Archive for April, 2005

manipulat0r

Saturday, April 30th, 2005

I realized something … last month, the bank sort of screwed me. I moved money out of my credit card balance into the checking balance on the 29th or so to pay for rent. Then the bank compounded interest on the credit card, which brought it to about $0.60 over the limit. Then they slapped [...]

hard drive redux

Thursday, April 28th, 2005

/anime/1 is dying. I’m moving the last stuff off of it to retire it. So long, 200 gig western digital noisy-dying drive. /anime/4 is retired. So long, error-throwing maxtor drive. Glad I deleted a lot of stuff I didn’t want, ’cause with the stuff on /anime/1 moving into the free spaces, I’ve just barely got [...]

hobbies

Wednesday, April 27th, 2005

I was sitting here reading an animesuki thread, and sort of feeling the thread poster’s feelings — namely “I’m sort of getting tired of most anime”. And read the responses, and of course there’s the typical “you’re just not watching the right anime” coming from like 20 different people and spins. And I got to [...]

suse+oracle (terminal), ubuntu

Tuesday, April 26th, 2005

So, in the end, I spent almost a week with suse and oracle, trying to figure out how to use it, or get it to simply start cleanly. And then when I was realizing that it was a complete failure and that I’d have to delete it all and start over, my boss mentioned something [...]

free space, lifestyle choice

Tuesday, April 26th, 2005

So I’ve been thinking. I freed up a fair lot of space in my room, as I said. I’ve been itching for a recliner, which is a pretty optimal place to do reading and such (which is why I want it, I haven’t had a place I could sit comfortably and read or play console [...]