This is kinda messed, I’m in a real foul / angry mood today, as I type, the keys are taking a fair beating. And for what? Nothing, I’m really pissed off for no reason. There are a few little things, but nothing that warrents full blown anger. What the hell is it with the human brain and it’s splurges of stupidity, emotions and swolleness (i’m refering to headaches). I’m good at keeping my annoyance, hate, general unplesent emotions in check, but today i’m gritting my teeth, trying not to lash out shouting at people. Thank fuck i’m not in work.

The sooner all emotions can be regulated by chemicals the better.

As titled, where else can you find stuff like this

So I was just talking with Daniel, well more at him than with, about a customer who came in asking to check email, then sat at the computer and launched Google Earth. Fair enough, each to their own (think she eventually got to her email), when an idea dawned on me, it’d be pretty cool if you could track where your email came from, maybe even follow it on it’s journey. It would have no practical uses other than amusing you once or twice, or even to see how routing works.

But thinking about this another idea pops out. How about plotting all the major hubs that are used for data transfer and see how efficient the Internet actually is. Would it be possible to map the Internet? Honestly I can see no other purpose for this other than satisfying my curiosity. It’s just an idea, maybe even an end of course project for college. We’ll see, more research is needed.

A little searching around for Internet Mapping Project, I came across some old projects, but they’re in excess of 4/5 years old. So this may be something newish and fun to do if it hasn’t already been done to death.

Feckin heat, I hate being overly warm. Unlike most the Irish population I do not look forward to the summer in the hope of a scorcher, I do not look forward to the swelthering heat that leaves everybody gasping for air, like a fish out of water. No, I like the cold, I work better, I feel happier, I don’t get headaches, I get to look forward to being out of the cold or the pissing rain, it’s like a mini reward every time. I am the Irish weather anti-persona, I am the crusader of cold, I am Jacks inflamed sense of rejection… ehh, ok I won’t go down that path

Anyways on a stupid note, why are people still using the bastard child of win 98 and 2000? That’s windows ME for those of you that don’t know it. I’ve a machine sitting behind me that’s buggered, Internet explorer is buggered, so the only option with it is a reinstall (system restore buggered to) it’s all buggered! I seem to get quite a few people in with their windows 98, ME and sometimes 95 systems, get a new computer ffs! blurrrr

Thank feck the painkillers have kicked in

So here I am in work again, and anyone that knows me, knows I work quite a bit. Not that I do anything overly hard or exciting. I’ve a ton of stuff to do, I could be designing, learning how to code new things, working on projects, browse the vastness of the internet, read forums and so on.  Yet I find myself utterly bored staring at the screen waiting for the day to be over. I suppose I have it in my head, that work is for doing my job type work, despite having the time to do plenty of other stuff. Hell, I had to push myself to even write this. I don’t think the warmth is helping, it’s warm enough today but the added 22 computers, a vending machine, networking gear, a printer etc… doesn’t help. I work better in the cold. Must be a troll thing.

So where was i? Oh yeah, upcoming projects/stuff I’ll be working on when I get time off work:

• Operation Sleep – No real info for this yet, maybe soon.
• Certification – Sanity or Computing? I’ll let you decide.
• Smoothwall Server
• Cisco Certification – Ongoing for a while now :S
• Deployable multi-solution mini-servers.
• Automated / managed wifi network – trying to design and buil a solution for easy user addition/billing.
• Advance knowledge of: C++, Java, Visual Basic

Also hai to Daniel who had his earthquake cherry popped in Japan. If for some bizzaro reason his girlfriend is reading this, I said EARTHQUAKE cherry.

I can’t stop watching this, it’s freakin awesome. I’m a big fan of Weebl & Bob since they first came out, and I’m aware the humor can be juvenile but I like it, there’s also plenty of other cartoons that are just mindless fun. Sure give the site a go if you havn’t before www.weebls-stuff.com it’ll keep you entertained for a bit

To update on this wonderful working day in Longford I have a riddle for you (and the answer too):

Q: How many kids clad in “designer” track-suits does it take to set up a bebo account?

A: Five, and they wrecked my head every step of the way.

I’m actually surprised at how difficult it was for them to read the basic instructions, pretty dismal if they can’t actually read.  On top of it all no feckin manners. I hate being a desk monkey.

On another note, people are scum. It’s my job to keep an general eye on what’s going on in the Café, make sure people arn’t looking up porn, keep the place tidy etc.. so on a ramble just tidying, keeping a general eye, there’s a guy looking at an escort site taking down numbers. I personally don’t approve of whoresites, but there’s no policy against it, short of dodgy pics, he gets a call and directs someone to where the shop is.

So ten minutes pass, he’s off the site at this point (can see his screen from the desk), and in wanders his wife and kids. Was disgusted, it’s one thing for some guy perving, but a married guy with kids, c’mon. Maybe himself and the wife are into that sort of stuff, but I doubt it.

My head is feckin fried. I’m trying to tweak wordpress and there’s so much to do. I’m not complaing about wordpress, I’m just suprised how out of the loop I am. Css, php, widgets, categories, tagging, openid, technorati, wordpress.com (for the antispam), feeds, gravatar, ping backs etc… I need to get my head around it all, and I’m sure I’ll enjoy it, it’s just so overwhelming at the moment, time to make a to-do list, oooo a to-do plugin vicious circle.

Although I’m building something with this, I know there are plenty of guides on how to setup wordpress and various sites, but at the very least I’ll have something to remind myself how to do it. That reminds me, gotta tweak the perma-links. unFixed (thanks for the info Ben)

Had the weirdest dream last night, probably a nightmare but who knows.

So in this dream nothing really eventful is happening, I’m there talking to some of my friends and family, when I feel my back largest tooth kinda jingling, so I then open my mouth, it’s about a meter wide at this point. I reach inside as far down as my elbow, grab the tooth and yank it out. I’m now looking at a tooth the size of my fist and that appears to be the end of that. Later on in the dream (time has passed but nothing has happened) my mouth starts jingling again, same thing happens I reach in and pull out a tooth from the other side this time, and again, and again. But it’s finally ended, I’m no longer pulling out teeth, but there are plenty left in my mouth. The people I’m with are freaking out, the teeth I’ve pulled out are gigantic, some as big as a chairs others the size of coins. So now my gums have decided to turn into a river revolving around my mouth, a river of teeth. And I wake up.

I think my brain’s reminding me I need to go to the dentist, or to cut back on sugar or something

Wh00t, a new version of Spybot was released, I highly recommend it to anyone. Scan speed has greatly increased as they’re now using a new techinque (not new in concept) using Spybot users scans via the Spybot-S&D Distributed Testing Client. I’m a big fan of of spybot myself, while I’d never really consider it a novices program, it’s easy to use and if you’re willing to read a little can be informative as to what happens to your computer. It’d be nice to see them release a version that takes some of the options (the teatimer) away from the user and uses pre set rules to stop the user from allowing dangerous changes.

A little training and common sense can prevent a lot of computer infections and the spread of malware, spyware and grayware. At the same time, it keeps me busy with repairs

Just noticed today, they seem to be based in Dublin, Awesome.