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Last week my room was repainted (which involved taking down about a million pictures, filling four times as many thumbtack holes, and getting rid of the wallpaper), which is nice. Because it had to be done before the furniture we inherited from my grandfather arrived, it’s kind of rushed, but overall it’s much cleaner. One side of the room is light grey (like the ceiling), and the other is “taupe” (#50404D, actually purple taupe).
It also covered the fungus problem quite neatly (which is one of the reasons we painted rather than wallpapering again; because of the fungus my ceiling had to be repainted about twice a year so far, but you can’t replace wallpaper that easily), and apparently the cause of it has finally been established (a clogged drainpipe causing rainwater to drain into my walls), and it’s being fixed in September.

Then the aforementioned furniture arrived, of which I got some.¹ I should really take another picture of that second one; bright flash doesn’t do it justice, and everything looks tacky if you fill it with DVDs.²
Both of those are considerably older than I am and easily the most expensive things I own, so I question the wisdom of putting them here before fixing the drainpipe, but at least now I can get rid of that hellish chair without feeling guilty.
There’s also tens of thousands of monies worth of new furniture downstairs, which looks incredibly out of place. We finally got to the point where nearly all of our furniture matched and was kind of modernish, and now we have tons of antiques cocking things up again. Maybe it’ll be better once the rest of the art actually gets here.

All of this has meant I haven’t been able to get any real work done, but at least things should quiet down now. My sister is in France right now, so it’s quiet enough to get some rest now. I hope to be rested by the time everyone leaves for Malta in August, anyway. Pity the neighbors persist in their existence.

Yesterday I realised I pay our esteemed host $23.40 a year for AWStats, but it’s only configured for the www. subdomain, so I went ahead and wrote a config file and set up a cron job to get it to work for my own subdomain. Manually, because cPanel is still a piece of shit.
So is AWStats, for the most part, but I wanted it because unlike Webalizer, it keeps track of OSes, and it has prettier graphs.

Preliminary results:

Of the 31.2% of my readers that use Linux, 74% use Debian or Ubuntu, with the remaining 26% using “GNU Linux (Unknown or unspecified distribution)”.
All of the Mac OS users use Mac OS X, unsurprisingly, but it doesn’t specify specific versions.
53.9% Windows users is disappointing, but at least XP users still outnumber Vista users about three to one. And one guy is still using Windows 98.
I desperately want to believe the 9.8% people using “Unknown” are on Plan 9, but looking at the user agent strings, most of them seem to be people on mobile phones and PSPs, and a handful of bots not properly recognised as such.³
This is only about a day’s worth of logs, though, so I’m sure it’ll change.

(The BSD dude is on FreeBSD, by the way.)

In completely unrelated news, I redid the blogroll in the sidebar, and I’m looking for opinions. →
If you can’t see it, you’ll have to go to the main page, because it’s invisible for individual post pages.
With the increasing tendency towards text-heavy posts I figured some more pictures would be nice. It did mean cutting fourteen links, but most of those were either dead (either in the actually-gone sense or the not-updating-anymore sense, though the latter is still true for most of the ones that survived) or mainstream enough that they don’t need me linking to them. If you were one of them and want to be linked again, post moar and send me high-contrast pictures of yourself.

Anyway, /prog/ is back, so fuck this blogging thing.

¹ More pictures. I enjoy writing desks even though they’re carrion feeders.

² I’m getting a separate DVD rack, I think. Since that closet replaces one closet and one set of shelves, I have some room for more furniture anyway.

³ As far as browsers go, Firefox is unsurprisingly the most popular, with exactly 60% of my visitors using it. 25.4% use IE, despite the helpful advice these people get at the top of the page. 55.9% of IE users use IE7, so I guess that’s alright. This does, however, mean that 11% of you are using both Windows and IE6, which is very, very sad.