Simon Vans-Colinas Infrequently updated blog.

Tuesday, July 30, 2002

I (and just about every unix guy i know) have been looking , for years, for a way to get the full command line out of the process table.
Today i was shown how:
/usr/ucb/ps -auwwwx | grep really_long_command_line
Im posting this here, not because i believe anyone who reads this cares. But because i really dont want to forget this.

Sunday, July 28, 2002

Finished my rescue diver course on saturday. Spent about 5 or 6 hours in the water. 3 in a 28C heated pool and then 3 in the ocean at little manly beach (Cold.)
Went out with the neighbours, Floris, and Daniel and co on saturday night.

Tuesday, July 23, 2002

Full moon last night.
Decided id buy the flatties pizza for dinner, so we did that and got some beer.
Drank beer and decided to go see bend it like beckham at fox studios.
So we were walking down there, past the hordan pavilion, which was packed full of people for the Gomez concert.
Which wasn't sold out.
So we picked up 4 cheap tickets ($0 $30 $30 $40) and went to that instead.
Once we got inside i ran into a guy, cameron who jim and i worked with in london, and who we also ran into in whistler. Just one of those small world things.
And after the concert, which by the way was excellent, i ran into Zoe's old work mate Annabelle.
Then we went and had some drinks at the cleavland.
I love random tuesdays like that.

Half day today, im going to go get my new puter (hopefully!) and do my dive medical.

Thursday, July 18, 2002

I bought a new computer.
Gots me a dual athelon 1800+ with 512meg ram and a 128 gforce 4400.
Picking it up on tuesday.

Also got me some new neighbours. Jim and Emma found an apartment round the corner near the Brett Whitley gallery.

Tuesday, July 16, 2002

Hey what do you know, Sleep is now good for you again.
Is it just me thats having trouble keeping up?

Monday, July 15, 2002

Too much sleep?
Ive been hearing, recently that too much sleep is bad for you.
I went to bed last night at 9 oclock, and got up this morning at 8:30. But i figure im ok cause i got so little on the weekends that it probably averages out?
On a related note, the following things are now 'good for you.':
Uk weather
Laying around
Dirt
Yoga
Choclate
Jogging
Eggs.

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Sunday, July 14, 2002

Friday and saturday exactly the same. Labour club, fringe bar, hangover.
Went and got my dive course book today.
Bought warcraft 3, but it runs so slowely in my ibook that im going to give it to alex.
Did some redecorating yesterday, bought a new light shade for the living room (2 actually, but one was so bad i trashed it.)
Had breakfast with ally and zoe at bondi sat morning.

Thursday, July 11, 2002

Yeah its friday. Ally and Lach last night convinced me that i sleep too much and that id be better off cutting back to 7 or 8 hours sleep a night.
So i tried it. I went to bed about 11:30and got up at 7:00 this morning...

And then again at 8:20..

Yep, that'll have to do for now. Certainally looks better than it used to..
I was going to create a new website tonight, was thinking of making a surry hills thingy, infact i went to register www.2010.net.au but you need to be a registered business in this country to get a .au domain. (what a hassle.) So i didnt bother.
Think ill wander down to the cricketers arms now.

Did you ever wonder what " Phenylketonurics - contains phenylalanine" means? Thanks to the Internet i now know.

Do you like this? Im experimenting using blogger to publish my weblog instead of the perl/cgi thingy i hacked up all those years ago.

Nature is indifferent to life.
It realizes everything is as a straw dog
The truly wise are also indifferent to life.
They realize humanity is as a straw dog.
--Lao Tsu

Had an argument with Floris about why some people in society will always be poor. He argued that society disadvantages some people because it is designed that way.
I told him not to anthropomorphise society, it wasn't designed that way, it just is.