shane's orphaned blog

Maxi, Andy, and infrequently Dan and Nik, are the only people that update their journals. I'm disappointed.

Octavius: You're a man now; take what you want.
Octavian: This isn't what I want! I'm not exactly, uh... seduced by the ways of women. What I want is for you and mother to leave me alone. I was totally gonna fuxxor that slave guy you just sent out, you bitch.

He kinda lost character a bit, but I think it suits him.

The only thing that's keeping me with LiveJournal now is the community... Wordpress 2.5 fixed all the issues I had with Wordpress. Being able to run my own journal completely, 100% unrestricted is just so inviting... And I don't have to put up with all this LJ policy drama, nor pay for the luxury of not seeing adverts.

I should probably go to sleep; I've nothing to do and I was hoping to actually get up in the morning whilst it's still morning. But, I don't want to :( I'm not tired or anything.

I have Ghosts 1 through 12. People keep saying that 1 through 4 were released free. Did I download illegally, thinking that it was legal? Holey mens rea confusion, Batman.

Speaking of which (I dat sum tangent?), I need to start revision more. I have around six exams. I say that, you I hear you all moan "I have far more". And maybe! I imagine Nik and Hannah and Vanita (repitive use of "and" implies a lot. GCSE English flash back. I think Great Expectations) have a lot more, but you guys are smart. I'm not exactly academically challenged, but I really don't have the enthusiasm for education that I used to and so can't be arsed to revise.

So really, my 6 exams are far more than your 12, quit your complaining.

Stonewall are made of win. "Some people are gay; get over it" has totally become a social meme at college. I can't use it though, because the humour is lost when I gay says it, and it sounds like a moral campaign.

I spent like an hour today writing up steps to install Wordpress on Debian CLI, before finding out that Debian has a package for it. Two things: argh, why didn't you people tell me this? An hour wasted! Second, Debian is awesome <3 I need to find a userpic to express my love.

I really want to install it as my OS. But I need to use Office 07, and my OEM Windows apparently can't be installed on a virtual machine. Monolpic (I just made that up.) licensing much?

Tomorrow, I'm gonna go see Connexions about working next year. Then I'm heading to the library, with sandwiches (I think I'll just get Subway actually). Nomnomnom.

This makes me happy. (Hannah, don't click. Men in masks.)

Seaneen: "Why are you filming us?"

Police Officer: "To show everyone what a peaceful protest you are."

Me: "Of course we're peaceful! We've got sweets!"

I wish I could have gone.

What else was I going to talk about... Oh yeah. I'm learning C++. How bad is the online documentation? Meh. I decided to install on my server, because apt-get install g++ is much easier than all the stupid stuff for Windows. No idea how to make *that* work.

Been watching Hollyoaks. Anyone else doing A2 Law? If Nancy had left Jake in the car, and he had died, would she be liable for homicide? It could be said that she had the mens rea for murder, but I can't decide on the actus reus. It's an omission that she didn't get him out, and I can't remember if you can be liable for murder for an omission. However! It could come under gross negligence, which would be involuntary manslaughter... I'll think about it.

It's been about a month since I start my Debian blog, and I already have 16 subscribers! Though, that's probably around 13 in true figures. But still. 13 people read my stuff! xD

(This is where you should be happy for me.)

Also, some people are still using trinity.allroundnews.co.uk/blog/, which doesn't matter if you are: you'll get redirected to the correct place, but it'll be faster for you if you update your bookmarks to the new URL: http://www.debiantips.com/blog/

It feels totally weird typing a .com address, I've never had one before. xD

shamess@trinity:~$ mail
No mail for shamess

I know it's saying "no mail for the user, shamess", but I like thinking it's saying "No mail for shamess!" like a mother does to her child that's been naughty.

Oh, I'm weird. :(

In order of love points. If it's ongoing, I'm gonna link to the homepage, if it's retired, I'll link to the first episode.

1. xkcd (On going)
2. Yahtzee Takes on The World (Retired)
3. Penny Arcade (On going)
4. Cyanide and Happiness (On going)

Meh. I'm a little disappoint by Panic's new song. I think they should have broken up whilst they still were good.

In other news, Shane's a happy bunny. xD There's not a reason why, really. He just is. Life seems to be good.

