I just went and had a look at my bandwidth usage across all of the sites that I host, and I noticed something weird…

Normally I transfer about 600-800MBs a month of stuff, images and music mainly. That goes up and down with the number of MP3s I upload, but it’s fairly static.

Then last month what should I find but one of the subdomains that hasn’t been updated or probably viewed for more than 3 years (last update was 26th Feb 2006…) had somehow magically uploaded 21.56GBs last month..

To say I was shocked is an understatement. It’s a static page. A static 8kb page. To upload 21.56GBs… It had to be viewed some 2.7 million times.

That’s fairly extreme… And more to the point, it was only 3 IPs..

I would say it would be a DDOS, but it wouldn’t make sense, and I wouldn’t be so arrogant. First of all, it’s only 3 IPs that are all just 1 digit different to each other, says they’re owned by a company. Probably a spam company of some sort, the page did have a “comment” type thing that put the entry straight into a mysql database. So if I check that…

Cheers

Saska

**EDIT** Wooo, 56000 spam posts in the database! Serves me right, I guess!

I procrastinated today, instead of doing uni work, and wrote a little 8bit tune..

8bitMonkeyBalls

Enjoy!

Saska

So, I’m procrastinating. I’m writing an essay, and 900 out of 1600 words and 2 citations down, I’m taking a break. Not that I’ve been working that hard. Obviously.

But I decided to change my website design. And frankly, I’ve grown tired of my own crappy designs that don’t quite work. Hence, this is someone elses. Let them figure out IE’s stupid box placement shit.

It looks swish, no?

Also added the ability to “like” posts, like you do on Facebook. It’s down there, right at the bottom of the post. Little button that says “like”. Spot it?

If you have, click, let me know that you recognise it’s real, tell me that it’s working, you know!

I will change what appears at http://tiasu.com too, so this blog is just a small part of the whole. I actually want a professional website with my music and all that lot at tiasu.com, so that I can really let people know what I do, that I’m a composer, hire me!

Anyway, back to work..

Saska

So, I had my wisdom teeth removed yesterday.

Well, 3 of them, one had been removed previously.

Aside from the immense pain of bankruptcy (apparently the very necessary removal of painful impacted wisdom teeth is elective and therefore not covered by anyone in any way) I am now in immense pain from.. well.. the lack of teeth.

That might do it..

Cleverly, however, I’ve got stitches that dissolve on their own, which is really, really cool. Oh technology, how amazing you are! It means that I don’t have to go back to hospital to have my stitches removed.

Yesterday was also the first time since I was 2 years old I have been under general anesthetic. Amazingly enough, I really recovered really quickly. I was up and bouncy last night, and this morning I’ve been awake and doing stuff. The swelling is starting to kick in now, however. Which is a shame. And painful. And unmotivating.

I’ve also managed, unfortunately, to almost entirely use up our internet download.. I feel so selfish! It was entirely by accident, and I only used up the off-peak download, which no one but me uses anyway, but even so.. I still feel guilty.

I’m really disappointed at how quickly my battery runs out when I use winterboard. I really enjoy themeing my iPhone, but jeeeez, if I have to recharge my phone at lunch time, it isn’t worth it! If I don’t have winterboard on, I don’t need to recharge but once every other day – and that’s playing games, using like a real phone, sending hundreds of messages and doing approx 3 calls a day.

Anyway, maybe sleep will help with the pain..

Saska

• Finished teaching for the day. I need more students. Anyone want to learn drums or guitar? Redesigning my website, again. #
• I'm under the impression myki is coming soon. All the buses I've been on in the last month and now my train stations have been upgraded… #
• I really hate my lectures. Especially the ones on a Tuesday! Rage. #
• @musicianator Why was the update scary? in reply to musicianator #
• Why has it taken me 18 years to learn to sleep properly? 11 hours last night, including being woken up by someone slamming the front door #
• After the first hour and a half of choir my head hurts… too much oxygen leaving my mouth not enoughbrain oxygen. And too much thinking #
• I'm very tired again this morning, despite having slept for almost 10 hours. I dislike this feeling #
• @nathanielsametz I would say Monash if you want a) stability and b) a double degree. Could go VCA for first year, if its no good, swap in reply to nathanielsametz #
• Ahhh, why do we have university tomorrow? Why? I should try and listen tomorrow, rather than do my timetable for St Caths… #
• @nathanielsametz Nope. I'm there Monday to Friday, can't take weekends too! Little brother will be there tho, in the IT and science bits in reply to nathanielsametz #
• Yesterday 13 hours, today 5 hours. My sleep patterns are so screwed… #
• Why did I eat the steak? I know I can't eat it,I know it kills my insides and gives me an unpleasant few hours around 4 am. Yet still I eat? #
• Right, data transferred, shiny new NAS delivering music and movies over magical wireless. Also cleaned up iPhone apps, no longer 8 pages… #
• Wow, I just slept for more than 12 hours.. Must have been tired. Computer is still transferring data. 1774hours to go apparently.. Only68GB? #

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I really should sleep more.
Or less.
Or something.

