Impure thoughts of a sad geek

I like to Move It Move It

It turns out someone I went to school with in the 70’s has moved to Sydney from the UK where we grew up, so guess where I am going for a beer next time I’m in NSW!

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PJF’s Pages – Journal – SAGE-AU 2007

need to have a talk that a room filled with hung-over sysadmins can grasp and find entertaining

Paul recounting tales of hungover system adminstrators at the recent SAGE conference reminds me of the first UK Linux conference I organised back in 1998. It was only two days long and to keep costs down there was no dinner or bar. However we hit the hostelries of Manchester in a large way and there were some very green people the next day. One of them was Alan Cox, who nevertheless got up and talked for over an hour without notes or slides about system security. I was totally in awe — when I wasn’t holding my head in my hands wishing the world would stop spinning. .

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apophenia

it is kinda eerie that a cat knows that someone’s going to die before they do

Cobblers! I suspect that it’s the cat is picking up the physical activity and extra care that goes on around someone during their last few days/hours is coming in for that.

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It’s Saturday night and glass of Holgate Mt Macedon Ale is sliding down areal treat. Such simple pleasures!

Here we are on a Saturday morning plugged into technology. Jack is playing games on the PS3, Lisa is doing reading exercises on the iMac and I am learning about Scrum on Google Videos.

My favourite video blogger , Pat Condell, has released another video which attempts to raise a laugh and poke fun at religions in general. Of course along the way there is plenty to find offensive, but that’s comedy for you — and there is much in here I agree with.

Take what you want from it.