Archive for October, 2001

Friday, 12th October, 2001

Found it

Found it. Check out the SPF-40 here. Oh, and Bobo bought me a Playstation 2 as well.

Friday, 12th October, 2001

Another Birthday

You will be glad to know that I survived another birthday. It was rather a good one actually. I normally try and take the day off when it is my birthday but circumstances conspired against me this year. The good news about working on my birthday was that we had a ‘morning tea’. This is [...]

Thursday, 11th October, 2001

Tick, tick, tick

Tick, tick, tick … Birthday Boy!

Wednesday, 10th October, 2001

50 Minutes to go

50 Minutes to go. Tick tock …

Wednesday, 10th October, 2001

12 hours

The post I attempted to make yesterday has disappeared into the ether. This reminds me that although blogger.com is very, very cool it isn’t under my control. The original version of this diary was written in html and posted to this server by ‘me old mate’ ftp. That meant that whenever I had something to [...]

Monday, 8th October, 2001

2 days, 4 hours

When I got home from work this evening I found a couple of surprises. The first was from that nice Mr Ruddock, inviting me to go and swear a lot and thus become an Australian on Thursday the 15th of November. The service is at 4:30pm at Manly Council Chambers, in case you were wondering. [...]

Monday, 8th October, 2001

A Countdown

Its time to start a count down – 2 days, 8 hours. Tick, tock.

Monday, 8th October, 2001

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 [...]

Friday, 5th October, 2001

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. [...]

Friday, 5th October, 2001

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 [...]