Idiot

I've been messing around with SVN, trying to set up a WebDAV service to stash some drupal themes in. I keep screwing up the initial import at which point a quick round of rm -r /var/svn/rocksoc && svnadmin create /var/svn/rocksoc and I'm back to where I started. Intill I take a break for lunch and have a brain fade and type rm -r /var/www/rocksoc

Opps

It's a really good job I keep backups

I search through the backup server. /var/www is missing

It turns out that I'd had a brainfade in setting up backupninja and missed out /var/www

Fortunately I'd made a tarball of the directory last night and copied it to my dev server. Total downtime, about 6 minutes, and most of that was waiting for the tarball to scp back to the server.

The annual countdown is in its final stages, and once again I'm subject to attempts to assimilate me by chocolate. Ok it is fairly traided Divine chocolate, which isn't to be sniffed at, but I'm sighty bored of the same story every year. Maybe if the daiy chocolate started when the retail countdown to christmas started I wouln't dislike it so much, but then it'd be daily chocoalate shortly after the time honoured ritual of stocking up on chocolate on the first shopping day after easter...

I just created a nice long post about my experiences with the Ballmer Peak, exciting new people and burning ∏, but somehow I broke something and the post went missing. The world hates me and LJ is driving me to suicide and all that.

Ok, so I've been going through the pile of computers labelled 'to be fixed' and I've finally got to the bottom, and it's Choo's. The box is a disco, funky lighting on the front, sticky stuff on the bottom, and all the fans clogged with tarry goo that's probably a combination of dust and cigarette smoke. Either way he's got Ubuntu Feisty a week or so early because I know by the time he's actually contactable we'll be halfway to Feisty+1 (Grim Gopher?). If anyone happens to see Choo, tell him his computer's done and I want rid of it.