I am so incredibly tired, which is really not the best thing.

I also hate my lectures. And most of university.

I am really, really enjoying teaching, however. I haven’t had so much fun, and felt so much like I’m actually helping someone and achieving something in a long time. I really enjoy it! But I keep losing my students. I’ve lost 3 so far. Which is really depressing. And expensive.

I really enjoy being employed as well, it makes things much, much, much, much easier. I am, however, now paying for everything myself. Which is expensive. Well, more than.

I’m also having my wisdom teeth removed on Tuesday. Which isn’t going to fun. And is going to be expensive. And I’m not getting paid for that weeks work, because I’m not doing any work, basically.

Tired, sleepy, need bed.

Saska

• 18 hours to go. Silly many giggles of stuff… #
• School concert last night. It was good, ended up playing in perc ensemble, was fun. New harddrive choking on my data.. 9 hoursdown, 17 to go #
• @nathanielsametz programs to solve my spesh questions. Php is a C parser, tech not prgrmmng but it's powerful enough u mght as well be. in reply to nathanielsametz #
• @nathanielsametz on the other hand, if you want something really easy, visual basic by M is simple, and very quick. I used it Y12 to write in reply to nathanielsametz #
• @nathanielsametz well, the big language is C. Microsoft do a visual C studio, which does lots of work for you, hence good place to start in reply to nathanielsametz #
• @nathanielsametz What is it you want to program? in reply to nathanielsametz #
• Just completing homework for the 3rd time, as the first time it half vanished, the second time firefox froze and maybe 3rd time lucky?.. #
• I had a weird day today. I don't know if I enjoyed it or not. I love teaching, but lost another student, and it didn't feel good. #
• You see some funny things working at a private school – like a year 6, age 11, with a blackberry phone.. Year 7s with iPhones.. #
• Note to self – read chapter 10, as I didn't listen at all in this lecture. #
• @derriskharlan Yes, go 3 day weeks! in reply to derriskharlan #
• University is a good chance to do work for everything other than university. I hate my lectures. All of them. AAARRGGGGGG #
• I am really not listening. #

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• Sigh, I slept like crap again. I don't understand. #
• I'm exhausted. After a day of doing nothing I'm tired. How does that work? New blog post, just FYI #
• Arg, I can't put my JS kids from 9am-11:45am… But I only have 2 senior kids, for a total of an hour. I wonder if I also have orchestra.. #
• Oh man, I am going to hate Thursdays. No one should have a 9 am lecture, then nothing until 3. It makes me angry!! #
• Optus is frustrating me. How am I meant to know how much of my cap I'm using if they lose phone calls? My credit reset after 4 days.. Weird #
• http://twitpic.com/b6dyz I just constructed this. It was like ikea furniture, but much much worse. And much noisier also, clangy metal.. #
• Just had a very boring 30 minutes, is my student is sick. Sigh. #
• @derriskharlan really? I was fairly sure it was less than that, but maybe we're counting different moments as the start in reply to derriskharlan #
• I just had a 6 minute lecture. Normally I wouldn't complain, except it was my only lecture of the day… #
• @derriskharlan sucks to be you.. Although you did miss out on the worlds most insanely boring lectures yesterday, so I don't feel that sorry in reply to derriskharlan #
• I hate being woken up by people about 4 hours before my alarm is set to ring. Going to try and set my iPhone up to use the uni wifi today… #
• I really hate facebook. I was watching master chef 20 mins behind broadcast to fast forward the ads, bit facebook told me the winner =( #
• @bennuk are you going again then? When? in reply to bennuk #
• @bennuk those stupid bots, like 12 bloody mentions… in reply to bennuk #
• I do dislike it when band directors rely on one player, 3/4 songs have started with an alto sax solo.. Amazing trumpet player ignored! #
• I was way too harsh on these poor performers, they're playing hard repertoire and not pulling it off, but they don't suck. Apologies. #
• @bennuk also, you no longer need to remind me what the failwhale is, I worked it out on my ownsome. in reply to bennuk #
• @bennuk also, your fairly ordinary albiet sarcastic and amusing comment has been RTd like 7 times.. I keep getting mentions from it! in reply to bennuk #
• Why was the best solo of the evening played by a french horn?And why does the Vic version of the NSW unit suck?Audition jazz band that sucks #
• @bennuk I don't want to sound stupid, but I can't google right now, what's the failwhale, and what when how? in reply to bennuk #
• @bennuk I clearly should have added a =P to that tweet.. And it's on it's way, don't boast! Another decade maybe? in reply to bennuk #
• @bennuk thats because Australia is always ahead in reply to bennuk #
• Just at the ACU, sounds great conference. Amazing uni, fantastic building and equip, but the crucifixes are off putting! 20 million of them #

