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15 November 2009 @ 03:00 pm
Dear lovely friends-listers!

I am unlikely to see the new Doctor Who special until tomorrow evening, as I do not have a functioning TV and watching it on my tiny netbook screen on iPlayer probably won't be very satisfying.

Please, please, if you post about Doctor Who tonight or tomorrow, put it behind a cut tag to avoid spoilers. I currently know nothing about the episode other than the title, and I'd really like it to stay that way until tomorrow evening.

Thanks!
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Current Mood: okay
 
 
 
14 November 2009 @ 07:32 pm
blue_mai fashion shock (for anyone that knows me in person, like):
today i bought black skinny jeans.
then i bought purple skinny jeans.
!!!
 
 
 
14 November 2009 @ 02:01 am


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Sadly didn’t make it to the Crypt last night, instead I went back to mine early and crawl back to bed…up to now…that cold seemed very up and down , one minute perky, then fuzzy…hopefully all this bed rest will make me up to the weekend ahead…


This Saturday we are going to see the Steampunk Exhibition at the Oxford Science Museum.
If fully recover half tempted by Reptile but will depends what time we return….
Sunday we have tickets to see Sonver and Human Greed on the neo folky boat...anyway back to sleep some more...

 
 
 
 
 
13 November 2009 @ 02:01 am

  • 10:15:51: Theres nothing like waiting 2 days for someone to reply about something really urgent
  • 14:28:44: Bit late, but i think Rome Burns "The Static Murmur" will be available on Spotify soon. Watch this space.
  • 14:41:41: Listening to Slaughter's "The Wild Life". I think i've finally found some rock that too cheesy even for me. Back to 'Maiden i think

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12 November 2009 @ 06:45 pm
Right. Half an hour in the door and:

Whitby suitcase unpacked and put away in coat cupboard.
Laundry on.
Washing up done (except for pans that need soaking and scrubbing)
Bed stripped, mattress hoovered to remove sand shed by Whitby unpacking*
Bedlinen changed
Shopping put away

Now to go and fill my chow mein hole. I think I deserve it!


*I know I miss the place, but did I have to bring quite so much of it home with me?!
 
 
12 November 2009 @ 02:29 pm


Am considering Cambridge pubbage two nights running. Tonight a friend Nevboo is planing birthday shenanigans in The Castle as well as Rock Soc beer stuff in the King Street Run (which are fairly close i belive).

Friday there is the usual crowd in the Elm Tree and then moving the *VAST* distance to the cricketers. Both are nice pubs

Feel free to join, bug, cajole as necessary !

 

BTW i also found this cool MAP
 
 
12 November 2009 @ 12:20 pm

Planning to return to one of my fav exhibition space...the Crypt and right next door to work…(as long as survive the day at work...)
Private view tonigth 6-9pm, (also doubleing up as a LVG monthly meet)

Through a glass darkly
November 10th – 12th 2009

Opening times Tuesday & Wednesday 12 noon – 6pm
The Crypt Gallery, St. Pancras Church, Euston Road
London, NW1 2BA

Featured artists: Riffat Ahmed, Lola Bunting, Nicholas Brown, Maria Elvorith,
Emma Smith
Performances by Riffat Ahmed: 7:20pm, The McCarricks: 7:45pm
Curated by Maria Elvorith

http://www.cryptgallery.org.uk/

Dark and captivating, “Through a glass darkly” alludes to the idea that our understanding of this world will never truly be clear until we reach an end; until that point, we perceive life only through a fogged lens.
A selection of emerging and talented young artists explore and illustrate this idea through the varied disciplines of photography, video, painting, mixed media installation, music and performance art, all situated within the evocative setting of The Crypt Gallery.
Intricate models placed inside the walls of the gallery and beyond the viewer’s grasp speak of our dreamlike perception of reality. Photographs capture fragile and misty moments in forgotten places around England, while delicately painted nebulae and star clusters surrender unnerving truths to the attentive, revealing another dimension to the experience.
With ethereal sound and light bending and traveling throughout the gothic passageways, mysterious narratives painted in classical baroque style ask us to reconsider our initial interpretations and perceptions of this world, as the dawn and dusk of human mortality are explored in provocative physicality.

 

 

 
 


That was my Tuesday night at the Coliseum(where we joined Iain, Markus, Heather, Alan)…the first act…was opera (and not ballet as I thought) and mainly consisting of 2 singers singing about keys…give me the key…no...give me the key...in proper impressive operatic voices…it was Bluebeard Castle and not as bloody as we had hoped…some very good play with light and dark and a fairly eerie tale  but very slow… easily forgettable and I guess we expected a lot more from such a storyline.

I actually much prefer the second part, the Ballet of Rites of Spring…maybe the surreal aspect…lots of men dancing, rutting… dog and hare masks, very men much hunting in pack meet Wickerman …then they got naked...then they put on flowery dresses…must be pantomime time even in ballet :), definitely not a pretty dancing ballet, oddly enough I feel like every recent ballet been to does involved men and their underpants…Spartacus, Dorian Grey…interesting for Simon first ballet. And they smoked on stage…ballet dancers smoking!!!! it was much faster paced...different but not amazing.

Due to my cold I had to wait for the big orchestra noises to sneeze or make funny noises which was hard work…resulting in feeling even more run down and spending most of yesterday in bed…waking in time for a lovely dinner with friends but this was medicinal as it involved ginger :)

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12 November 2009 @ 02:01 am

  • 10:30:42: anyone good with ubuntu? spent all last night trying to get wireless. Can connect/browse router, but not webpages. maybe manually enter DNS?
  • 14:44:02: managed another 10km run today slightly slower than last time at 50:20, but still respectable. Legs don't work now.
  • 16:02:23: okay - had to give in and take Ibruprofen. Calves have seized. Will have to lubricate them with beer tonight. Hmmm...beer
  • 16:57:40: it's taken me until 4pm to actually get back to the work i was in the middle of yesterday, and now i have some meeting to addend. Argh!
  • 16:58:08: see! so annoyed am i that my spolling goes out of the windom

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EDIT@08:16 UTC/GMT. Wow. That was ugly. I expected it to go for 30 minutes and have maybe 1 minute of broken connectivity. Instead it lasted over 4 hours and we had 10 minutes of downtime directly related to the load balancer upgrades and then another 5-10 minutes of downtime when our primary Pingback database server crashed and the secondary couldn't take over; which could have been indirectly caused by the network upgrade missing a self-VIP.

Anyways, we're up, we're working, the load balancers are barely breaking a sweat right now and I need some food and a shot of whiskey. I don't even *like* whiskey!!

Thanks [info]mhwest and [info]dnewhall for helping out!

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On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.
 
 
 
 
 

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