Personal
As some of you may know and most of you not care, I am currently in London. London is a rather large city, so you need to have expert help if you're going to do anything. Well, yesterday the "anything" we wanted to do is eat, and we sure as hell weren't going to crawl into the first hole that happened to serve leftovers.
These last few days I've installed and been playing the Sims 2. For those of you who don't know it, it's a game where you manage the lives of various people (henceforth called Sims). You have to tell them to get dressed, go to the bathroom, take baths, go to work, flirt with other Sims, buy them the things they need, etc.
It is time for another one of my updates, and this time I bring you an important scientific discovery. I would like to bring to your attention a new logical fallacy, which I herewith name "argumentum ad urmomum". It appears that noone else has ever thought of this name1, so I would like to claim it myself.
PERSONAL NOTE: It appears that Eva-Marie herself has read this page and commented here, which is quite awesome. Eva-Marie, if you ever read this again, e-mail me or something, don't be a stranger :P
I like music. I listen to it all day. I listen to all kinds of music, classical, pop, rock, metal, whatever. Obviously, there many ingenious pieces, like the Swan Lake, Falling off the Edge of the World and Aerials, but they all pale in comparison (well, they don't really pale, they're just lesser) to Dark Tranquillity's The Gallery.
I have not heard anything more beautiful than the voice of Eva-Marie Larsson singing
I just switched webhosts, I went with A small orange. I had heard many good things about them, and I reviewed their offerings. They offer everything FuitadNET does, but they have Ruby and Python support. I signed up for the small plan, which is $5/mo (I paid $7.5 at FuitadNET) but I have 400 MB of space and 10 GB of traffic per month (I only use about 150 and 1 respectively). The support is helpful and prompt and the speed is FAAAAST. FTP feels like the files are at my home pc (with FuitadNET it took about a second for FTP changes) and it actually works (FuitadNET upgraded their firewall and broke it, and they had way too much downtime for my tastes).
I just watched the last episode of Firefly, and I have to say, it is amazing. It is easily one of the best shows I have ever seen (together with Family Guy). If you haven't seen it, I suggest you buy/rent/steal (I'm just kidding, I don't think they rent it) and watch it immediately. Even if you don't like that kind of shows (or any kind of show, or people), you should still see it. See the pilot and I guarantee you'll want to see more or your money back. Well, if not, you'll definitely want to see your money back.
Anyway, watch Firefly. It's great.
OK, it's like this: Originally I had one 80 GB disk, one 120 GB disk and a 160 GB one that stopped working three months after I bought it (damn Maxtor). Last week I got a 250 GB Seagate Barracuda so I'd finally have some space (all the other disks were full).
The new disk arrived, I ghosted the 80 one on the 250 (after quite a few crashes and hangs, which after a while stopped), and I installed the 80 on my fileserver, while still keeping the files as a backup. Three days ago I decided the new disk was working well enough, so I formatted the old one and went on my way, when suddenly yesterday the 120 spun down and hung the entire system. I removed and replugged the cable and it worked, but as a precaution I copied everything on it to the 250 (which still had 30 GB left). I decided that I'd delete it when I needed the space if the other disk was working fine.
