Random Ramblings

RIP AFK Cafe 05/02/08.

You weren’t given enough time or the right people to stear you into the right direction. I will resirect you in the future in a different light. Where you’re allowed to grow and mature and make your own decisions without mela-drama and bulshit to follow.

To all those that believed: Sorry you had to go through this. Sometimes it’s takes failure to show the light.

To all those that helped: My gratitude probably means nothing. However, karma will return the favours and help you in your endeavours. Be sure of that. If you need someone to talk to about all this, I’m always here.

To all those that supported by eating/playing there: It’s going to sux for a while. However, We will find another spot to do these things. Watch this space and watch the facebook group also. Ideas are currently being floated.

The one thing everyone can learn from this, is be careful where you invest your time and with whom. Be honest in planning. It’s ok to make friends pay for things. There’s no free lunches in the world. Asking people to buy a cup of coffee to use wifi is ok. Simple.

I, myself have alot of challenges to work out given the closure as I also live with a number of key people and see a number of key people regularly.

The only I hope for now is the wisdom to make good decisions around my life and the ability to friends to trust my judgment and accept my decisions for good or bad once the dust settles.

To Javaira, Stay strong for you and Thomas and Pug. Life will get easier. I’m always here for a shoulder to cry on and infinite amount of support. You guys rock.

If you are interested in an AFK mark 2 and have something to contribute. Find me and let’s talk.

Warm Regards.

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Having to look at my own website more often is making me sick of standard web fonts (arial,times,courier). Maybe it’s that I’m spending more at advertising agencies that are quite liberal with fonts. Who knows… I’ve looked at embedded fonts but it seems like it’s more trouble that it’s worth.. And then there’s  the cost to the end users. Extra 20-25k download on pages could be enough to some ppl the s**ts (yes I know spelling it like that it lame, however I don’t want to trip some admin’s proxy filter on swear words).

More shameless plugs… AFK Cafe is having it’s monthly Lock-in to which I will me running and working behind the counter. It’s going to be a full night of LAN games and console wars. Plus I get in intro the new coffee voucher also. ( mental note: must working on a poster for events). I have the 0000h to 0800h shift. Yay to me! Apologies for the crap coffee that may come out at 0400h my milk skills are still progressing.

Still looking more greener pastures for work (AFK is just a side project.). If you know anyone that’s looking for brilliant sysadmin send them a link to my resume. $50 buck and a bottle of something will be the reward.

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Telstra finally connected my home phone in the new digg. This also means ADSL at home. Yay!

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Boss goes on holidays today, so I’ve decided (as acting boss) I’m going to make a dint into out debitor report by making phone calls and e-mail to specific ppl.  I’m sure he will bitch at me but 20k is alot of money to have outstanding.

Other good news is that more applications for new jobs are going out this weekend.   [insert shameless plug for AFK Cafe all nighter this Saturday] Working 0000h to 0800 h in Sunday should be alot of fun.

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 With the amount of shopped photo’s out there and very good graphic artists it hard to see what’s  fact and fiction.  However this months Mac chick appears to be a down to earth girl, with flaws and faults. Good on her for that.. And pat on the back to the graphic artist for not being to much of a perfectionist to air-bush out every minute detail.  Since some of us real blogs at work I wont embbed a picture but instead link to the article on macenstein and you can decide on how anally retentive your AUP is at work.

My sincere thanks to Elise Frappier for showing us real person, and  great Mac

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Merry Christmas and happy new year to you all.. Since this is belated, I can ask how your festive season went…  As usual a trip back home and see Mum and Dad was in the order along with grand-parents and the like.. I’m sure everyone does something similar each year…  Drank some great wine and met relative I never new existed… All in all a great day.

Short and sweet.

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Well I was persuaded by Andy to get a facebook account.. So I’m on with great success and even found some past work colleges I’d lost touch with… If you have a facebook a/c feel free send me a message via the wall..

Still working on my ipv6 talk for SAGE-AU… Mircosoft has quite a suprising amount of “eatable” information on ipv6. Can’t wait to find time try out the windows server 2008. native dhcpv6 server and other interesting ipv6 fuctions.

Not to be out done I noticed that ISC has drop in a swag of ipv6 functionality in dhcp 4beta (3.0.5 for fedora test users I think).

Also Happy Birthday Andy…

Itte kimasu

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Yesterday was the worst day I’ve had in a long time. One of our switches decided it wanted a holiday , just happened to be the switch that everyone is connected to…. This started at 7:10am (Ugh!) and didn’t resolve to 10am. The only thing I can think of that cause it was the UPS is was connected to died on the weekend, but when I powered up the switch it appeared to work fine… go figure.

Well I’m going the VoIP dance at work. Talk to third party consultants has being entertaining to say the least. I’m seriously considering Ericsson, CISCO. I’d like to talk to someone from Avaya if I could find a reseller/consultant in QLD.

Oh and one last thing 10K for a SQL Server 2005 per CPU is just plain rude.

Syanara!

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Welcome, This is mark II of my blog. The first one was on an old machine that gave up the ghost. I´d like to fist acknowledge some people who have made this possible:

Mark Sargent from snsonline.net for hosting the website and everyone else who´s proded me to do this.

Anyway more later. Time to find sleep.

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