Tumble Dryer

Not a lifestream but assorted odd socks on spin...

behind the curtain in the confessional

‘Enter.’

‘Good morning, Father Habari’

‘May the Lord be with you. Come in peace, my son.’

‘Father Habari - it is 23 years and 7 months since my last confession, 17 hours since I last inhabited Habari IRC and 6 months since I adopted the one true faith of Habari.’

‘Yes, my son - what is troubling you ? Have you been having those thoughts about the Drupal theming engine again ?’

‘No it’s not that. The garlic cloves and crucifix sorted that problem out.’

‘Well, my son, what sins have you come to confess ?’

‘Oh Father, I have been so stupid. I have been so blind. I have brought shame upon my family.’

‘Yes, my son. We must all fight to overcome such human frailties but please, hurry up, the Olympics 200m Men’s Final is on in 5 minutes.’

‘Father - I read something on the Interweb today and I logged into Habari to see - ‘

‘My son - please can I stop you there ? Pennance of three Hail Mary’s and one ‘Our Father’ for continued use of the term ‘Interweb’. Now please continue…’

‘So I logged into Habari and it was actually turned out to be true. The text box in the Habari article editor is resizable so you can drag the lower border down to make the blank canvas infinitely large. All in pure, virginal white.’

‘My dear son, everyone knows that. Even people who don’t even use Habari know that. Why - even I know that. May the Lord have mercy on your wretched soul. Go in peace to love and serve Habari.’

100 friends on identi.ca.
100 friends on identi.ca.
Concrete proof of my ongoing and blossoming relationship with Michael C Harris. A long distance love affair conducted over 12,000 miles cemented by a love for Habari. But please, I beg you, don’t tell my husband.
Concrete proof of my ongoing and blossoming relationship with Michael C Harris. A long distance love affair conducted over 12,000 miles cemented by a love for Habari. But please, I beg you, don’t tell my husband.
Plurk is totally Twittered at the moment Spinopsys
ORA-14451: unsupported feature with temporary table
Cause: An attempt was made to create an IOT, specify physical attributes, specify partition or parallel clause.
Action: do not do that.
Oracle manual

Murray at Wimbledon

Andy Murray is through to the 3rd round at Wimbledon without dropping a set. Personally, I blame his choice of baggy white shorts instead of a pretty, feminine dress with frills on.

Tumblr > Jaiku > Twitter

Seriously considering adpting Tumblr as a micro-blogging platform.

I recently fell out with Twitter and now Jaiku is letting me type posts in and and then silently redirecting them to /dev/null. This is a complete and utter weaste of my time and represents the absolute worst type of failure.

Pros:

  • Can edit posts.
  • Not limited to 140 chars.
  • Still aggregated by FriendFeed.

Cons:

  • Need to build (yet) another community.
  • Not limited to 140 chars :-)
  • No support for SMS ?
This film is on a maddening loop R.E.M. So is my life.
You’re so pretty when you’re unfaithful to me Bone Machine - Pixies

mailing list contamination

Good Lord. There has been an outbreak of Euro 2008 banter on an (internal) Oracle mailing list. This will never do. I am bracing myself for a tech backlash.