Archive for October, 2001

Wednesday, 31st October, 2001

First of the Month

Pinch, punch, first day of the month.

Saturday, 27th October, 2001

A Comedy Note

But on a comedy note, Dave Barry has been talking about the big blue bear. Very funny, but a scary insight into parent hood. Hmmmmm.

Saturday, 27th October, 2001

Dudded

I have been dudded. Done. Tucked up like a kipper. Defrauded.
I am not happy about it either. I broke out of the office to get some lunch. Feeling in need of a boost I decided some quality junk food was in order. I went to Burger King at the Macquare Centre and order a [...]

Saturday, 27th October, 2001

Saturday morning

Saturday morning and what am I doing? I’m at work. Bugger.

Wednesday, 24th October, 2001

More Rubbish Web Sites

I thought the great stock market crash of last year had taken them all out, but people are still launching crap web sites.
Take a quick look at DriverSMS. Never mind that we all know the business model won’t work, I’d like you to just look at the actual application and think how many people [...]

Wednesday, 24th October, 2001

My friend Ciaran has gone

My friend Ciaran has gone mad. Unlike me he isn’t rushed off his feet at work so he is surfing the web for amusement. Just to prove his lack of marbles I’m going to share some of the URLs he has sent me today with you. You have been warned
http://www.tgu.org.uk/users/swfa/
http://www.modnews.com/
http://www.totalconversions.com
http://www.dlvisions.net/~discworld/
http://www.classicgaming.com/
Proof, if proof was [...]

Monday, 22nd October, 2001

Another day

Another day, another bunch of problem reports. My job at the moment is an unalloyed joy as I wade through elliptic descriptions of supposed problems that may, or may not, have appeared when users have tested our system. To make matters even more interesting, we are still developing parts of the system as we approach [...]

Saturday, 20th October, 2001

Techie Tasks

Update on the techie tasks;
The list of archive pages will not appear in the panel to the left anytime soon. For the curious amongst you this is because that section is populated by executing a javascript script in place which doesn’t work with my hosting company (http://free.prohosting.com/). They do funny things with my html to [...]

Wednesday, 17th October, 2001

Technical Diversions

Sorry to get all technical in my diary, but it has to be done every now and then.
I’ve got two techie tasks on the boil which will affect your viewing pleasure. The first is to get the archive listing to the left of this page to work. It is generated automatically by the lovely people [...]

Tuesday, 16th October, 2001

Silence is golden

Silence is golden.
More later …