Ok, I’m sure everyone gets those weeks that just seem to drag on. The past few have seemed to be the longest I’ve ever had.

We left home to drive up to Auckland for a week on Sunday the 19th October, my cat was at her favourite cattery for the duration. On the way up was pretty uneventful.

Just your usual long drive from Palmy to Auckland. We did get some idiot try and pass when the signs clearly stated “Do not Pass on Painted Median” Well, no wonder the car in front was going to turn right in the turning lane when this moron came screaming up the side of us and just about collected the car turning. If I hadn’t been driving I would’ve whipped out the camera and taken a photo. Anyway, he didn’t learn. I was sitting around 105kph when who should come flying past us. The same idiot passing on a corner no less, do some people need to kill themselves or others before they learn. Maybe they just never learn I dunno.

Got to Auckland that evening and once we were settled in to where we were staying, we decided to order Pizza Hut for dinner. The weather was reasonable so we sat outside and ate.

We had an appointment at 8am the following morning (Monday) so after a long drive I was pretty much ready for bed by 9pm. I didn’t think I was going to be able to get up early enough but I managed it.

The week was pretty good, weather wise but due to the circumstances of why we were there (which I won’t go into at this time) I spent most of it inside or running up and down a bloody hill. I even managed to kill a pair of boots which I have to get the sole re-attached.  Hopefully that won’t cost too much.

The last night we were there, We zipped up to Glenfield to stay with my parents. We all went up to Albany for dinner on the Friday evening and had a lovely roast pork meal. Upon getting back to mum and dads I managed to sit down and relax with a Bourbon and Coke. I wasn’t looking forward to having to drive home on Saturday.

The trip home was pretty good. Only had some issues with a tour bus speeding up then slowing down for about 30 minutes but after that the roads were relatively clear. Had some rain fall but nothing too bad. Got back to palmy and felt like I had stepped into a freezer.

Mum and Dad had left earlier on Saturday on the Motorbike to do their trip down the country. They came up to Palmy from Wellington on the Sunday so it was great having some more time with them. They then headed back to Auckland on Tuesday the 28th after gallivanting around the Manawatu on the bike on Monday.

I guess the past couple of weeks have been pretty busy really. though having the slow week in the middle seems to have made everything seem slow.

Anyway, I guess you’ve stopped reading by now and I probably make no sense what so ever.

The 2008 Domain Harvest

During October 2008 the Library will perform a large-scale harvest of the New Zealand internet. We will do this using a ‘web crawler’ to find and download web pages.

 

The domain harvest will attempt to acquire every publicly accessible website that falls under the nz country code, as well as certain other websites that are owned by New Zealanders or legally considered New Zealand publications.

 

The internet is always changing, and uses a myriad of technologies, so it is impossible to make a perfect copy. Despite this, we are hoping to harvest 100 million URLs during October 2008, giving us a snapshot of the internet at that time.

 

The harvested web pages will be stored at the Library, and will eventually be made publicly accessible

 

View the page @ http://www.natlib.govt.nz/about-us/current-initiatives/web-harvest-2008

Ok, Normally having a site indexed is not an issue. It’s how we find things. But when you blatantly ignore the robots.txt I have an issue. I don’t know about others, but I purposely add files / directories into the robots file so they are _not_ indexed/archived.

Needless to say, Did we get any warning at all that our Web servers were going to be put under huge load from their bloody robot. I don’t recall seeing anything anywhere.. I found the page about from a log entry on my server. (While trying to figure out why the load was so high)

Be warned NZ.. even if you have disclaimers stating the content may not be archived or have files/directories in robots.txt you don’t have indexed/archived on Google etc.. This will blatantly ignore those entries and both index and archive your site.

What the fuck is this? pick on Kimberly night or something.

My site has just been hammered with spam comments. I’ve now installed Spam Karma 2 to automatically ditch these so I don’t have to waste my time going though and removing them.

I wish these no life pricks would grow up and get a life. Oh yeah, they’re to much of a arsehole to actually have friends so I guess having a social life or even a girl friend is out of the question for these idiots.

Ok, Rant over.

Have a good night everyone (else)

My Fur Baby is a year old.

I found TeeGee abandoned by her mother at around 4 weeks of age. Since then she has been an awesome kitten.

Full of energy and completely frisky at the wrong times of the day.

She hides under furniture and attacks peoples feet which is so funny (sometimes)

She isn’t that small anymore (I will take a newer pic later and add it here.)

Just saw this on the late news on Tv1

Online buyers who think they have bagged themselves electronics at prices too good to be true, could be right. The team at TradeMe have led police to a Hamilton man they claim used fake identities to sell electronics at a bargain. The 29-year-old is also accused of hijacking people’s wireless internet connections to sell the goods. He is facing 46 charges.

Read the full story at tvnz.co.nz

You have to be brainless not to secure your wireless network or at least have a bloody good reason to have one that’s open.

I can’t believe in today’s day and age people are so uninformed about the issues surrounding an open wireless network connection.  Maybe I should believe it. There is an unsecured wireless network 2 doors down from us.

Come on people, It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to secure a wireless network. It’s not like you wouldn’t have got a manual for your router.

Well, I spent the good part of two days rebuilding my baby. A Cobalt RaQ4i Rack Server. My first ever rack mount server is still going as strong today as it was when I got it.

I’m having issues with a Scsi drive not spinning up properly on my Compaq DL360 so I rebuilt the RaQ as a backup just in case.

If I could get a hold of another RaQ4i or even a 550 I’d be a very happy girl. Unlike most servers I think the RaQs’ look sexy (yeah ok for a computer) and having customised mine to my preference I like the usability of them.

Just downgraded to an older version of PHP on Fedora 9

To see if it still strips the angle backets.

I downgraded the libxml2 rpm’s on Fedora 9. Things seem to be behaving again..

[Edit]

Just updated PHP back to the newer version leaving libxml2 out of the update.