It’s the most wonderful time of the year….
Yes, it’s splot time! ohhh, it’s a while since I had a good splot.
What are splots, I hear both of the readers cry. Well, the word “splot” is an onomatopoeic word for one’s arse dropping out, coined when Dave, who I worked with many years ago, registered a user on my ex-forum as “(name of ex-boss) is a whore”. Each time anyone did anything like that at work (which was often, trust me), I would add a new restriction to the forum, such as banning the works IP. When anyone came to access the site from work, and found it was banned, used to say “uh-oh… Jamie’s splotting again”, or “What’s he splotting over this time?”. In the end, I gave in, and ditched the forum.
In more recent times, it has been used when a certain action, or set of actions, have occured for me to get overly paranoid, and remove posts, etc. without a decent explanation, or at least so little explanation that it wasn’t worth me even explaining it…. er, if you see what I mean.
This particular splot, once again is about work, but seeing as I’m typing this, at home, sat on the sofa with the washer humming and clanking quietly in the kitchen, I shall say no more on the subject. Now do you see what I mean about crap splot explanations?
Ahem. Moving on swiftly, there’s not been a lot happening again. Chris came round on Saturday, and we sat and had a good few cans, while pissing around with the laptop, and hammering youtube and Flickr.
Speaking of Flickr, they broke down rather spectactularly the other night. Some peoples’ photo profiles ended up filled with random pictures, and a proportion of these were actually porn images. I was one of those affected. I laughed like a drain when I searched through my thumbnails, and found that instead of a picture of James’s cat, I had a thumbnail of a rather large breasted lady pleasuring herself with a dildo. I kid you not. The bug has been fixed (I bet it won’t stop you clicking the link just to make sure) and the bug was traced to a fault with the cache servers which meant that nobody’s images were actually lost, however, it’s one of the more embarrassing and ultimately damaging things that could ever happen to a photo hosting site.
Although I did find it funny at the time, it does make me wonder if, in the long term, I can rely on an exernal website to host irreplaceable pictures. Now that I have 800Mb space on this site at my disposal, which can be backed up instantly at the click of a mouse, I might start hosting some of the larger pictures on here again.
So, the 800mb. What can I do with that amount of space? I did say i’d have a think about it, but I could only come up with suggestions that have already been done hundreds of times before. A podcast, for example. I did think of doing one years ago, and in the past I have recorded them in different formats. Back in the summer, Chris and I actually recorded one, but it turned out to be so abysmally bad, I only managed to get 10 minutes into editing it, before I decided it was totally unusable. My chair squeaked all the way through, I sounded like a twat, Chris was too far away for the microphone to hear him, and the subjects we talked about which did get recorded were of such low interest to anybody, there wouldn’t have been any post posting it anyway.
Which is just as well, really, as I appear to have deleted the only copy of it. Oh well. C’est La Vie.
And, just for the hundreds who have been begging me for updates on the streetlight situation, there hasn’t been any. The old ones are stuck permanently on, which I may have mentioned in another post, and they still haven’t put up any more new posts. Even I’m bored with that now.
