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The Late Shift III..(Abbot and Costello meet the Late Shift)

  
  

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videodrome
04:07 / 25.10.02
Roth: Yeah, I think YACCS does dump to a CSV. I never got around to using it because every time I tried, they were closed to new accounts.

If you really do get the itch to upgrade and have worries like those, let me know, because we could probably work it out very easily.

Flux: to me more specific than before: you need to have scripting available as well as one of two database methods: Berkley db or MySQL. The database stuff isn't as complicated as that implies - as long as the server has the function enabled, MT does all the work. Beyond that, you need to be able to change permissions on files, and that's about it.

On another tip:
GAH! 250 words is a fucker. I've gone from 370 to 306 and every cut is pure pain. rrrrr.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
04:16 / 25.10.02
Yeah, this is exactly the kind of stuff that I really hate - I think I'll be sticking with blogger. If I was going to move things, I'd want to have a real URL, and I can't really afford to buy a domain name these days.

I'd get areturntoform.something, so none of you go and buy that, okay?
 
 
videodrome
04:19 / 25.10.02
[gets out checkbook]...nah.

287 words! yeah.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
04:22 / 25.10.02
I'd much rather spend my beans on SwashbucklingIsFun.com, to be honest.

But then, nobody's surprised...
 
 
videodrome
04:28 / 25.10.02
This would be a good place for me to post that link of pirate photos, but I think I'll restrain myself.

Review sent at 280 words. Fuck it. Let them edit it more if they want. With my luck, they really wanted a 1000, not a 250.
 
 
Papess
05:23 / 25.10.02
*throws rolled up socks at Rothkoid*

HISSSSSSSssssss....Ninjas!

Bet you didn't see that comin'
 
 
Vadrice
05:40 / 25.10.02
pah. editors.

I usually don't belong here (in this thread), but I'm insomniatic tonight.
Hi!
 
 
Vadrice
05:41 / 25.10.02
and just to be a dick, so only I will have seen it (hopefully) this thread now NO LONGER HAS ONLY 111 POSTS! HA!
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
06:12 / 25.10.02
Hey. I ain't an editor. I'm a subeditor. A senior one at that.

I think it means I miss out on the perks.

Oi, May! I'll get you with footwear-related grenades when you're not expecting it. Honest I will.

But I am so very tempted by the closeness of post-work beer that it's not funny...
 
 
The Strobe
00:43 / 26.10.02
Hello all. I'm in. Quite a good night - bit of work done, bit of relaxing, bit of drinking with friends I haven't seen for at least a month, fair bit of the usual Paleface-style embarassing cracking-on (though in this case to someone I have the most hilarious relationship with that I'm not explaining now. All I can say is: she hates the film of Breakfast of Champions, I love it), and then a late-night game of poker, where I made half my stake back in profit. Which was nice. And now: sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.
 
 
Mazarine
02:38 / 26.10.02
I was really wound up earlier, but just came back from bowling a few frames for the first time in seven years. Which actually worked wonders.
 
 
Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo
04:25 / 26.10.02
Sleep? I tried to sleep before coming in to work. Horrid waste of time, since I had tons of short, creepy dreams, and now I'm up at work, listening to Lovelines and reading the news. Anyone else up in the states?
 
 
Ariadne
23:24 / 26.10.02
Is anyone about? I'm just in from a party and feeling frustrated about how early the tubes stop here - and how cowardly/sensible (take your pick) I am about late night taxis.

So - I'm home when I'd rather still be where I was. I'm hoping someone's around to chat, though I might fall into bed soon.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
23:30 / 26.10.02
I'm here, though also thinking of leaving fairly soon - am squiring a visitor around bits fo the British Musem tomorrow...but a few minor irritants have kept me up.

Decent party, then?
 
 
Ariadne
23:34 / 26.10.02
Not bad at all. Though it left me looking at my newly acquired flat and thinking "oh. I see." I have to work out a strategy to get rich.

Your visitor is, as far as I know, still there and having fun. It was a big and busy party.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
23:41 / 26.10.02
Test
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
23:41 / 26.10.02
Ah, well - she has my mobile no. if she needs to cancel. Have been trying to remember my Histiaeus and Artaphernes and suchlike...amazing what you forget, really.

God, I'm sleepy. For some reason I haven't been able to get a single decent night's sleep this week. Maybe work stress.

On other notes, are you thinking of doing the coffee with Potus thing tomorrow? Is anyone? Is it in fact tomorrow?
 
