Archive for January 13th, 2005

Missed opportunity

Thursday, January 13th, 2005

Pair arrested after telling lawyer jokes


But while that rib and several others on barristers got some giggles from the crowd, the attorney standing in line about five people ahead wasn’t laughing.

” ‘Shut up,’ the man shouted,” Lanzisera said. “‘I’m a lawyer.’”

They should have said “In that case, we’ll speak more slowly”.

Can somebody please explain to me…

Thursday, January 13th, 2005

…the appeal of J-Pop bands like Shonen Knife? Looked at objectively, it appears they sing the most cloying and inane pop lyrics known to man, and combine it with that English as a second language vibe and accents. Oh, and they’ve not very good playing thier instruments either. So what’s the appeal?

And I should point out, I’m not asking why other people listen to it, I’m asking why I keep finding myself compelled to listen to it?

I think I need a 4 hour Pogues marathon to get my edge back.

Ok, let me get this straight…

Thursday, January 13th, 2005

In the middle of a media-fueled hyped up scare about people pointing lasers at the cockpits of planes and the danger to the pilots and the flights, NORAD announced a new security system WHICH INVOLVES SHINING LASERS AT THE COCKPITS OF PLANES!

Furrfu.

Followup on the hard drive problem two days ago

Thursday, January 13th, 2005

I booted with the Western Digital Diagnostics floppy that I keep handy, and when I did a quick scan it said it found a problem and asked me if I wanted it to fix it. I did. Then I did the full scan, and it didn’t find any problems. So I booted into Linux single user mode. Couldn’t figure out how to fsck the drives that way, so I booted with the rescue disk. It wouldn’t let me unmount the drives that way, so I booted back into single user mode so I could do a “shutdown -rF now”, which forced it to do a fsck when it booted again. It didn’t find any problems. So now I’m continuing to run my backup process every two hours, and keeping an eye on it. 36 hours later, still no more disk errors.