28 Feb 2002 (Thursday) 

Watched Shanghai Noon with Dad tonight. Really fun Jackie Chan film .

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24 Feb 2002 (Sunday) 

Our hero lives in a box at the bottom of a Coca-Cola sign Like some great alternate god, flashing messages all of the time He doesn't come here to worship, no he comes here to live And at night he crawls through the city to take whatever we don't give He used to have a little baby, but a fragile thing can soon be gone A little cold never hurt you and me, but her she didn't last long And our hero stares at the stars, watches them turn red and white He says "These are men who have made this, and this is not gods light" And he says "Hear me, Hear me, I'm at the bottom of the red and the white sign." ... Our hero lays in the grass, dreaming of his little sweet child He remember holding her hand, and touching her little sweet smile If a man can create this neon tower in to the sky, Where the hell was the god of the Coca-Cola sign, the night she died And he says "Hear me, Hear me, I'm at the bottom of the red and the white sign. Hear me, Hear me, I'm at the bottom and I'm coming for you." [ Our Hero, from Under The Red And White Sky, by John Wesley ]

Spent quite a bit tonight talking to Angela (Rayner) on matters of theology and... well, stuff. I'm glad I didn't take such a course, as I would have been /really/ bad at it, but it was interesting to hear someone who knows a lot more about the subject talk about it.

She also mentioned that the diary hadn't been updated for a while. So, this update is for her.

Interesting ways of making people ignore your email :

• Write the word 'Important' in the subject.
• Write the phrase 'Please Read' in the subject.

Ok, so maybe most people read them. I don't. If you send me something with those in the title they'll be ignored. Automatic spam trap ? No; just an inherent belief that if you feel that strongly about something as to demand my attention, you're probably just some zealot and aren't worthy of that attention. It's my decision as to whether it's important. If you think you're going to get my attention over that of anything else with either of those phrases, you're sadly mistaken.

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23 Feb 2002 (Saturday) 

What's a button hole without a button ? It's just a hole, isn't it ? [ Holes; Simon ]

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18 Feb 2002 (Monday) 

You claim I don't know you, but I know you well I read in those ash eyes we've been through hell I've walked with the weakest just to feel strong You've given your body just to belong Let's burn together Let's burn together This pain will never end These scars will never mend ... As we walk through the ashes I whisper your name A taste of pain to cling to As we walk through the ashes You whisper my name Who's the one with the sickest mind... now? [ Ashes, from The Perfect Element, by Pain Of Salvation ]

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15 Feb 2002 (Friday) 

Buffy: Hey, Ken, wanna see my impression of Gandhi? She wields back the club and brings it down hard onto his head, crushing his skull. Lily comes up behind her and looks at him squeamishly. Lily: Gandhi? Buffy: Well, you know, if he was really pissed off. [ Gandhi ?; Buffy; Anne ]

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14 Feb 2002 (Thursday) 

Well, I've had a rather mad day fooling around with ioctl calls. Get them right and you're doing well. Get them wrong and you've suddenly configured the system to try to send messages to mars using some unheard of protocol. Ok, maybe not quite like that, but implementing specifications in terms of standard socket calls when you've got evil state diagrams to get into your head is... tricky.

The year is specified with the century, so it should generally be four digits except for really long leases. [ Really long leases; man dhcpd.leases ]

It being now 8am, I think I probably ought to think about some sleep.

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12 Feb 2002 (Tuesday) 

Seem very tired today. Probably lack of sleep. That'd do it.

We had Chinese tonight; that was very nice. And we had pancakes at lunch time.

Oh, and my 10/100 switch arrived today. Massive overkill for my network, but still it might be useful sometime in the near future.

I think the memory in the PC is playing silly buggers. I must take out the 64 and see if that is indeed the problem.

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9 Feb 2002 (Saturday) 

I've updated the site to have entries for November, December, January and February now. And a 2002 page. Wow. Astounding huh ?

Also, I've updated a few applications on the site. Nothing special.

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4 Feb 2002 (Monday) 

Never tell me I'm not capable of doing things in RISC OS.

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