Archive for February, 2002

Thursday, 28th February, 2002

One more thing whilst I

One more thing whilst I am here. I promised two weeks ago to update my style sheets to make this web site slightly easier on the eye. I’ve reviewed my HTML and CSS and, surprisingly, it is a bigger job than I thought. The result is that I will need to perform at least the [...]

Thursday, 28th February, 2002

Its the end of summer

Its the end of summer and it is raining. This caused my tennis game to be cut short last night. Which was not nice.
Even after nearly six years in Sydney I still have trouble remembering that Summer is actually the rainy season. Roll on Autumn – which either begins tomorrow or around the 21st of [...]

Monday, 25th February, 2002

Every Tuesday morning on the

Every Tuesday morning on the Triple J breakfast show Adam and Will invite the lovely boys from Tripod to compose and perform a song in under an hour.
Today’s subject was the potential meeting of Bill Clinton and H.M the Queen who are both going to be in Australia this week. Their work was an elegant [...]

Monday, 25th February, 2002

Oh dear, an exert from

Oh dear, an exert from an ICQ conversation with Ciaran, prompted by this article in the Register;
  andy47: SELECT * FROM lusers WHERE name = ‘Oxygen Thief’
  andy47: 65535 rows returned
  andy47: buffer overflow
  Ciaranh: lol
  Ciaranh: that could be a tshirt

Monday, 25th February, 2002

Well, the good news is

Well, the good news is that the dress has been purchased. The bad news is that the wedding reception venue is, apparently, inadequate. Just shoot me, shoot me now and take away the pain. Please.
I had a jaunty little post in mind for today. Something about it being Monday and how the weekend had flown [...]

Saturday, 23rd February, 2002

Can you outhink a goldfish?

Can you outhink a goldfish? Shame on you if you can’t. This link from the lovely people at MetaFilter.
The reason I am posting to my blog at 6:34pm on a Saturday afternoon is because Bobo and Alix have kicked me off the sofa so that they can look at wedding magazines. Oh, dear lord save [...]

Tuesday, 19th February, 2002

An observation, today’s date is

An observation, today’s date is palindromic if used in a certain format. The format of choice is DD.MM.YYYY which makes the date 20.02.2002. Remove the dots and you have 20022002 which reads the same backwards as it does forwards. How often does that happen?

Tuesday, 19th February, 2002

Quote of the day: Last

Quote of the day: Last week, I went to Philidelphia, but it was closed. W. C. Fields (1890 – 1946) [ from QOTD ]
I’m not saying that I am a magpie, but I use this phrase a lot. Until today I didn’t know the definitive source, now I do. That means I have learnt something. [...]

Monday, 18th February, 2002

Our phrase for today is

Our phrase for today is “God Bless the BBC.”

Monday, 18th February, 2002

Ah work

Ah work, without it we would all be sane.
Today I found myself confronted by a colleague who was of the opinion that we didn’t need any kind of source code control. My immediate response was one of incredulity and downright bewilderment – “what sort of idiot would think to implement a computer system without [...]