Year: 2004

My new mobile phone finally arrived at the weekend. I've texted my new number to everybody in my phone book, except for people I don't want to have it <grins>. If you don't have my new number, but you think you should, you have three options:

1. Use one of the online services in which my …

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Yet again my concern for the value of an Internet Computer Science degree from UWA is raised, as a dippy co-worker with two years of such a degree behind her asks me for help:

"Dan," she begins, "How do I make a table in PHP?"

For those of you that don't know quite as much about web …

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Found myself ill again on Wednesday and Thursday last week (in partial explanation to my lack of weblog posts). I think I gulped down some green-and-lumpy orange juice before I went to bed on Wednesday night and as a result found myself quite sick. Even after I'd recovered, I spent several days with almost no …

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Went to see The Village last night - very good film, well worth seeing, so long as you take a few things into account:

1. Unlike what all the previews would have you believe, this is not even remotely a horror movie - it's a story about innocence and about what people will sacrifice in order …

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Apparently it's Programmer's Day, so Paul, Bryn, Claire and I put together an old low-end Pentium into a dual-booting Red Hat/Windows 98SE box, and racked up some classic games of the 80s and 90s. Fab.

There's actually some debate about whether Programmer's Day should be included as a Wikipedia entry... as there's not a lot of …

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Damn weird: last night I dreamt that I found a lottery scratchcard which had not been completed - just two of it's sixteen panels had been scratched off. While I'd not be fool enough to buy one (the mathematics is simple - the lottery is a stupidity tax), I'll happily play one I didn't pay …

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A friend sent me an e-mail yesterday asking if I knew of a simple random quote generator that she could embed on her web page. So I've written one, and I'm making it available here on the off chance that anybody else wants it too. It's implemented in JavaScript, and works simply by including a …

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Argh.

The worst part of being so horribly ill is the moment when you're dashing to the toilet before you pebbledash the floor with your arse... and at that moment you realise that your stomach is about to eject it's contents, too. What a paradox.

In any case - it's not all bad news: the Ship & …

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It's so much nicer coming back to the office on a Monday after a weekend both relaxing and productive, with lots of happy fun time with friends. Managed to tidy the flat, do heaps of laundry, have a successful Troma Night (three films, a decent crowd, and everybody hung on in 'til the end despite …

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Now here's an idea for an Illuminati: The Game Of Conspiracy "Illuminati" card - The Scary Baby Conspiracy. Suggestions for the Scary Baby Conspiracy's unique win condition and any special rules are welcome (from anybody who actually knows what Illuminati is). Fnord.

On which note - it's Geek Night tonight! Hopefully we can have a couple …

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Do you remember a week or two ago I wrote about a guy who patented the "Ethical Rules Of Artificial Intelligence"? Well - it looks like he's read my article and placed his own comments. I'm quite surprised and impressed that he took the time (away from his heavy schedule of philosophising or book-signing or …

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