Andy is pissed at me for having a throat infection. :( I can't win.

Новый клип от Big В and the Kids Table:


Ну что тут скажешь..
Неожиданно? Да! Провальчик? Да!
Во что превращаются некоторые группы на старости?..

Сегодня утром обнаружил у себя в почтовом ящике инвайт в Гугл Вейв!
Компьютер на работе закипает, когда заходишь в вейв, так что придется дома с ним играться.
Но уже сейчас могу сказать что очень много фич и гаджетов отсутствует, которые были заявлены на презентации

У меня есть парочка инвайтов, пишите, кому нужно!
Кто уже там, добавляйте меня, потрындим: bronchomeister

Handed in essay number one! Andy is pissed at me because I filled out the form fully, like we were told to, and told Andy he needed to but obviously being Andy he has to be right and refused to. Then he got told to fill it in at the desk and now he's pissed with me just because I'd already done it.

I'm getting seriously pissed off with it. Yesterday I asked him to print my essay with his printer because I don't have one and it takes hours in the library, and he did it, then couldn't eject my memory stick (you have to do this stupidness with it because it's from natwest and has a program to try and get you to take a loan out included) and I told him how, and he was like 'no, this is how you do it' even though it's not and then when his way didn't work and my way did he refused to speak to me for hours. He even missed Doctor Who because he was in a fucking hissy fit with me over it.

Jesus. Not that I enjoyed Doctor Who anyway because I couldn't hear half of what was said over upstairs music.

Oh my god, I actually just read the sentence "like Rosa, many women had to suffer the consequences of heterosexual relations." Oh those poor women! Forced to be straight! What is the world coming to?!

Funnier still is that it this is talking about like the 18th century.

This man is god. I'm gonna have to take one of his modules next year or something just to have him again.

On the other hand this guy is sadly not half as cool as his name and photo make him out to be. :(

(Why yes, I am procrastinating essay writing. Whatever, it's not due in for another month.)

ETA: Having seen the teacher I think American Literature next year is highly likely to be quite entertaining after all.

I was gonna go for a run today but I was too busy with the essay. :(

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I finished my essay today! Quit proud of myself. As a reward Andy and I (he finished his too) have watched The Mummy, and now we are in a brief interlude before watching the original Inglorious Bastards. YES!

AND the day my American Studies essay is due in is the day the recent Inglorious Bastards is released so I think I know what we'll be doing that week. XD

I'm gonna start it tomorrow I think, get it done early so I don't have to fight for the books I want. Plus my conclusion is pretty much: 'fuck it, just look at Obama, for gods sake' so it shouldn't be too hard. The library has shit tones of books on American Elections.

Then when I'm done write my next book! It's a hard life...

EDIT@08:16 UTC/GMT. Wow. That was ugly. I expected it to go for 30 minutes and have maybe 1 minute of broken connectivity. Instead it lasted over 4 hours and we had 10 minutes of downtime directly related to the load balancer upgrades and then another 5-10 minutes of downtime when our primary Pingback database server crashed and the secondary couldn't take over; which could have been indirectly caused by the network upgrade missing a self-VIP.

Anyways, we're up, we're working, the load balancers are barely breaking a sweat right now and I need some food and a shot of whiskey. I don't even *like* whiskey!!

Thanks mhwest and dnewhall for helping out!

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On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.

Woah I'm actually not that bad at German!* My teacher always said I could be good if I applied myself but I hated languages at school. I had to do French and German and I loathed it. My pronounciation is shit as fuck, but whatever. I surprised myself.

Plus I finished my American Politics module today. :( I have an essay due in soon, but that's it. :( It's not all bad, I'm starting American Foriegn Policy next week, and it means I get Thursday off so I have two days off in a row now! Yay for time to get things done! Hopefully my history essay and the start of my American Studies one. Maybe some German too.

I still need to poke ShakeyJakey to teach me.

*And by 'not that bad' I mean, I have mastered the ability to construct sentences such as 'This is a man. This is not a woman. That is four dogs. This is one cake and ten candles.'

Oh history, you pain me so much.

I'm reading an article that thinks the National Curriculum is about to start teaching Holocaust denial so we don't offend the Muslims (I'm not sure why we're offending the Muslims with the Holocaust - are they particuarly anti-Semitic?) and states that one in ten adults thinks Hitler was fictional. ONE IN TEN ADULTS. How is this the world we live in? I'm just gonna go shoot myself.

(p.s. Just because you think the British Empire was amazing and everyone else in the world except from us was savage before we got there DOESN'T MAKE IT TRUE! I don't know facts, but I would hope that along with all the shit we did do some good for places during the empire, but at the same time I very much doubt it. But then again, you are arguing that my generation is taught 'lies' to mask the glory of the empire, and my views are after all, a product of my education.)

I'm learning German. It has been decided. Anyone know any good resources for language learning at all?

I did German pre-GCSE and uh, I remember very little, except what I've managed to keep up / pick up through watching lots and lots of Nazi films in German. (And by Nazi films I mean films about the Nazis, not like, actual films by the Nazis, in case that needed any clarification.)

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I really want a vegan sausage roll. Hmm. I think a trip to Niche might be in order. I love having vegan food on campus! I think I'm gonna take a trip down there when I get to 500 words on my essay.

It's due in in a week. Um, and I started it an hour ago... All the books on the fucking black death have been taken out of the library. Fucking people being organised and getting their books early! So far it's going well though, I have three books, and uh, yeah. Two of them are on the biological side of the plague not the socio-historical side. So yay?

This is a pointless post, I'm just procrastinating, really.

simon cowell is a dick. that is all.