I am starting to get a bit tired… WIth the food and the long day I am getting a bit tired… I guess I will have an early night tonight…

One of the stranger books that I have in my library is called the Unix Haters Handbook. This book takes Unix (and by association Linix) and describes all the stupid things about it… And it contains all sorts of strange quotes. As a joke they also included a sick bag at the end of the book. You can actually download the book from the link above.

One of the quotes I love from the book is ‘If the designers of Unix built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same principles — but you’d be able to shift gears with your car stereo. Useful feature, that.’

My brother was telling me about singer Colin Buchanan’s tribute to Beaconsfield. On the day that the miners were released, Colin emailed the ABC and asked about playing a US song. The response from Richard Glover was No; write one yourself. That was at 2PM. By 5:30PM Colin had written and recorded a song and emailed it to the ABC, and it has been a hit. You can actually download it for free from Colin’s Web Site, linked to from the ABC!