Stu's Rusty Bucket

Sunday, April 27, 2003

Starting the day.

Well its Sunday morning, 8am, and I’m doing support for work. fun. Daily sales figures fell over, so no reports went out to the top brass of the company…

And my parents landed safe and sound in Melbourne at 4:30am.

So the two things balance out, but still… an auspicious start to the day..

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11:20am… my morning is gone. Support just finished.. Finally got the reports out.. aaaaaaaaargh. what a waste of a sunday morning :(

With a wasted afternoon comes.. DVD!

So apart from doing the washing and vacuuming, this wasted afternoon was spent in glorious slobola land. Watching movies..

This afternoon we had;
Breakfast Club
Sixteen Candles
Fast Times and Ridgemont High

tonight will proably be;
Goonies

I’m in an 80s flashback mood today…

Its a shame Pretty In Pink is not out on DVD here in the UK

Tuesday, April 22, 2003

Which character in a John Hughes movie are you?

I’m......... Clark W Griswold! aAAAaaaaaaarrrrrrrgh!

To link it (the actual code):

Play here at LiquidGeneration

Sunday, April 20, 2003

Anagrams

Bored, I ran my name through an anagram thing..

Some results…

GREASE ROTGUT or ROTGUT GREASE (maybe thats a name for my whisky...)
SURROGATE GET (ooh an illigitimate kid...)
ROGUE TARGETS (straight out of a George W speach… maybe I’m part of the axis of eeeeeevil)
OUTSTARE GREG (hmm I dont know any gregs.. I must be carefull If I run into some...)

The 80s

Scary.. I’ve been listening to the 80’s channel on shoutcast all day.. It brings back memories of movies like Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles and so on.. oh man.. A child of the 80s / GenX’er..

Anyway, Club977 is here…

Saturday, April 19, 2003

Hosts

Sigh.. Its time.. Time to move hosts. I hate moving hosts, it involves too much uncertainty and poor research.

I need to move mega-tokyo.com to a new hosting provider since my current one sucks ass. I have two contenders but I neither have 100% of what I want, so I have to compromise. This is the bit that I hate. I can never find what I want at a reasonable price....

Oh well… At least this move should hold me over for another couple of years hopefully…

more updates as things happen…

Underworld

Oooh I just watched a new trailer for ‘Underworld’. looks pretty awesome. Very matrix-esque (for good or bad...)
Underowlrd Trailer (high quality windows media player)

Monday, April 14, 2003

Holday in Cambodia, It’s tough kid, but it’s life.

Well, I’m back from my cross country jaunt, of driving my parents around the country… So many thoughts buzzing in my head, so much stuff…

The first thing is, my laptop ATE 15 of my photos from my digital camera! AAAAARGH! bastardaa! I lost all my photos of Bath, Roman baths, ruins, Bath Abbey, Stonehenge and some of Stratford-opon-Avon (Shakespears house, etc)…

Boy am I pissed… but I still have my memories…

Driving was fun, I feel like a rally driver now. Driving outside of London is fine, but London SUCKS. down gear, up gear, down gear, up gear. aargh.

Britain needs to get a grip on this concept called ‘signposting’, because there is a huuuge lack thereof, and whats there is shit and confusing. Its really apalling…

Apart from that, the holiday was great.
Drove from London to Cambridge, to York, Warwick, Stratford Opon Avon, Bath, Stonehenge, London…

Will write more as I make a bit more cohesive sense of it all…

Name Tags to Riches

I was checking my email and saw this in a signature… quite apt!

If you go to work and your name is on the door, you’re rich. If your name is on your desk, you’re middle class. If your name is on your shirt, you’re poor

Dont know where it comes from, but works well with todays western buy-me society.

Monday, April 07, 2003

Driving the olds around

Well, on Tuesday I’m off driving around England. Taking my folks sight-seeing.

I’ve rented a car. Its been two years since I’ve driven a car, and its been 4 years since I’ve driven a stick. Its not like you forget, but its going to be fun none-the-less. :D

My first task is to drive from one side of london to the other! Lucky it wont be peak hour but sheesh! What a nightmare!!

I’ll be gone for 12 days.. so no updates till I get back.

Wednesday, April 02, 2003

Essential Guide to Speaking Hip-Hop Street Slang

More drivel from the London Evening Standard.
My Boo’s all That :: My boyfriend/girlfried has a lot of good qualities
Yo flava is bad :: I like your style
Bo Selector! The Jam is Live! :: Good selection! That piece of music is great!
Chill Brother, Hes clamiing. Its all gravy :: Relax my friend, He’s not telling the truth. Its fine
Scrap a lick :: Pup up a fight
Marinate :: Relaxt, hang out.
He’s Ill :: He’s strange, acting strangly. Can also mean really good
Lime :: Gathering of friends and/or family.
Fa shizzie :: For Sure.

Free Interbase DB Server

Well with the open-sourcing of Interbase 6, here is the link . High quality SQL server. Triggers, Stored Procs, Journalig. (Windows, Linux, Solaris, etc) Source and Binaries.

Tuesday, April 01, 2003

yawn

I really hate all the poor april fools attempts. Every tech news site I went too had several, all so poorly done, I didnt even bother..

I’m done, stick a fork in me.