In an interesting twist in the USA, a service has been started up that allows people to swap CD’s online. This is such a cute concept – they charge $1 per CD for the exchange, and $0.49 for postage. Surprisingly …
There was an armed holdup in Sweeden… And this one was strange. You see it was at an airport, and they held up a plane that had just arrived from London. The plane was robbed as the passengers were waiting …
I had a programming issue with VB.NET. I was getting an error for distance. In VB.NET it was being dispayed as -1.#IND although in CrystalReports it was shown slightly differently with a J in the answer. I believe that IND …
For those interested in where I might be going, you can check here. This travel advice from DFAT is ‘slightly’ concerning. I would get to do a tiny bit of sight seeing, but that brings with it additional dangers. I …
I am a member of the Microsoft ISV program. That gives me access to a few programs that Microsoft runs. It also places me on the distribution list for some strange stuff. Like a fingerprint reader for answering a survey. …
Today I was thinking I was going to need to go for a drive to do some testing out of cell phone access… But then I realised that I could build a room here that has no cellphone access… If …
I am promising myself that I am not going to have a late night tonight. Two nights in a row after midnight is enough for me… Three is probably not a good idea. After finishing this entry I will be …
I am watching the 2nd series of Mythbusters right now… And it is as hillarious as the first series. Actually, I think it is much funnier than the first series. Right now I am watching the first episode of the …
Short run… The weather was too hot for it really… I did manage to get about 3km done in about 18 minutes – I ran a but faster than normal, but definitely not as far or for as long. No …
Apple is leaking like a sieve at the moment.. The rumours of the iPod Video II, or whatever it will be called are coming out daily. So much so that MacRumours.COM have released a few photos of mock-ups of the …
I need to stop doing late nights… Another night of going to bed after midnight. And this time I did not wake up after 7:00AM unfortunately. And it was not as if I was either relaxing or doing any of …
Tomorrow I have a relatively free day – that is I only have the things to do on my to-do list as opposed to any meetings or other scheduled things on. I have some work I want to do tomorrow …
I can now confirm that there are some strange people in Idaho. The following is a quote from a resolution from the IDAHO State House… ‘WHEREAS, any members of the House of Representatives or the Senate of the Legislature of …
I have been in a meeting this morning, and saw the following on a coffee cup…. The 2nd line just contains unix commands… [Root@EverythingLinux /root]#gawk; grep; unzip; touch; finger; mount; fsck; gasp; yes; unmount; sleep;
I am now at home after a day out. Rather than spend today and tomorrow at meetings for a half a day each I mananged to spend up until now at both meetings working on various things. A better use …