Whoops. You’d have thought I’d have learnt my lesson when I fucked around with BIND last year, and ‘broke’ a small portion of the internet, but no. I managed to ‘break the internet’ again while playing with the
Domain Name System settings on big. That’s why Scatmania was inaccessible for the last day or so
(to most people).
In other news, spent Sunday in the office, working on getting the database for the project I’ve been
working on live and online, with some success, despite the power company’s best attempts to stop me. Those in Aber will have experienced the power cuts of Friday and Sunday (half an
hour in the second case), which crippled one of SmartData‘s computers with a power spike to it’s PSU – one I’ll be glad to be rid of, admittedly (yet another cheaply made piece of junk from Microland
UK). But nevertheless, the power cut was of great inconvenience to those of us trying to work to a deadline, on a Sunday, and wanting to get home in time to go out and see I, Robot. I sat outside in the sun-come-drizzle and read a book that was one of my recommended course texts but that I never got around to
reading while I was actully doing my degree, and listened to the ocassional screams of the UPS bricks to let me know that I still
couldn’t actually get on with some work.
I, Robot was OK… kind-of a re-hashing of the concepts put forward in Blade Runner,
Electric Dreams, The Matrix, A.I., and Bicentennial Man, with an excessive use of bullet-time and slow motion. Coherent,
though… but you will come out of the cinema saying “See every other robot movie for examples of this theme.”
Right; off to work…
