#!/bin/bash

if [ -f girlproblems.txt ]
then
  FEELINGS="bad"
  PROBLEMS=`cat myproblems.txt | wc -l`
  if [ $PROBLEMS == "99" ]
  then
    BITCHES=`cat myproblems.txt | grep bitch | wc -l`
    if [ $BITCHES == "0" ]
      then
      echo "a bitch ain't one!"
    fi
  fi
fi

Too many glasses of scotch will do that to you.

[1] black
[1] then
[2] white are
[3] all I see
[5] in my infancy
[8] red and yellow then came to be
[5] reaching out to me
[3] lets me see
[2] there is
[1] so
[1] much
[2] more and
[3] beckons me
[5] to look through to these
[8] infinite possibilities
[13] as below so above and beyond I imagine
[8] drawn outside the lines of reason
[5] push the envelope
[3] watch it bend

For those that don’t know (read: aren’t a maths genius and/or haven’t read The DaVinci Code) Fibonacci numbers follow a recurrence relation that, after two starting values, each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers. The sequence starts as follows:

1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610 …

In the case of “Lateralus”, the sequence steps back and forth through the above sequence; The number of syllables progress to the sixth step, then back down to the first step; up to the seventh step, and then back to the fourth step. For those that care, the formula is as follows:

Food for thought. Now back to more meaningful tasks…

Is Bill trying to tell us something?

During the sign-up, it soon became clear that I existed in a demographic that either was not eligable to shave their head for charity, or had been completely overlooked by the developers of the sign-up page of the website.

Imagine, for a second, that you are 25 years old. What box would you tick in the following list:

Easter egg
n.
An undocumented function hidden in software that may or may not be sanctioned by management.

Did you know that upgrading to >7.5.2 disables the ‘Updater’ button in the ‘Server’ section of Plesk?

I didn’t, but after a bit of head-scratching I found the ‘fix’. (NOTE: Not really a ‘fix’ as nothing was really broken – just disabled).

Anyway, enough of the banter, re-enabling the ‘Updater’ button again is as simple as one MySQL command:

mysql -uadmin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow`
use psa;
UPDATE misc SET val='false' WHERE param='disable_updater';
exit

UPDATE: It should be pointed out that it is a bad idea to enable the updater if your plesk installation is running under Virtuozzo. Plesk running in a virtual environment needs to be updated via templates, not the control panel update feature, and as such is disabled for a pretty good reason. For more information, refer to the following link:

http://kb.swsoft.com/article_117_786_en.html

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pr0n surfed, weak and weary,
Over many a strange and spurious site of ‘Hot XXX Galore’.

While I clicked my fav’rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning,
And my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour.
“‘Tis not possible!”, I muttered, “Give me back my free hardcore!”

Quoth the server, 404.

… across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.

These lines from the first paragraph of H.G. Wells’ book, “War of the Worlds” still sends a chill down my spine. Written in 1898, the book is undoubtedly one of the greatest, if not at least the most influential and inovative science fiction novel ever written. It was adapted to a highly successful (and equally amazing) musical in 1976 and now is being reborn once again as the child of none other than director Steven Spielberg.

View the teaser
View the website and extended trailer

Although I don’t exactly approve of Tom Cruize as the actor of choice for the lead role, I am hoping that my childhood memories of both the book and the musical will be enough bias for me to overlook it. However, like many classics that are adapted to the big screen, in more cases than not a few hours of film barely does justice to hundreds of pages of the written word. I just hope Mr Spielberg breaks from this trend and the film lives up to the (high) standard set by both the novel and the musical.

For those of you who haven’t read the book, do it. Or at least get a copy of the musical version – I still have a copy on cassette tape I bought in 1986-ish. Both are well worth a few hours of your life.

So in an effort to reorganise my life, I have begun cataloging all of the things I tend to forget and/or desperately need to remember.

If you care to read them, that is your own business.