Drinks and Pool at the best place ever that’s cheap and dank. Sharkies, 1st of April.
Be there or be there
Mar 242011
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Mar 182011
So long time between updates. And why? Because of work! What a massive sigh! I’ve been working late everyday and coming home pretty buggered to post anything, or to even fix the forum’s broken CSS after I upgraded the PHP versions. I’m about to go RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Another thing is that I’ve been reading the Song of Fire and Ice books from George R R Martin.
Basically for those unfamiliar with the term, it refers to starting a book series very well and powerfully, then when it appears that the series is popular, drag out the series by writing fluff upon fluff and / or writing huge amounts on side characters that really can be cut, all to lengthen the time period by which one can milk the cashcow of your popular series. Song of Fire and Ice was initially meant to be 3 books, then 5 books, and now it’s been pushed to 7 books. Worse still, here are the publication dates:
| Book | Pages | Release |
| A Game of Thrones | 694 | August 1996 |
| A Clash of Kings | 768 | November 1998 |
| A Storm of Swords | 973 | August 2000 |
| A Feast for Crows | 753 | October 2005 |
| A Dance with Dragons | Unknown | Expected July 2011 |
| The Winds of Winter | Unknown | Unknown |
| A Dream of Spring | Unknown | Unknown |
My concern is that his books are getting further and further in between, and he’s added more books to his series, which means it’s quite likely it won’t be done for maybe 10+ years to come. That is a long time to be waiting for the story to finish. By the time I finish all the books that have been released (or are about to be released soon), it’ll still probably be a few years before new books in the series are finished. So I’ll probably need to re-read some books just to remember what the fuck happened before. Assuming of course the author doesn’t die before he’s finished, a likely possibility given that he’s fairly old already and he’s quite fat. So even something good will probably lead to a sigh. 🙁
Mar 072011
Liverpool vs Man Utd…Usually these big matches are lacklustre affairs with both sides more firey than flairey. But last night’s match up between Liverpool and Man Utd was certainly worth watching. That turn and dribble around 3 players by Suarez to setup the first goal…well I think we have another star here.
SIGH for everything else though
Mar 062011
SighCQ is now online. You can navigate to the web client from the top menu now. So far these are the cool people on it:
- Hotung
- Yan
- Sutit
- Yman
- Salsa
Sutit, I will email you your login and password, but all your buddies are set up already. Vadas, it’s not too late to go on this largest internet sensation of all time.
Feb 262011
Feb 262011
Chat server is online. You may now join in my private chat server. Anyone who wants a login, let me know. You can login through this website here, once I give you a user name.
Feb 232011
The Mandriva fork, Mageia, has just released their 1st Alpha iso of their Linux distro. As a long time Mandriva user and fan, I’m quite excited about this.
Mandriva 2010.2 is quite nice (well it’s just 2010.1 with some new artwork and bootsplash, maybe a KDE upgrade – although I tend to run the most up to date KDE available anyway). But Mageia offers a direct upgrade path from 2010.2 to their first release. Looking forward to running it in Virtual Box so I can compare to Mandriva 2011 when that gets released.
Oh yeah, tomorrow night, I should have ultimate sigh web chat available for testing. All two of you will use it once. According to stats, I have had no visitors for last couple of days, although today there were 4 today. 🙂
Feb 172011
Feb 162011
Feb 082011
So I promised to write about the scam I actually was hoodwinked for 20 seconds. This one is fairly sophisticated.
I recently received a letter from Domain Name Registry saying that ultimatesigh.com was up for renewal at the end of the year and that I should send payment details in the included return envelope to ensure noone else gets it.
Wow
I thought,
a year really went fast.
I actually considered plonking money into the envelope for a second. Then I had a good look at the price. It was $45 to renew for one year.
WTF
I thought. I had registered with My Domain for $10 and I thought the renewal was just another 10. For a split second I thought the letter was from My Domain. Then I realised the name was different and return address was in Aust. Turns out the company is called MelbourneIT and apparently they must trawl through domain registers looking for Aust domain owners. They then send an official looking letter asking for a fairly large sum to shift the registry to them and to re-register your domain through them. Their date for ultimatesigh’s expiry is like 4 months early too, probably to scare you even more. I think quite a few unwitting domain owners may fall for this trick. Sneaky but profitable business they’ve got. 🙁
So in the end sigh is still here.