George Bush Wears Pink Underwear
By Andrew Price, 2005-09-03 23:42:55 in General. Leave a comment
It's been a busy few days and there's a lot to catch up on so I'll try not to waffle.
On Friday I finished my Summer job and left with lots of good wishes and people saying nice things about me like I'm an "intelligent person with social skills" and that I've noticeably grown in confidence since I last worked there, and telling me to keep in touch. I should leave jobs more often, it's very satisfying.
Also on Friday I overslept in the morning, waking just in time to answer the door for the delivery guy who gave me a couple of boxes. I had ordered two hard drives and a bunch of CD sleeves for SUCS from Ebuyer so I was expecting the delivery. I opened up the larger of the two boxes to find all the CD sleeves packed loosely in there with some air bags to bulk out the box. Then I opened up the smaller box and there was one hard drive in there. One! The air in my immediate vicinity quickly turned a deep shade of blue. Later, I went on Ebuyer's website and it told me to wait a couple of days before contacting them about missing items so I'll get in touch with them on Monday.
After that I hurried to work for my shorter-than-usual last day and, as with any last day at work, got very little done. At lunch time I went over the pub with Dave and Martin and had a bite to eat and a pint of XXXX. Very pleasant. At the end of the day I handed all my unfinished stuff to Stuart and fired a "Right, I'm Off! (Again)" email to my favourite colleagues, blatantly plugging my website and SUCS in it, as you do.
I installed the one new hard drive (120GB Seagate Barracuda) in my PC and tried out Linspire on it. They're giving away free copies of Five-O on the Linspire site for a few days. I was quite impressed by how sickeningly user friendly it was. It was very obviously an American commercial distro from the outset. I liked the fact that it was easy enough for, say, my Mum to admin but it just didn't feel comfortable to me. I prefer Gnome to KDE and less general perceptual bloat to a new installation - a clean canvas if you will. It defaulted to the American keyboard layout and didn't even ask me to configure most things during the install. Other than that, I was impressed at how well they've developed and added all the hand-holding features that new Linux users would need. I'm back on Ubuntu now. It feels like home :)
I've just finished taking out a bunch of style features from my website and changing the content type of the pages to text/html so that IE users (e.g. the people from work) can view it. It looks a bit silly now though. I don't like having to compromise because a broken browser commands the greatest market share. It's a step in the right direction though, I guess.
Oops, i waffled