For those in .au, just substitute in “Telstra” or “Optus” here and have a giggle – not that far from the truth is it?
At least the US (unlike .au) has broadband. We only have fraudband.
They sell cable plans here with 400MB of traffic before being capped.
Or ADSL ones with 200MB of traffic before being billed 14 cents PER MB!
Brian “Krow” Aker’s Idle Thoughts – Cell Phone Service Person
If you don’t already – point your RSS feed reader over to Weatherall’s Law
and examine her most recent writings about Software Patents.
Kim describes her blog as “Being the thoughts and comments of an Australian IP Academic on IP, IT, etc.”
There is, of course, the legal disclamier that the views expressed there are her own and not that of….
which for some reason makes me giggle. Maybe it’s because she’s a lawyer and isn’t just putting it on there to sound cool.
or how to put it into words they all sound so shallow a friend has died it’s hit everyone who knew her hard nobody expected it it seems unbeleivable it is hard to take in hope of it not being true is gone.
i’ll write when i can.
since my office is moving out of my bedroom and into an actual room, I went and did some office supply and furniture shopping.
I hate traffic.
I REALLY hate traffic. It’s boring, slow, not fuel efficient and really wastes your time while you’re sitting in it. I haven’t driven through the CBD and near-CBD during the day in so long that I’d forgotten how bad it really is. urghe.
But Ikea was great. The big store in Richmond – wow, i could spend hours in there (and a few thousand bucks no doubt).
I bought a (smaller) desk. This’ll go in the bedroom (always need somewhere to do stuff) – and move my big one downstairs (not looking forward to that).
Also got a nice big thing to hold my ever-expanding CD collection.
It’s interesting… working for a company based in sweden and buying office stuff from Ikea. I guess it’s in the spirit of things.
The reason i was in the CBD was to get a copy of my birth certificate. Without which, it’s a lot harder to get a passport (which, beleive it or not, i’ve managed to do without all my life). But now, work requires it – so I’m getting one.
Getting the piece of paper took about two minutes, getting in and out of the city took forever.
Bloody city car park. coming out, i swear there was less than an inch either side of my mirrors. talk about crapping myself as driving out. That and it was next to impossible to get out of the car once i had parked (and spent about 5 or 10 mins actually looking for the darned thing).
Been sorting out my filing cabinet too. Trying to separate the work and personal stuff. will put work stuff somewhere more specific. Going to need to – what with expenses et al now being sorted out from home (can’t just leave them at work until i fill out the form).
but should all be good…. just have to get on with that task i’ve been assigned.
did something (early this morning) that well deserves a p76 award. well – at least a nomination.
i guess i’ll explain later… when all is good again.
(no, wasn’t work related – i haven’t gone and rm -rf mysql-5.0 or anything)
It is important that you read and understand the implications of what is going through our parliament at the moment.
This will make yet another slab of people criminals.
purchased the most essential item for running a home office today. A coffee machine. Getting better at making coffee with it too. The second cup was actually drinkable :)
Debian Bug report logs – #274455 – Please add support for Evolution 2.0 in experimental
I am being game and doing a dist-upgrade. Evo2 – here I come!
oh shit am I scared.
great little terminal app. you set it up with timezones, then type ‘tzwatch’ – and it tells you the time!
Brilliant!
oh, I also bought a new car on Saturday.
I pick it up on Thursday, and spent Monday morning and about an hour today doing the insurance dance of poverty (mention you’re under 25 and they pull out the remove-left-arm-and-leg device).
As of the 1st of December (my start date), I’ll be a Software Engineer at MySQL AB.
Exciting stuff.
It’s important that people keep up to date with happennings in the fight against Software Patents.
It’s also important to know the other side of the story.
A much better concession speech.
Fanatical Apathy: Concession Speech
Today is my last day working at SGI, and I’m home sick. have been all week. urgh.
So i’ll end up popping in next week to say goodbye to workmates that i’ve had this year.
Soon, I’ll be starting at my next job – so all excited for that!
This is why software patents are bad.
Very nice beer and curry for lunch today. Feel soooo good atm. Very culinary satisfied.
for spreadsheet (tax time again)
i like gnumeric – but it doesn’t have that split screen view thing that i find really useful.
oh well… i only use a spreadsheet a handful of times in a year
Have just spent a whole lot of time importing my financial data into GnuCash with the hope of actually trying to manage my finances.
With luck, this will make the next tax return easier – plus let me have some idea of where my money actually goes.
I now know that my CD and DVD habit costs me more than my petrol habit.
ACA Consumer Information: SPAM
I’m very tempted to add a procmail rule that forwards all spam to the reporting address… Although i pity the poor people on the other end of that.
Although.. getting rid of spam and prosecuting (executing even – i really don’t mind) spammers is a REALLY GOOD use of my tax dollars!
rather funny – and true….
iPod Versus the Cassette
but i still love my ipod – even if apple are being assholes with their attitude towards people who want to interface with parts of it (think FairPlay, Real).
even though i’ve never liked realplayer – they should be able to compete.