Ramblings about cats, games and miscellanea.
Good: proudly describing to your girlfriend how you talked an insurance salesman into giving you a month of cover for free.
Not so good: her producing a pamphlet for the same company promising 2 months free.
And for those of you who are friends with the penguin, when you're ever tempted to chmod -R 700 ., make sure you're in the right directory. Or at least, make sure you're not in /etc. Especially if you're doing it at midnight... yawn
Some mention has been made about how my diary entries are becoming increasingly sporadic and dull. Lack of free time aside, this is because I have become increasingly self-censoring. Partly for your benefit - a lot of my time is either spent working, or performing mundane daily activities, both of which would bore most of you to tears.
However, the main reason is that this site has accidentally become an advert for me. Clients often use this domain to contact me, and when asked "who does your site?", they give out this address. Even if they did use the other domain ...
I've decided to defect from Boots to Specsavers, on account of Boots being incompetent - Bath were OK, but Sevenoaks, Truro and Cheltenham were not. The final straw was when I noticed that they had kindly cancelled my contact lense direct debit without telling me, leaving me with no contact lenses.
I had my first appointment with Specsavers today; my eyes hadn't changed too much, but my glasses are pretty old and I feel that it's time to get new ones. Makes me a little nervous, for as regular readers may recall, I have had mixed results when ...
Interesting, they've released Safari for Windows!
First impression is that it is very mac. I can't see this release making much of a dent in the market share of the other Windows browsers - the interface, menu structure etc feel like they are the result of extremely direct porting, and it ignores the standard Windows interface features, such as no middle click scroll mode, and no resizing at the edges. I'm sure it's a nice browser, but I can't help thinking that it will suffer from the same obstacles to adoption that Firefox and Opera suffer ...
I love my reference books, because every so often you stumble across gems like:
This has all the advantages of being a variable rather than a subroutine. It has all the disadvantages of not being implemented yet.