos. Quite amazingly awesome, wish my eyes could do high speed.
Open source software is a very interesting thing and I love partaining in it beacuse it's quite simply free experience and learning to become better at what I do. A wonderful deal. It is very understandable that big corporations and some others aren't for open source adn are in fact very much against it. One has to agree, the job of youth is to rebel and the job of the big and powerful is to prevent rebellion.
Having an open source project or two myself I was beginning to look into the licensing part of it. There are obvious problems with GPL as it is a viral license in that it spreads and spreads much like herpes. Every time a project kisses another they instantly both have herpes.
However there are many instances in my own use of my own projects where I directly violate GPL due to deals struck with clients in order to be paid for my work. I am after all developing something for a well defined client according to their specifications and needs. Even though I am allowed to eventually release this into the wild they do not want me to do so immediatelly.
Projects are very difficult to develop when everything has to be buitl from the ground up, so I have some building blocks ready. Due to my own inexperience these are GPL'd and thus potentially dangerous. So far I have gone against the license in order to avoid too much danger, but this is wrong. What is there to do other than find another license you might ask? See, the problem is there are many licenses and all almost completely nonunderstandable to me because they're filled with lawyer garble beyond my comprehension.
The answer is thus to create my own license to fit my needs, but to do this I need someone to put it in lawyer speak. Those somethings cost a lot of money. Therein lies the problem.
Much cannot be said of this impressively huge doggy. The monster is apparently the biggest, or rather the most voluminous, dog in the world according to the Guinnes book of records. The thing is also supposed to have growth capabilities for the next two years.
Found this extremely cool video through Brass Goggles. Not sure what lures me more to it, the lovably quaint style or the pleasurable flow of the song. You can find a version with English subtitles here.
Today I watched the new episode of Pure Pwnage. It was the first in the second season of the show and I would have completely missed knowing of its existance if it weren't for a friendly advertising bulleting on myspace from The Pwnerer himself. Yes, I am in fact such a nerd that I added him as a friend, go figure. Stroke of marketing genious these friendly bulletins.
Anyhow, the episode was quite enjoyable and I have to say I missed the show. It feels much better now, they seem to have gotten some new equipment so the quality is better and Kyle seems to have learned stuff in school because even that part feels better. Or I've just been away from it for too long.
Now what is really condemnable and not very nice of them is that the new episodes cannot be downloaded. They can only be watched as streams in a flash based player which brings a number of bad consequences. One is that the screen saver doesn't automatically turn off as it does when a real player is running. Another is the immense usage of RAM and CPU that simply isn't there with a real player. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing profoundly wrong with that, it's just rather annoying that you have to devote your whole computer to watching a sitcom.
On Monday I went to a little place called Prebold in order to see one of the early performances of the band called Azone. I'm told it's the first with this lineup … after just five rehersals. Good on them I guess.
The band claims their playing was terrible, that it was slow, full of mistakes and downright rotten. But I guess that's for them to know, personally I found it enjoyable and really good. Maybe because I've not heard their playing properly? Who could tell really.
Well this post was supposed to go up last night but I somehow managed to fall asleep watching Sherlock Holmes before the water for tea boiled. Go figure.
Anyway, an interview was filmed with me yesterday and even though it was the first such thing to happen to me, I had quite some fun doing it. It was nothing of the professional sort as was apparent by the whole lack of preparation of both parties and that I somehow wasn't allowed to go into long rambles, which I'd like, but maybe they just weren't eloquent enough. I should really work on my speaking eloquency … When I get it the interview goes up on youtube of course.
Because I feel like it here is also a panoramic shot of my favourite tea house that feeds me tea nigh on every day.
A few days ago I entered a challenge that asks you to take a photo of, preferably, yourself every day for 365 days. So far it's been going on for more than a year but I've only really been doing it for four. And let me just tell you, I'm having a blast. It's anyone's guess right now, but I might eventually incorporate the challenge into this blog.
Read an interesting article over at slashdot today and have to admit I haven't had time to actually read what the article linked to. Whatever all the scientific mumbo jumbo was actually about … it would appear that physicists have finally found some actual backing for my personal long standing theory that reality is in the eye of the beholder. Now any time somebody calls bollocks on my behaviour I can shove scientific theorems in their face to shut them up.
