Musings

Let me introduce bash.org with the following quote:   <malaclypse> The general rule on about people on IRC seems to be "Attractive, single, mentally stable: choose two"   It is with this feeling in mind that bash.org is so funny.  If you’re not familiar with IRC then you’ll probably not […]

Hi.   On the weekend past I made a coffee for a friend and after adding skim milk, the picture attached was the end result. Reckon I could’ve sold it on eBay?? If I’d frozen it, it would have been spoilt.    Do you think it looks a lot […]

  According to this post there be no PDC this year.  This means that TechEd will undoubtedly be huge this year.  Get your tickets now.   While you’re at it maybe it’s time to learn about: Codename ‘Orcas’ == next version of Visual Studio SQL Server (Katmai) == next version of […]

Hi Everyone,   Last week the blog here at live.com went over the 3,000 visits count.  Now a lot of these vists were regulars (you know who you are), and quite a few were recorded by me entering content or checking the stats, but a good deal of the hits […]

  This year, 100 years ago… Here is an amusing link to an article which references another article which was originally penned over 100 years ago.. Thanks to MattL for the heads up.   A very amusing tale indeed.   On the news this morning, I heard that apparently several Sydney […]

  What an interesting year.  The public are generally "into" Labor leader Kevin Rudd because Labor are painting such a lovely picture of him.  Will he be the next PM?  Some thoiughts:   – With blog entries like this one, he shows a lack of media management.  The risk in […]

So, back from overseas, what to do? As expected not much has changed here @ home.   Thinking of technical articles, I think I might do an entry soon but I can’t settle on a topic. I’m open to ideas.   this weekend the NSW Waratahs debase themselves in front […]

From the ‘It happened this millennia‘ Desk: Just read this off Slashdot, apparently an ancient village has been discovered within two miles of the ancient site known as Stonehenge at a place called Durrington Walls.  Apparently the site has been carbon dated to around 2600 BC, which is around the […]

  Sheik Taj al-Din al-Hilali has been in the news lately.  So has Hillary Clinton; Hilali – Hillary.  It’s a good time to be named something rhyming with Hillary, or is it?  In this case it’s a ying/yan proposition.  The former is in the news for nefarious reasons.  The former […]

  A Recent report on Customer satisfaction with the major Australian banks has been published.   I don’t know who they asked, because I don’t know more than a handful of people who would have anything encouraging or constructive to say about bank service, myself included.   The major banks […]

  I was writing a document in Word 2007 when I noticed that the program was underlining (faulting the spelling of) the word ‘harbour’.  I realised that the langauge settings were probably set to US English (where they drop the ‘u’ vowel).  I changed the language to English (Australian) and continued […]

So, I’ve started taking a big long look at where I’m at.  It’s Christmas, 2006, so I’m in a reflective mood.  It was funny, because it was only last month that it hit me, that I’d been coasting for about the last 18 months.  Don’t get me wrong, I’ve worked […]

Thanks to the many known and anonymous readers and RSS subscribers who have helped rack up these very nice statistics:   These numbers started 17 October 2:25 PM, 2006 and the stats below are good as of 9:40 AEST on Sunday 17/12/06:   Total page views: 662       Page views […]

I’ve been stationed at the same desk (in a hot desking environment) for about a year or more now.  I like it, and am not complaining.. In fact, I’d not be able to share this humorous story with you otherwise…   As I sit in the same location, I’ve had […]

Happy Yuletide!     Christmas is a funny thing.  For one, it’s placement at the top of the Christian events calender is precarious, since it has such pagan roots.  In many circles December has significance, and for that we can take pause to reflect on how it has become such a […]