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I saw this spam on usenet, with a lovely reply:

Do you have a computer ?
Do you want to earn more extra income at home ?
Let your computer work for you .
please come and visit :
www.ezworkfromhome.net

The reply:

> Do you have a computer ?
No. I have a neural adapter which directly connects my brain to Usenet.
> Do you want to earn more extra income at home ?
You mean, like, doing the dishes and stuff?
> Let your computer work for you .
I already told him to but he doesn't listen to me. He's very stubborn...
> please come and visit :
> www.ezworkfromhome.net
No. I'm afraid.

I've been really busy lately, so here is a big update for everybody.

Saw the fireworks with Marissa and my parents on Saturday, after eating dinner at a Mexican place on Davie. Marissa and I went to wait outside the Milestones at Davie & Denman right after the fireworks for my little brother. We get there, and he isn't there. We wait a long time, and it turns out, although the main entrance was specified before, he was waiting at a side enterance for 15 minutes! Numbskull!

Anyway, went home, slept with Marissa 8->. Sunday morning afternoon we woke up, and took a shower. I worked on phpMyAdmin some getting it ready for the release. Marissa left around 7.30pm when I walked her to the bus stop. After releasing phpMyAdmin, I worked on Cherenkov, my new server, since Apache-2.0.40 has been released.

Spent Monday working on my Cherenkov after waking up reasonably late. While my parents and brother went to pick up my aunt from the Airport at 10pm, I put my new server into place. By some bad twist of fate, Shaw failed for a while right after that. Once it came back, I found that Cherenkov was bouncing email :-( instead of accepting it. Took me till 4am to get that fixed. Slept till 7am, when I got up for work.

Work was really slow today, mostly because I was tired. At lunchtime I went to the picture framing place and picked up my now framed poster. It was the poster I bought from miharu, framed with a brushed metal frame. I'll take a picture of it soon, once it is up on my wall. Hugh Fisher (of ANU) worked on the MVS code with me for a while in the afternoon, before leaving to catch his plane back to Australia.

On my way home, I went to Fly Computers and bought a new 16 port 10/100 switch (D-Link DSS-16+), because my 8 port switch had run out of space. I'm selling off the old 8 port to somebody, to cut my costs.

I've been working on Cherenkov more this evening, and I have most things sorted out now, just a few things to go before it is all fine and dandy. Amongst interesting projects to be done next, I'll be writing a little status application in PHP and shell scripts to access my Windows machines via SNMP and grab some data from them that I can store in a MySQL database before displaying it on a webpage.

I'm working from home tommorrow, after sleeping in a bit, so that will be nice and relaxing for a while. w00t!

For those that are in the programming world (geek people) and use PHP with MySQL. I have just released the latest version of phpMyAdmin. It's announced with ChangeLogs in all the usual places.

For everybody else, yes, this is one of the reason I don't post much on LiveJournal. Because I'm too busy enjoying myself with my girlfriend (amethest) and programming things, plus I have my job, because having some money is good.

I wanted to ask the opinion of my friends, about a minor incident, and what everybody would recommend as a course of action.

A while after the fireworks on Wednesday, August 8, my girlfriend (amethest) and I caught a #5 Downtown bus (#V3152) on Denman @ Nelson. We moved to the back of the bus, as there were two seats there, despite hoards of people standing at the very front. After a few stops, the bus driver came to the back and threw out the cigarette of one girl after warning her again, after that the bus driver returned to driving the bus. Other people at the back of the bus continued to toke on their pot, despite an additional warning from the bus driver.

Around 11.55pm, the same girl took out a cigarette, and said she was going to light it. My girlfriend informed her that if she (the girl) lit it, she (my girlfriend) would take it away from her and throw it out of the window. The girl proceeded to light up anyway, and given that my girlfriend had the interests of all law-abiding peoples on the bus, she attempted to take the cigarette away from the smoking girl. My girlfriend was stopped by the girl sitting next to the the smoking girl, and because of the other pot smokers on the adjacent seats pulling my girlfriend backwards, in combination with the lurching bus, my girlfriend was slammed back into her seat. The girl who had tried to light the cigarette continued to fight with my girlfriend, and my girlfriend tried to kick her. I placed myself between my girlfriend and the other girl to protect my girlfriend and attempt to break up the fight.

At the very next stop, the bus driver came to the back of the bus to see what the altercation was about. Despite what all the other elder folk around us on the bus saying that the pot and cigarette smokers were causing the problem, the bus driver ejected my girlfriend and I, along with the two girls from the bus.

From there, because it was a fair distance to my stop for the #151 Coquitlam bus at Granville and Hastings, I made my way quickly, not checking for any injuries sustained during the altercation. When I got to my stop, with a few minutes to spare, I checked myself, and found that I had a cut and bleeding lower lip, in addition to a bleeding nail cuticle.

I think that the bus driver made the wrong move initially, by not ejecting the smoking girl and her friend the first time she was caught smoking. They should have been summarily ejected from the bus at the point. Secondly, the bus driver ignoring the information that all of the elder folk said that the people in the back were smoking pot, even tho he warned them himself after smelling it. Again, I think that he should have ejected them from the bus.

My girlfriend and I have as much of a right to non-polluted, breathable air in confined spaces as the next person. I have no problem with people smoking weed or cigarettes out in the open, or in a private area, but doing it in a confined public area is clearly unacceptable behaviour.

Ok, there is some really really freaky artwork out there I ran across.

I've long held that Television can be dangerous to one's health. Now here is some proof in a CNN Story.

People are saying I'm bitchy tonight, but it is just that I have a headache now, and I've had a bad day.

For those people looking for me over the weekend, I'm going to be away on Vancouver Island with Marissa. I'm volunteering at the Duncan Folk Festival with her, and chilling out away from technology.

Today was the last day that TechBC existed as a corporate entity. The last of the TechBC staff ended their jobs today. To celebrate (mourn) we held a ballon launching ceremony from the roof of the Mall at 10am this morning. (One of the people there took photos, so here so the image is a link to the gallery.)

Event Photos

The government may have killed off what we had, but those of us who have been a part of TechBC will always remember it. TechBC forever!

w00t!

These are all of the systems I personally administer, either for myself, paid to, or as a favour. Some of them have really nice uptimes now. Some of them were better, but have had to get changes made to them, and security takes preference over uptime.

fermi.orbis-terrarum.net
12:50am up 52 days, 8:02
cherenkov.orbis-terrarum.net
00:51:06 up 3 days, 22:59
creations.orbis-terrarum.net
12:49am up 14 days, 14:37
greed.games.techbc.ca
12:48am up 290 days, 8:19
sloth.games.techbc.ca
12:52am up 108 days, 3:32
b52.research.techbc.ca
12:52am up 46 days, 14:42
matchbox.research.techbc.ca
12:33am up 27 days, 9:14
spitfire.research.techbc.ca
12:50am up 41 days, 12:34
tokyo.csokugawa.orbis-terrarum.net
12:54am up 17 days, 1:39