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Father's Day 2007

I had a pretty good Father's Day.

My girls kicked it off my giving me presents while I was still in bed; a copy of Loco Roco for the PSP (my first actual game!) and underwear (brightly coloured!). Rachael insisted on which pair I'd wear, too :)

Breakfast with my old man followed (he paid, double bonus!). Bacon and egg muffins FTW. Lunch was with Missy's folks, and doubled as a birthday lunch for Missy and her twin sister.

After lunch we travelled to IKEA, not exactly my idea of a "great" time, but we got a few nice things.

Dinner was home-made pizza, utterly perfect. Missy and the little ones all went to bed; I stayed up to watch Star Trek and play my new PSP game.

Great day :-)

Oh, and we're probably having a baby RSN!!!

Syndicated 2007-09-04 02:37:00 from Robert Mibus's blog

EQ/SQ

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EQ : 22
SQ : 79
Brain Type : Extreme Systemizing

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Syndicated 2007-08-17 08:21:00 from Robert Mibus's blog

Month of Change

(First things first...)

Congratulations Cassandra and Luke on your recent engagement. It's been a long time coming, and I hope your lives are filled with wonders and love. (and children? :)

It's been a long time - a month - since my last blog here. I've been a busy boy!

Since Matt's obviously not going to mention it first, I sold him my house :).

I'm now living in a lovely rental overlooking the Onkaparinga river and the sea (and Matt's mum's house!). It's a bit weird and inconvenient being on a slope, but otherwise I'm actually really happy with it. The lounge area is MUCH more usable.

I also have a shed, where I can hang the things that Missy doesn't want to see (like a giant photo of her :), as well as store all of my stuff.

I've also bought a PSP in prep for a change at work (that I'll probably discuss later). It's absolutely great for podcasts, video and audio. Best (only? ;) money I've spent on myself in a few years now.

It's also been a month of reflection and contemplation. Things are afoot that I hadn't put together, but slowly the world is making sense once more. Well, as much sense as a hunk of rock with seven billion ugly bags of mostly water can. (No, you're not supposed to understand this paragraph. Stop trying or you'll give yourself a headache!)

I've been a bit slack here, largely because I've been really busy, but also because I've been updating my work blog. It's not going to include home life stuff, it's purely work-related. All the same, if you're desperate enough to want to hear from me more, you can check up on me over there.

In a final and sad note, I'm as yet unable to get DSL. Costello is hammering away trying to get it for me, let's hope it happens soon! (PS. I thought I didn't have your number the other day, but it was under "D" not "C". I nearly didn't even check there!)

Syndicated 2007-08-07 01:53:00 from Robert Mibus's blog

Will of the World

A broken boy, walking alone through a broken world,
Hears a voice from a lost friend.
Unable to speak, unable to look, he just tries to smile.
The weight of the will of the world,
Its toll is born in lost friends.
Like tiredness overcoming wakefulness,
The time has come to finally lie down.
Fate has its way, lost friends are lost,
Only time can show a path back.

Syndicated 2007-07-03 10:50:00 from Robert Mibus's blog

Laptop Woes, discovered

I think that, despite my thoughts to the contrary, the logic board on this beast isn't yet due to fail.

I have confirmed that tilting the display can affect the screen output - cable being crimped by the case again, no doubt. I've also had good evidence that the hanging issues are actually HDD-related - I managed to catch a DMA timeout error on the console one time.

Of course, there's no way I'm replacing the HDD outright (unless someone has a decent 2.5" HDD for free...).

I've found a PPC LiveCD of Ubuntu 6.10, which I'm now running - less chance of a crash, I figure. My data is still there (and I have an up-to-date backup, wheee!) but it's frustrating to crash every time I move.

Might see if I can replace the HDD with a CF adapter and card - should be a nice fast boot if I do :). Not going to spend any real money fixing it though, replacement has been on the cards for a loong time.

Syndicated 2007-06-22 22:52:00 from Robert Mibus's blog

Z22

Oh, this is a photo of the new PalmPilot I got after Matt broke my old one.



Cheap and fast. I'd love bluetooth and wifi, but it's still great as it is.

Syndicated 2007-06-15 01:31:00 from Robert Mibus's blog

BugZilla XML-RPC

Well, this has frustrated me for over an hour, so here's hoping Google will find this and help others with it:

BugZilla 3.0's XML-RPC wasn't working properly. We were getting 500 Internal Server Errors when the User.Login method was called. I tracked the problem to Bugzilla/WebService.pm line 64, where it tries to set the login cookies.

After much grief, I eventually found out that the HTTP::Headers module was getting passed a CGI::Cookies object, rather than a string. Unfortunately, the error message in HTTP::Headers ("Unexpected field value") is utterly useless. (It prints out the object, which shows it as if it's a string...).

Hint: Next time you have an error based on an object's type, print the "bad" type that you got passed and save us all some time. OK, rant over :)

Anyway, the solution is to edit the WebServices,pm, and change:

$self->response->headers->push_header('Set-Cookie', $_);
to
$self->response->headers->push_header('Set-Cookie', $_->as_string);

Syndicated 2007-06-13 06:10:00 from Robert Mibus's blog

Your Social Dysfunction...

Your Social Dysfunction:
Schizotypal


You display social deficits and oddities of thinking. Your perception and communication are similar to those of a schizophrenic.

Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com

Please note that we aren't, nor do we claim to be, psychologists. This quiz is for fun and entertainment only. Try not to freak out about your results.

Syndicated 2007-06-12 13:00:00 from Robert Mibus's blog

Swiper!

This comment on Slashdot (about a Fedora/MythTV combo-distro "MythDora") just had me cackling:

I tried MythDora, but frankly I got tired of the "Swiper, no swiping!" popups every time I tried to record a show. I've heard there's a MythBusters plugin to get around them, but I don't think the walrus mustache is an acceptable tradeoff.


For the confused in the audience, watch some episodes of Dora The Explorer...

Syndicated 2007-05-30 03:28:00 from Robert Mibus's blog

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