Tonight, we've watched Chronicles of Narnia, girlfriend and I, and we came to a few interesting observations. Really, they're quite amazing! Someone has been playing World of Warcraft decades before it was released! Spoilers ahead, beware! For example, let us have a look at the Witch. She was surely a mage, as she could conjure food and water. However, she appeared to be buffed a lot, as she could dual wield swords as well - and she wasn't all that bad at that, either. She also had an instant-cast frost spell.. This latter lead to a little debate among us, as I was asserting she must have been a shaman, using frost shock. Would have fit quite well, if only she wouldn't have been able to conjure food... And the fact, that after Aslan killed her, she didn't self-res. I doubt there's any worthy shaman out there who doesn't have a stack of ankhs in the bags. That's just not possible, really. Not to mention she always wore cloth, while we all know, shamans wear mail. Next on the table - the stone-table, hah! - is Aslan. Unlike the witch, he really was a shaman. The best proof: he self-ressed.. Albeit it took him a while. However, he did not appear to have any durability loss - on the contrary, he had his mane grown back! What kind of armor he wore, I do not know, he was in ghost lion form all through the movie, sadly. We also saw him resurrect others, that part fits too. Totems - we missed those, yes... But... if a shaman is fighting in ghost lion form, he must be so powerful, decked out in epics, he does not need them anyway. And this is where we come to the part of investigation where we have a look at the levels of the characters. Aslan and the Witch were skull-level bosses for sure. Most of the armies must have been lowbies, judging by their puny equipment - and most of the time, their puny skills aswell. Thus, it is no wonder that a single boss - the Witch - could tear through almost a whole army of poor newbies. It took another boss to stop her for good. Kinda like summoning your side's bosses in Alterac Valley. With the exception that in Alterac Valley, a raid is enough - here, one needed a whole lot more than a single 40-man raid. So far, this is what we figured out. I expect more details will see the light as we watch the film over and over again, in the hope of discovering more connections between the Chronicles and Warcraft.

The webserver I've been running for the past year or two, my own creation, had been acting strangely lately. It got stuck at times and refused to serve requests. I knew of the problem for some time, but due to time constraints, I haven't touched the code in a very long while. Therefore, the problem never got fixed - and as it stands, it never will be, as I've given up working on Thy (and pretty much everything else), until I finally finish my studies. Originally, thy was written because the machine that powered my domain was not strong enough to run apache. The hardware got replaced about two times since then, and the current one is adequate enough, and the switch was made: I'm now running Apache 2.0. A few rough edges still remain - like SSL is not configured yet at all, but other than that, I think everything else that used to work, still works.

