Parp.
Well, it’s became clear that I’ve neglected this for a few weeks. Sorry about that, I’ve been busy with other “projects” on and off the web. the first thing you will notice is that the webcam no longer works. This means that yes, sadly, and at the age of 5, I’ve had to “put down” Bungle, the Linux webserver which hosted scribcam.co.uk. There’s a temporary page on the machine which now goes to another machine on the network. I doubt this time the webcam will ever come back in its current form.
This is partly due to the fact I no longer really need a secondary server. And even if I did, there’s no saying how secure it is, and even if it IS secure, how long it’s going to stay like that. The main reason I killed it off is that I’ve invested money in a router, which means there was no need to have the linux box running 24/7 anyway. It was never going to last much longer anyway, as it crashed about every week or so, and it would wake me up occasionally in the middle of the night with the sound of hard drive failure… (clunk… clack). My room is silent now. In fact it’s so quiet, the sound of next door’s immersion heater filling up actually woke me up earlier today.
Anyway, I’m all boring you now, let’s move on.
One of the biggest (literally) changes around here is the addition of a crane out of the back of Mercuryvapour Towers. And I’m talking cranes of the steel variety, and not the feathered kind… although seeing one of those would probably justify a thirteen page blog in itself. For those who have been keeping up with the photos I post on Flickr, you’ll notice I’ve posted more than a few photos featuring said crane. This one has to be my favourite, despite its blurryness…
Although it’s not switched on in that photo, there’s a big white lamp which shines directly in my room from it. Alas, it’s only Metal Halide, and not mercuryvapour, otherwise I’d have posted about it a hell of a lot sooner, as you can imagine. Remember how nuts I went when I found The ex-Queens site was lit by mercury vapour lights? You don’t? Oh, well, you can refresh your memory here. But make sure you read the rest of this post first, as I’m not typing it for the good of my health… or maybe I am, it’s hard to tell…
(Edit, I fixed the broken image in 2008. Apparently nobody noticed)
