Category Archives: General

and my monitor just flickered. I’m on the 38th floor and out of here before I have to walk down a long flight of stairs! New York and elsewhere were caught in a huge power-cut just an hour or so ago!

It never rains but it pours.
It’s been a busy 2 days. 🙁

Russell Beattie doesn’t pull any punches critizising Arnie. Ahem, I have to agree with him, but as I can’t vote in California, it doesn’t bother me too much! (200 standing for the election and counting according to the paper this morning, including a 100 year old woman!)

Ah, yes. It’s a good morning when there’s no spam in your inbox! Over the past few days a new breed of spam found it’s way into my inbox.
This new spam was short in length, almost completely html based with short sentences and didn’t ever score over 3.5 on Spam Assassin. I spent those last few days training SA to recognise the new spam and this morning my inbox is empty once more!
My bulging SPAM folder has reached 6.5MB (No, I don’t get that much spam, I haven’t emptied it since Aug 6th!) and hardly a false positive in sight! Happy times indeed!

TIME Magazine ran a series of articles last week on Howard Dean, the presidential hopeful. I hadn’t a clue who this guy was, except that Kevin Lyda and others were pushing his website occasionally. The Time article above is balanced, showing the good and bad sides of the candidate.
In the printed article there’s a chart drawing comparisions between Dean and Bush. They’re not so different…

Ah yes, another week, but the pressure isn’t on yet. I went to 2 baseball games at the weekend – saw the White Sox win on Friday and Sunday. Great games, good entertainment and got some great photos!

Lots of good points for techies in this article. Basically, tell your boss what you’re doing. Easier said than done, and yes, I certainly don’t remember everything I’ve done on any particular day.
And in case you want to go it alone, you should probably read this article, second in a series.

If you’ve a few minutes to spare then this flash animation/game is worth a look. It reminds me a lot of Monty Pyhon and is a good way of relieving stress!

For whatever reason, Tim has decided to retire from blogging. Even if he does have a huge ego (a lot of the most prolific/quoteable bloggers I know seem to share that same characteristic!), I enjoyed reading his rants and posts.
Anyway, hope you get out of that Turkish prison soon.