For a none religious person, my heart keeps saying stuff like "the gods totally planned for it to happen this way." Like, when I was on the bus today thinking about being happy, I remembered a few weeks ago being really upset. Now I'm happy. People who are depressed really just have to wait till something better happens, because it will generally.

StumbleUpon traffic is good traffic, btw. Only a 25% bounce rate.

Even though I'm applying to Year in Industry, I still wanna apply in person to some people. First, Last.fm. So, I'm gonna shoot them an email (and then send the same email snail mail, good idea?) asking for a job for my gap year.

So, blogosphere, what should I include in such an email?

Just a heads up; I've changed the way I like my tea.

Get cup. wear cup. fly. Not much deviation from before at this point, you'll notice. Then add three sugars, then the tea bag. If you put the tea bag in first, then the sugar just sticks to the bag, which is pointless.

Then - here's the major change - add the milk. I know this goes against the ISO, but I kinda like it. Rebelling is good in a closed minded culture, else the race is doomed to fail (redundant?).

Add water. Stir. Done. I don't even add cold water anymore; I'm a big boy now.

Yesterday I really was too tired to go into college, (I blame Ober). But that does mean that I'll lose my £30 EMA money. So, lying in bed thinking about what I could have done with that money, I decided to try and make it. xD

The rules:
- Must have £30 by Friday, 7th March (when I'd get this week's EMA).
- Must be a made directly from the Internet
- Must have the money in my bank, PayPal or... well I don't think I have another account. So, this rules out surveys which take months to receive the money.

I'm thinking that it'll mostly come from advertising revenue.

So far, I've made £7 from signature links. (10 days left.)
- Another £8.55 from site ads. Total: £15.55 (6 days left.)

On a slightly related topic, my Debian blog has got 161 unique visitors since I started in on the 14th. Still needs a bit of fixing up and stuff though.

Only one of that traffic is from a search engine, which is good considering I've only just been indexed. Why does Google seem to want to index my tag links firsts? It could be because they're most linked to, I guess.

If you host any sites with shared hosting, you should really look into using a virtual host instead. Methinks they're cheaper.

I've typed "T-Mobile" so many times that "mobile" no longer looks like a word. I keep having to check I've spelt it right.

This is what makes me want to do AI. Freaking genius.

This is a place holder for an entry in which I'm going to tell you about a guy.

But first, I need to run it past Hannah, because I think she disapproves <.<

I've just made soup and I'm walking upstairs with it, to eat it. I'm conscious that I'm holding it. Then I realise I've forgotten to get some bread, so I just drop the bowl and turn to get bread. It takes me till I get to the kitchen door again till I realise what I just did.

It's not that I forgot about the bowl I was holding, it's that I expected it to just stay in the air till I got back.

It's good for me if Yahoo reject the Microsoft take over; at the moment Yahoo is entirely PHP and MySQL. I know those languages which makes Yahoo a potentially employer. Microsoft on the other hand, use ASP (and I suppose still use an SQL language). I don't know ASP, so if M$ took over Y!, I'd lose a potential job. Dx

I did have something else to talk about me, but it escapes me.

I'm bored. It's past midnight, so my reputation for being able to set my own bed time won't be diminished if I go to bed now, but there's the fun in that.

I have a new blog, documenting my experience with my Debian server, but since I doubt many people who read my blog will know what Debian is, I shan't talk about that too much. Yes, I did just link to it so it'd be indexed faster. No, I'm not ashamed.

I'm actually thinking about being pretty serious about that blog, rather than just "meh, I'll do it when I can be bothered" like I was with my others. I may start an AdWords campaign and everything. Before I do that, I need to finish making it work though. It's running on AyTwo, which is the blogging platform I've made for my coursework. I had to leave out a tonne of features for the coursework version, otherwise I'd never get it finished in time, so I'm current going through it and making it more flexible and stuff.

Blank notepad++ pages intimidate me. I'm getting bored of the typical "include stuff at the top, process whatever has happened according to the html forms that have been submitted, output html" routine. Every page is like that. Meh.

At the begining of this week, I had lots of money. Now; not so much. I think I'll try get a perfect on Super Crazy Guitar Maniac Deluxe 2 before I go to bed.

Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.

The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.

Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.

(I don't think it's versed correctly, that's just the way I've copied it.