 
Spatula Clarke
23:43 / 26.10.02
The board clock's changed format, but still manages to be an hour ahead of itself. Oh well.
 
 
The Strobe
00:01 / 27.10.02
Ah. Barbetime - an hour ahead of reality. Reassuring that. I'm in, I'm pissed, I've just had evil-chips, and am contemplating a very long, and most likely troubled-by-fucked-up-dreams-sleep.

Beer. (and other drink). Gotta love it, eh?
 
 
Linus Dunce
00:52 / 27.10.02
Beer I like, but I love red wine.

Bill Gates has just changed my clock for me. Cheers, mate.

Bed for me too.
 
 
bjacques
01:09 / 27.10.02
Ginna call it a night since i just got back from a birthday party.

Richard Harris died yesterday. Mourners are expected to do flock to Camelot
and do the Kiowa Sun Dance around a cake that's been left out in the rain.
 
 
Persephone
01:47 / 27.10.02
test
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
01:05 / 27.10.02
Test? Test? What is it with all the testing?

I went to bed a day ahead of myself this morning, too - clocks here have gone forward an hour, while they've gone back (are going back?) over there in the UK. So time sort of flexed for me. Hmm. Will have to make sure my mobile's UK time is set correctly.

Sigh.

Nobody's still up then?
 
 
Baz Auckland
01:27 / 27.10.02
I'm here, but confused at what time it is in the Land of Barbeltih. Maybe hence the tests?

Goddamnit I've been working on this paper for 2 days and can't get past 275 words of 1000-1200.... I just keep re-writing them... grrr..
 
 
Mazarine
01:41 / 27.10.02
I'm here too, though I don't know for how long, writing cheesy fanfiction. No, it's not slash, yes, I know that defeats the purpose. This is the first weekend I've not been running around in three states and ye gods it feels good to just lie around.
 
 
Baz Auckland
01:46 / 27.10.02
Good to hear. I'm afriad I've never paid attention to all the slash and fanfiction discussions here... what specifically is it?
 
 
Baz Auckland
01:46 / 27.10.02
I mean the topic you're writing on...
 
 
Mazarine
01:51 / 27.10.02
X-Men Evolution fanfiction. Basically incredibly hokey stuff that wouldn't make it into the worst romance novel ever.
 
 
Baz Auckland
01:53 / 27.10.02
heehee.

I'm up to 301 words now and getting all maudlin listening to the Proclaimers and thinking about London... (sigh)

...err.. so what else is new?
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
21:26 / 27.10.02
Hey, that's my other state of being.

Well, the Proclaimers aside...
 
 
The Strobe
21:32 / 27.10.02
No Proclaimer-dissing, please... they can't help it. (And, on listening to 500 Miles properly last night, I realised the lyrics are rather good indeed. And understandably maudlin-inducing).

I'm tired, having had a relatively big feh-ness (possibly hangover, but more likely just icky day). Psychotic wind this morning - parents have been without power now for around 12 hours, which isn't good. OK over here, but the wind has taken all the leaves off the huge tree in college, which is the first sign it's near winter. Along with the clocks going back, and me wearing my winter sweaters. I don't want winter yet!

Tired, then, but probably going to tidy up and watch another episode of Ultraviolet. Oh, and I just made my first post in the Magick. Yikes me.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
21:40 / 27.10.02
Well, the clocks have gone forward here, this weekend. Which means that when it's 11pm there, it's 10am here and so on. Which makes it kinda easier, in a "flip the day" kinda timetelling way.

I'm feeling remarkably shite, too, wondering exactly why and how I keep managing to annoy people that I care about, more than anything. All the fucking time. And why they still want to be there. I just don't understand it. I just don't understand myself. This is not the way to start the week - I just want to sleep until Easter. Sigh.

I'm sure I'll be better at some point, but for now - gah. Listening to sad music through headphones, as you do, and feeling like just going home.

But I haven't got one - oh-hoh-hoooo... I haven't got one

Yeah, paraphrasing. Gah.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
22:06 / 27.10.02
And like *that*, Rothkoid kills the thread.
 
 
The Strobe
22:10 / 27.10.02
No thread-killing at all... just watching something. And besides, I'm the thread-killah around here.

And I've used far too many italics tags today.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
22:14 / 27.10.02
Italics are your friend. They make you appear learned, snarky or wanky in equal measure, depending on how you use them.

Why is sleep so appealing?
 
  

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