I spend so much time caught up in my own little world that sometimes I lose track of what's going on in the wider world. That always makes me feel a bit guilty, especially when we've got an election looming so soon ( Read more... )

I'm not actually finished and ready to start job hunting yet. But the coolest looking job popped up today, so I sent off an application and resume anyway. They specifically stated they were looking for  'someone who is comfortable working in a *nix based environment'. The job revolves around cisco, solaris and linux gear. The reply I got back ( Read more... )

Much praise goes to Corpsicle for their mind-bending performance last night. Some people loved it. Some people hated it. But everyone was moved and shaken by the intense nature of it. Nothing interesting and creative is going to be appreciated or enjoyed by everyone. But to make an impact of such magnitiude is a huge success. I feel putting ( Read more... )

Oh yes! Who said DNA research wasn't essential?

Feeling almost good again. Icky bugs, I suspect the chicken wings... A day of eating jelly, strawberries and vitamin pills seems to have done wonders though ( Read more... )

An interesting few weeks. Has it been that long already? It has, wow ( Read more... )

I have absolutely no sympathy for people who use IE.

For the benefit of anyone else about to ask me how to clean up from the Download.Ject trojan: Get a real browser!

Well an absolutely action packed saturday/sunday period has resulted in me being signed up to a new online war game... It's a pretty amusing way to pass the time between putting the coffe on and brain cognition kicking in. If you like the idea of nimble lithe elves sneaking into orcish and dwarvish and human encampments to steal all their gold then ( Read more... )

One of the absolute comedy classics! You'll never look at your grandma the same way again.

http://www.harvestrain.com.au/index.cfm?action=details&HRTC_PID=14

Who wants to come on one of the dead friday/saturday nights?

Oh no, my firewall is dying! In the past 48 hours it has spontaneously rebooted three times, kicked up a plethora of media read errors, core dumped every effort to compile new programs and just before lost carrier signal on the internal NIC. This is a very bad thing. True, most the hardware is older than me, but I so love that box. And now it looks ( Read more... )