Author: Olly

Yes, i have a splitting headache, brought on from drinking too much champagne and smiling at so so many people. I think it was ste mentioned to me that i mgiht suffor from migranes, i think your right ste buddy. It feels like someone is sticking pins in my eyes.

My mums bday went great, she so does not look 50. She looks healther and younger than she did 10 years ago! About everyone my mum knew was there, there were SO many people. The garden, conservatory, kitchen, dining room, conservatory 2 AND the utility room was full! It was CRAZY! I only drank about 4 glasses of champagne all day, i started to balance it out with orange juice then i just got a headache. I ended up being bar man after that, which i quite enjoyed actually.

I once again witnessed the typical;

“hi how are you? long time no see”

“hi yes, im fine, how are you?”

“Yeah im great, so what you up to nowadays?…” 

..Conversation many many times, i kinda laugh about it while im doing it.. Its one of those things that you know is gonna happen, and does numerous times when your at any family/friend based party type situation.. haha..

I had to leave pretty early tho, as our server had been turned off by our hosts. There was some compaint that a hacking attempt had been made from our server, and we were basically dissconnected. Which is pretty shocking really as if the servers off we can access it to fix it. :/

Anyway its back up now and everything seems to be ok. I have just this minute realised i can touch type. I have looked at the keyboard 3 times since i started this paragraph, make that 5. Lol..

Back to the grinder tomorrow. As tony the tiger would say.. Greaaattt! :/

For some reason, its just not sunk in its friday today. I think fridays are beginnign to lose their importance to me, as i work most saturdays. I was supposed to be working this sunday too, but its my mom’s birthday on monday so i gotta be there helping. I say gotta, i dont have to, but your mother isnt 50 more then once!

It seems so weird saying shes 50. I imagine 50 year olds to look.. well.. OLD… and my mum just doesnt! Shes looking really well bless her! And im sure saturday is gonna be a mint day! They are actually opening up AndWhyNot’s ESPECIALLY for my mom on wednesday for a work do (they dont normally open on wednesdays), as shes ret important!

I have done her a little banner thing for that, it reads “Happy Birthday Mum” and it has 50 in big letters in the background. I know how my mum thinks, and she would be really pissed off if there was HAPPY 50TH BIRTHDAY signs everywhere.. SO mine kinda doenst say shes 50, but does.. 🙂
Anyway, i think im gonna have a night rebuilding my caddy, and trying to take my fuel tank off it – so it can be cleaned. I hope i dont lose my mojo when i get home and just sit there doing nawt – which seems to be the vison i have right now. haha..

Finally, i hate writing my blog entries with the thought i might offend someone whos reading it. So if i do, im afraid its tough shit. Im gonna start truelly speaking my mind, and if that means people start to dislike me, then so be it.. I strongly belive people should be 100% open about everything (well, nearly everything) and that if people are reading it then they should see it as my point of view – and not an opinion that i push onto other people.. If the world was a honest place, it would be a much nicer place to live 🙂

For ages now ive wanted some software to manage all our hosting clients. I wanted something that would also act as a front end – so that people could sign up for hosting accounts too…

And for ages my tight arsed self has trawled the internet looking for some free software that would do the job. Nothing.. Nothing that would do what i wanted anyway.. So as me and dave were sitting down to sort the hosting bits and bobs out tonight, i thought it was the right time to actually get something sorted..

I found something called Autohost. It intergrates with WHM to allow automatic account creation. It also intergrates paypal, allowing us to bill people directly. It cost me just short of $20, which is jack shit really, so i bought it and installed it..

Its actually really good, its very simple to set up and seems to work fine. The only problem im faced with is, is that there is no direct option to import existing clients from WHM so that they would start being handled by this software. I have found a way to sort it, it means editing one of the files so that it doesnt actually create the account in WHM when i type the details in, it mearly binds itself to an existing account. Its gonna be a pain in the arse to set up,  but once its working it should mean no more worrying about chasing people up!

It even gives people 3 chances to pay their hosting, then it automatically suspends their account if they dont pay! Brilliant! 🙂

Another cool wednesday meeting in early doors, plenty of cars including JT’s gorgeous mk3 golf! wow! Anyway, my good friend chris gave me a windows vista cd, and when we left for the night, i headed back home to install it on daz’s pc..

First i found out you need 15gig free to install it, bummer.. that put the plan on hold.. then i thought id move partitions about, but i remembered daz’s C drive is a 20gig standalone disk. So im going to have to wait to see what daz says – ill see if he’ll let me format his main drive 🙂

Then i get upstairs to find my laptop had flattened its battery. Its got a charger that i bought off ebay, and i dont know if its the socket in the back of my laptop or the plug on the end of the charger – but summat aint right! It keeps losing connection, and its becoming a pain in the arse now, so much so ive had to drag ye old fathful out to write this on! My 5+ year old tosh laptop that is totally indestructable! 🙂

I really dont understand this laptop, it just wont give up! Not that i want it to! I swear it runs twice as fast as my new one – and technically this laptop shouldnt even be high enough spec for a windows xp machine! Its blessed by the gods, and i darent actually format it and put a clean version of windows on.. just in case i can never get it runnin as well as this again..

They sure dont make um like they used to 😉