Something I've discovered in the new building I'm working in is a massive hole in the security here. It's a standard old-school office building, with swipe card access to the floors - you get out of the elevator, there's something of a lobby area on each floor, which you then use your handy dandy, hotel room style swipe card to get into the 'secure ( Read more... )

Over the weekend the project I'm currently working on for FaceLess Financial Corporation moved locations - we're now down in Queensbridge St, South Melbourne-ish/Southgate/Southbank/whatever this suburb is actually called. This is part of the latest phase of a plan to get all staff members , both in I.T. and the business working together in the ( Read more... )

In the spirit of the fact that we just came back from LA, which is being run by the T-100 Governator, here. Can the robot apocalypse by far behind ( Read more... )

Howdy, howdo, hi y'all and, well frankly, G'day. It's a short but overdue post from the land of the big everything, USA. We made it safe and have been travelling around and about Los Angeles for the past few days, visting with and being visited by Catherine's relatives and friends. It's all been completely awesome, and I plan to write some huge ( Read more... )

Well, one and a half at this point, as it's 12:30 am and we're still up. I feel kinda naughty, as I'm using Catherine's laptop to post as my PC modem got trashed in the move. Still, it's excitement central around here - I think we're all feeling it in different ways. Claire is going nuts, what with only being back from China for 3 weeks and now she ( Read more... )

I currently have a shaving rash mustache on my upper lip, which is just fantastic. From a distance, it looks like I'm sporting a mo', up close, well, my top lip looks like it belongs on a 14 year old who's just had his first outbreak of pimples and is wondering what that new hair is.

Sex-ay.

( Weekend Update )

For lack of something better to do at work, I'm currently doing an online training course to improve my negotiation skills. Here's a few pearls of wisdom that I've learnt so far ( Read more... )

I'm doing the happy dance today because it's exactly one month before my beloved and I are leaving these bronzed shores and winging our way to the land of the free. The best part being, of course, that this is the shortest month of the year! Woot! Only 28 sleeps!

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Sleep Deprivation Products is proud to announce its latest entrance to the marketplace. In association with the Too Much Coffee Distribution company its : Schroedinger's Can! Now, no longer do you need radioactive materials and the life of an innocent cat to collapse chaotic universes! With Schroedinger's Can, you too can play with the elementary ( Read more... )

So, like a grandpa sitting on the back porch, I'm now shy three teeth. Nothing really much to report on that front - the extraction turned out to be pretty much as I was lead to expect and everything is now healing up nicely. Without wishing to go into too much detail, all I can say is that I'm glad they're out, and the operation (it was done in ( Read more... )