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A New Penguin, CCNA2, Ars Magica, Socialising, Dunedin
So I finally ditched Mandrake and played around with a couple of distros for server-level fun. OpenSolaris was even installed at one stage, albeit briefly. FreeBSD, the preferred option, didn't want to install and I'm not man enough to fight it. Finally settled on Fedora. Then began the tiresome process of getting Python, Zope and Plone up and going. They don't talk to each other very well at all. If PHPWebsite was fully standards compliant I wouldn't bother with this nonsense.
Last week I passed the CCNA semester 2 theory exam. It was held out-of-sync because myself and the other student (yes, the class has had a 80%+ drop-out rate) were having problems with the prac test, so the instructor put that off until this week and sprung the exam on us instead. I rather suspect that if I actually had the opportunity to study for it I would have done better than the 77% that I received. It's good enough for now.
Gaming this past week has only consisted of Ars Magica. The Storyguide has placed us on the Calf of Man, a desolate windswept place far from civilization. My character, as a Greek scholar, is already beginning to feel exiled. I am increasingly of the opinion that the setting - minus the inter-House politics - is magnificant and the system is both flawed and incomplete.
In a fairly social week, I started with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hasimir's gathering at the Gin Palace. There was fine conversation and some amusement at the fact that everyone present had an el-jay account. Later, an end-of-year gathering for the Henry George Foundation, with an excellent speech by Bob Knowles. Finally, went to caseopaya's end of year work function and had a very enjoyable time.
Have been reading books on network games and decided that would be a great profession; I would get to combine all my interests into one. Planning to go to the Dunedin Linux Conf in January. I have a mad dream of a dozen people taking over a disused warehouse in Dunedin and turning it into an IT centre of great repute. But who would join me in such a venture at the end of the earth?
Last week I passed the CCNA semester 2 theory exam. It was held out-of-sync because myself and the other student (yes, the class has had a 80%+ drop-out rate) were having problems with the prac test, so the instructor put that off until this week and sprung the exam on us instead. I rather suspect that if I actually had the opportunity to study for it I would have done better than the 77% that I received. It's good enough for now.
Gaming this past week has only consisted of Ars Magica. The Storyguide has placed us on the Calf of Man, a desolate windswept place far from civilization. My character, as a Greek scholar, is already beginning to feel exiled. I am increasingly of the opinion that the setting - minus the inter-House politics - is magnificant and the system is both flawed and incomplete.
In a fairly social week, I started with
hasimir's gathering at the Gin Palace. There was fine conversation and some amusement at the fact that everyone present had an el-jay account. Later, an end-of-year gathering for the Henry George Foundation, with an excellent speech by Bob Knowles. Finally, went to caseopaya's end of year work function and had a very enjoyable time. Have been reading books on network games and decided that would be a great profession; I would get to combine all my interests into one. Planning to go to the Dunedin Linux Conf in January. I have a mad dream of a dozen people taking over a disused warehouse in Dunedin and turning it into an IT centre of great repute. But who would join me in such a venture at the end of the earth?
Re: Heh. I should read the userinfo, shouldn't I?
(I lived there for nearly ten years and it's like an intellectual desert combined with a black hole, all set in the 1950's)
But I may be a little biased. ;-)
Re: Heh. I should read the userinfo, shouldn't I?
Actually, double-checking said shop wasn't in Dargaville... It was further north on the east coast; Paihia
I suspect that the lack of intellectual culture in both places would be a problem for me. Dunedin does well in my book for being a relatively small town but with the highest number of graduates per capita in NZ. It may sound a little elitist, but that sort of thing is important to me.
Re: Heh. I should read the userinfo, shouldn't I?
Re: Heh. I should read the userinfo, shouldn't I?
Go to realestate.co.nz and search for listing 1358.
Ow! My eyes, my eyes!
Ahh, Daraville.
Re: Heh. I should read the userinfo, shouldn't I?
You even considered that?
Re: Heh. I should read the userinfo, shouldn't I?
I think rather than poking/scooping my eyes out I simply should surf for bad real estate pr0n.