Do you know how much money I got in my last pay cheque? £370! 12 out of the 14 days of that pay period I worked and all I came away with was £370. I think I must have been raped by tax because I was on over £400 pre-tax before my last shift.
All in all I’m realising how much of a bad shape my overdraft is in. Once my credit cards are paid off it’s going to take 4 or 5 weeks to clear it on full time pay and I have about 3 weeks left. While I still have my student loan to come in, I have rent going out and I got hit by a massive phone bill from when I was sorting out our BT line and internet for the house.
Still hopefully I should be able to generate some kind of decent pay cheque next time. At the moment I need to pick up some more shifts to fill my days off but I made a good start today – I clocked into work at 05:45 in the morning and I’ve just got home now. Open closes for the win.
Doing a random search I suddenly stumbled upon the fact that Worfolk.org was available for registration. Confirming that it was indeed available (I didn’t want to get my hopes up as someone has been sat on it for a while) I snapped it up with great pleasure. It’s currently just redirecting to Worfolk.biz but at least now it’s under my control.
Unfortunately there are still squatters sat on the .com and .net.
The beta version of ChrisWorfolk.com v3 is now available for your viewing pleasure. It’s a lot clearer than the current site and easier to read and it uses a nicer URLs. There are a few issues with it at the moment, mainly that it has only been tested in Firefox so far and suffers from some issues when displaying in Internet Explorer.
Currently my VPS is going down every 10-15 minutes! Neither me nor my host can work out what is going on.
The end result is, after continued problems with my VPS I’ve ordered a new one with ServInt. I am going to be migrating a lot of my important sites over to that and then those remain will ever stay on my current VPS or will me migrated over to a new VPS with PowerVPS and the old one cancelled depending on whether I can stabilise it or not.
I think I’ve finally found the reason why all my dialog boxes and default fonts on my laptop have started to look strange – I have 8 fonts left on my computer.
I thought it a little wierd when I went into PowerPoint today and I only had a very small choice of fonts. Then when opening up the source files for some posters I had done I was informed the fonts were missing by a different application. I checked the system folder which contains fonts and it looked fine. But when I tried to copy them to my desktop I got an error and all but 8 of them disappeared. Weird.
To be honest, I never thought I would really use the backups I made of my font files. OCD for the win.
The Scottish National Party have recently outlined plans or a referendum on independence. You can read the news report on BBC News.
Alex Salmond talked about the Scottish people needing to work out what kind of a country they want to be. But of course – they aren’t a country! You’re not. You’re a region of the UK. Just like England.
To be honest, I don’t see what the case is for breaking up the UK, which is what we are talking about here. Maybe there is a good case, if so please outline it to me. But at the moment it just seems we have nothing to gain and a lot to lose.
It’s not like the UK is the biggest country in the world. Making it a little bit smaller isn’t going to help that. How about things like the United Nations? Presumably we would have seperate representation then and presumably the U.K. would remain on the U.N. Security Council whereas Scotland would not. How would things like advertising work if Scotland changed their VAT rate? How will border control work? Policing? These are mostly small problems. But there would be millions of them to solve.
I’d be interested to see what everyone else thinks of such plans.
I finally got round to replacing my MP3 player on Saturday getting an 80GB iPod video. As I have previously mentioned, I installed Rockbox on the device so I didn’t have to use iTunes and spent most of Saturday loading as much of my music collection onto it as I could fit.
So far it’s pretty good. It’s easy enough to use once I get used to it although I end up struggling to decide what to listen to :D. The interface is a bit small given the size of the screen and I haven’t worked out how to make it bigger yet (if indeed it is possible). Battery life is awful as expected, I have to charge it up every few days (or every day if in heavy yse) but I wasn’t expecting anything better from a rechargeable battery.
How many people hate me?
How many people dislike me? How many people find me annoying? How many people think I’m not a very nice person? An immoral person? Arrogant? Self-righteous? Judgemental? A loser who will never amount to anything? A control freak? It’s intrieging to think about what people are saying about you behind your back.
It’s 10:30 and I should have been in bed 2 hours ago. I wasn’t though as I needed to rush over to my new house and carry out some more testing in order to try and get this hideous networking up and running properly. I need to speak to Linksys before I can really do anything else and I don’t think I’m going to like the answer to be honest.
Once I had home I had to fire off a couple of emails as well as test some stuff I got off eBay. My inbox is rapidly filling up with items that need attention though not to mention the fact I can’t see my floor and it’s not just from having too much stuff anymore, it’s actually important things need sorting. I need to phone several different people, email dozens of different people, come up with some CompSoc literature in the next week, sort the A-Soc summer work, organise some meetings, do a million other things on my to do list, re-do my budget, the list goes on. And when is my next day off? Next Thursday. Might need to cut down on this whole sleep thing. The 5 hours at best I’m going to get tonight it just too much apparently.
I got out of work (well, on my break) yesterday to find a text from Maths Chris informing me the internet was now working! Looks like whatever UK Online got BT to do at the exchange has solved the problem.
The battle is far from over though. It’s still causing problems due to it all being in testing mode at the moment and therefore having multiple DHCP servers. Also UK Online were limiting us due to the testing so I may need to get that sorted out if they haven’t done it automatically.
I tried pinging the modem from home today and that didn’t work, nor did my remote administration attempts so I need to sort that. Also working out how the port forwards flow through the network to make sure the modem doesn’t get in the way of the router doing it’s job which is probably going to take quite a bit of testing.