Mean.net – We still hate everyone

Today I got around to try to sell some shirts att spreadshirt.se. More exactly http://facehugger.spreadshirt.se. Just got two designs so far, more will come, trust me. They will all have some attitude At least that is the goal. Facehugger.net is my pet design project, haven’t happened much there so far, probably since I actually don’t have a decent computer to work on. Also I went to a trackday with some friends last week, didn’t ride anything though. Should have taken his KTM RC8 for a spin but he managed to bend both brake disks while trying to change front tyre. But now I really need to get me a streetbike

Now the summer is here for real.  It’s almost like Asia back home now, not that damp though. Pretty much like Hoi An. Hue was much drier and Kuala Lumpur was very damp. Almost got 34 degrees today and I am waiting for some thunder and rain. Got around to cut the grass today and realized that the guy at Electrolux that has designed my lawn mover has probably never owned a house. And is probably about 150cm tall.   I got a collector to gather all the leftover grass which is so badly designed that you cant back up your lawn mover without holding the collector or else it will end up in the cutting knives. Way to go! And I guess everyone that has a Briggs&Stratton knows how ‘reliable’ something constructed in the UK is. Should get me a Honda based one instead. It will probably last forever. At least I got around to graphing the disk temperatures in my file server using smartctl. I got snmpd run the following script, and yes it is ugly as hell since it does not tell you the name of the disk. Doesn’t really matter for me, since I already know in the cacti snmp template.

#!/bin/sh
for i in  `ls /dev/sd[a-e] `
do
smartctl --all $i |grep Temp | cut -c88-90|tail -1
done


So, the plans for the beach 2020 has begun.  Bought me a new pair of shoes at Löplabbet, and a pair of socks.  Good shoes, unfortunatley I got some stomach cramps almost from the beginning of my test run today.  Will give it a try tomorrow as well, then I won’t eat just before   Todays laptime was roughly 40 minutes for 5km.

Today the typical summer weather came with rain and wind.  Good that I spent the whole day at work.  At least I didn’t have to go to the Muppet mountain today.  Spent some time reading stuff on http://textsfromlastnight.com. It more or less confirms the stupidity of people. No matter how idiot proof you build stuff, someone will always build a better idiot.  At least I got to toy around with some OpenID and noticed that Linked In had removed the ability to log on with OpenID.  That kinda sucked. Now I am just waiting for some of the big sites to adopt this, like Google

So, switched jobs finally. I have not really noticed the economic downturn with at least three jobs to choose from, probably four. It took some thinking before deciding which one to choose, and I hope I did the correct thing.  I guess it will show in this autumn. So now the studying begins to be able to pass the CISSP exam. Just need to find somewhere to live during weekdays, but that will probably solve it self.  Things usually do somehow.  Now off to watch Avatar on BlueRay.

The other day the Facebook developers uploaded the Hiphop php sourcecode to the Github. This is appearantly not built for Ubuntu,  also their wiki says Ubuntu 9.04 build is experimental. I tried on 10.4 and ended upp with gcc dying with a compile error, “c++: Internal error: Killed (program cc1plus)”. I built good on Fedora Core 12 at least so I will have to do some testing on that.  This machine will get an upgrade any day now

Yesterday I went to the Qualifying for the races.  Oh, I went on a city tour as well. City tour was nice, seems to be building everywhere around here. Saw the new apartment complex called The Pearl, which will house about 45 000 people and the cheapest apartment goes for half a million US dollars. Nice to see that the two car dealers there were Ferrari and Rolls Royce.  Also saw the horse tracks, including the horse swimming pool. Seems to be a lot of money in that business. Then it was time for the races.  Checked in to the VIP facilities and got a beer and started watching the free practice.  Went for some pictures on the balcony by the pits. The GP bikes are insanely loud I realized, and really really fast.  My camera was a bit too slow unfortunately.  Met the Norwegian 125cc rider Sturla just before the qualifying, actually got to speak to his parents for a while during the Moto2 qualifying.  Really fun to see a guy from almost home doing well. He qualified at 16 position so hopefully he will get some points to night. Now it is time fore some relaxing bu the pool.

Today I went on some desert safari. Which meant that we took a Toyota Landcruiser and went into the desert riding some dunes. The driver was a crazy Qatarian guy that drove the usual safe Middle East or Asian way.  I is actually pretty impressive how much you can lean a Landcruiser before it rolls over. Went to see Saudi Arabia and then to the beach for some lunch. Now I am back at the hotel awaiting the dinner and then we are going to Losail to watch to nights free practice which I hope will be fun.

Left Asia this morning. I realized today that I am really traveling light. Everyone at the check-in in Kuala Lumpur seemed to have bought half the country with them back home. I think that I could have climbed down in some of the suitcases people were bringing.  So what is the conclusion about Asia then? Houses pretty much look the same, at least in Thailand and Vietnam, and also Korea my host in Malaysia said. The chaos is pretty similar. Malaysia actually felt more laid back than Vietnam and Thailand At least when comparing big cities, Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh and Kuala Lumpur. People differs a bit of course. Am I going back soon, probably not.  I guess I will go somewhere else next time, like the US.  First impressions of Qatar seems nice. Taxi from airport to the hotel was a Jaguar, really nice. When booking everything I seemed to have missed arrival date in Qatar, so my hotel was booked from tomorrow. Well, it’s just money. This hotel could charge my credit card without pin number which is good. That means stuff will be expensive but I will be able to buy stuff. I will need to get some clothes washed I think. But I think I will treat this as my birthday present this year. Here is a photo from yesterdays trip downtown.

After a day of traveling I am now in Kuala Lumpur. Managed to get both Visa cards blocked in Saigon thanks to a broken machine at the restaurant and some Vietnamese people.  Thankfully I got some money wired here, cash, and I also got my third and last credit card. So tomorrow I will go collect my 400 EUR from the local Western Union office at the airport. Mostly because I need to pay my hosts at this bed and breakfast with cash and to get to the city and the airport.  This bed and breakfast is actually muche better than the hotels I stayed at during this trip except the 5 star in Bangkok. The only thing missing from this room is a TV but I am only staying for another night so it is ok. Things seem to be pretty cheap here, dinner cost 8 MYR, which translates to almost 2 EUR. Also finalized the VIP booking for the MotoGP races in Qatar which includes full paddock access and pitlane walk. Gonna be awsome!