(That title should be read in the voice of Alan Rickman playing Hans Richter).

We got a fishtank on Saturday. Set it up, filled it up, added random bottles of chemicals to kill the bad stuff in the shitty water we are forced to use...and looked at it. No fish. :(

Sunday, I went out and got 10 neon tetras and a bunch of plants. Popped them into the tank (after letting them acclimatise for hours), and watched.

They were relatively happy, until this morning, when one was throwing itself into the filter intake (a-la nemo), and another was .. sleeping in the bushes.

Cleaned them out, and the remaining 8 seem happy enough.

1. Turning keys. Seems simple enough, but when you can only put the required amount of torque in by putting the wounded area on the metal, it's not.

2. Showering. Keeping a thumb dry might sound easy, but involves plastic bags and holding an arm above the shower the entire time.

3. Shaving. As per Showering, but with the additional factor of being concerned about slicing more body parts off.

4. Rolling a ciggy. Not fun. Fingertips are getting good at it.

5. Lighting a lighter. Have had to alternate between left-handed and using my middle finger.

6. Typing. Yes. This is a bastard.


Things that are easier with a bandage on your thumb: :thumbsup:

(OK, that's now the Ace smiley.)

Christy bought me a Mandoline. It is awesome. It is awesomely sharp.

I was slicing potatoes when one slipped off the prongs of the handguard, and my thumb slipped onto the blade, slicing a 7mm diameter circle off the side.

Day 2 now, it's a tad infected, so I am on antibiotics.

What fun. Upgrading Sparkle Hosting to vB4 seemed simple enough, there weren't a lot of mods running, nothing that couldn't be replaced..

Until I remembered the CMPS.. after doing the upgrade. Now, I hadn't upgraded this license yet, and had missed the pre-sale, so the option of getting the new vB4 CMS was a $250 one. A bit pricey, when I did have the option of just cobbling together a static page.

Using http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=228112 and http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=226914 , I made a very simple static page.

I will update it. :)

Or words to that effect.. had a few too many yesterday, fell asleep in the evening, woke up at 1am.

Whilst trying to get tired enough to go back to bed, I started working on NZB. Now it's 6.02. :)

God I love this show.

So, Summer, my old nemesis. You appear to be a little early.

Perhaps it is time to break out my trusty air conditioner.

So, vBulletin 4.0 is coming ever closer to release, and of course NZB is going to get an upgrade.

This is going to likely spell the end of a few of the additional things we have here, but I'm hoping to replace them ASAP. :)

I have a few websites outside of NZB, most running the same Forum software (vBulletin), none as popular. ;)

Now that I'm not wow'ing any more, I have the time to put into these sites, and I am contemplating whether or not to gut one or two of them and start afresh.

There's cons.. existing indexed content will need to be revisited by Search Engines, which is not cool.

The pros are basically the fact that everything is brand new and fresh. :)

A little (largely?) known fact about me is my long time addiction to World of Warcraft, a Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game.

Without going into the minute detail, I played this game for over 2 years, pretty much every night, often till midnight, occasionally until 1am. (Y'know, end-game raiding takes dedication and all).

One morning, waking up at 6:30 after a midnight finish, I decided it was time for a break. Little did I realise that was to be the last time I played WoW.. in over 3 months now.

Thing is, with all the extra sleep time, and free time, my sleeping patterns have become pretty crap.

Go to bed at 10PM - wake up at 4:30am. :(

Go to bed at 11PM - wake up at 5am. :(

So, I'm getting pretty tired.

I just got a nice surprise.

nz forums - Google Search

nz forum - Google Search

At the current time, NZBoards.com shows as #1 for the first search, #2 for the second.

This is a Good Thing. :D

Somehow I managed to be among the lucky few people to get an XT upgrade - from a Samsung SCH W531 clamshell to a Palm Treo Pro PDA.

The Treo is sexy. I don't know what I would do without it.

Probably cry.

That was a fun trip. :P

Pics: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...0529434&ref=nf

NZB, you are my baby. I've neglected you for far too long.

Ooh! A New Year's Resolution! Make an effort to get NZB happening again. :D

To do:

• Add Facebook integration (done)
• Revise Newsletter (done - sent)
• Tidy things up (done, somewhat)
• Think of more things

So I got a letter from the IRD today.

Unusually, it was not them asking for money!

It all began 2 weeks ago.... *swirly effect*

I was sitting at my desk at work thinking 'Man! I have been paying off that Student Loan for ages!', so I called IRD to ask.

After about 10 minutes of trying to navigate InfoExpress (never use this. It is far from express.), I managed to get a human being, who, after asking me various questions about my Study History, advised my loan was paid, and that I was entitled to a refund.

This would be paid to my bank account within a week or so. Yay!

Now, I get the letter showing the balance.. it was substantial.

At the bottom of the page was a statement: 'IMPORTANT - An interest rate of 6.90% will apply to Student Loan balances.'

After calling the IRD to enquire why my interest was only $0.01CR, I was advised that this only applied to DEBIT loan balances.

Hmm.. doesn't say that anywhere... and why was it that I had to chase them to find out if I had paid my loan off and when to stop deductions?

You haven't heard the last of this. ;)

I think it was Voltaren..

I have a very sore neck, probably related to the 2 hours I spent in a dental chair yesterday.

First dentist said I needed urgent work done. His receptionist took my $72 for X-rays and told me my urgent work could be done in 2 weeks.

I walked out with the xrays and found another dentist, one who could do the work then and there.

Hurrah!

Now, pain is blissfully receeding.

I do like this new style..

Blunt razors are the ones that tend to slice your face open as if you had used a cheese grater?

I have been wanting someone to code a 'Private Events' modification for vBulletin so as to enable us to have the ability to do the following when creating Events:

• Choose Users or Usergroups to be able to either see or not see the event on the Calendar display
• Make it so those restricted users/groups would be unable to directly enter the URL to the Event
• Make it so the Users would not see the Even if they went to the Day
• Make a thread automatically in a Special Forum, with same permissions as original
• Have a 'Roll Call' where people could indicate they wanted to attend

I have accomplished the first three.

I am most proud of myself.

I wonder if my Avatar will show up now..