http://dischord.org/blog If credit's what matters, I'll take credit. Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:50:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 8 countries, 8 cars (including an M6 and a Z4 Alpina), and 1,750 miles.  Fletch will eventually lend his literary skills to writing something about it, but in the meantime here's some photos:        You'll be glad to know that the M5 didn't skip a beat (even when Chris was driving...), apart ... http://dischord.org/blog/2008/10/05/roadtrip-2008/ After finishing my contract up at CPW and spending two months over in Southern California I'm now back in Blighty and looking for work.  I've put my resume online (moving with the times eh) here.  If you know of any contract work for a Unix systems administrator of my calibre (heh) ... http://dischord.org/blog/2008/09/18/job-required/ I seem to have been plagued by a terrible affliction over the past few days - bad-filmitis.  I've had the displeasure of watching three of the worst films I've ever seen in a very short space of time. How to Rob a Bank (2007) I watched this on the train down from LA to ... http://dischord.org/blog/2008/09/09/whirled-by-curses/ I've just upgraded all ports (i.e software) on fork.freebsd.cx and its associated jails (services.freebsd.cx and users.freebsd.cx).  Most people's sites are associated with the latter, although the former affects mail.  If anything is broke, let me know. http://dischord.org/blog/2008/08/30/forkfreebsdcx-upgrades/ Taking a cue from Wes, I recently picked up a Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/2.8 AIS lens off a friend of mine. It's MF but produces some pretty amazing images and is super sharp assuming you nail the focus. Here's a few 'test' shots I took of the Nike SB ... http://dischord.org/blog/2008/08/22/cheap-lenses-ftw-indeed/ Here's a few random photos from in / around Los Angeles.       More updates soon, promise xox. http://dischord.org/blog/2008/08/21/lalaland/ Here's some photos taken for Revolt (http://revoltsd.com) Magazine from the X-Games XIV Closing Party on 3rd of August, 2008.  My first time shooting a 'red carpet' event, it was pretty difficult getting any subjects attention thanks to the FMX demonstration in the street directly behind us...             http://dischord.org/blog/2008/08/21/x-games-xiv-closing-party/ 20:10 Dimey: manus i had to do something terrible earlier :/ 20:10 nick: lol 20:10 nick: explain plz 20:10 nick: you left us hanging before :/ 20:10 Dimey: i was on the loo, having not gone for 7 days before 20:10 nick: o_O 20:10 Dimey: so its fair to say with all the codeine i was ... http://dischord.org/blog/2008/06/12/dimebag-and-the-shitpickers/ So while our beleaguered police force are being told not to bother prosecuting for certain crimes (such as knife related) because of prison overcrowding, they're instead concentrating their efforts on populating the last few remaining places on catching the most heinous, nefarious, despicable and despised people society has had the arrogance to ... http://dischord.org/blog/2008/06/03/burn-pigs-burn/ I walked out of football before to see these two parked either side of my car: Looks like they were trying to make a point, especially with that 911's parking. http://dischord.org/blog/2008/05/19/outclassed/ I can't whinge quite so much now about now having nothing new to listen to.  The Night Marchers are fucking awesome.  And Fork's new band, Obits are shaping up nicely as well.  Good times. The former are on tour in the US and pretty soon the UK as well (June) - you don't want ... http://dischord.org/blog/2008/05/01/less-talk-more-rock/ Nothing quite like a healthy discussion to help pass the time. 14:27 <nick> christ 14:27 <nick> heather mills got 24.3 million 14:27 <nick> sick :| 14:28 <Durz|work> 24.3 mil for just being associated with someone famous 14:28 <nick> yeah 14:28 <Durz|work> not a bad deal really is it 14:28 <nick> i'd bum paul mccartney for 24.3 million ... http://dischord.org/blog/2008/03/17/recurring-theme/ This year seems to have been pretty shit for new music. In fact, it's becoming difficult to find anything new worthy of a listen, a situation which has become increasingly worse over the years with the demise of bands like Hot Snakes, Fugazi, and so on. A quick ... http://dischord.org/blog/2007/12/03/everything-sucks/ Update: See Fletch's write up over here! On the face of it, 1600 miles of driving in three days across various parts of Europe (France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Italy) might seem a bit crazy. But when you do it in some of Bayeriche's finest (an E39 M5, a Z3 ... http://dischord.org/blog/2007/11/06/lausanne-07/ "You signed a petition asking the Prime Minister to 'Prevent Portsmouth City Council closing Southsea Skatepark in September 2007.' The Prime Minister's Office has responded to that petition and you can view it here: http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page13600.asp" The bit that we care about: However, the Government understands that the council has had a change ... http://dischord.org/blog/2007/10/26/southsea-skatepark-not-dead-yet/ Some really bad news. I got an email from Taylor and there's a bulletin on Myspace about this, so I'll leave it in his words. Recently our world lost one of its finest members. Gary A. Nesbitt's body was found in the San Diego Harbor on Sept 29th. Gary ... http://dischord.org/blog/2007/10/03/gary-nesbitt-rip/ pf, which originated from the OpenBSD project, is easily one of the most elegant firewalling solutions I've ever come across. Check this example out. I was getting pretty tired of all the SSH dictionary-type attacks on our new box - a problem compounded by the fact that we're ... http://dischord.org/blog/2007/09/01/stopping-brute-force-ssh-attacks-with-pf/ After two years of talking about it I finally went out and bought an E39 BMW M5, which I picked up last Friday from a BMW dealership in Maidstone. It's a 2002 with 55k 56k miles in Lakeside Blue, black nappa leather interior, satnav, and a bunch of other ... http://dischord.org/blog/2007/08/14/false-start/ Potentially the shittest news this year. Even shittier than the weather forecasters announcing that we'd be in for all this rain. The future of Southsea Skatepark is looking uncertain. Portsmouth City Council is preparing to close the park in September of this year unless a suitable plan can be made ... http://dischord.org/blog/2007/07/29/southsea-skatepark/ We're now 95% live with the new hosting arrangement. Everything is sat on a not-so-shiny IBM x330 which is a dual 1.3GHz P3, 1GB of ECC RAM, 400GB of mirrored storage, and FreeBSD 6. I've migrated across pretty much all of the e-mail setup, some people's websites, and ... http://dischord.org/blog/2007/07/26/hosting-update/