after all of the manic work of the last six weeks our last release has been pretty successful. we are all being taken out tonight to celebrate so it will be lots of free champagne and then probably the traditional curry. good combination no?
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disconcerting
who do you think said “All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”? george w. bush or herman georing? you might be surprised
rumble
a few months ago i spent a bit of time playing with the ibm robocode rumble. i found out today that i came 47th in the world. given that i am rubbish at maths i don’t think that is too bad.
uml
i haven’t put anything geeky up for quite a while, this doesn’t mean that i’ve been neglecting my nerding. currently i am doing quite a lot of design work for a fairly complicated security model. when doing this in the past i have just drawn my own class diagrams thinking that software to do it for me was …
real
judith and matt are back from their honeymoon. i got a call from them last night and it sounds like they had a good time. bit of a shock on the weather front for them though as autumn has struck with a vengeance while they have been sunning themselves. i also heard from the rest …
rush
today is the first day of registration for lotusphere 2003, a conference run by lotus in orlando every january. i have been a few times before, although not for the last couple of years. in the past it has attracted over 10,000 people and registration has closed in 3 hours but thanks to the recession …
stop
the cards night was excellent fun as ever. i came out just up but that isn’t really the point. we played until about 03:30 this morning and then mark stayed as he lives in london. he has just left but neither of us got much sleep because at 07:00 some men started drilling on the …
cards
we are having one of our cards nights tonight. it has been quite a while since the last one for various reasons. they are always good fun though so roll on poker, brag pontoon and all.
retribution
this article talks about the record industry in the states having to pay over usd60 million because they have been fixing the price of cds for the last 5 years. and yet it is obviously p2p applications which are the cause of falling record sales, not the way that the record buying public get treated …
cringe
back in the real world and one of the funniest programmes around started a new series last night the office is so acutely observed it is just cringeworthy. everyone here is really in recovery mode from the last few weeks of stress, we are just doing odd jobs which have been missed and generally taking …
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