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tcpipA distressful event of the week. A old friend of mine has disclosed that she has breast cancer. It has caused me a great deal of sadness, not the least being because she is quite young (<25). Her spirits seem quite positive, so there's been either some positive diagnostics as I think it may be or she is being more courageous than is necessary.
Thanks to the generosity of my new-found employer this post is coming via ADSL. Speaking of which, guess who had to go into the data center of the Australian Stock Exchange this week? Wow, that place is secure. I've also be learning about an amazing little product called Nagios. It makes the life of a sysadmin very happy indeed.
As part of tradition, the summer solstice provides the opportunity to compose and reflect on the events in my life from the past year. 2004: A Year in Review. May I just take this opportunity to thank everyone who has been reading this journal and for all your kind comments.
Here's some good news! Carmela Baronowka won a Wakerly Award for her documentary, Taliban Country!... and some more good news, my old Perth-friend Brian Choo has recently had his amazing art published by Allen and Unwin in
The Big Picture Book.
Another interesting event of the week was meeting KMFDM and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
excessivepurple in real life. I was a bit of a fan of theirs about ten years ago and was pretty happy to see they were still going strong. Picked up their Sturm und Drung DVD and got the band to sign it like a real fan-boy.
Once upon a time, I worked, quite briefly for a certain member of the Victorian Parliament. He proved utterly impossible to work with for a whole variety of reasons and so I resigned and moved on to more sensible position. Some seem to think that he's up to some branch stacking. Some even suggest he's done it before with monies from dubious sources.
Thanks to the generosity of my new-found employer this post is coming via ADSL. Speaking of which, guess who had to go into the data center of the Australian Stock Exchange this week? Wow, that place is secure. I've also be learning about an amazing little product called Nagios. It makes the life of a sysadmin very happy indeed.
As part of tradition, the summer solstice provides the opportunity to compose and reflect on the events in my life from the past year. 2004: A Year in Review. May I just take this opportunity to thank everyone who has been reading this journal and for all your kind comments.
Here's some good news! Carmela Baronowka won a Wakerly Award for her documentary, Taliban Country!... and some more good news, my old Perth-friend Brian Choo has recently had his amazing art published by Allen and Unwin in
The Big Picture Book.
Another interesting event of the week was meeting KMFDM and
excessivepurple in real life. I was a bit of a fan of theirs about ten years ago and was pretty happy to see they were still going strong. Picked up their Sturm und Drung DVD and got the band to sign it like a real fan-boy.Once upon a time, I worked, quite briefly for a certain member of the Victorian Parliament. He proved utterly impossible to work with for a whole variety of reasons and so I resigned and moved on to more sensible position. Some seem to think that he's up to some branch stacking. Some even suggest he's done it before with monies from dubious sources.
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Date: 2004-12-22 09:53 am (UTC)Also, he lost his virginity in my bed, (though not to me), because I was kind enough to lend it to him. The bastard.
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Date: 2004-12-22 10:00 pm (UTC)That is a very disturbing icon. I get dizzy just looking at it.
Interesting KMFDM story. Do you think they're going to get bigger?
He didn't "lose" his virginity, he was "liberated" from it.. ;-)
And how the hell did you find this journal? It's a big el-jay land out there!
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Date: 2004-12-22 11:21 pm (UTC)Not sure about KMFDM - never really my kind of thing. I know he got the job as drummer because he'd been in PIG with Raymond Watts, which I believe was some kind of side project. As drummers go, the man's a genius.
But, I much preferred his two previous (very small) bands - Sugar Snatch and Big Boy Tomato - very happy to supply MP3s of both - they were a kind of New Wave of New Wave of British Punk - fast, furious and funny. I suppose the closest I could compare them to is early Green Day.
And finding your journal - I was using the 'friendsfriends' function, (our mutual friend is pftqg), and the KMFDM thing just jumped out at me. Don't worry - no scary stalker tendencies. Well, none that you need worry about....
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Date: 2004-12-22 11:56 pm (UTC)Ahhh! So therein is the link.. That's quite a few kilometers between the pair of you in the real world!
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Date: 2004-12-23 12:05 am (UTC)Damn, pressed reply before I was supposed to...
WRT to industrial music, my tastes are almost entirely based on listening to the various late 80s/early 90s stuff of various bands, such as Front 242, Skinny Puppy, Ministry and so forth... KMFDM has some influence around that time as well.
I really can't say I've been paying much attention since then. Can we count Orbital and Leftfield? Dunno...
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Date: 2004-12-23 12:39 am (UTC)Mission accomplished..uuuhhhh...
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Date: 2004-12-23 08:42 am (UTC)Merry Christmas to you to!