Continuing my investigation on bandwidth usage, I did some number crunching on my raw access logs. on a daily basis, half of the unique referrers in my apache logs come from myspace.
HALF!!!!!
bloody 'ell!
The beaver is a proud and noble animal
Notes from a bemused canuck
Continuing my investigation on bandwidth usage, I did some number crunching on my raw access logs. on a daily basis, half of the unique referrers in my apache logs come from myspace.
HALF!!!!!
bloody 'ell!
A few quick bits that I will expand on later:
– Lugging 30 pounds of prezzies is fucking heavy
– Met Michel and Sara at Weinsteins. Food porn. Watermelon porn. All good.
– My cat is now fucking HUGE! yet still insane and addicted to catnip.
– I have been awake for 2 hours and doing computer tech support for 1.5 of them. Such is my lot in life.
More later, must go eat.
The key points from yesterday:
I finished wrapping most of the presents up this morning while Katy was having a nap. It's good that she's finally getting some rest – it'll do her good. I want this trip to be stress-free and fun-filled. I'm looking into how we're going to get to Montreal tomorrow. I'm thinking the train, because that would drop us off directly at Bonaventure, right at the Salon des Metiers d'arts.
It's weird a bit to be back in Canada. It seems that I really settled into Cambridge life. When I walked into my folks' house, I saw all the old surroundings and all my old stuff that I couldn't bring. Like my TV. Damn, that thing was big. From talking to Katy, it probably wouldn't even fit inside our flat.
As to the title of this post, I'm currently fixing my dad's computer :)
I am officially stopping my work day now.
This day hasn't been the best one in a while. Lets see the high points:
So yes, right just this minute, I wish I was home and a bit drunk.
Update: To round out this day, I fell asleep on the bus and when I woke up in a rush to get off at my stop, I left the plastic bag with all my lunch tupperware of the week and two forks. Go me :(
My website, flubu.com, is offline because my ISPs server is down and has been for the last 6 hours or so. This does not please me.
In the meantime, let there be boobs: http://www.whowantsabalti.com/misc2/boobs2.swf
I've been doing a big push to get major work done on my ontology lookup service before I leave for Munich tomorrow. I added a ton of new features and loaded an assload of new and interesting data on it.
Since this was all in development, all that code and data is on my laptop. It works fine. It takes about 2 hours to load 33 ontologies, 120000 terms and 790000 relationships between those terms. That's fairly decent – loading about 1000 terms a minute. Now, being all happy to get it done and wanting to deploy the friggin thing, I turn to the production servers. You'd think it would be blazingly faster, given the size of the things.
Of course not.
My load is about 10 times slower.
So I'll have to work late tonight if I want the last hour not to have been a complete waste of time.
Blergh.
Nice way to start a week.
Get into work, check my email, do some routine sanity checks on the servers… only to find that PRIDE has been down all friggin' weekend because the database server went belly up on friday night. Nice. The log partition was full. Nicer. Tables got corrupted. Nicest.
I hope this isn't an omen for my week.
Today is documentation day at the EBI, which means that all normal activities are suspended while people WTFM†. There's a reason why coders leave off documentation until the very end of a project. It's brain damaging.
†akin to RTFM. bur even more boring.
Die, struts, die! I fixed you, mwahahahahahahaha!
I need to figure out a timing bug in Struts, the evil webapp framework from hell. Timing issues are a bitch to resolve in the best of time, but in Struts, you'd prefer to have your appendix taken out with a rusty spoon while fully conscious.