Max's Miscellaneous Musings

Not five minutes ago, I had a head full of ideas for a blog entry. And now, I can't remember what the hell I was going to write about. Seriously, you'd think I had some sort of brain injury. My forgetfulness frustrates MaxBabe no end. She has conversations with me that I promptly forget, then two days later talks to me about it and I have no idea WTF she's on about. Over the years, she's become accustomed to this annoying personality trait of mine, but I wonder if there will come a time that she just can't take it anymore and smothers me in my sleep!

So, since I can't remember what I was actually going to post about, I'll post some miscellaneous crap instead. I've been watching the Biggest Loser on TV and I have to say it's been fun to watch. There's one chick on there who is 170Kg. I kid you not. After the obligatory "OMG! Holy shit!" reaction came the respect. However she got to that weight is none of my business, but she's putting in the hard work and discipline to lose the weight. Kudos to you, lady.

My sideline business hasn't been going especially well lately. The shit economy hasn't helped. I think a lot of people are being tightarses at the moment, and rightly so. Still, it sucks to see all my hard work going to waste.

On the topic of the sideline business, I was randomly scanning addons for the oscommerce platform and came across one that uses the GeoIP Pear PHP module. It's quite interesting. Basically, it takes an IP address, interrogates a database, and figures out where that IP address is from. I think I might like to use this to prevent people from certain countries (eg China, Russia, India and a few others) from visiting my site. They are routinely troublemakers, spammers and scriptkiddies. And it's not like I sell to overseas anyway. I might do a bit of development work over the weekend to see if I can easily integrate it.

I did a Spinervals workout on the trainer yesterday morning. I did the Team Clydesdale workout, which is apparently low intensity. It was OK for the most part, but there were sections of it where I was instructed to spin as fast as possible. I managed to sustain a cadence of around 157 RPM. That was OK the first two times, but the third time was hard and the fourth time almost killed me. I felt great yesterday, but today my legs are killing me!!!! I think I might go for an actual bike ride tomorrow morning instead of doing another Spinervals workout!

I have one exam left to do to finish off a) my Windows 2000 MCSE and b) my stupid degree. It's booked for the end of this month. According to one set of practice exams, I'm averaging 90%. According to another set, 30%. That's THIRTY percent. This is why I never trust just a single practice exam. Too many gaps in knowledge, too many assumptions about actual exam content. This exam requires a lot of note-taking and paying attention to subtle details. I think it will turn out to be tougher than the others I've done. Note that I mentioned the MCSE version is 2000. I started this fucking MCSE nine goddamn years ago, and I *STILL* haven't finished it. Am I slack or what. I just need to finish what I start for once already!!

So I still haven't remembered what the hell I was going to write about. So be it, the miscellany will have to do!