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2003-03-31 15:25:58

I guess we could always tell the guy it was an April Fool’s Day prank, but I don’t think it’d go over too well somehow. A volatile mixture of language barriers, naiveity and pizza is to blame for this mess.

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2003-03-31 14:43:47

Today is a new day. A new month. Over the past month I think I have let a number of things get to me in a bad way. I have been very depressed about world affairs. My Ph.D has been going OK I guess. But I’ve been grumpy, and far more terse with people than I normally am. I’ve also been far less laid back. I’ve decided that it’s no good being depressed with the general state of things. It doesn’t solve any problems, it just makes me and the people around me miserable. So while I am still far from happy with the way the world is going these days, I’m not going to let it take control of me, and make me a depressed person. While I’m totally peeved with the way I stuffed up my blog, it might be a good thing that it got wiped clean.

We’ve had a slight misunderstanding with a potential house mate. I had dinner with a guy who introduced himself as my new house mate. I should have said something right then and there, but me, being the easy going person that I am (most of the time) decided just to play along. I incorrectly assumed that Nigel and Riko had already decided that this guy was moving in with us. Apparently not. But neither Riko nor Nigel spoke up when he introduced himself to me. As such, the guy thinks he is moving in tomorrow, when, in fact, none of us want him to move in. It is a very awkward situation. This was a situation where I shouldn’t have been so laid back. I should have said something. I don’t know what is going to happen now. We can’t get a hold of him on the phone, and he thinks he is moving in tomorrow.

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2003-03-31 04:27:12

Eeek! No backup either. I’m screwed.

This is a warning to anyone who might get it into their head to employ me as a systems administrator or a database administrator. Do not employ me. If you let me anywhere near a database, I will surely destroy it and all the data it contains. You have been warned! This is why I decided to do a Ph.D. In this domain I can only do damage to myself, and not take everyone else down with me. (I’m not developing nukes).

This is how the story goes. I noticed I’d made a rather silly spelling error in one of my previous entries. Being clever, I thought I’d perform an update statement on that particular entry. Unfortunately, even though I’d planned it all out properly, I hit ‘enter’ before typing in the condition that would restrict the update to one particular row. Result? I overwrote every single one of my previous blog entries! I haven’t implemented a backup strategy for my database yet, so everything was lost. That’ll teach me to

  1. ALWAYS BACKUP MY DATA
  2. NEVER TRY TO CIRCUMVENT THE TOOLS I WRITE TO PROTECT MYSELF FROM MYSELF
  3. ALWAYS BACKUP MY DATA
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2003-03-31 03:34:47

Oh crap.

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2003-03-31 03:34:15

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2003-03-31 02:57:04

Just got back from a weekend up at Caloundra. We took Riko with us, and he swam in the Pacific for the first time. Today we went to Mary Cairncross reserve and Kondalilla Falls. It was a very nice weekend away from the troubles of the world.