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Well… Where do I begin? It’s been 4 months since my last post, if you ignore all the automatic Twitter posts. What has happened in that time? A lot, is the answer.

Sarah and I are going from strength to strength, and she is the most important thing in my life at the minute, hence why she is at the top of my list.

I’ve got a job as a teacher, which is amazing. Teaching is the single greatest feeling in the world, in my opinion. It pays well, as well. I also had a second job, just casually, marking exams, for instance british GCSE exams. That was.. Interesting.. I will hopefully be doing it again, it was sort of fun, short term, and paid alright.

My composing has gone nowhere. Not that I haven’t composed, completely the opposite, and what I’ve been composing is easily my beat stuff ever, but I’m not composing what I’d like to be composing. I would really like to be writing more songs, more choral pieces, I feel like I can pull orchestra and other ensemble music out of my arse.

Incidentally, I would like to take this chance to apologise for any spelling mistakes in this post, firstly I was awake at 5:30am and that’s not much before when I started writing this post. Secondly, I’m typing it on a bus, train, train, in rushed breaks at work, train, train, bus, and thirdly I’m typing it on a shiny new iPhone. I’m not sure if it was wise to land myself on a 2 year contract, but it isn’t actually that much money a month, and I have a savings account with 6 months worth of repayments, in case I lose all sources of income.

University.. Hmm. What a place. Frustrating, hardly educational, but it will be worth it, I hope! I’m not sure though. We shall see.

University is a big force behind me wanting to learn to drive, however. It takes me about an hour to an hour and a half to get there, and the same again to get home again. On a Tuesday I have just 1 hour of uni. That means 3 hours of travel for 1 hour of uni. Anger making!

Hence I need to drive, so it is actually worth going uni in those days.

Nearly home now, so I’ll leave it at this, but I should be updating more often now

Saska

• @bennuk are you enjoying work? Or is it a little bit too much work, not enough play? in reply to bennuk #
• @bennuk the one I had an interview for the other day. Just another teaching position. Uni starts on Monday, still tech on holiday! in reply to bennuk #
• @bennuk ha, hardly professional. A little disappointed, didn't get the other job. Work work work. How're you? in reply to bennuk #
• Another Friday, another performance,several days babysitting, fun on iPhone, uni on Monday. Weird. #
• @nathanielsametz What do you think the first thing I did was… in reply to nathanielsametz #
• Twittering and facebooking on my shiny new iPhone… Not to brag or anything.. Having fun #
• @bennuk I want to see #HarryPotter but Sarah doesn't want to… Guess I have to go on my own…. in reply to bennuk #
• @nathanielsametz earlier when? in reply to nathanielsametz #
• My phone has stopped working. Can't hear anything. *Sigh* #
• It's 7am, and i've been awake for an hour and a half. Sigh. I dislike early mornings. #
• Just spent an hour working out what to teach students, but was also changing firmware for dvd drive to RPC1. Dammit, moving countries… #
• @bennuk Hmmm… Kangaroo might be a bit tricky… in reply to bennuk #
• @bennuk Thanks. I don't know what will happen, but I'll find out on Thursday,which is nice. My new business cards should come this week also in reply to bennuk #
• Just had a very ambiguous interview. Can't tell either way,but I don't think I did badly or said anything stupid. More students I hope! #
• Hmm, off to work,staff meeting and enjoy trying to work out what I need to do to some 15 year old drum kits to sound good. Stock skins… #
• @nathanielsametz You so enjoy getting up early! in reply to nathanielsametz #
• @bennuk Why is he visiting your family? Also, learn to drive. Also, how are you? in reply to bennuk #
• @bennuk Do you drive now? in reply to bennuk #
• Just had a lovely evening looking after kiddies and performing with the ANCA peeps. Enjoyed getting paid for my work too! Cash is king. #
• @nathanielsametz Just FYI, it's their not thier! in reply to nathanielsametz #
• I love teaching, I love playing, lalala, but gosh I hate a)Politics and b)Snobs without sense. A bit of snobbery is fine, just be sensible! #

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