The Book of Ashes
Legend in his own mind, creator of all you see here, he walks this Earth on the path of the becoming.
On Tuesday, 11, November 2003 Ashes wrote...
New flatmate... 4:46AM
The weekend was a sunny one. Saturday Tom, Bonnie, Martin and I went rock climbing. I am starting to get over my fear of falling here which is good. I like rock climbing.
Saturday we went for a walk round Mt Vic. Its amazing how peaceful and calm it is here. Only 5-10 mins walk from my place.
Now its Tuesday. I have a new flatmate called Crystal from Canada. She seems pretty cool. Time for a flatwarming party once again I think.
I've finally got my first pages written and working for my new webserver. I'm planning to port the whole server to a new machine. This will be running Windows XP as an operating system, MySQL for the database (free) and TomCat for the webserver (free). Reasons for this? I can afford it, current system is running most illegally. MySQL and Tomcat are free and the resulting system should be much more stable and manageable (eg for backing up). Downfalls, I have to recreate every single fucking page in Java (currently in PL/SQL). Owch, theres lots more pages than you know about. Damn pain. Also Java is not quite so easy to modify as PL/SQL but at least its all legal and I can proceed with my plans to sell services off the webserver and make millions.
On the weekend I got a letter from A J Park. Through the little envelope window I read, re: perihelion.net.nz... SHIT I thought, what legal action is being brought against my website? So I trepidly opened the letter, read down, read some more, then kinda laughed. The dicks had sent me a letter to ""educate me"" about my infringement on the use of the word cellotape in my diary entries. What? After instructing my aide to perform a quick search on the trusty internet I discovered that I appeared in the top rankings of the SearchNZ search engine. Actually Perihelion now appears there for a lot of key words (yeah baby!). So what was the issue? Apparently if sellotape is used enough in common lanuage (as a generic term for sticky tape) then it becomes a common word and Sellotape loose their trade mark rights on the term. So they inform me I should refer to Sellotape as Sellotape with a trade mark symbol at the top right of the word. Yeah as if I'm going to do that for every trade mark word I write up in my diary entries (hundreds of thousands of words). Stuff that. Here is their interpreation on it...
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The thing is I didn't even spell the word right! Is my freedom to make spelling mistakes being taken off me now? Can I not spell words as I please? Sollotape, Smellotape, Cell-o-tape. Try and find those misuses of your brand name Eh