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Computers Breaking Real Computers, and New Decorations! Streaming Song Of The Day: Bullet by Fluke Free MP3 Of The Day: First Black Lady by Lady Tigra Wow, last night was a pretty mad night. I invited my best friend over and we stayed up until 2am drinking and listening to music as provided by Mr Steve Bridges on Narcotic Radio. Now, there is a good reason I mention this, and that is because Steve happens to be a friend of mine, and he certainly seems to be going places. With the set he played last night, it's no surprise. Now, this is going to sound a little egotistical, but, in some ways I feel a little like Leonardo Da Vinci. I will explain. For those not in the know, Da Vinci was a great creator of, well, everything. He studied everything around him, and surrounded himself with other creative people. I am much the same. My friends at the Linux group are coders, most of my online friends are bloggers, and the rest of my friends are musicians. You see, and all of them inspire me a great deal. And at the moment my girlfriend (jeweller, knitter and blogger) is suffering from the flu and last time we spoke she had a fever. And last night I had quite a lot to drink, so I was not in much of a better state than she was, except she wasn't quite as sleepy as I was. We chatted for a while, then both decided to go to bed due to our respective conditions. I really need to find out what is causing my fatigue. I can not drink a drop and still nod off overnight when I am not working. I don't understand it. Like my girlfriend says, it never used to happen so why is it now? I also had a bit of a disaster yesterday. Lately I have been playing with Virtual Machines. Computers which only exist in the computer's memory and on a hard disk. I tried using a far more complex one yesterday to help Steve with his listener base, namely because his ratings are flagging, and he plays on an online station. Well, that is the simple version. His ratings are relatively constant, but he has been demoted from a two hour show to a one hour show, rather unfairly if you ask me. Namely due to bitchiness from the other DJs on the station. So I tried creating a virtual computer to effectively split my computer in two. In the end it ended up trashing my laptop's Ubuntu installation, so, as I sit in Cafe Nero, I am reinstalling Xubuntu at home. Faster. Also, I needed to get out and get something to eat and get a coffee, due to having to make a little business decision. Update: I now have Xubuntu running on a 6gb partition, and it's now connected to 500gb external drive and running like a dream! So, not sure what else I can say, I'm still blown away by how good Steve was last night, even if I am a friend of his, I have still only heard him play once before, and that was about six months ago. And he was nowhere near as good then as he is now. Oh, and by the way, you may have noticed the little bit of added decoration I have added to the blog. Well, I am a Xubuntu fan, and have it on 3 of my 4 laptops. I'd have it powering my Freeview recorder if I could. Thing is, it's light, fast, responsive, and lets me install regular Ubuntu packages. But comes with the advantage of being able to run both Gnome and KDE applications. Which is great because I like KDE, but hate KDE 4. Hmmm...spot the person on his second cup of coffee in an hour. Permalink | |
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