http://grumpyoldwoman.net Mon, 01 Oct 2007 06:03:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The reason I've been gone so long is that I was just walking down the street, and suddenly, this really, really, REALLY bright light came HURTLING (that's a damn fine word innit?) out of the night sky, until it hovered just above me. I got sucked up into this HUGE alien ... http://grumpyoldwoman.net/2007/10/01/dear-reader/ January 26 is Australia Day, and we look forward to the annual "eat lamb on Australia Day" commercial by Sam Kekovich. Once again, he's outdone himself with 3 glorious minutes of lamby madness. :clap_tb: :flag_oth: :clap_tb: http://grumpyoldwoman.net/2007/01/15/hairy-legged-sandal-wearing-lentil-eaters-sams-at-it-again/ Well, it's back to work tomorrow. I don't know why I bother getting excited about having holidays, because no matter how long I take off, the time goes so quickly, it's as though I just had a plain old weekend off. Oh yes, I had grand schemes about all the things I ... http://grumpyoldwoman.net/2007/01/14/sigh/ Well the install of Fedora is complete and now we're ironing out the issues. There would be no issues of course, if I weren't wanting to run a web, mail or name server, but I am, and these require configuring. A configurer of these I'm not, so poor old Warren ... http://grumpyoldwoman.net/2007/01/08/the-joys-of-installing-a-new-operating-system/ It was epic. It was decisive. It was perfectly executed. It was by far, the BEST Test Cricket series I have ever watched. I just can't find the words to describe how riveted I have been since the beginning. There's lots of people who find Test cricket boring. But for me, it's ... http://grumpyoldwoman.net/2007/01/05/five-nil-and-the-end-of-an-era/ Well the problem with my linux computer was the video card, which has been unceremoniously dispatched and replaced, and I spent the afternoon installing Fedora. Yeah, yeah, I KNOW that in every group of 10 linux geeks, you'll get 10 different recommendations for different flavours of linux to install, but I ... http://grumpyoldwoman.net/2007/01/04/uptime-1-day/ It would almost be worth the cooking, cleaning and washing skid-marked undies to have a man (who likes fiddling with computer innards) in residence right now. As those of you who know me would know, unscrewing the cover of my PC and fondling its innards is not my favourite passtime and ... http://grumpyoldwoman.net/2007/01/03/its-times-like-this-i-wish-i-had-a-man/ First things first. After 395 days of uptime, my Linux box died this morning. Of course the box was so old, it died a natural death. The death was electronic, so my old Redhat installation died while still on its feet. I have Fedora downloading as I write, and will ... http://grumpyoldwoman.net/2007/01/02/emasculated-oh-and-happy-new-year/ I guess I owe you guys an apology (that's if there's anyone left reading this godforsaken blog) for my absence. Well the explanation is as simple as it is complicated. It's hard to blog when you are going through a serious health issue, because your mind becomes consumed with wondering ... http://grumpyoldwoman.net/2006/11/10/excuses-exchmuses/ You know I've been dying to reboot my Linux box, or turn it off for good (goddamn, it is so old I wonder if it is still a 486!) as I want to replace it with my old desktop, the PC I updated nearly a year ago . But I didn't want ... http://grumpyoldwoman.net/2006/09/29/300/