Max's Miscellaneous Musings

So, GD is dead. I closed the site down last night. I'm conflicted about it. On the one hand, I'm sad and disappointed about it. On the other hand, I know it was the right decision to make. Some positives have come from the experience, namely learning PHP, MySQL, Linux and a bunch of other cool stuff. So it's not all bad. And I did enjoy the operational aspects of the business (maintaining/modifying the site, dealing with customers etc). Never mind, such is life etc.

The weather has been shite the last few days. I really want to get out on the bike. Right now, The Beast is acting as a glorified clothes line, serving to store my cold/wet weather riding gear (which, ironically, is dry, because I don't want to go out into the cold and rain). My hip is also quite sore, so no riding for me today. I'm hoping to get out there tomorrow. I think I will clean The Beast and The Noble Steed today.

Work has been particularly stressful this week. A new ERP system being rolled out in the business totally shat itself a few days ago. Between the database being badly configured, the application itself generating naughty queries, the application servers being totally underspecced and finally, Citrix shitting itself, the whole thing is just hosed. The only saving grace is that I'm totally at arm's length from it, and poor Best Mate is instead the poor bastard dealing with the infrastructure side of it. Poor, poor, poor Best Mate.