Twilight Universe

The above graph is my site stats for 2005. As you can see there was quite a change over the year. This site went from my little fiddly corner of the web which around 500 or less people read a month to, well I’ll let you work it out from the graph.

Most of that is thanks to Touched and SACK, both of which are about to have major updates. SACK should be updated tomorrow, Touched not too long after, though give me some hangover recovery time. I also have many other updates to my other code that is up here. I should apologise, I think, for the way I’ve pushed things back repeatedly on here over the last 6 months or so, but I won’t: I’ll just do what I should have done in the first place. Update them.

I want to thank everyone that has come here over the past year. This site has moved from being a barely maintained side project, to somewhere that I concider my main face to the world; my main method of communication. I intend to live up to that, and make it even more useful to people coming here. Time to live up to that title of “Web Professional” and be professional about this site.

Or as I put it somewhere else recently:

I’m going to stop treating life like a buffet and hovering around it… trying to pick the good stuff, but being beaten to that nice prawn thing at the end. Time to stand on the table with my pants around my ankles, my shirt unbuttoned, declaring I’m the king of spain and I rule all crustaceans, especially those smothered in delicious sauce.

Fuck yes. No-one messes with my mini-lobsters anymore.

Drink up ladies and gentlemen. The King Of Spain commands it.

Here is to 2006. May it find you all well, thank you for being here.

This is a great idea, Uwe Herman has collected over 100 creative commons licenced christmas songs. some old, some new, some are classics. Perfect to play, download, and generally listen to for the copyright concious geek this christmas.

With all the fuss over the comercialisation and religious nature of Christmas — especially this year — we can sometimes forget the importance of the spirit that Christmas should foster. Sharing, giving, loving. Just being a little bit selfless and thankful for what you have.

Erin, the true multinational that she is, highlighted this today for me:

The woman behind the counter asked me if I wanted the quiche heated up, so I took the soup, emptied it into the mug and handed it to her saying, “yes, and this too”. I took it out to the man on the sidewalk and sat with him for a while and talked while he ate. His name is Romain and although he looks around 50, he’s actually only 37. He used to be rather successful (in a modest kind of way) and was married for a few years. His wife then left him, and he found he couldn’t cope…

For me, this is what Christmas should be about. Go and read the whole post, and be a little bit more thankful for what you have, and thoughtful about those that have not.

Merry Christmas, everyone.

I give you: The Ballad of Saint *nix:

better !pout !cry
better watchout
lpr why
mv /etc/northpole/santaclaus ~/town
cat /etc/passwd >list
ncheck list
ncheck list
cat list | grep naughty >nogiftlist
cat list | grep nice >giftlist
mv /etc/northpole/santaclaus ~/town
who | grep sleeping
who | grep awake
who | egrep 'bad|good'
for (goodness sake) {
be good
}

(courtesy of FrostedMessiah)

Amazing, an informative and interesting movie site! The Rocky 6 website is a blog, and video blog, that will follow production. This is how to do movie sites. I love this concept. Check out Stalone giving an introduction to their fight choreography.