Spose I best write something or youse will all goes away.
Not much happening at work lately. All projects are on hold for the time being until after Xmas and new years. Probably won’t pick up again until February, hence I’m sitting at work doing nothing but twiddling my thumbs all day. You see, we have a queue of jobs and when a job comes in we do it, if no jobs come in we cannot do any extra work as it won’t be billable to the client. Ah – the joys of being an outsourcing company. So I can’t just go off and tune things or check things are ay okay and fix any tiny problems as my company cannot make money since the job wasn’t logged in the queue. So we aren’t allowed to do any extraneous work. So we sit and twiddle. Thank God for da intarweb. If only that were mildly interesting.
One thing I came across on the digg site is http://www.slashdigg.com/ – it summarises the DIGG and Slashdot website feeds into one easy to read and pleasant looking page. Very nice. I use it all the time now. I don’t care how many times an article was ‘dugg’. If it’s there, I just want to read it.
I was going to meet up with some friends while in Brizzy last Monday but they didn’t take their mobile phone to work so didn’t get my messages until that afternoon when I was already on my way home.
Some lucky guy won Douglas Adams’ Apple on eBay. Lucky SOB.
Swimming day again, then it’s off to Brizzy to drop off Bec for a test for getting into her nursing course next year. She had only just been accepted to a course in Sydney when Sienna decided to gestate, so had to cancel. Now that Sienna is older and can go to daycare next year and Blake will be taken care of in Sydney, she has the chance to resume her beginning of studies. Good luck. Should be more fun than being stuck at home all day.
Blake will be going back to Sydney at the start of January. He will be staying with his father and his father’s gf. They are out somewhere near Penrith. He will have more of a one-on-one class there and has many more friends and family to visit. Up here he just has school and living with us and nobody to visit or stay with on weekends and holidays, so it’s very restricting for him. Down there he has a bigger support group so things should be much better for him. We have just finished going through solicitors and JP’s to get the paperwork signed and the papers are soon going to wing their way to the Family Court.
Finally, Mandrivalinux 2006 has been released and I will be able to download it to install on my Media PC/Server. I want to merge both PCs into one faster PC so I don’t have two computers going all day. Should help cut down on electricity too. I have an Athlon 1600+ with 0.5Gb RAM to run it on which should be way enough. I might even try MythTv on it. At least this machine will be able to easily play DivX and XviD movies. The Celeron 433 just can’t cope at all. Poor thing.
At one of the places where I work they have an advertisement for staff to take their kids to a place in Surfers Paradise called "AbraKIDazzle" which is a place where kids play, running through plastic tunnels and climbing up high. I might take the kids there tomorrow. They need somewhere to go crazy and the place serves coffee so I will be set. I will take my PocketPC and do some beta testing of some new games Astraware is currently making.