Dammit, dammit, dammit

Forgot my wallet today. Irks me to no end. Now I'm scrounging through the bottom of my backpack and hoping I have enough change in the truck.

OK, I'm Gildas...what's a Gildas?

My friend Arthur asked me the significance of my alias "Gildas Talmadge".



Funny how the obvious sometimes isn't!



I was in the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) and as part of the roleplaying you create an alternate personality, or persona. This persona should be (roughly) around the times of the middle ages. (OK, you Period Nazi's go away, this is a brief summation!) I was going historical research for an appropriate (also known as 'period') name and came across stories and information about Saint Gildas, one of the first historians attributed to writing (among other things) the Knights of the Round Table, King Arthur, etc. Being fascinated with the history and idea that a real person wrote history regarding something that is so often considered fantasy, I instantly decided it was a good name that had *meaning* to me.



The Talmadge comes from my distant relative. I always liked the sound of it and it had a period sound to it. Combine the two and you have the other me!



So there you go, how my alias came to be.n

Me Mine Not Yours

I somehow found time to update my website entry page. Still don't have the database up and some links are down but I'm making progress!



You can see my online web content over at www.personaldaemon.com - feel free to stop by.

I tire of construction details!

Just finished levelling the dimmers in the bathroom. I think the box was moved when the drywall was placed on it and shifted. I did the electrical work and I placed the boxes in the same location as they were before but it seems that was about half an inch too far back. The drywall guys simply cut out the spaces and happily spackled and patched looking at light switched recessed half an inch in the wall. Supposedly one of them has been doing this for 15 years. Wow. Fifteen years of screwing people over because of lack of attention to detail. Go figure.

Open Format or brilliant Bittorrent Client?

I was downloading the latest SuSE CDROM .iso images with GetRight! and had to close down to go home. I had about 300M worth of data.



I installed a fresh copy of GetRight! into Mozilla and tried to resume download but it was slooooow. Noticing I was getting nice download speeds on my bittorrent client (I currently am using ABC under WindowsXP) I stopped GetRight!, copied the .getright partial file to my torrent download folder, found the torrent, and saved the torrent as the same filename. ABC automatically checked the file and began a resumed download. Neato!



Well possibly neato. The proof is in having a working final image - we shall see if SuSE Disk 5 MD5 hash matches in a few. Then the battle begins: SuSE 9.1 vs. Fedora Core RC2!



Where are all my monster Godzilla sounds!?!

Beer, Beer, Beer, Beer!

Going to the Brickskeller tonight for beer around 9pm. Should be there with Anthony, Mike and a few others.



C'Mon by! I want to try the J W LEE'S Vintage Ale 1987 9.6oz 9.95 from England. Brewed the year I graduated from Skool. Hope it tastes better than I speel.

left foot..right foot...left foot..right foot

We have no bathroom. We removed the toilet last night and just finished emptying it for the drywall people.



Song playing: Devo - (We all have to) Go!

No *I* am the real Gildas!

Ok. One of the reasons I both with this stuff is so my friends and family (the people that put up with me) can be closer to me and my daily life.



Bollocks that - technology is making it even easier to pretend I care! That's right, I type here and I never have to socialize or talk to anyone I know again. Just get that online grocery delivery, telecommuting job, and replace my computer chair with a port-a-potty. Is sarcasm really wasted on YOU?



OK, maybe I like the tickling sensation when someone googles me.



All that drivel to tell you to get your buns over to Friendster and look me up. And don't forget my yahoo.com profile, and my personal webserver should be available at times too.



Did I mention I am on Instant Messenger? Either at [WORK IM] or [PERSONAL IM] after hours.



By-the-way: I use GAIM under Windows and Linux. If you want an Instant Messenger that works with Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, & Jabber all at the same time, with multiple accounts (I can be logged in with my personal account and see my friends and my professional account to see my co-workers at the same time.) then go get this thing! Open Source (no cost software!



Yay!

Computing Melancholy

Well, I have four shiny CDROMs labeled "SuSE 9.1" Disks 1 through 4. Disk 5 sits unburdened by bits, untouched by laser light's sweet happiness. Zenling is starving on a diet of OEM supplied XP Professional until my .iso finishes!



Damn GetRight! GetItRightDammit! more likely. The accelerated (segmented) downloading on a partial 300M file decided not to resume. Or to be fair, it tried to resume and the tux.org server couldn't but GetRight! screwed me anyway. Grr. Grr I say!!



I demand piggies!!

Computing Happiness

Well, I have a new baby: Zendralisk was born last night!



Dual Gigabit Ethernet, 1Gb Mem, Athlon xp2800+, 250GB HD, nVidia 258Mb GeForce 5700LE Video card. I forgot my laptop power supply at work so I built the new monster instead of working on my webpage. I think I might get the wireless hub add-on today and use my existing wireless hub at work. By-the-way the ASUS case and power supply are pretty quiet. Damn near silent by comparison to thew el cheapo fans running web services in www.personaldaemon.com. But I only paid $99 bucks for that one :)



I wish I had a shiny new monitor!



Geek? Me?!? Do you see any headless chickens?!?

I'm Mobile!

Well, If this works it means I can post to my blog from my Sidekick (danger hiptop phone).



Technology rocks!



Unless of course it is being used for repression...

Purpose. Focus!

I am going to try to write daily in my online journal. Anything at all - why populate the internet with useful information when you can read my drivel? If you want to help encourage me, post a reply or email me if you see me miss a day!

Gym dandy..

Went to the gym during lunch today. Ran two miles. The first mile was at 9 minutes 30 seconds and the second mile was at 8 minutes 25 seconds; a new record for me! Now if I can just get there for 45 minutes a day. An hour lunch makes it difficult with showering and changing clothes. Meybe I should go nekkid to save time....

I hate!

...when I thought of something that I wanted to say, don't capture it and feel like I didn't reflect and take my idea on to something more brilliant than an idle thought.



Grr...

Moving in.

Just setup the Blog. Ick - don't care for the name, sounds like a bullfrog more than an online diary.