Monthly Archives January 2005

Ho hum.

Just got my month's notice from EDS. Not that I'm too surprised - the project I was hired to work on is pretty much done, and there's apparently nothing else available for me to do within the local ABN AMRO offices, so that's that.
It does make you think, though - thinking back on the [...]

Top Spam Email Name of the Day: “Dalton Bachhuber”

If you are Dalton Bachhuber, congratulations! You have a great name.
If not, why not consider changing your name to “Dalton Bachhuber”?

The Mystery Of The Imaginatorium

I have been looking at much of what it discussed in the flickr forums, and I find it very very interesting, and cool, and I want to do it, but in order to do it properly I would need a good camera. I was pleased by this particular picture but there's inevitably a limit to [...]

The Mac Mini - with hands.

Gosh. That is small.

Pitchers

I have started mucking about with the camera bit of my cameraphone, and have got myself a flickr account. Here's one I prepared earlier.
Note: flickr uses Flash.

“When almost ready, soup may violently explode”

This text was sadly missing from the heating instructions for my soup today, which is unfortunate, because that's pretty much what it did. So I spent a happy few minutes cleaning soup off the ceiling of my microwave oven.
Exploding soup. The breakfast of champions.

Cleverness.

Philippe Attractant Originally uploaded by Donald Andrew Agarrat.
Found this on flickr. I like it.

Before/After Satellite Images

Warning: May cause you to put your hand to your face and think “Holy Fuck.”
http://www.zki.caf.dlr.de/applications/2004/indian_ocean/indian_ocean_2004_en.html

Chapter 23: Things Come To A Head

A hush fell across the room as Bentley climbed to his feet and thrust an accusatory finger at Darcy. “You, sir, are a buffoon!” he said.
“And you, sir,” returned Darcy, “are a bounder of the third ring.”
Bentley, visibly enraged by this, withdrew from within his waistcoat a glove of immaculate whiteness, with which he proceeded [...]

Welcome to 2005

First day back to work and it's about as depressing as you might expect. Nothing specifically bad - I have documentation to update but I don't think I have the version I need to perform the updates on and the person I need to speak to about it is still on holiday - but just [...]