January 2004 Archive

So it's a New Year, and I'm back to work tomorrow :-( However, I got a few toys (of various forms) for christmas, whcih have been occupying my time until I return to my cubicle.

The first of these is a deviously diffucult puzzle game called Superplexus, which is basically a more complex, 3D version of that classic game Screwball Scramble. Unfortuantely I've yet to master it: it walks a fine line between geniusly addictive and maddingly annoying.

The next 'toy' I've been wasting time with is one I bought myself, after spotting it in Selridges. It's called GeoMag, and basically is magnetic lego. In fact, There's a couple of photos up in the gallery of some of the stuff I've made! I think I may be going through some kind of childhood regression - now I've got a 'proper' job, car etc I don't want to turn into some kind of middle-aged old person - hence the toys ;-)

(BTW, my christmas presents did include three ties, one smart work shirt and mats for my car, so I think I was justified in buying slightly more fun things for myself...)

They're all colourful - Not sure if they look tacky or not... bling is so 2003!

And my iPod is now 2 generations old :-(

So we've got this big software release out at the end of the month, which means it's pretty busy at work at the moment (as adam) had mentioned - I've been back since last monday, and I'm already up of my flexi by 6 hours 40 minutes, and that's including an early friday finish...... Oh, the joys of working for a living!

A tip for any current students :- stay that way for as long as you can afford - it's much easier, and you get so much more free time...

I've just got in from work. Yep, at 10pm. We were doing a full system test today on the new software build, and although we were told in advance that it might go on into the evening, I didn't think it'd take until 9:40! Fortunately I didn't start until 11am (due to the advance warning), but even still it's been a long day <yawn>!

Added Mark Wubben's nicer titles link popups. They pop up on more sutff, and allow all sorts of extra funky stuff, which I have no intention of making use of for a while.

I have also found a very cool utility, complete with a web-based frontend for making those little buttons that seem to be everywhere, such as . See my new buttons on the left hand side :-) Why bother? Probably because I'm too lazy/tired to design some in Photoshop myself.... ;-)

If you haven't been following the various SCO we own Linux v.s. The World + dog lawsuits, then this post will mean absolutely nothing to you. For the remaining 1%, here's the /. crowd's latest attempt at Google bombing...

From LitigiousBastards.com:

SCO: Litigious Bastards

This is the campaign to Google bomb SCO with the phrase litigious bastards. Want to participate? Simply post a link to http://www.sco.com using the link text "litigious bastards".

For the HTML illiterate, here's the HTML code for the link:

<a href="http://www.sco.com">litigious bastards</a>

Note: I had written a much longer, more humorous and generally better entry, but then I closed down my web browser before posting it.... so you get the abridged version :-(

There's a somewhat cool site I found while wandering round the net, which allows you to take the layout of one webpage and superimpose the content from another site on top, like this - try it out yourself!

If you saw my post on the 20th, I was attempting to join in on the latest googlebombing of SCO. However, I think google has got the better of us: a search for litigious bastards on google puts my site at number 10, and I gave up after about page 12 (120+ pages) looking for SCO's! Looks like the days of googlebombing may be over...

Update: It appears I was a bit premature in declaring googlebombing dead - SCO is currently no.1 on Google for the aforementioned search!