How could someone not have told me about this? The 19th - 25th Feb was ‘British Bacon Education Week’. All I did was have a breakfast club bacon and sausage sandwich with Erika and Rebecca (and that was coincidence).
more info here: http://www.lovebacon.info/
What did we learn today? When buying Malaysian milk, always turn the carton round so that you can read the small print that says “Banana Flavoured Milk”.
That way, your tea doesn’t taste funny the following day.
Many happy returns to my overly talented brother - keep up the good work, there’s light at the end of the tunnel and I’m insanely proud of you.
Good coverage of Net Nutrality here.
Every excuse you ever needed in this article: Accomplished people more likely to fail under stress
This can’t be right. Can it?
Access is blocked to http://www.atheist-community.org/
Reason: The Websense category “Traditional Religions” is filtered.
There’s something delightfully silly about all the fan of Father Ted all meeting on an island for a conference that includes Priests versus Nuns Football Tournament, a Guided Fancy Dress Walk around the island, the Father Jack Cocktail Evening, a midnight Crazy Golf Championship, and - in the style of the show itself - a Lovely Girls contest. Quickly followed by a 1.30am a ‘Hide the Nun and Seek’ contest.
Tickets are sold out, but details are at http://www.friendsofted.org/.
Chinese New Year is quite a big event here in Malaysia (with about a third of the population being Chinese). Those pesky chinese dragons got everywhere. They raided the FujiFilm store downstairs.
Some even got into the office.
But nothing beats the traditional Carlsburg CNY display. How a Dutch beer gets to cash in on CNY is beyond me, but, there you go.
The real benefit was that I had two extra days off (which I spent fixing the server -see previous post).
Eeeeek. It all got a bit hairy then.
My powerswtich got a case of amnesia and forgot it had things plugged into it. Opps. It then looks like it randomly turned off my server, killing the RAID array and the boot sector on the way down.
Luckily my colo host uk solutions who come highly recommended were complete stars and have been helping me sort things out remotely. A case of beer is heading their way!
Still in the early stages of recovery, but good progress so far.
updates if I’m able to.
PS: This will only make sense to Kate
