Sleep deprived ramblings
I’m toasted. I’m on the train, and there’s a girl/woman (a sort of junior Lizard-woman) who can’t stop talking. It’s like she has no filter between her brain and her mouth, and she just keeps going. The poor bastard she’s sitting next to, who she clearly knows, seems to be getting worn down, and his body language says ‘For the love of God! Stop!’. I was up until a ridiculous hour of the morning getting stuck into the site that, as I’ve mentioned before, I’m building for Therese so that she and her girleens can blog away and post photos while they’re abroad.
I work on it on the bus, I work on it on the train, and I try to get a crack at it during lunch. In fact, it’s the very reason I got into WordPress in the first place; I knew that no matter what I did I wouldn’t get my own software finished on time, and certainly not as user-friendly, fully debugged, etc as WP is Right Now. And Right Now is an important concept given that she’s leaving next Wednesday morning. Who knows, I might move them across at some stage but I doubt it – why bother if it works perfectly well? I just hope T isn’t reading this because she’ll kick my ass if she finds out I’m working hard on it…
Now for a nerd/obsessive triumvirate of useless information! I got my LaCie hard drive yesterday; there was a time when pocket portable hard drives (which are the same as laptop hard drives, in a little case and powered by whatever you plug them into) were the height of status with geeks, but now they’re just cheap and everyone should have one. 80 Gigabytes! That’s a lot, and it’s handy. it certainly seems to have inspired all sorts of interesting ideas here in the office.
I finally managed to unsubscribe from Hotmail Plus, a paid-for upgrade to the regular FREE! Hotmail service which gives you lots of space and – crucially for me, when I was travelling and swore off the Interweb for a few months – they don’t disconnect you for not using the service for more than thirty days. It’s more of an achievement than it might at first seem, because They have shrewdly made it almost impossible to stop paying for the service once you’ve started. It just goes into a link loop, whereby if you follow the links to where you can unsubscribe then you end up at where you started, not having learned anything new. And, when you finally realise that you have to communicate with someone directly, they’ve made it arduous and intimidating, you have to confirm your identity with a long form and then finally communicate with someone via an online chat. Juan, in my case. However, I use Firefox so it predictably didn’t work and I resorted to a snotty email. And I got sentimental ‘We love our customers so much, please don’t leave us! How can we persuade you?’ personal responses from their support team! My God, that 30 euro is worth a lot to them.
Signing up to that service was very easy…
Oh yeah, I lost and found the cover to my iPod connection port. It’s a pointless anecdote and I’ve thought the better of going into it. It just has no relevence to anything. Except… Except that I should sellotape it to the iPod, and watch me readers! I’m just not going to do it at all, and lose it again!
You know, it’s interesting that I put so much time and effort into the ideas for cheap stuff site, and personal projects like that. If I did that sort of thing for everything, was so motivated generally, then I’d be an unstoppable machine! And suffering from insomnia. But really, it’s interesting because there are people who do that…
Shouts out to Anto, by the way – I am reading your site too!