Travel plans

Walking out of work for two weeks is a special feeling.  Jess arrives tomorrow afternoon from London's Gatwick airport.  I have yet to meet an airport I actually like, I think it's something in the design, the sinking feeling that your bag is heading for Bombay,

Security

It's actually frightening how wide open a company can leave itself by not making people choose decent computer passwords.  All the firewalls in the world won't help you if someone gets hold of a list of usernames and throws a standard dictionary attack at it.  A

Why am I not surprised?

In the interests of public safety: Which Smiley are You? I think that actually having tasted goat is what tipped it over the edge.  It makes a great curry.

News Roundup

BBC News report: Tea 'to join health menu' Tea could soon join fruit and vegetables on the list of must-have health foods.  Recent studies have suggested the traditional cuppa protects against a range of conditions including cancer, heart disease and Parkinson's.  But scientists in the

Random walk

Cats curled up in the same bed and snoozed together, Quantum licked the new kitten, all was happy and fuzzy for a while.  Then she jumped on him again and started wrestling.  Most undignified.  Today was their first full day together.  Photographic proof: Why does FedEx feel the need to

Programmer's virtues

Laziness The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful, and document what you wrote so you don't have to answer so many questions about it. Hence, the first great

Quantum Entanglement

Tangle has arrived, fresh from the operating table.  There was a mass spaying and neutering on the entire litter in one go.  I'd love to have seen the unconscious kittens getting a flea bath. Quantum hasn't killed him, Tangle fights back.  They're getting adjusted.

Creative outreach

The women's creative outlet thing last night was going OK, there was quiet worship music playing in the background, and people were chatting quietly.  There was a table of people working on scrapbooks, a table of people using stamps to make cards, and me with my pile of

Fish

Cat #2 will be arriving Sunday afternoon.  We think we're going to call it Tangle, as in Quantum and Tangle (somewhat obscure quantum physics reference).  Manuela just got a kitten.  Emily is getting a kitten soon. Red Dwarf season 5, episode Back to Reality "Hang five, guys

Leave!

Leaves.  They're everywhere.  I never really made the connection between the existence of three cottonwood trees twice the height of my house, and the sheer volume of leaf matter they produce, and then dump, all over the house, the garden, the cars, the path, the street, halfway up