Year: 2001

Well I’m happy to say the stuff I’m working on seems to work. I slaved away most of the weekend getting it all running though. I’d tell you more about it, but I think it would probably send the average person to sleep. I know I could do with some. At least next weekend should  ... [More]

A couple of months ago my boss (I work for what could be described as a consulting company; though most of us spit on the term "consultant") drops by, and says "how would we go about solving [problem X]?" Then he gets a phone call, and while he’s jabbering into his mobile, I have a  ... [More]

Telemarketers are starting to piss me off. They seem to be masters of ringing at precisely the wrong moment, though when I think about it, there is no right moment to be interrupted from what you’re doing to answer the phone because someone you don’t know wants to sell you something. Some of them, of  ... [More]

I was going to write a lengthy diary entry tonight. Something deep from the heart. Something that would break the mould of all previous diary entries. Something thought provoking, stimulating, earth-shattering. A wake-up call to people everywhere. Something that could rock the foundations of western society. Something that could properly mark the beginning of the  ... [More]

Well honestly, Ron Walker is such amoney-hungry callous insensitive plonker. Why doesn’t my spell checker know the word plonker?

7:55am. I don’t know how the hell I did this, but last night in a moment of extreme unco-ordination, I bashed my right foot into a door frame. I hopped to bed shouting "fuck fuck fuck!" The worrying thing is that almost 8 hours later it still hurts. Sharp pain when I move two of  ... [More]

I’ve just killed a spider. It think it was the big four-legged one I spotted a couple of days ago on the livingroom ceiling. At the time, it crawled off to a spot in the curtains, and I decided to let it stay, as long as it kept out of the way. But tonight it  ... [More]

2:24am. Yeah it’s late, and I’m still up. I’m not even sure why. Time seems to stand still when I’m sitting at this keyboard, going through my mails, nosing around web pages, looking through the handful of Usenet groups I subscribe to. But while time seems like it’s standing still, it’s actually bloody racing by.  ... [More]

Very useful, this SMS thing Last week I finally got my mobile phone fiddled with sufficiently to be able to send SMS messages. Actually, that would be better written as SMSs, since "SMS message" would stand for "short message service message", which while syntactically correct, does sound rather cumbersome. While it’s possible that any naff  ... [More]

There aren’t really many dangerous spiders in Melbourne. The most common dangerous one is called a whitetail, and if you get a nip from one, you end up getting welty sore type things. Contrast this to the stuff they get up in Sydney like redbacks and funnelwebs, and the whitetail seems pretty tame in comparison.  ... [More]

I had a bit of a clear out today. Admittedly I didn’t get very far towards my long-term goal of tidying up the house completely, but remember the longest journey begins with a single call to your travel agent. What is amazing is the little bits of memorabilia you can find when sorting through old  ... [More]

The completed shower The shower got finished on Wednesday, which is good, because I was getting a bit tired of baths. Certainly they’re nice as a change, but not so good when you’re in a hurry. Speaking of baths, something half amusing, half embarrassing happened on Tuesday morning. I was getting out of the bath  ... [More]