I've been busy. I expect to continue to be busy, but the things I am busy with will change.

Well I had a nice week, starting with the debut gig of my band and then going straight from stage to the plane for a week's holiday and coming back to find a coalition new government in power.

I see The Sun has decided not to back Labour at the next election. Wonder if this means Cameroon has agreed to start dismantling the BBC the way James Murdoch asked?

The world ends tomorrow, and you may die.

Some rambling to spam you all about my show tomorrow again inside. Genuine husi-exclusive rambling though. None of your recycled stuff.

Oh my Bob! Some idiot has leaked video of the dress rehearsal for the main sermon of the night!

Inside: some video of me acting like an arse in stupid clothes, ranting at Speakers Corner about the End Of The World!

Well for once it wasn't the middle class white guy in a suit what won it.

That makes a change.

Poll: When will  the disillusionment kick in?

Oh no! It's Halloween and I've ACCIDENTALLY STOLEN MY OWN SOUL.

That's right. I have managed to produced an Undead Version Of Myself which lives on the internet.

Dear Husi printing experts,

So the office manager brought a shiny new printer. A Samsung ML-2010. I plugged it into our existing linux print/file server, added it with the CUPS interface, tested it with my Leopard machine and all was well.

Then I get the complaints that the Tiger machines can't see this new printer. They can still see and use the Samsung CLP-300 colour printer, they can still see the share files directory.

No matter how much fiddling and rebooting and deleting and re-installing I've been doing all morning these machines the result seems to be the same: Leopard sees both printers, Linux sees both printers, presumably (though untested) Windows sees both printers. No matter how much Googling I do I can't seem to find anyone with any help.

It's just Tiger that has a blind-spot and won't put the ML-2010 into the little network browser so I can click "Add printer" and have it work.

I blame SAMBA really. SAMBA always makes me beg and crawl and jump through hoops before it works properly.

Anyone got any ideas I can try?

Hey all. I've been busy lately organizing a show to end all shows, the very last show on earth, the final ever show to mark the end of the world.

Which is exhausting.

Details inside, including the fact that our own Motty/Fit and the conniptions will be playing. WoO!

I'm migrating all our servers to a new host, which seems like a good opportunity to fix some annoying things.

In particular email: At the moment we're using exim4 and some pop3 server or another and squirrel-mail.

Whenever they ask me to create a new email account, I have to add a new user account for the whole machine. Making an /etc/passwd entry, giving shell access (which I then take away again), making a home directory etc. All just so they can collect email.

This seems inefficent

My wiki's always had lots of spam. Mostly links to porn and viagra sites. You block what you can, revert the rest, and curse the wankers who write those bots for financial gain.

Lately though, I've been getting edits from bots that just put a single nonsense word a the top of the page. Words like "rellachizela" or "getsit" or "olodaracelt" with no link and no other text. I mean. I can't even see what the point of that is. Why on earth would you do that? Even the robots have gone insane.

So at work I have this massive monitor, more than two thousand pixels across, huge display. Makes it actually possible to fit all those damned Flash Development windows on the screen so you can see what you're doing and actually get some work done.

Today, however, I'm working from home. At home my monitor isn't quite so beefy. It can only cope with about 1600 pixels across.

Which wouldn't be a problem, except my lappy is set to 2048 pixels and the only way to switch it back is to plug it into a monitor that'll show 2048 pixels so you can see the damned resolution-switching screen

So since Telewest/NTL/Virgin are dropping Sky One from their service, seems like I'm likely to have to download all the stuff that I was watching on that channel. Which means I might as well ditch the entire cable TV service really given that I've already seen all the shows they have on constant repeat everywhere else.

Might well just build myself a MythTV box I should think, with a couple of freeview DTV cards and a nice fat bittorrent connection. Finally merge my computer and telly like I've been meaning to for ages.

So I've been uploading video from the Subgenius Devival as I get around to editing it into nicely sized clips. Put up a track from Motty's band "Fit And The Conniptions" today. Look at him curiously jigging and singing and playing guitar.

Don't think the embed tag will work here so you'll have to look at http://dalliance.net/ Motty's at the top at the moment, chapter five.

Theophile made me look at my tab-bar and see what I've got open at the moment. What do YOU have open at the moment?

I can't post a you-tube embed thing here can I? Pah. You'll have to have a link to my website then, where the first of the videos from the Devival this November is up.

So I finally put up my devival report, it's got some pictures and everything.

Everyone here except Motty missed out by missing it. Oh yes.

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