So the new baseball steroid penalties are a 20 game suspension for the first offense, 40 games for the second, and commissioner discretion for the third.

Does that make any sense to you? It doesn’t to me. Any infringement on the rules is a major offense and should follow the guidelines set by the majority of sporting bodies which is: Two years for first offense, lifetime ban for the second. It’s that easy!!

Thunderstorm…it’s loud!!!! It’s FUN!!! May result in downtime if a transformer blows and stuff loses internet connection (everything here is backed up…but…yah know, phone companies may not have power to power lil ol me).

I remember installing Debian on a little ruddy-poo 386 box a few years back. It was tough with all the floppies and lack of pppoe. But those were the days, sweating over a computer in a humid and muggy room.
Things have improved since then, it’s a lot cooler in here, the humidity is low and installation is quick and simple. I barely even had to touch the keyboard and the “trickiest” part was disabling DHCP after I’d installed the system and forgotten to disable it. Even pppoe is installed so

I took a break from programming for a bit and played some Counter Strike Source. Lots of fun as usual especially because superbestfriends were running the Zombie Horde mod which was…tough.
What’s the mod? Well, the Terrorists are zombies that just get knives. The only way you can hurt them is with a head shot…and they have 500 HP (so you need 3 good head shots in a row with an armour piercing bullet). Zombies also regenerate 5 HP/second.
Needless to say the zombies swarm the counter terrorists

Well…that backup script is tested and in place…more to do now!

So the Revolution controller is finally revealed to the public (See it).

There’s a lot of dicussion so I’ll just say…I like it.

In one fell swoop Nintendo has completely taken the wind out of the sails of MS and Sony. What Nintendo is doing is real innovation and I suspect that nextgen will be huge for them.

DH is working away on the box.

I’ve had three games of Ultimate in a row with a lot of running. Legs are sore…but things are…better.

Sorry for the server downtime. I am investigating.

Found a torrent!! One of the greatest matches of all time!

Torrent it now (may require registration)

TBS is showing Encino Man right now. TBS is a conservative station and likes to do things like…censor…cut short…show baseball.
Any how, they cut out approximately 5 minutes of the movie right in the middle. Good thing I was putting the DVD in.

Yes it’s true. The reason is that large parts of Los Angeles lost power today so the transfer stations…yada yada…are probably down.

Production servers are still online for those that have access to them.

Only the main website is down.

Happy 5th Birthday Adam Riff.

So many terabytes of data…soooooo much data…I need to consolidate. The problem with consolidating is that now you have to backup all that data. Le sigh. Here’s a tip kiddies, either don’t get multiple terabytes of data oooooooooooooooorrrrrr…spread your data around.

Do you know how damn long it took? Over a YEAR!!! That’s horrible!! HORRIBLE!

Yes, it took over a year to get Madonna on iTunes Canada…might also have taken that long in the US.

One of the greatest games of tennis just completed.

It was Andre Agassi vs James Blake. Everybody knows Agassi as a great player but Blake entered this tournament as a wild card.

Andre is known as a supremely fit player who grinds the other player down with excellent shots. Blake is incredibly fast and has a powerful forehand. Even given that it seemed to be tilted in Andre’s favour until the game started.

Blake jumped out to a one set lead before Andre powered back with a with three games in the

Yeah, I used to be one of them, but part of being one is that eventually you get to complain about them 🙂
On the way back from Ultimate tonight I say a bunch of Frosh kicking over traffic barrels on to the road. This is unacceptable behaviour for one reason and one reason only: It’s not creative. It’s mindless, anybody can kick over a barrel…there’s nothing constructive about it. Say you’d arranged the barrels or made a curve in the road then there’s creativity to it. Which brings me

Well my entire home network underwent a downtime today thanks to Elmo.
My home network is setup to handle blackouts, brownouts, overheating, and cold. What it isn’t setup to handle is a little dog running and sniffing through the cables indiscriminantly unplugging whatever he sees fit.

Let this be a lesson to ya’ll, document your code and how it works when you write it.
In addition, write complex code because it does indeed work well…but only with documentation.
There was a time I scoffed on documentation but when you start writing large systems that really 20 or 30 people should be working on it’s important to know the general trickery you are engaging in.

Has finally got some class and is showing Tombstone!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😀

In case you didn’t know…one of the bestest films of all time. It’s a Western…it got me going on my Western phase a few months back.