from the homepage of SCO: I give them 5 minutes before they pull it.
Read an interesting article on TheServerSide today, about using RSS feeds for codebase change notification. Looks like a sensible and useful approach. Might try it on my next project, or maybe for UniGlass. I’ve also been reading an interesting blog at Pyrasun which is good for my daily rant quota :)
From left: John, Phillippa, Bronek, me, Doreen, Jane, Martin Cath, Bump and yours truly
It’s Sunday night and I’m kicking back on the air mattress with my faithful old Vaio, having just finished eating microwave macaroni and cheese off a plastic plate in my empty loungeroom. It’s just like being a real London Aussie again! All our stuff has gone on the boat and we’ve retained just the bare [...]
Check this out – a recording of a USAF F-16 pilot with an engine problem ejecting over Iraq. Fascinating stuff – here.
What a weekend, eh! Cath and I have spent the last 48 hours packing, cleaning, tidying, organising and generally getting our sh*t in a sock for the move today (Monday). It’s 4am and I’m still up backing up the PCs, just in case they get nicked or the ship sinks, which seems right now to [...]
Found out yesterday that Curam Software are offering me the job in Brisbane. Curam make software for social services and have secured a client in Brisbane, which I will be supporting. They are a global company, based in Ireland, and I start in early January with 2-3 weeks training (in Ireland). Just enough time to [...]
I picked up the greatest toy ever made today – the “Mr.T in your pocket”. Yes, you too could have computer-synthesised versions of all his classics right there in your pocket – “I pity the fool”, “Don’t gimme no back-talk, sucka” and my favourite “quit your jibber-jabber”! {{popup pocket-t-1.jpg pocket-t-1 239×469}}Get one while you still [...]
The screen is officially up for sale – get in while you can!
truck, super, blue We waved goodbye to the super truck today, the almost-culmination of the sales saga. Why a saga? Allow me to expand. It all started with an eBay listing, which you should be able to view (for a while at least) here. After two days, we had a bid for £4600 and nine [...]
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