---
title: "November"
date: 2005-12-18 11:54
status: published
description: >
  Yeah, I know. No entries for a while.

tags: Moo­quack­woof­tweet­meow, drunkenness

links:
  - url: http://gkn.me.uk/brandnewcms
    title: "I've Got A Brand New Content Management System And I'll Give You The Key"
    description: "The post I always link to to avoid having to explain what the Mooquackwhatnotbot is"
    rel: related
    type: text/html

---

<p>
Another November has come and gone without a single Mooquackwooftweetmeow entry. I don't have anything against the month, honestly. It <em>is</em> the month that provokes the most complaining, because the commercial Christmas run-up is in full swing by then; but then that makes reasonable spiel-fodder.
</p>
<p>
I did have an excuse this year - I was away at York with what I fondly refer to as <i>the shitputer</i> (or “Jonny”) - an old, slow, probably senile thing that runs Windows XP using the same technique the Egyptians used to build the pyramids. It doesn't like the Mooquackwhatnotbot. When I try to run it, it complains that it can't find a file that's clearly present; when I move that file and tell the Whatnotbot to look elsewhere for it, it complains that the file's contents are invalid and nonsensical.
</p>
<p>
Which is probably true, but Gaz (the other only-about-2½-years-old computer) never complains. And I don't want to fix the Whatnotbot for Jonny as that'll break it on Gaz. Probably. And I have University work I ought to be procrastinating over.
</p>
<p>
So, you see, I have many varied excuses for not writing during November which, multiplied together, probably comprise 90% of a valid excuse.
</p>
<p>
And I was drunk. <span title="Committing is for... other people... - anything funny. See?">Probably</span>.
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