not doing a degree has made it so much easier to block out ;)
Congratulations to the Toby :D

I blocked out the entire degree with stress-induced amnesia.

I can remember Dr. Brodski pretending to be a penguin, but that's about it.

And I still have my job. Panic over, tie and shirt removed, back to fixing lab PCs for me.

In other news, undergraduates are funny to listen to when you're no longer doing the course and can remember aceing all the courses they're having hell revising. I think, however, I must have removed the experience of SEG and HCI from my mind. I know I did badly at them, but really can't remember doing them at all. Hindsight is a wonderful thing :)

WHAT I THINK ABOUT BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP

in the holidays: How glad I am to be alive. What I am looking forward to the following day. Random happy nonsense.

during term-time: How kittens would look back at you as you drowned them.

HOW TO SUCCEED IN JOB INTERVIEWS:-

(I hate uni and it makes me want to hit my head against the wall.)

Ms. Logic and I went to the careers session of this name this afteroon
(Argh.)

I hope that all of the stuff is either bullshit or at least not relevant to the IT sector. The fact that Cheesey can get employment suggests that it is almost totally false.

(In other news, have a big pointy thing to misdirect sailors with.)

It's a little quiet in here... Is everyone playing Jenga with their noses again? Hmm?

I have an interview tomorrow. I would therefore like to hedge my bets - Rob, is Adam still looking for spods? If so, mention that he may have a spod if some muppet with 10 years Helpdesk experience turns up tomorrow and smarms his/her way through the interview process with the ease of a greased eel. Either that or I fark up. Both equally possible.

I like to account, as far as is practical, for Sod's Law. It's not paranoia, it's a healthy respect for the principles of Universal Perversity.

Nah, I did the kicking last week. Those printers are pretty resilient but clog up over time, so the light kicking may actually have done it some good. I decided instead to make the department buy a maintenance kit (several hundred quid's worth, thereof) to fix it. That'll teach 'em to give me projects to keep me busy ;)

Yeah, I've been busy doing the ill thing for the last few days, it's very unhelpful *sniffs* :P

My approach to technology that doesn't work is to kick it. Doesn't do much for the technology but makes me feel better ;)

Hmm. I would complain about tumbleweed here, but TBH I haven't had the time to post and I suspect others are feeling likewise. How are you gentlemen? Is your base still belong to you?

I, myself, have gained a new-found loathing for marginal (Jargon file, meaning 3) printers - most notably one particular HP LaserJet 5000N which appears to have forgotten how to feed paper. It feeds the left-hand side, but seems reluctant about the right, then complains when the paper turns up crinkled and at 45 degrees to the print assembly.

I just discovered morning again after 3 weeks, ouch :P Sorry for the lack of posting lately btw, I shall attempt to be more communicative in future ;P

Sorry, didn't mean that to sound quite so petulant.

I need lots and lots and lots of sleep.

I was getting worried, was thinking you'd all given up and gone off else where on the Internet.

*pats the hairy little datahouse monkey*

Yeah, sorry for making all these terribly unreasonable requests, but technically by taking it upon yourself to host DNS you did dub yourself "service provider". Possibly not the brightest of moves given how irritable I get when things stop working ;)

Anyway, if BIAS is deployable in any kind of fashion and you want to run with that, may I suggest you dump a test deployment in a subfolder of the PW site for people to tinker with. I can probably give you a hand with archive conversion if you haven't the time. No rush, I just wanted to alert people to the deadlines imposed upon us.

I've just done a backup of the PW site folder (cgi-bin, db, html) to a phat tar on the tape-backup'd University file servers. I figured it was about time I had an archive of the archives.

I've just spent about eight days doing data recovery and migration. Can I please have at least a week off before I plunge headlong once again into the abyss of interoperability problems?

Technically we ought to migrate PW to either:

1. The new version of blogger with Google EverythingIncludingTheKitchenSink™ accounts, or


2. Roll out our own publishing solution, as previously argued about.

Methinks Bloogle is itching to be subsumed, having recently declared the new service to be out of beta. Now, dear friends, is the time to act! I personally care not what the outcome is, but if other persons wish to jump ship, now would be the ideal time to do so. Argue amongst yourselves.

Assuming that we take the inevitable path of least resistance and stay with Blogger, every admin on the team has to switch to the new system before the blog will switch. Once the blog has switched, users still using the old Blogger account system will no longer be able to create/edit posts until they too switch.

Ergo,
Admins: Whoever owns the service announcement account, could they please switch it over.
Users: Prepare for upheaval either way, folks!

NURSE GET ME 5ccs OF IETF WORKING GROUP STAT!

DNS is back.

On an unrelated note, I would like to put for your consideration:

It is suggested that we adopt the mel as the ISO standard unit of drama, being equivalent to one controversy per second. This is obviously far too large a unit to use in every day life, but this is not necessarily a barrier to its use; by analogy to the farad, it is acceptable that the units used in practical risk analysis are of the order of 1 nanomel or 1 picomel, rising to one centimel in extreme cases.

It is advised that situations of 5 centimel or above be handled only by trained professionals in the conservatory with the lead piping.