Photo Friday: Best of 2005

The photo:

photo: shells

A while ago I contemplated occasionally taking part in the Photo Friday weekly photo challenge but forgot about it, not giving it a second thought. This morning I decided to create a photo category for the blog and remembered about Photo Friday.. somewhat ironically right at the end of the year but heyho. :p

Anyway, I picked the photo above because although it’s not my best photo it does remind me of one of the best times I had this year — my first break at the seaside with Karl. Although the weather was pants, I got to have a proper rest and saw some cool little sea creatures. Oh, and that’s when I found my heart-shaped rock, too. :) So, yes.. this is my best of 2005. (Click for bigger, unedited version.)

(Ps. new theme.)

Posted on: December 30, 2005 · Category: Misc

Cough! Splutter!

To Karl: “I think I’ll have a glass of orange juice to increase my CSS levels.”

I think I meant Vitamin C levels. You’d think this cock-up would be to do with my terrible illness minor cough, but in actual fact these geeky man eating penguins.. eh.. where was I?

Oh yes.. geeky moments. They seem to be happening more frequently. I blame the television (everyone else does). The point? I think I need a life.

Edit: Note to self.. it’s not a good idea to dance in the first proper snow of the season whilst wearing slippers on a piece of concrete thick with ice under said new snow. Ow. I think I almost broke my poor little toe then!

Posted on: December 29, 2005 · Category: Geek

ho ho ho!

Christmas was good. Karl and I didn’t get much sleep on Christmas Eve because of my excited fidgeting and the fact we were sleeping on one of those crappo airbed thingies on my Mum’s front room floor, and the kids (my younger brothers & sister) wouldn’t stop bickering.. but I got some great presents for which I’m incredibly grateful, and Christmas dinner was just delicious. Nothing beats my Mum’s roast potatoes, I swear.

I feel somewhat spoilt this year because Karl got my three quite ‘big’ (not size) presents — a new watch, a big book on crochet stitches and patterns and a bottle of my absolute favourite perfume (Chanel No. 5; I’ve expensive tastes). I also got a set of crochet hooks from Karl’s mum (from 0.6mm — 5.5mm) which is awesome, because I only had two before. My Mum got me a Perl book (which I asked for) and some other bits and bobs including one of those Galileo thermometer thingymajigs with the little glass blobs inside that float up or down depending on the temperature. It’s pretty and practical! Then there was my other stuff which I’m not going to mention because you’re all bored already.

The best part of Christmas was just seeing the family together this year without all of the big arguments and having to choose ‘sides’ to be on. I got to see my niece Charlotte opening presents at my Mum’s — and see her running around excited shouting “hello hello” and counting on her fingers like I’ve been teaching her. She’s one smart little kid. :) Dylan slept through most of it, heh. I think Karl would have too if he’d had chance — he looked knackered on Christmas day.

Boxing day we did the “family thing” ..going to see Karl’s Aunts/Uncles and his Nan and then going back to my Mum’s. We had a laugh, but unfortunately seemed to have developed a minor cold along the way somewhere. Oh, and I’ve got no coffee in so I’ve got to go shopping today. Heyho.. best go and make the best of the rest of 2005!

Posted on: December 28, 2005 · Category: Parenting

E-mail Replies

If you’ve sent me an e-mail recently (asking questions, tutorial requests, etc), chances are very high I won’t reply until after Christmas (possibly New Year) now. The same goes for posting on forums, qbee patch trades, etc. Although I’ve managed to finish my Christmas shopping I’ve got lots of things to do around the house and babysitting my niece/nephew. So.. speak to you all soon, and happy holidays everyone! :)

PS. Got my card Katy, thanks. :D

Posted on: December 22, 2005 · Category: Updates

Ubuntu, baby!

So. Karl was fiddling with Ubuntu on his Desktop PC last night and after stealing my wireless key managed to get it working on Linux. Wooh. I took the mega scary oh-my-god my-laptop-is-going-to-die step this afternoon and HOORAH! I am now a linux n00b! My wifi key picked up the network straight away, and well.. here I am. Blogging. On Linux. Who’d have thought it, eh?

All I need to do now is figure out how to get Apache up and running so I can use that for my website (so used to Abyss on Windows). Ooh, so many new toys. I’ve not been this scared of an Operating System since my Windows 3.1 days about 8 years ago when I deleted a load of system files and it stopped working…

ETA: I’ve got Apache2 running, PHP running and MySQL is probably doing something somewhere but I’m not quite sure yet because I fiddled with the user permissions earlier and haven’t had chance to test it yet. All is well, you’d think.. but no: I’m having an issue with permissions. I cannot create files in the /var/www/ directory. I used sudo chmod [permission] /var/www to change the permissions on the directory and it worked.. but then suddenly all of the files/folders inside “changed” and didn’t seem to be associated with anything, So, how do I un-root this directory? Un-root. Hah, coming up with my own terms already. :p

Posted on: December 21, 2005 · Category: Geek