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Boy do I love randoms, how they amuse me.

Ok, that sounds lame, but it’s appropriate. I was driving to work on Monday night, got to the end of my street and saw a small shape on the other side of the road. My brain said “Echidna” and then my eyes caught up and agreed, so I slowed down just in case it was - I didn’t want to run it over. Just as I’d slowed all the way down the crazy thing ran and hid under the middle of my car!

I seems that Google labs have found that nearly all established simple binary search algorithms are broken. Sometimes being bigger IS better 🙂

I decided that it’s time for me to grow up and learn a compiled language, so I had a look around - there were the main ones - C, C++, Java or C# - I was talking to a friend and he said to look at C# because it’s so kickass. Cross compatibility, easy RAD, lots of resources - why not? It’s everything Java was supposed to be, but didn’t end up being 🙂

My laptop’s definitely not what you’d class as a high-performance machine by any modern standards. It’s got a celeron 400 processor, 128MB of ram and a 6gb hdd. This doesn’t leave much room for an operating system with all the bells and whistles - Windows XP is definitely off the list - I’ve been running Windows 2000 Professional on it for the past six months so I could do things like simple graphics editing of my photographs on the run, and coding in my spare time at work.

I’ve got a dollar, I’ve got a dollar, I’ve got a dollar hey hey hey hey!

A funny little song, and it applies to me! I was out in the carpark stretching my legs and getting some fresh air via my cigarette and found a shiny cold dollar on the ground - score! 🙂

Recently I bought a new hard drive - finally getting a half-decent speed SATA drive, upgrading from my quartet of 80gb IDE drives. I had a few woes trying to tie it all in, so I ended up reinstalling my PC. At first I stuck with Gentoo, then got sick of trying to work out its annoying bugs and went to SUSE.

As I tend to have a load of windows open at the one time, and I like to see them all at once having dual monitors is a must for me. The ATI 9600 card I have supports this, being dual head, and I’d had it running (kinda) on Gentoo just before I went through the reinstall process.

Well, that was an amazing long weekend for me. I was working my usual overnight shift on Friday night and decided that I wanted to climb a mountain. Years and years ago my family and I (well, mum, my little sister and I; the other two are wussies) climbed Mount Beerwah, so that was a good start. Looking on the web I found the Glass House Mountains and Surrounds page on the Queensland Environmental Protection Agency (now National Parks, Sport and Recreation) website. There’s a few pages there with maps and so forth - we ended up relying on this map in PDF form to get us there.

Well, it’s been a long time since this site’s had naughty pictures on it, but I had to post this… I always make references to what I’m going to do to people with a pineapple, but I think this takes the cake 😉

Well, so much for us losing our jobs at the end of August, as of a couple of days ago that’s changed to 30th of June. Damnit. That means I’m a month and a bit short of my employment anniversary, missing out on two week’s redundancy payout; not to mention a bunch of wages in the meantime. I’m hoping that I get one of the collections positions they’ve offered - there’s 15 going and they said they would prioritise by tenure and our KPI’s - which tends to help me 🙂