The server ate my journal

Well, something like that.

I spent all Friday night upgrading my journal software… (Yes I know, I need to get a life!)

Then after all that work, my journal vanished, the files were still there, but most of the pages were displaying the “page not found” error.

Thankfully the ever ready server mistress restored my site backup so everything is fully functioning again. It’s still the old software, but at least it’s all there.

Why is thursday such a busy day?

It’s the day everyone collects their pension and cash their benefit cheques…

It also appears to be spam day.

Every Thursday my journal gets innundated with spam commetns and trackback links to promote random sites…

Usually for sex aids and viagra…

Hmmm… Maybe I should start to worry?

Still, as it’s usually the same couple of dozen companies being advertised, you’d think they’d have noticed my journal has very effective anti-spam systems set up and any unknown origins of comments and trackbacks get frozen until I manually approve them.

And if it’s spam, that is never going to happen!

Still… I’d love to know the connection between pension/benefit day and spam day.

Answers on a postcard!

So it looks like the airports are all grinding to a halt with the impending terrorist attack… From what I can gather America is in a similar position.

The airports are asking anyone that doesn’t have to travel, not to.

Places in Europe are refusing to allow any flights to or from England… Maybe American flights too, not sure about that one.

You have to wonder what makes these people think that blowing people and things up is going to help their cause in any way.
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Pilfered… Erm, I mean snaffled this from some random body on myspace the other day… it was too cute not to post

Contrary to popular belief, 5am is not a decent hour to get up.

I wanted to stay in bed, but when you wake up to find yourself attached the ceiling by your fingernails, (and I don’t mean in a kinky way, more in a, “ye gads what is screeching in my ear” kind of way)

We have the decorator coming today, and naturally my father has left everything to the last minute…

As usual…
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That’s the logo changes sorted and sent back.

I feel a bit bad about it, after saying that I liked what they’d done, picking the one I liked best and listing the changes I’d like made, I realised the only thing I’m keeping is the colour black.

Maybe I’m just being overly picky, but I still want it to be perfect.

But then I’m starting to wonder if I even know what it is I’m wanting, given that about 4 minutes after I sent the revisions, I had a little brainwave and am picturing an entirely different logo…

Well three actually…
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Forgot to post these the other week. 14 months without a haircut is not a pretty sight:

But I finally managed to get out and get it cut (about 3 weeks ago and it’s getting ready to need doing again…)

Not the best photo in the world, but you get the idea…

I swear some days I’m speaking a foreign language…

Either that or my lips are moving and nothing is coming out.

I finally got my logo mock-ups through.

Now don’t get me wrong, they’ve put a lot of work in, but they’re hardly close to my original idea.

I said I wanted it to look like it was drawn in beaten silver… dull grey is not silver.

I said black background… red, green, yellow and white are not black.

Is it just me?

Is that not pretty straightforward?

It’s days like this I wish I could draw, then I could either do it all myself, or at the very least put the images in my head down on paper so there’s no confusion… That and so I can see what they’ll look like for myself.

Well after many a bizarre sight in peoples galleries yesterday, I think I’ve managed to work through my voyeuristic urges of the day.

Now I can move on to feelings of depression…

Am I over reaching in hoping that something bought on Monday morning that should be here in 3 days should have turned up on Wednesday?

Monday… Tuesday… Wednesday…

I make that three days.

Here we are Thursday and still no new logo drafts.

Umm and I think I may have worn out my check email button last night… I did seem to be pressing it slightly more than usual… (about every 3 seconds as I recall)

I’m no good with early starts, 5am is not a time to wake up.

That makes me irritable, paranoid and cranky.

I’m also feeling a tad voyeuristic today… I want to see peoples photos… Male, female, animal, vegetable, clothed or unclothed… I just want to peer at em… I like looking at peoples photos, to see how they light them, pose, etc.. But I want to see more today…

Maybe now would be a good time for therapy…

I’m all excited… I should be getting the drafts of my new logo today… And yes, I know it’s a sad little life and I need to get out more… Tell me something I don’t know :-p