And so I've survived swine flu. I'm not quite sure it deserved all the air play it got in the press but it was indeed horrible. Then again, perhaps I can pander this recent event into some sort of media cash cow. Do you think A Current Affair would pay me for my "Swine Survivor" story ( Read more... )

Ok so the worse is apparently behind me. In theory. I am, according to what the doctor said and most reputable web sites, no longer infectious. I assume this means I can rejoin the body public and re-take my place in civil society. As so that is, as it stops being tiring to walk from the kitchen to the bedroom ( Read more... )

I have the flu. I'm not sure if it's the now world famous swine flu, but it's a hell of a flu none the less. Started on Thursday with a nasty cough and a sniffle. Graduated to a sore throat sometime Thursday evening, fevers all Thursday night and Friday morning (I kept dreaming that I was trying to mesh the outputs of two formula in Excel but the ( Read more... )

Well normally on a brithday I'd post something reflective on the past year or some such. But frankly, I've not had that much time to reflect on anything, save I really need to get some more study done. So in the absence of reflection I give you...

My new car! (yes, the blue one...)

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Sometimes I miss the old coding tasks from my last job. Computers are a lot easier to tell things that people and they never aske for power point packs...

Well we're a little over a month away from that time again. Soon I'll be 32. It's times like this that make a man pensive, reflective and pause to try to take stock and work out what the important things are in this life ( Read more... )

As the next 3 levels of managment above me have decided to take early starts to their 3 day weekends I'm left sitting here, directionless... Fortuantely that's what slashdot is for!

The ultimate perhipheral... Now you can control your PC without even the exertion of moving that annoying mouse. Actually a pretty cool concept though ( Read more... )

Well the bank doesn't look like it wants to lend me quite enough for a 3 bedroom place. Sad but true. So I wave my dreams of a yard or large balcony for entertaining good bye ( Read more... )

Last night I dreamed that the world ended in a plauge of giant spiders. If you imagine any given zombie apocolyps film but replace the zombies with fast moving giant arachnids you've pretty much got the picture. I was trying to get my friends and assorted other random people to a safe zone across a pretty sparce set of suburbs, al la Left 4 Dead ( ( Read more... )

So, Dranlion... There are still some tickes remaining and I want to go. Anyone else interested?