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Seems fitting... *grins*

2006, what a lovely year! Not. I heard its a custom, that at the start of the new year, one looks back at the past one. So I did, and wasn't impressed at all. Mind you, the same happens each and every year, so it is no suprise, really. For the past year, I have been rather inactive, I should have gone on an extensive vacation from Debian a long time ago, around May, when I quit my last job. I intend to rectify that as soon as I manage to dig up my GPG key. Most of my packages will get officially orphaned too, as I lack the time and motivation to work on them - no news here, either, as this is the case since early last year. Lets see what I did on the free software front in the past year or two... One of my most succesfull projects was CCZE, a log colouriser. Needles to say, the idea is not mine. The crap implementation, the most messy and bad code I've ever written, is mine, though. It hasn't seen an update since I don't know when. Nor will it in the foreseeable future. The only thing that could help the codebase, is a rewrite, which I had been planning since 2003, and not a bit of code was committed ever. In the meantime, new programs appear, whose logs could be colourised, new demands arrive, but the project has been dead for good. Once, Thy was the software I was most proud of. I really loved it, and spent most of my time hacking on it. Those times are past, new, similar software appeared, that surpassed my beloved HTTP daemon in nearly every respect. I don't believe thy has any place among todays similar projects. This, I truly regret, I had great fun developing Thy. But as everything, even good things must come to an end. Back when I worked for a company that was into this media streaming business, I contributed a few bits and pieces to GStreamer, but all the "grand ideas" I had, and wished to make reality, never happened. Looking further back, I can't notice any significant contribution I made.. except maybe one, a very small one.. Even nowadays, I can't stop feeling a little proud, when it crosses my mind. Some may know, most probably don't, I acted as an application manager for Debian, and for a little while, I like to think I wasn't that bad at that job. For a little while... Anyway, during this, I had the pleasure to work with Daniel Stone. Heh, those were good times! I hope, that what we've done there, was of at least a bit useful. Meh, enough of this. My projects failed, I didn't have the neccessary resources to make some of my dreams come true. All I need now, is a break, a break so I will not feel bad about things I do not have time for. I'll let them go, as I should have done ages ago, that's best both for them, and me. Until a time I feel I can contribute back something, for all I received from the free software community, I'll take a vacation. From time to time, I'll be hanging around on IRC, but my activity will be as low as it was during the past year. Good bye, and thanks for all the fish! P.S.: Yamm, my over-sized tamagotchi expressed interest in maintaining me in Debian. If, by any chance, he'd take over my computer, and expressed his wish to run for DPL-ship, please, by all means, stop him. Thank you.

Joey wrote in his blog entry about the tyranny of unix permissions:

(If I ever ran for Debian Project Leader (which I won’t), this would be one of the areas that I would be sure to investigate basing my platform on. Speaking of which, it’s nearly election season again, isn’t it?)

Which leads me to the next question Isn’t the next Debian Project Leader report already due? Oh, I better get back into my hole again and let the Cabal do their work. Disclaimer: All views expressed in here are not mine, but those of my tamagotchi.

Thanks to Algernon, I also discovered my true Perl name:
''=~('(? '.('^/@@[ '^'.])./]').'"'.(':^@@]/ /,;_'^' +..<]]*@@] ').',$/ )')
Isn't it crystal-clear?
...Seems I'll have to repeate Algernon's hint: Perl, enter, paste, Ctrl-D.

''=~('(? '.('[_@@*@'^'+-).^ ').'"'.('>,<%_@/@ '^'_@[@-.@.^').',$/ )')

Generate your own perl name! Sick, sick, sick, but I love it. Hint: run perl, paste the code, and hit ctrl+d

Here's the deal: I'm terribly bad at screaming, really. Yet, I often find I want to scream at somebody, and all I can do is raise my voice a little. A few minutes ago, on #debian-devel@OFTC, a rethorical question was put out:

<Yoe> Whee
<Yoe> Don't you just *love* C++

And that got me thinking: "Would I get screamed at, loudly, if I said yes?" I could record that, and replay them when I feel like screaming. Nothing beats the angry scream of a roomful of debian developers, I'd imagine. Unfortunately, a beating was all people could promise me. That doesn't worth the trouble, though. However, as it was said shortly after, it would be a nice project for some developer gathering. And from there things followed... and now, I have a plan set out! It's quite certain that I can't attend FOSDEM (or any other conference, unless it's held in hungary on a weekend); I'd like to record some screaming; I have worked with video software before... so, the conclusion reached on #debian-devel: I should get a setup together, where I can anger the audience from my own room, at a safe distance, and record the screaming I get in return. All this using and demoing free software. Sweet, ain't it? Now I just have to find some time to do the setup and test it. Looking forward to christmas, when I plan to have a few days off of work. The relevant parts of the IRC log are, of course, available.

Elvish

To which race of Middle Earth do you belong? Darn... I want to be a hobbit!

Finally, I can drop freepascal. It turned out to be far more effective to rewrite things in c++ (like, do a module in a day, while I've been fighting freepascal for a week, before I worked around all quirks and bugs). Maybe life does not suck that much, after all...

Life sucks. That's all. On a side note, I think I will close this weblog of mine, among other things.