Its time to start a count down – 2 days, 8 hours. Tick, tock.
Category Archives: General Musings
Morning team
Morning team. The fun starts here. Whilst perusing ntk I came across a great definition of why compromising strong encryption is bad. If you didn’t understand the previous sentence, don’t worry, the chaps at ntk have taken the play school pill; “”” One: everyone has a legitimate use for encryption: heck, every time you pay …
Technical absurdity of the day
The client I am currently working for has an IT department of 20 people. Amongst those are five highly paid professionals who focus solely on web technologies (intranet, internet, B2B, EDI, etc). They have just implemented a policy blocking the use of ‘free’ email and instant messengers via the company network. Which is their perogative. …
Happy Birthday Kevin Vaz
Happy Birthday Kevin Vaz. 21 again and absolutely no relation of the Labour member of parliament (allegedly). Most of my thinking today revolves around the rounding of floating point numbers, but that is covered elsewhere. Apart from that not a lot is happening around the blocks really. My joyous task for the weekend is to …
You can lead a horse to water
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it blog. For your spiritual enligthenment today, read this. Its not about me, but I know what Mark is saying and I’ve been there too. I didn’t go cold turkey from the old coffin nails, I used nicotine patches. But it is still the …
Bugger
Bugger. According to Yahoo! (as spotted by NextDraft) Swedish researchers say that people who give up smoking and then restart damage their lungs even more than people who carry on smoking. Read all about it here. Just a good incentive not to start back on the demon weed I guess.
Owner
Now I actually own something. Scary. I dropped off a cheque at the finance company today, the final payment on the lease of my car. I am now the proud owner of a Blue 1997 Honda Prelude Si. I might just give the car a wash to celebrate.
Early Doors
I crawled out of bed at some unfeasibly early hour this morning and stumbled into the bathroom. Whilst I was cleaning my teeth I glanced over at the shower cabinet and discovered that the door was in pieces. What a way to start the day. Much swearing ensued. After some extensive construction work I managed …
A Good Time
Well, a good time was had by all over the weekend. Cypress Lakes was good, the weather was magnificent and the wine flowed like, well, wine. I won’t bore you with all of the details of the weekend, except to say the my golf score wasn’t atrocious and the lagoon pool was a little chilly …
Happy birthday Mr Molland
Happy birthday Mr Molland for yesterday. Rumour also has is that the spiv was slightly older on Monday, but I can neither confirm nor deny that one. It was a year ago that Sydney was reverberating to the sound of joyous crowds and sporting superlatives. That’s right, I really should dig out those Olympics photos. …