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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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?

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. [...]

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

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 [...]