19April2008
Work of genius, work of a madman…
Posted by Christopher under: White Noise.
Friend and occasional blog commentor Clifton is the master of this piece of video history. You might spot me in there somewhere…
13April2008
My shell history, by C. Brown
Posted by Christopher under: Linux & Open Source.
[chris@stig ~]$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head
170 ls
119 cd
72 rpmbuild
72 emacs
58 less
52 diff
42 sudo
32 ssh
29 exit
28 rm
13April2008
Tired of humanity…
Posted by Christopher under: Family & Friends; House; Linux & Open Source; Travel & Leisure; White Noise.
Sometimes people conspire to make you feel like you live in a nation of Very Bad People.
Incident One - A few days ago the house was broken into. I was away visiting older brother and so the house must have looked deserted. Said intruder got a surprise when younger brother greeted him when he walked into his room at around 11pm. He left taking with him one of my old mobile phones and leaving us with a hefty bill to replace the windows frame he had used as his entrance.
Incident Two - I was involved in a minor collision (my fault entirely) a week or so ago. I have received a letter claiming personal injury and GBP £1k plus in damages. Err, no.
Incident Three - Two snotty emails at work, one sent late Friday, just in time for the weekend. Thanks!
Not great. Still, here’s the bright side.
Wordpress 2.5 (on which this blog is written) is awesome. Upgrade was a cinch too.
Metal Michael continues his awesome adventures and I continue my persual of travel sites.
Tomorrow is another day.
5April2008
The fallout from the 1st…
Posted by Christopher under: Family & Friends; Travel & Leisure; White Noise.
Okay, time to name and shame the people who fell for the previous post/email.
Th(Rob)erto (on left)
Older and Better Brown
G.G.B. (second left)
Travel Brown
The Girl (ten minutes of crying followed by ten days of vengeance)
Top prize goes to Mr Clifton Firth (on right, obviously) who thought I was leaving mid-day!
UPDATE: Okay as Rob has pointed out then, I add myself to the above list.
1April2008
The winds of change…
Posted by Christopher under: Travel & Leisure; White Noise.
Just to let you all know that within a month or so I will have my day skipper’s ticket. During a recent visit to Cornwall I was offered the chance to sail one of our client’s boats, (the Olof Lipar!), to Sydney as it will be talking part in the Sydney-Hobart yacht race at the year end and of course I’d be a fool to miss the chance. The job hasn’t been working out quite as expected (long hours, not much pay) so of course I jumped at the chance. I’ll be leaving probably around mid-may for three months. Anyone planning on being in Oz around August?
