Night of the Heavy Cowgirls

There is the most beautiful night outside. I finished work at about 12 and took some food out onto the sea cliffs at the end of my road. You can see for miles from the top of the cliffs. The moon's not quite full but it's bright, and shining through high, wispy clouds. There's a warm breeze blowing in and the sea's flat calm. On my left there's a slight front on the horizon following the French coast, with some low nimbus over Cherbourg, glowing orange on the underneath from the lights of the city. There's rows of orange lights all along the coast, odd little towns and lighthouses. On my right I can see the lights of Jersey. Straight ahead is the Bay of Biscay reflecting the moon. Awesome.

The sky here is one of the best things about Alderney. On England the horizons were close and the sky is small and dirty, the stars faint from light pollution. I missed it. My end of Alderney is a plateau above the sea, the sky is huge, and it's often clean, so the stars are brighter, or if it's a bit dirty it makes for red sunsets.

Otherwise, today's been uneventful. Spent most of it struggling with the an RFC, trying to implement the RTSP (real time streaming protocol) in PHP to make a stream ripper. I've been taking an interest in launch.yahoo.com recently, specifically it's regional versions. I might publish what I've worked out about it so far, and some tools I've made in dissecting it. Will hold doing that while I ponder how much poo that could land me in, if any.

Went to work, pleasant enough. A bunch of mainland girls came in dressed as cowgirls. Took some photos and assured me at length that one of their number didn't have genital warts. Good to know I suppose, maybe that's like the mating call of the Midlands or something. A wedding came in, pub crawling. Happy bunch, no one I knew. Folks here seem to celebrate everything with a pub crawl across St Anne. Finished at a marquee on the Butes.

A pleasant end to an unevetful week. Didn't get as much done as I'd like. Finally got carpets laid in my place. Built a database of proxy servers and some scripts to feed and use it. There's a website on owls (genus strix :-) ) I've used to test it which must be wondering why all those hundreds of Argentinians are visting recently *grin*. I think it's cool how stuff like google text ads translate themselves to other languages when you surf out of foreign servers. So that at least is done. Also finally got round to servicing some monitors, got a pair of 17 inch ones now for my box, lookin' sweet, and I put in another 20GB drive for a project I have in mind.

Got myself a copy of Candice Alley's music video 'Hello'. Been watching it all day. That girl has the most incredibly green eyes. Hello. Also got myself a packet analyser, if I've time tomorrow I'll use it to watch some RTSP transactions. I'm a big boy now, I should be able to work this fiddly thing out. But not tonight. It's 2am and I'm going to bed. Bye.