Archives for 2006

I had a dream last night that I was throwing my brother a birthday party. All these random people that I had met in my life turned up and he didn’t know who they were. Food for the night was my bolognese sauce, I’d cooked many large saucepans of it. After the party we had […]

I randomly lost sound on my computer. Very inconvenient as I don’t use it very often but in the last day I wanted to play something for someone else to listen to and watch a couple of TV shows. On Ubuntu forums I found the same problem. Some of the settings had just turned themselves […]

I went with Gran (maternal grandmother) to visit Nan (paternal grandmother) today. I decided to take the “quickest route” according to whereis.com. This included a couple of tolls, which was fine because we now have an E-Tag. Getting there was pretty sweet except that I missed one turn, costing us a few minutes. Getting back […]

Sycophant n. A servile self-seeker who attempts to win favour by flattering influential people. From Answers.com I always wonder what this word means. I guess it’s not used much in the circles I rotate in but it’s in movies. Today I heard it again in Batman Begins: “you sycophantic suck-ups…” Now that I know what […]

When I first read yesterday morning that Microsoft had released their own Firefox I was shocked. I was really very confused and quite worried. I thought, what about Mozilla? Microsoft could not do something better than they could. What about the name? Surely Microsoft would have to buy the name and that couldn’t go under […]

Today’s weather was skanky! It wasn’t one of those postcard blue skies, random cloud, beach-worthy warm Sydney. It was 38 degrees Celsius (that’s 100.4 F), the sky was a kind of greyer shade of brown. It was gross. Thankfully, being only Spring, the air-con in the lab hasn’t died yet so it was quite comfortable […]