ferrousland.com - diary archives for August 2000
Thursday, August 31, 2000
java applet working again - 09:00 PM
has anyone noticed that the java controlled refresh is back? yay!! 
.. & do we know who it was that figured out what was wrong with it? it was my wonderful shroomie-boy. he is so, so clever!! it was...
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Tuesday, August 29, 2000
not a derro - 09:00 PM
yesterday i decided i'm not going to be a derro anymore. i don't want to work at bp forever. i never really wanted to work there at all, i only took the job because it was about time that i...
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Monday, August 28, 2000
back in control - 01:30 PM
the aliens no longer have control! my friend, mungbean got her site back & she has written there a very appropriate letter to the person who hacked her site. good one, mung. 
she'll still have to rewrite quite a...
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Sunday, August 27, 2000
doggie school & grandma update - 10:40 PM
well, the cam image is working again, phew! it really stressed me out having it non-operational for all that time. it doesn't look as good as the java controlled refresh but at least it's working. i took the dog to...
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Saturday, August 26, 2000
cam image not working - 12:05 PM
last night we had some friends over & had a really great time. we haven't seem them in a while so it was great to catch up again. one bad thing happened last night, though. the image on my site...
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Thursday, August 24, 2000
grandma in hospital - 08:50 PM
my mum just called me. my grandma (her mum) was recently diagnosed with lymphoma. it's a form of cancer. just today though, she's been admitted to hospital & has been further diagnosed with five more tumours & an aggressive form...
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Tuesday, August 22, 2000
dog, tax & mango hair - 10:10 AM
i've been very productive today already. it feels good. i've organised my tax & organised the dog. i owe some provisional tax from when i was running my cleaning business. i was silly & hadn't put any money aside to...
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Monday, August 21, 2000
hacked! - 07:05 PM
i just found out that a friend of mine has had her web site hacked! she's pretty sure she knows who it is. it's really obvious too, you'd have to be stupid to not be able to figure it out....
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Sunday, August 20, 2000
therapeutic - 11:15 PM
i finally finished the long version of the about me pages. it was a real slog. i'm not sure why really, as it's not like there was anything horrid in my life that i didn't want to relive through my...
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Saturday, August 19, 2000
fridges & lan parties - 07:20 AM
i have to go to work soon. yuck. i don't really mind working at regents park on wednesday, thursday, friday, but i don't really like working at goodna on saturdays. it's so much busier than regents park. the people never...
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Friday, August 18, 2000
broken cam & dog taxi service - 07:25 PM
the cam completely crapped itself yesterday .. did you see? i was almost ready to walk out the door to go to work. i was training the cam on my cow to keep you company in the day & suddenly...
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Thursday, August 17, 2000
going well - 11:45 AM
thanks to everyone who sent a message, email, or called to give their well wishes to shroom after his operation. it was really nice of all of you. he really appreciated it. his nose is still very sore but even...
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Wednesday, August 16, 2000
knock yourself out - 06:00 PM
i tried to knock myself out today .. really! this is what happened .. i was at work. i was counting the money in the cash register to do an end of shift reconciliation. i dropped a five cent coin...
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Tuesday, August 15, 2000
not so painful - 09:30 AM
it was a really long night at the hospital last night. i'm so tired today. neither of us got much sleep. the operation was a lot easier on shroom this time compared to the last one. he said that the...
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Monday, August 14, 2000
ready for the operation - 01:10 PM
i took shroom into hospital this morning. it was really difficult just leaving him there like that, but there wasn't much point in me staying, there was nothing more that i could do there. his operation is scheduled for 2pm...
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Sunday, August 13, 2000
nose operation - 07:40 PM
i've been collecting some good webcam pics of myself day to day so i think that it's almost time to start a gallery. i don't have that many yet, but at this point i haven't planned what format the gallery...
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Friday, August 11, 2000
possible job not an option - 06:45 PM
the job thing i mentioned in yesterday's entry is a no go-er. we communicated over approximately six emails to try to make a date for an interview but each email i got from them was completely uncommunicative. when i suggested...
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Wednesday, August 09, 2000
possible job - 06:20 PM
i'm reluctant to write about this because every time that i do write about something of this nature it doesn't come to pass. i'm going to a job interview (hopefully) on monday. my cousin just resigned from her work place...
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Monday, August 07, 2000
need to learn more - 05:55 PM
after yesterday's naughtiness mcgarnicle is now an outside dog. i miss him already. my darling was very angry with him for chewing his mobile phone & since mcgarnicle's been such a chewy dog lately anyway, the new rule is that...
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Sunday, August 06, 2000
naughty dog! - 09:35 AM
our dog is very, very naughty. i just looked out the window of the computer room & saw a very bad thing. two very bad things in fact. one of my darling's ugg boots was outside with a whopping great...
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Saturday, August 05, 2000
applet issue fixed - 05:10 PM
yay!
.. i fixed the problem with the pop-up window for the web cam! i played around a bit & discovered that the pop-up window would only cause my computer to crash when it was open at the same...
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Friday, August 04, 2000
java applet - 11:00 PM
since i've got my web cam i've been receiving lots more emails .. it's wonderful! i really appreciate that people take the time out of their day to write to me. it's wonderful.
i've installed a java applet to...
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Thursday, August 03, 2000
japanese dinner - 10:20 PM
i saw some kangaroos today. now, anyone reading this who isn't from australia might wonder what's unsual about that, since kangaroos are native to australia. it isn't actually true, though, that we all have one or two in our backyard,...
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Wednesday, August 02, 2000
bad drivers - 04:50 PM
why is it that queensland drivers are such shockers? they seem to think that indicators are optional extras, the right lane (the fast lane) is made for cruising in & they wouldn't know a safe driving distance (from the car...
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Tuesday, August 01, 2000
august already - 03:30 PM
i can hardly believe that it's august already. it seemed like just a few weeks ago that everybody was going on about this y2k hooh-haa .. & what a let-down that was.
my weekend (which is sunday, monday, tuesday,...
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