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XKCD is a comic that I really like. Just read it, it's great.  Anyway, this one in particular stands out to me as oh so true. (Note: yes, wetriffs.com does exist now :)  In the last 12 hours, it's been proved to me twice. I found this about 10 minutes ago (actual url hidden to protect the guilty - and I know this ...

Late last year (ish) myself and Kari, a friend of mine, were killing time, and we ended up maing up a story. It's certainly not serious or anything like that (quite the opposite even), but it was fun. It all happened in an IM window, and I believe it started something like this: Me: I'm bored.Kari: So?Me: Tell me a story.Kari: No, you tell me ...

Well, not that much really. Work is flat out, but fun, so I'm happy :) In the off hours, I've mostly been running my net connection downloading tv shows. Last month (12th December-11th Jan) my 40 gig download limit was used up 5 days before the end, so I got throttled to slower than modem speeds for 5 days :) This month (12 Jan - 11th Feb) I ...

No, this isn't a security port - at least, not security in the way that Rocky would talk about it :) Last night Jordie and I had to go a meeting at Issy's school. On the way home from picking her up (before we went to the meeting) she asked who'd be babysitting her. Here's the script: Issy: Who's going to be looking after me?Me: Alex is coming ...

It happened so long ago that I don't even remember why I did it, but I've just been informed that I've been listed on 25peeps.com. You know, now that I think about it, it's pretty dumb idea. Maybe it's fine for normal blogs, but for tech blogs? I don't know what I was thinking - more than likely it was really late at night and I was tired :) But ...

My sister sent me a link to this site last week. It's a riddle site. They're really hard. I love em. I'm currently on level 56, which means I've almost finished all the ones that are there so far. Now I can't sleep. Gah! Die Deb, die! :)

As I get around to taking a lot of different pictures of myself for the Gaptcha control, I've decided to also occasionally include photos of other members of my family. Now, while I can recognise and identify members of my family, I'm certainly not expecting everyone who reads this blog to be able to do it. So I thought I'd give a clearly labeled ...

I had an awful night's sleep last night, followed up with a crappy morning. I'm not sure what caused it, but I hope it doesn't happen again :) This morning was crappy because I discovered as I was getting dressed that I left my belt in Canberra. I spent the morning holding my pants up as I traveled into the city and walked to BigW to myself a new ...

Over the weekend (and a little before it) a few things have annoyed me. I thought I'd list them out, simply because I've got nothing else to do while sitting on the train traveling from the airport to my folks place. They're nothing big, but it passes the time :) When you get on a plane, you need to show your ticket the person scanning them. But ...

I'm about to head off to the airport to take a flight to Melbourne. The afternoon will be spent sitting in Dad's office with my laptop, happily coding away until it's time to follow him home after work. The only pain is going to be the lack of internet connection - unless by some big fluke they've got wireless setup at his work, I doubt I'll be ...