Crashing and burning
Posted 5 Mar 2009 by Akinwale Ariwodola
Based on my observations, Antinormal went down on February 11. I didn't even get an email alert that Jamroll was going to go shut down and so I was completely unaware of this until yesterday. Had to do a quick recovery, and the cool thing is I managed to get it back up and running within 15 minutes of discovering its status. You know, it's pretty awesome these days that domain name change propagation only takes about 5 minutes (or up to 10 minutes on a bad day). I remember when we had to wait 48 hours just to wait for a domain to resolve to whichever nameservers you've configured it to point to. Incidentally, I cannot emphasise this enough, Jamroll was an awesome free host. It's rather sad and painful to see them go. I will miss you, Jamroll. The Internets will miss you, Jamroll. *sniff*February hasn't been a very good month for me. I didn't get a visa to the US because apparently, I must be Mexican (they just give you a rejection later with a vague reason, so you can't really tell exactly what the official's decision is actually based on, so I'm assuming it's this because I'm sure I had everything else covered), which means I'm going to miss out on Digital Overload, again. Which brings me to one thing. The visa application process in Lagos is extremely tedious and stressful. If the waiting ticket was anything to go by, I was the 305th person in line. Considering that I had to wake up really early and leave to get there in the first place, I think that just plain sucks. My appointment time was 7am. About 5 hours later and a trip to the toilet, I was too hungry and tired to actually care anymore, and then I get smacked in the face with, "I'm sorry, but you do not qualify for a non-immigrant visa at this time." And the official didn't even ask to see any of my documents for proof of anything. Bastards! The lot of them. We'll see about DO 2010.
I've always made it my policy not to talk about woman- and relationship-related issues, but yeah, maybe just this once. There was this girl I was attracted to for a couple years, and when she was available, I got around to talking and eventually, when I asked her if she was interested in a relationship, she said no. Why am I telling you this? Because it happened in February! Yes, that's right.
I've been trying to order a book on iPhone development. Apparently, no one wants to ship to Nigeria either because I'm a fraudster by default, or no real reason that holds water. Fuck you, Amazon, by the way. Amazon simply deletes my account whenever I place an order (this is not the first time I've tried) without any explanations whatsoever. Great way to handle customers, guys. Barnes & Noble just decides to pretend to not be able to authorise my card. The order automatically gets cancelled, after which I see an authorisation charge from them on my card! Seriously? And I'm sure I shouldn't just find somewhere to download this book, right? I give up.
I haven't had electricity from the power company since... well, since forever ago actually. But it's got worse. We only get power for like 15 minutes every 3 to 7 days. And only at about 150 to 180 volts. Here's the thing, we're supposed to be getting 220 to 240 volts from the power company. I have headaches from the noise of the power generator for crying out loud. I spend too much on fuel to run the generator. At least, the price of fuel was reduced, but it looks like it'd be going up any time soon.
I've also been very demotivated, and this started in February. I've been unable to do anything. Need to pick myself back up and start making billions of dollars. I don't know why, but it seems I've kicked life in the arse so many times that it's starting to get back at me. Oh it's on! On the bright side though, I got a new notebook which is very capable of playing games. I'm sure it can run Crysis at a decent framerate. Initially planned on getting a Dell Studio, but a 9600M GT will always be better than any Intel integrated graphics chipset.
In other unrelated news, I hear about the financial crisis and people losing their jobs almost everyday, and it makes me sad. Let's just hope things get better soon enough.
PS. Why do criminals who don't get caught have it so easy?
Comments (3)
You could start by fixing the broken captcha on your blog.
Men, the power company must be dealing with you guys mercilessly with < 220V and like 1hr of power per week? LOLLLLLLLLLLLL
And the fact that I know your noisy generator personally ... (I happen to know its first name too :)
Regarding the girl, what's the moral of your story and please tell me you didn't ask her on February the 14th?
Probably because of the subject.
GEEKY.
But great.
Well done. You have been consistent and sure.
I have just spent the better part of 30minutes going through your old posts.
Didnt know we had game shows in Naija?
Anyways, we need to chat.
I need some information on web development which you may be able to help me with.
Send me a mail on ngtez2@yahoo.com