December 2006 Archives

I've been enjoying wikitravel's page on Glasgow. Some pearls of truth:

Glasgow slang is also peppered with various more or less meaningless phrases such as 'by the way', 'man' or 'dead' (very, as an adjective) that can give the answers to simple questions an almost baroque complexity.

Glasgow has a lot of places to drink.

Glasgow is almost completely unlike Edinburgh

Sounds about right.

I bring you Llamas! Courtesy of m'verygoodfriend Kate, who was recently smuggling drugs* out of Peru.
* - Possibly incorrect

This just in: my iTrip is now legal. What a relief that is.

Total disaster.
I was woken at 10 AM or so (I'm on holiday) by the distinctive sound of capacitors exploding. There are several items in the room which contain potentially volatile capacitors, but I was alerted to the location of the culprit by plumes of smoke eminating from the drawer in which sits the mail/FTP server. And I mean plumes of smoke. So much smoke that I can still smell the electrolyte now, 8 hours later. Turns out the input capacitors on the power supply had commited suicide
So off to Maplins I go, to get a Yum-Cha white box power supply to get the box back up. Plugged it in. Host up. All good.
Then I get back from lunch, and it's down again. Permanently. What I think has happened is some electrolyte or debris from the exploded caps has shorted the motherboard.
Anyhoo, I've transferred all the services to the main machine, so I'll have to suffer the noise from its 5 80MM fans during the night.
Arse.

So, I'm driving home from a nightshift a few days ago, listening to the radio. The DJ (Dominik Diamond, if you must know. Yes that Dominik Diamond) sounds like he's just finished a link and the next tune's going to start.
Except it doesn't start. He says something else.
The thing is, I didn't understand a word he said. I heard the sounds, but the sounds didn't get processed into English. It was like the language parser in my head switched off expecting music, but then more words came and it wasn't ready.
Anyone else had that?

No?

Just me then.