Ocram’s Blog

Wow, thanks Apple. That’s a really descriptive error message. What does it mean? “New iPhone out, time to upgrade!”?

I never managed to solve my original problem with proprietary ATI drivers, but I have open source drivers which support 3D on my card now anyway (well, in theory anyway, I haven’t tested it yet.)

I’m pleasantly surprised by Arch Linux so far, even if I have basically just been following walkthroughs to get the system up and running. It really shows how much bloat you get with typical Linux distributions.

I love the fact that the Uwe Boll article on Wikipedia has a section on financing, answering the question that anybody who has ever seen a film that has has directed – “Who the hell paid to make this crap?”

And if the utilised loophole was closed, how does he still get funding? Put me in contact with these idiots people – I’m sure I could shit out a better film for less than ten million dollars .

The smug bastards who post in every discussion where online advertising is even tangentially involved about how they never see any ads due to the wonders of Adblock Plus.

Make me an extension to block those motherfuckers.

Apparently I’m solely responsible for the downfall of the British Empire and the current state of the UK economy. I didn’t ask how.

For somewhere I claim not to like, I manage to put in a hell of a lot of unpaid hours there. I managed 10 and a half today instead of the nine I was paid to do (8.5 if you want to get technical). :duh:

All throughout my time off, I’ve gone to sleep/woken up at strange hours. I went from waking up at midday to falling asleep at midday, and all the times between then. Of course, the day before I went back, I had to wake up at 4PM. So althroughout the night I couldn’t sleep, until I finally drifted off around 6, a whole 90 minutes before my alarm went off. And still managed to wake up 5 minutes before it went off, and actually get out of bed instead of falling asleep again, which never happens.

Being my first day back, I wanted to be there on time, so I left 25 minutes minutes early for a journey that normally takes 10-15. Upon getting there, I found that I was an hour early, as I was due to start at 9:45 instead of 8:45.

Today was incredibly hectic, and normally I would end up completely stressed by this time. We’re have almost a 3 week backlog of jobs, and the times promised to customer apparently range anywhere between next day and 10 days, so most of the people I dealt with today were pissed off that 3 weeks after bringing their machine in they still haven’t heard from us. As per a typical day, I didn’t get anything done that I wanted to and I left 30 minutes late because I want to get a 20 minute job finished that I didn’t have time for during the day and I thought I would be playing it safe my saying tomorrow than trying to get it done today. At the moment I feel fine, apart from my legs aching like a motherfucker, I’m possibly ready to fall unconscious at any moment. How long it will last though, I don’t know. I really think I need to take a week off every three months or so. And one of those times I will actually do something or go somewhere. Honest.

What exactly the point of this post is I don’t know… :-P

While I was outside having a cigarette, one of my neighbours asked me whether I was cold standing outside in only a t-shirt. Rather than saying good morning, or no, I starting looking at my arm in fascination, completely unintentionally, like it had been grafted onto my body by some unknown person during the night. :wacko:

Other than that, I think that last night was the first night in months that a) I’ve slept for 8 hours straight and b) I’ve woken up when the sheets and pillows aren’t strewn across the room.