It's been too long. It all came crashing down when I foolishly tried to update Movable Type to version 3. Ah well. If anyone knows a way of importing an SQL backup into a new database which may or may not have the same tables and structure, please let me know!
I'm sitting at home doing this when I really should be doing other things. Like Christmas Shopping. Or work. But I can multi-task and do laundry while I'm attempting to get this up and running, I suppose.
It's nice to have access to this little box again.
I thought I'd better pop in and say Merry Christmas, for those of us that celebrate the birth of an unprovable son of an unprovable god.
Proof is not easy to come by. But there are a few things I can be sure of.
There are about 70 planets that we can be fairly sure exist. And, by best estimates, an infinite number that we're not sure exist. One of them is just the right distance from a sun that's just the right temperature to allow the fusion of hydrogen, oxygen, carbon and about 15 other basic elements into approximately 15 million types of life form. To enable this to happen, the planet has a magnetic outer core which repels enough space junk and holds certain chemicals in place to withstand the more harmful elements that the universe throws at it. The fact that a large part of the centre of the planet is liquid ensures that the cooled outer crust moves around and creates mountains and other pleasing ripples that keep the sea out. If they didn't, the whole planet would be covered in 4km of water. There might be life, but it wouldn't have arms, legs, oxygen breathing lungs and CNN. There's a moon which is just the right size and distance away to hold everything in place, and is only there because about 4 billion years ago an object the size of Mars slammed into the planet, jetissoning a perfect-sized chunk into nearby orbit. Only about 33% of the surface of the planet is dry land, and only 12% of that is habitable for these strange 2 legged creatures. And Of the 8 billion years of existence, only about 2% of that has been a time that is habitable by these weirdos.*
I'll ignore the fact that despite incredible odds, we're here, and yet still seem intent on fucking things up.
Is it all just a crazy-arsed coincidence? I don't know, but because nobody has had the guts to take responsibility for it, I'm going to assume that it was.
And I'm going to appreciate it.
So, for whatever reason, 25th of December is as good a day as any to have a bloody good party.
*Any or all of the Scientific "facts" presented here could be utterly wrong due to the author's dodgy memory.
