Archive for October, 2001
Gah! Pooters!
Does anyone have any idea why an otherwise perfectly healthy computer would just randomly reboot every now and again? Sometimes it goes for a couple of days without doing it. This afternoon it has done it 6 times in 15 minutes!
I’m fairly convinced it has something to do with power supply to the motherbord as I hear the fairly hefty fan on the Athlon chip cut out, I now have a UPS in case it was flaky domestic power but it is still rebooting. Any ideas on what to do now would be most appreciated
Online classes
I’m going to be teaching Dreamweaver and Dreamweaver UltraDev classes at the Eclectic Academy, there are a whole host of interesting classes lined up with some great tutors, and the full curriculum should be going online any time soon, check it out if you fancy learning something new over the winter months as the first round of classes start in January.
getting there…
..the huge project is coming together nicely. In the last few days it seems to have really started to click together, it’s great when that happens.
Someone at church today said they had read my site and felt they ‘knew more about me … was that a good thing?’ It made me think for a while about why I do this, why I write here and whether I do actually care about the impressions the people I meet day to day might get from it.
The conclusion I came to, is that I don’t care at all. I’ve never been one to really concern myself about what other people think of me. There are a few people whom I would hate to let down or upset by something I had done, but those people know what I am anyway, and they still stick around, so I probably couldn’t do anything to shock them by now.
I’m not a ‘people person’. I can take or leave the company of others, and probably come across as strange and standoffish because of that. I make more of an effort these days because of the Small Person, because she might want to have that social interaction that I avoid, and right now she needs me to help make that possible for her. For me though, most of the time I remain happy with the one or two people I ‘click’ with, those people with whom I don’t need to pretend, and if for a time I am alone. That’s ok too, I have learned to my cost that trying to force myself to conform in order to be liked does not make me happy.
So to those who know me ‘in real life’, read on … let me know you read my ramblings if you like, or don’t. Keep a wide berth, or understand a little more about why I don’t actively seek out people to meet for coffee, attend every social event or surround myself by a gaggle of aquaintances.
If you can see this …
…you are on the new server.
I’m writing this and hoping that the transfer goes smoothly as I get a lot of email to this domain.
I was walking down to town today to get the small person’s hair trimmed – she was looking like a sheepdog – and the pub down the road had a sign outside, a quote by Helen Keller,
“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.”
I thought it was an apt message for the times we are living through.
excuse any break in service…
… over the next few days I will be moving this site from its current host, to a new hosting company, Chicagowebs.
Due to them being a US company and this being a .co.uk domain, I have the fun of trying to get Nominet to move the domain to a neutral tag… and I have no idea when this will actually take place… so if it all goes pear shaped. You know why!
All is well, I’m very busy building a site that needs to be ready for beta testing at the end of October, hence my being quiet here.
