I haven't updated this page in a few days, nothing terribly interesting has been happening. Yesterday was a public holiday in Auckland too. It was "Auckland annversary day", whatever that is. Still, it ment a day off work so I wasn't about to complain.
My stuff still hasn't arrived, but this could possibly be because I haven't actually bothered to go and withdraw a cheque for $35 to give to the scum sucking pigs. Sorry, I ment the shipping company.

Living in the middle of the city can certainly have it's downfalls. Take last night for example. At about 12:30am some drunken people decided that having a party in the courtyard downstairs would be a fun thing to do. Normally that wouldn't be such a bad thing, but on a Monday night? When everyone had to get up and to go work on Tuesday? I'm suprised no one complained, I...

It hasn't been much of a day today. At least I didn't manage to crash routers and break things like I did yesterday. Cisco have even promised that the new software I downloaded will fix everything. Well, they didn't quite promise. In fact the email I got from them was so non-commital that I'm wondering if the 6am upgrade tomorrow morning isn't going to go totally belly up. I'll wait and see...

I think tomorrow (Friday) is the TripleJ hottest 100 day. Damn I wish I was home. At least I can listen to it via the TripleJ website streaming. Somehow I doubt I'll be getting a real lot of work done tomorrow.

I'm sitting at work at the moment while our ATM circuit to Wellington gets upgraded. And it's not going well. ATM is the spawn of the devil. For those that don't know it's a way of connecting...

Well it seems everyone in my world at the moment has gone diet mad. My flatmates are both on the Liver Cleansing Diet. Personally I think if anyone needs a liver cleansing diet it's me. Probably more the "Bring you Liver back from the point of death" would be a better diet! (Just kidding Mother...)

If that's not crazy enough the guys here at work are on a weird diet. I'm not sure exactly what it's called, but it seems that drinking beer and eating steak is allowed, but eating bread isn't. Seems like a weird diet to me but they claim it's working. Anyway, the diet the girls are on comes out of the Liver Cleansing Diet book, which also has a bunch of recipies in it. And it just so happened to be my turn to cook last night, so it was to this book I resorted...

No title today, because I couldn't think of one at all. I thought about it for five minutes then just thought "naaa, fuck it!"



Apologies to all the people who read this website for that foul language. Oh, hangon, no one reads this shite anyway do they?

I got given a laptop today, which is good. I was just starting to think about maybe getting a computer for home, but I don't need to now. Now if anything breaks at work at some terrible hour I can stay in bed and fix it. Unless the reason the machine broke is because it has smoke coming out of it or something. Then it might be a bit beyond help. I think I'm ranting again.

I hope everyone checked out the Travers and the Fan incident. The things that people get up to when they're really drunk after a bucks night. I've...

It's Johnnie's (my dad) birthday today, so make sure you click here to send him a big Happy Birthday email.

Not much interesting happened today. Got into work at 5:30am, that's always fun. At least the upgrade went smoothly and there were no dramas.

Someone sent me the following email today. It is an email that was sent to the tech support address of an ISP in Hobart. This is just too funny....

Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 23:23:49 +1100



From: XXX



To: "'support@xxxx.xxx.xxx.xx'"



Subject: Customer complaint

Dear Support,

Below is a sample tracert to a specific address that I regularly visit. In


viewing my tracert details you may look at the fact that there is only a


400ms transition between the 2 points but in real time it relates to


somewhere between 1 and 2 minutes of total time to send a command and


receive a result. This is...

Went to Mike's (workmate) 21st lastnight. A great time, with some of the best "I'm totally drunk but can still manage a funny speech" speeches I've ever seen. Or heard. Or something like that anyway. Like the title says, I'm hungover and grumpy.

So I'm in at work because I have to come in tomorrow morning at 6am and play swap cards in and out of routers. Always a totaly riot as I'm sure you can imagine, esp at 6am in the morning.

They need StarBucks in Hobart. Sure, it's just a big evil company like McDonalds, but unlike McDonalds what they sell (coffee) is actually very very tasty. You can get 1/2 litre of tasty coffee for $5. Probably a bit expensive, but remember that's NZ dollars which doesn't really count. Or something. Again, I'm hungover and I'll rant all I want. Even if it doesn't really make sense...

Sorry if you had trouble getting to this page yesterday/today. Someone had a little bit of "finger trouble" down in Wellington, and the DNS entry for muffin was removed. It's been fixed now (obviously, if you're reading this) and shouldn't happen again.

So it's the Big Day Out today, and what a magical day it is too. Not a cloud in the sky, perfect warm weather (13 degrees at 9:00am) and I'm here stuck at work. Complain moan. Oh well.

TiM

The new photos are online, all with comments too, so you can understand WTF is going on in some of them.

Check them out here

Someone sent this joke to me today, and it's too funny not to post here.

An Australian ventriloquist visiting New Zealand, walks into a small


village and sees a local sitting on his porch patting his dog. He figures


he'll have a little fun, so he says to the Kiwi "Can I talk to your dog?"

Villager: "The dog doesn't talk, you stupid Aussie."

Ventriloquist: "Hello dog, how's it going mate?"

Dog: "Doin' all right."

Villager: (look of extreme shock)

Ventriloquist: "Is this villager your owner?" (pointing at the villager)

Dog: "Yep"

Ventriloquist: "How does he treat you?"

Dog: "Real good. He walks me twice a day, feeds me great food and takes


me to the lake once a week to play."

Villager: (look of utter disbelief)

Ventriloquist: "Mind if I talk to your horse?"

Villager: "Uh, the horse doesn't talk either....I think."

Ventriloquist: "Hey horse, how's it going?"

Horse...

On Saturday the 13th of January Chris and Simone got married!! It was a really nice day, perfect for a perfect wedding. And I was lucky enough to be the best man...

The day started off with me saying goodbye to Chris at about 9am so I could go down to the sailing club and get a quick sail or 2 in before I had to go back to the wedding. I know it's traditional to spend the whole day with the groom when you're the best man, but it was the only chance I was going to get to go sailing and I wasn't about to pass it up.

It was a perfect day down at the sailing club, and I went for a pretty good (if not too short) sail with Rob on his boat Wild Thing. It wasn't really windy enough to get a good blast, but...