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Never Post while Angry

Friday 4th June, 2004 Leave a Comment

I wrote quite a lengthy post for my blog about how stupid the bean counters at work are at the moment. I am supposed to be in Singapore right now, attending a very important training course. I couldn’t get permission to go – everyone up the chain in the organisation supported it, but the bean-counters … [Read More »]

Filed Under: Work

Kill Bill vol 3 – IBM vs Microsoft

Wednesday 26th May, 2004 Leave a Comment

My spin on an interesting article on Yahoo Finance from Forbes Magazine about IBM’s embrace of linux – Quentin Tarantino’s recent films “Kill Bill” volumes 1 & 2, I think are quite appropriate (and amusing) when take in the context of the general slant the article takes :D Titled “Kill Bill”, it starts by saying, … [Read More »]

Filed Under: Work

WordPress v1.2

Sunday 23rd May, 2004 Leave a Comment

WordPress v1.2 is out now. I think at last count I had three blogs running WordPress and another couple in development, so it’s going to take a bit of time to test out the new version and get it deployed everywhere. I’ll get to it when I can. This whole site needs a good redesign, … [Read More »]

Filed Under: Online

M&M’s

Thursday 20th May, 2004 2 Comments

Sent to me by email… Sometimes there comes along a truly gifted and unique individual with way too much time on their hands. Recently an Internet Service Provider conducted an audit of the Tech Support logs. Some personal entries were found. Here is one: “Whenever I get a package of plain M&Ms, I make it … [Read More »]

Filed Under: General

LEGO Mindstorms Rubik’s Cube Solver

Wednesday 19th May, 2004 Leave a Comment

This is totally awesome – this guy used LEGO components and the LEGO Mindstorms engine to create a robot which can [url=http://jpbrown.i8.com/cubesolver.html]solve a Rubik’s Cube[/url] all by itself. There is even a video of it in operation.

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