Lauren's Tabulas

upgrade hell

Posted by ree at 12:47 PM on November 30, 2008 in geeky, crossposted to msree.livejournal.com, links, MoonBurnt.

I want to shut down my computer and leave it off for a week.

It won't happen, of course. It's just a passing fancy.

I had figured, hey, holiday weekend (here in the US), plenty of time to kill at the computer. Idea: Upgrade my forum!

Yeah, bloody brilliant. I got started in early afternoon. As I type this, it's not two hours till midnight. I am still picking error messages out of my metaphorical teeth. My error list has gone from three lingering lines to — actually, I don't want to know how long it is now. Mommy.

Ah, well, the forum wanted upgrading for security reasons, and it's done now. If Bloglines would just follow the sodding redirect for the feeds, everything might be where it's supposed to be. Finally. Oi.

...

Scratch that. I am now typing this with less than a half-hour till midnight. Posting anything to the forum had caused it to drag its heels. (I like to think my webserver wears patent leather pumps. It is a fabulous server, you see.) I Googled up some likely causes, narrowed my list down to one, and wrestled with a PHP class until I finally found the correct spot to slip my Googled-up fix. Presto. Faster posting.

I wanna watch a movie now. No searching, no typing, no copying or pasting. Completely passive. Completely not my fault if something goes wrong.

Of course, the movie I most want to see is one I bought the other day. The disc doesn't work at all in any of the three DVD players I tried.

Maybe I should stick to things I'm able to debug. At least they're fixable.

Currently listening to: Christmas classics
Currently reading: >.<
Currently watching: >P
Currently feeling: tired

Icon Fail 2: Electric Bugaloo

Posted by ree at 01:07 AM on November 21, 2008 in geeky, crossposted to msree.livejournal.com, links.

I am currently the #1 Google result for icon fail. After making that post, I found just the sort of icon I was looking for — too late for it to matter.

Life, it has its ups and its downs.

Currently feeling: amused

poem #58

Posted by ree at 08:48 PM on November 17, 2008 in poetry, happiness.

(Limerick, baby!)

There once was a woman named Ree,
As giddy as giddy could be.
When someone asked why,
She simply said, "I
take pleasure in laughter. Teehee!"

Currently feeling: happy