My grandmother would be distraught. She grumbles when researchers make a new finding and “they” change what’s recommended for your diet and your health.
They change their bloody minds all the time! Don’t eat salt, salt is fine; eggs cause high cholesterol, no they’re fine, eat all the eggs you want.
OK that’s [...]
Whooo!
iinet recently upgraded their DSLAMs to allow full ADSL2+ connection (ergh, PDF) for those on the enabled exchanges. Which I gleefully happen to be.
Modem Status Connected
DownStream Connection Speed 17153 kbps
UpStream Connection Speed 1023 kbps
That’s right, 17.1 megabits per second.
They have this little utility in the iiNet Toolbox, the online account self-administration [...]
So it’s a month later and I still don’t have a new phone. I’ve gone through all my options at least three times since my last post on the subject, and haven’t done anything yet. I guess I just don’t like spending money.
No, that’s wrong. I prefer wasting all my [...]
Don’t it always seem to go like that?
I sure missed the power when it was gone this weekend. We had a really brief storm on Saturday around 3:30pm but it did heaps of damage. I went for a walk afterwards and there were trees and branches down all over the place. Our [...]
There’s a heap of things I want to get done, but choosing to sit in front of the computer is really hard on days like today. The weather is perfect, and it seems like such a waste to sit inside working on my programmer’s tan when I have a convertible and the weather is [...]
I recently discovered dia, a little program for drawing diagrams of a bunch of different types. I found it while trying out Ubuntu linux, but it also works on Windows.
I really like Dia, it doesn’t do as much as Visio or even SmartDraw, but I don’t even want or need the features they have. [...]
Hooray, books:
Greetings from Amazon.com,
We thought you’d like to know that we shipped your items, and that this completes your order.
…etc…
The following items were included in this shipment:
Qty
Item
Price
1
Code Complete, Second Edition
$31.78
1
Peopleware : Productive Proje
$33.95
1
Rapid Development
$23.10
1
The Best Software Writing I:
$16.49
Item Subtotal:
$105.32
Shipping & Handling:
$26.95
Total:
$132.27
I’m looking forward to getting these, I’ve wanted to [...]