RichRock : Running Free

Hi all. As you can tell from the title, it’s a few new things going on. New life, for my girlfriend, as she’ll hopefully be out of hospital in the next couple of days. I’m not going into any specifics, but the op she’s just had will remove a long-term hindrance to her having a fuller life. She says shell be more annoying to me. Also, she reckons I won’t know what to do with her. I do. And I’m not saying here. (To those who thought something rude - wash your mouth out with soapy water.)
New diet indicates that I have to change my dietary habits. I have been having dietary problems for many years, and now I’m in a job where I sit a lot more, it’s harder to be comfortable. It’s not piles. It’s only the start, and I’m told I may probably have to be on this for life, which in some respects is no bad thing. I refer you to my previous posting about God and healing here. This explains something about why I haven’t sought physical healing, but I really felt God had led me to discover a reason for the problems, and to solve those, as that would be more beneficial for my life.
New Year - soon. This new year will culminate all the new things that have happened this year :

• New job - a web developer
• New girlfriend - patience has bought me the best woman I could have hoped for: Godly, beautiful, honest and true
• New computer - (sort of) new parts, such as a Geforce 8 series, 2gb Corsair RAM, Antec 900 case have gotten me my modded pc. Just a quad-core and watercooling kit to go, and that’ll keep me happy for a few years.
• New friends - well, online friends in Halo, but there’s mutual friendship in the game. 1AV is the server, I’m there frequently. GG

And the new year promises more. Who knows, maybe marriage may be on the cards? With whats happened to my girlfriend, we have already had to seriously look at each others commitment in our relationship. This has bought us closer, and hopefully God will bless us further. Theres many other things which could be new next year, but I’m keeping those card close to my chest, and not revealing to you, my readers.

Well, it’s been a bit of a rollercoaster this week. My girlfriend’s in hospital, she’s just ha d a major op, and pretty rough at the mo. I’m hoping some of it is just needing sleeping off, and we’ll see about that tomorrow. I’ve been getting new treatment for a bowel problem I’ve had for many many years, and that’s been hard too.

Also - still reading Lord Of The Rings. I’m on The Two Towers, at the point where Gollum is leading Frodo and Sam through the Dead Marshes. It’s quite gripping. Compared to the film, the workings of Helms Deep doesn’t quite seem the same, and the last march of the Ents ended differently. If you want to understand more, read the book. Then watch the film. They’re both rather good. I also picked up Unfinished Tales, which I’ll get round to reading somepoint soon. I’ve also got the Silmarillion to read too. Eventually.

Well, that’s a little update. I’ll have some joomla tips coming next week. Work’s been hectic, juggling 3 projects at once. There is too much going on in my life.

This is just a test blog entry using the Gnome-Blog entry program.

Well, I’ve tried. To dual-boot my PC. Grub is a fantastic boot management program, and can certainly display a lot of potential in managing multi-boot systems. However, my Grub install won’t boot windows. I’ll be looking into this.
Oh and I’m ill. Mahoosive stomach probs.

I just took delivery of a spanking new 27″ widescreen monitor at work, so my web development took an excellent turn today. It’s mahoosive, just like working on a screen like on Minority Report. Without the touchscreen. Or the blue tinge.
Anyhoo, I just re-wired my PC, tidied it up a bit. Put the cold cathodes in, it’s now a vibrant blue inside. Why? Because I’m a geek. And a gamer. Halo was great last night, getting cheeky with nice and rice, but some scumbag calling themselves opm002 kept getting me a lot. It got a little frustrating… But it was still fun.
Where next for my PC? Maybe a nice new motherboard with Core 2 Quad capabilities, and maybe a Core 2 Quad processor… Oh and the board must have SLI, so I can get another of my graphics cards. I currently use an MSI Geforce 8600 GTS Overclocked, and it’s pretty good. I bet in SLI mode it would be very good, especially by my standards.
Right, onto looking at some game demos, get the latest goss.

Just upgraded my Wordpress system to the latest, and played around with the tools. Also upgraded my SEO pack for it, that should help too. Been analysing keywords and stuff, we’ll see over the next couple of months how that goes.
A note to those having problems with the memory error. Write a php.ini file and put the line:
memory_limit = 32M;
Where 32M is appropriate. I put it nice and large because my webhost is great. Then place this in the root folder of your wordpress install and try the upgrade again. If that doesn’t work, you will have to contact your webhost.

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