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 […]
My life & thoughts
Microsoft Firefox? I don’t believe it!
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 […]
Skanky weather
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 […]
Torchwood
Warning: This post contains spoilers. Hubby and I have been watching Torchwood for a few weeks now. I quite like it. I don’t think it’s quite as good as Doctor Who. I’m also wondering how the heck Capt. Jack got off satellite 5 after the Bad Wolf brought him back to life. I thought the […]
Everybody hates Mondays
I don’t really know if everybody hates Mondays. I don’t remember hating them. Today I get to do something that I should and that are boring but I’ll feel better for it (de-hair my legs, do the dishes, do supermarket shopping). The weekend was a bit weird. Saturday was good but I kept getting upset […]
Dali
I realised that I haven’t posted much about myself lately. I’ve posted a lot about events (work mostly), and abut my computer but I thought I’d post some random things about me that you may not know. They’ll be in the “Me Stuff” category. For some time my favourite artist was Salvador Dali. He was […]