on duty with livejournal

Apparently animals are only vicious or injured from 9 to 5.

Tolyn's livejounral is infrequently updated and suffers from poor grammar and spelling. It's still well worth adding to your reading list.

tonight, on TV

Atomic Twister. It's a nuclear disaster movie! It's a forces-of-nature movie! It's TWO GREAT TASTES THAT oh why do they BOTHER even TRYING to produce this crap?

lying hardware

You know, when I ask a modem for 7-bit even parity data, I expect it to hand me 7-bit even-parity data with the parity bit stripped off rather than 8 bit data that I have to clean up. That's certainly how the other modems behave.

seen on local mailing list

Wireless community non-profit broadband available to new tennants in the Bray area. Room with Wireless broadband with no need for external aerial. (Access point in the attic)

Double Room in shared house, Corke Abbey. Central heating, All mod cons (including Wifi) Next to 45, 84 & 45A & off street parking. Cable TV in room & uncabled broadband.

Available from 8th December. €500 a month for two persons (+ bills)plus €10 for broadband access.

Suit professional hacker, nerd or similar. PC friendly landlord.

misc

nomination for Failed Lists of 2003: HeadMap Announce.