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Taking a break…

Feb 25

Posted by Clifford W. Hansen in Family, Web | 5 Comments

Isn’t it funny how much we rely on the interet. I have my email, twitter and facebook setup on my phone and all the pc’s I use, just in case I miss something. It has started taking up a lot of time, I have hardly had any time for myself.

So, I’ve decided that for the next couple of weeks I’m going to disconnect myself from that world, unfortunatly I can’t disconnect completely from the internet due to my work. But I can close down chat clients, and the like.

Here’s to the next couple of weeks, hopefully something good comes from it, catch y’all on the other side. And I will try and blog more, havn’t really had a chance to learn anything new recently, hence this decision :)

Love you all, C

PS. If you need to get hold of me, pop me a mail or sms, or leave a comment below (they are moderated so if you don’t want it to show up just say so :)

UPDATE – 2 Mar So it took a week and I’m back, but I’ve removed a few people from follow lists, unfortunately these things need to be done :(

Moving… again…

Jan 25

Posted by Clifford W. Hansen in Debian, Family, Perl | Comments off

Well, I can’t believe how time has flown, Cecilia and I split up end of October last year, and we were still staying together till the end of the lease. I found a new place end of November, and now finally get to move in :)

So now instead of driving 100Km a day (from Durbanville to Tokai), I am now gonna be driving 10Km a day :) <– AWESOME!!!

And now I’m closer to the beach, it’s like a 10min drive, on a busy day :) so will be spending alot more time there, and when Catelyn comes to visit she will also, she loves “THE BEACH” as she puts it… hehe…

So as one part of my life finally comes to a close, another starts up…

Now finally I’ll have more time to spend on the stuff I love, and hopefully I will be able to start contributing to the Debian comunity.

New things to learn, new people to meet, new experiences to experience… #ROCKON #AWESOME

Happy New Year

Jan 2

Posted by Clifford W. Hansen in Family | 1 Comment

So, it’s the begining of a new year, man 2009 went by quick… I really didn’t expect (or want) the year to end the way it did, but go figure.

Well I have a feeling that this next year is gonna be a tough one, but I’m sure I’ll get through it… :)

Here’s to the new year and I hope that all of you guys reading this have an awesome year. Hopefully big things happen… :)

Merry Christmas to all

Dec 25

Posted by Clifford W. Hansen in Family, PHP | Comments off

Well it;s that time of year again (what happend to the rest of the year).

Merry Christmas to all of you out there, some of you are close and some of you are far.

So special greetings go to my Dad (even though you are far away we are thinking about you and miss you lots)

Well guess I should stop being “rude” and leave the pc alone for a little bit, hope you all have an awesome day surrounded by people you love and great food.

And so I write some code today ;) 

<?php
   $holiday = new Holiday('Christmas');
   $holiday->celebrate();
   $holiday->eatLotsOfFood();
   $holiday->beMerry();

lolz ;)

New host and toys… :)

Nov 22

Posted by Clifford W. Hansen in Debian, Family, Hardware | 1 Comment

My 100th entry :D

New Toys
Cecilia and myself were looking over the finances the other day, and due to her laptop giving issues, and myself not having a decent machine. At the moment iBurst is running a special where you get a netbook, USB modem and 1Gb bandwidth a month We found it would be cheaper to cancel the current Internet connection and get two of these and external hosting.

I am currently writing this post on my netbook. :)

The netbook is a Samsung N140.

  • CPU: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz (Dual core)
  • Memory: 1Gb
  • HDD: 160Gb
  • Wifi: BGN
  • Bluetooth 2.1
  • Screen 10.1″ 1024×600

Hosting
For the past couple of years I have been hosting this blog on my server at home, I got static IP from iBurst which helped. unfortunatly due to bandwidth usage and cost I have had to move this blog offsite (moved my mail a couple of months ago)

So this blog is now hosted by A Small Orange, and thanks goes out to Geoff Garbers for suggesting them :)

Well now back to setting up a dev enviroment on the netbook… :)

New network/machine setup

Nov 14

Posted by Clifford W. Hansen in Debian, Family, Hardware | 1 Comment

So I finally got myself the Linksys WRT54GL and now my network hardware went from:

Before

And now after:

After

Now to try load DD-WRT onto her, and then eventually Debian… :)

Also finally sorted out the laptop that I am using, well the screen was moved to Cecilia’s laptop and this one was using the external, with a wireless keyboard and mouse.

Recycled Laptop

Well just waiting for the last couple of thing to finish on Cecilia’s laptop (had to reinstall) and then off to bed…

What a month… – Update

Oct 21

Posted by Clifford W. Hansen in Cars, Family | 3 Comments

So, things are slowly getting back to normal… Quote has been approved, they hopfully start fixing the car in the next couple of days. I also got my phone yesterday.

I know I have chosen to not talk about work here, but I just have to mention that I am very happy working for TheClassified, my boss (Jonathan Page) has been very helpfull and patient during this time, I am very greatfull. Thanks Jonathan.

Well that is all for now, hopefully don’t have to wait too long for my car, although I’m gonna miss the rental car when I give it back… (VW Golf 1 – brings back memories)

What a month… :(

Oct 9

Posted by Clifford W. Hansen in Cars, Family | 5 Comments

So last week tues (29 Sep) I decide to walk to the shops and I got mugged, lost money, cards and my cellphone…

Then on my way home from work today, I hit a dog. Lucky for the dog it was quick and painless, but unlucky for the car, the raidiator is cracked, and bumper is broken.

Now comes the insurance… Well I’m hoping thats the end of it… sigh…

To shave or not to shave

Jun 22

Posted by Clifford W. Hansen in Family | 2 Comments

So for the last little while I have been growing a beard… :) Well Cecilia wants me to shave it, but I don’t really want to… :(

So I leave it to anyone who reads his, what should I do?

Half-Gotee

New Phone – Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

Jun 3

Posted by Clifford W. Hansen in Family, Hardware | Comments off

So today I got my new Phone, after loosing my old one, and then sending my temporary one through the wash :(

First off, thank you and sorry Cecilia, I know that this has “messed” up the accounts :(

Offhand this is a fairly nice phone, just need to get used to it, will report more on it later…