I have been missing in action for the last 3 or so weeks… not returning friend's calls and emails, declining offers of dinner, drinks and parties, barely leaving the house except for the necessary trips to the bottleshop 100m down the road. I need not for friends or parties or anything because I have a new love*.
Here she is, Miss Servebot;
That is her on the desk behind the laptop, all naked and shit. She is a PII, 333Mhz, 196MB RAM with 100Gb disk space, not much in desktop terms but plenty for any immediate serving needs. I spent 3 weeks installing Linux (Debian), making mistakes, reinstalling, configuring and firewalling, reinstalling, etc… and now she sits, headless, in the storeroom just outside my bedroom.
At the moment Servebot is just a test Apache/PHP/MySQL server for web design, and she takes care of my music downloads while I sleep (this morning I woke up to 1.7Gig of new Disco-Funk tracks… best Valentine's Day present ever). Eventually she will act as a centralised mp3 server/downloader for our house and sometime after that I’ll open up some webpages to the interweb, including the long awaited premium-$25/mth-members-only webcam of Kilbot’s bedroom (Jerry gets a month free because he bought the first Kilbot Factory shirt never to be made, which is still coming by-the-way).
So anyways, that’s what I did on my summer holidays. I hope that answers some of your questions.
*Love may turn out to be infatuation.
Hola,
I will soon be contacting various artists individually to inform them that Aid for Asia will be pushed to April.
Due to the number of tsunami related fund-raising activities going on at the moment, we figured it would be advantagteous to stage our event in April - when there will still be a pressing need for funds but less publicity surrounding it.
We still intend to distribute funds to Red Cross, Oxfam and Sewalanka. It looks likely that the Hyde Park Hotel will be the venue.
Thanks to Ando, KL, Nuno Van Damdam, Voyager, Micadelic, Cass, Badger and all others for their pledges of assistance. Sorry for any inconvenience this has caused. I will be in touch shortly regarding the renewed schedule.
Shahid Afridi - The Old Butcher - took the game away from the Australian XI tonight in the blinking of an eye and shook the WACA to its foundations.
Afridi came to the crease when Yousuf Youhana's dismissal left the tourists at 6/170 after 36.4 overs, needing 95 off 80 for victory. When he was dismissed with the fifth ball of the 41st over, Pakistan was 7 for 223, needing 43 off 49.
Afridi scored 30 off 13 - hitting two sixes and three fours.
Abdul Razzaq and Rana guided Pakistan to victory from there.
The Old Butcher has averaged over 30 at a strike rate of about 180 this series. He puts the Windies on the chopping block on Tuesday.
The Shahid Afridi fan club will be present. Keep an eye out for our banner and drums.
Forget the West for all the relevant news in W.A. I noticed this article on page 2 of the 27/01/2005 edition of the South Western Times. Full story for the accompanying article.
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“Beazley's gone to the back bench, but don't be fooled - he's only 55 and he's hungry. The roosters are on the march.”
- Giovanni Torre, in a letter written on October 16th, 2004.