I almost forgot: My contract at the bank was renewed until 17 September, which is good news. I also managed to wangle a rate increase, so Gordon Brown is undoubtably well chuffed. I’m assured that at 17 Sep I will be re-extended to 17 December, which is the day before we move home to Australia. [...]
According to The Spectator, today is UK Tax Freedom Day. At this point, after five months of working hard for the Chancellor of the Exchequer so that he can distribute our money to the fiscal leeches of this fine country, we can finally spend the rest of the year working for ourselves. Sadly, last year [...]
Well, it’s 1.14am on Saturday 29th May 2004 and I’m sitting here with a glass of scotch that isn’t numbing me anywhere near enough. In about three hours, on the other side of the planet, my family will inter my brother’s ashes with a few simple words in a peaceful and green lawn cemetery in [...]
My work PC died this morning. I booted it up and it hung on start, unable to recognise the boot sector. I’m sure if I opened it up, jiggled a few cables and maybe FDISKed the MBR, it would be fine, but it’s one of those managed networks with a Dell support contract so I’ve [...]
NSW went 1-0 up in the State of Origin today, with a 9-8 win over Queensland at Stadium Australia (or “The Alamo” as Roy and HG called it). Bad luck Queenslanders, perhaps you’d better get a decent kicker for the next one :) I listened in to the match on JJJ streaming over the net [...]
Update on the latest occurrences in my life: – Yesterday we went to Auntie Doreen’s 81st birthday at my cousin Philippa’s place in Chelsea, had a great time with much family chat and barbequed meat. – Saturday was a good result for the Aussies with the ACT Brumbies beating the NZ Crusaders in the Super [...]
Ritchie Hale, my army mate and former business partner, has just finished co-authoring an IBM Redbook on high-performance WebSphere systems. You can find it here: http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedpieceAbstracts/sg246850.html?Open It’s dreadfully dull and somebody’s obviously helped him with his spelling (just jokes mate) but it’s a big thing in the software world to be published by IBM. Well [...]
Cath, Les and I went to see Troy last night. A bit of a disappointment; the first half was like an episode of Days of our Lives, with lots of smouldering glances and pretentious soliloquies. About halfway through I was thinking “this is rubbish” because the acting was so wooden and the characters so one-dimensional [...]
Some of you may remember my rant about people who criticise the use of an IDE a little while ago. Well, I’m pleased to tell you that after I emailed the author of the original article (written a few years ago) he replied saying he’d renounced his evil ways and seen the light – going [...]
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