Quick guide to internet posting.
1) Only ever express highly polarized opinions, preferably very biased and coloured by personal details (nationality, skin colour, etc.).
2) Under no circumstances use or allow logic to back up or change these opinions.
3) Always state these opinions as fact, thus removing the need for rule (2).

Somewhere along the line, I missed or never received details of my Enterprise car rental account changing to an account number for the website (been a couple of years now, but that’s a week or two in BootLace back burner time). Not knowing the number I click on the link that says “forgot?”, which allows me to enter my email address and get a temporary password sent. The page also helpfully has a phone number and a link to email them if I’ve forgotten my account number and/or need further assistance. The email link takes you to a web based form that requires you to log in to contact them. At this point I noticed a problem…Now how do I log in to tell them I’ve forgotten my login details?

Still alive. Never really liked the switch to wordpress, as polished as things ended up looking. I seem to have this long list of personal projects I’d like to get done, and any time I don’t spend on them, seems to be time spent feeling guilty. I feel guilty a lot :).

Got quite excited by trying to knock something together web presence wise with Google App Engine. Would allow me to implement something similar to what is visible now, but feel like I’d at least injected a little bit of myself into the process, beyond the inane ramblings at any rate.

Then Google demonstrated Google Wave, and now I’m thinking, what’s the point? With Wave, I can do exactly what I’ve been planning for the last decade or so, and just nick someone else’s code to do it :).

I have this vision of the internet being far more dynamic, removing the boundaries of normal publishing practices, and Google Wave (http::/wave.google.com) seems to deliver this almost perfectly.

A better question may have been, how do you not see the flashing red lights at the end of the pitlane?

That JPS Lotus was sexy. 1200hp! 50% more than a current F1 car, and from a 1.5L. 800bhp/L

Have to admit, it’s something I’m not immune to, but…

 ”writing deceptively solid post-hardcore songs with a heavy spattering of angular influence, while leaning forward into a more polished territory of crisp, embellished production.”

Some people seem to make a career out of it. Ah, music reviewers :).

I finally got around to buying a new router for the cable modem. I’ve been meaning to replace the old Belkin 10/100 4way gateway thing for probably a year or so now, mostly because it was ugly and didn’t have wifi, partly because it had the occassional tendency to just give up :). What had never occurred to me, was that the reason I was only get 10Mbps from my 20Mbps connection was that the router was only running at 10Mbps on the modem side.

Nice and nippy! I should be nice and ready for the 50Mbps rollout now :o)

The first version of my note making application JNoteSi is now available for download from the relevant wiki page: http://bootlace.co.uk/mw/index.php?title=JNoteSi.

I’ve only run it on my Vista Ultimate 64 bit box, and only in a limited fashion, so I can’t vouch for it’s portability or stability, so very much in a “use at your own risk” state, but “It should work”(tm).

If you use it, have any problems, or ideas for simple features that’d change your life, then feel free to add a comment, or drop a mail to me (put ”[JNoteSi]” somewhere in the subject line).

Thinking of milestones, 2 Saturdays ago saw a new record for spam mails received in a 24hr period. In a single day, I received a veritable feast of mail, totalling just over 6000. Quite a nasty amount in itself, but when you consider that that is just the mail that made it through my filters, it gets very scary. I typically have a 90% auto rejection rate on mails, so this could’ve been as many 60,000 emails in a 24hour period, or 1 spam every 1.44seconds!

Such a waste of my life…

I’ve just upgraded my games pc and started using it as my main desktop machine. It’s quite impressive, I can run FC8 in a virutal machine faster than my previous PC could run it dedicated.

Anyway, it’s reached a couple of landmarks, milestones, whatnots…

 4GB of RAM, the limit of a 32bit address space, and (iirc) the quantity of memory that would result in 1 failed bit per 15min in the early 90s according to a friend of mine. He was trying to explain why the ARM2’s 26bit of address space was enough at the time though.

1TB of harddisk space! A once unimaginable number, in the same way that a million pound could once buy a house, a car, and keep you and your family alive for 50years. Equivalent storage to over 32million Acorn Electrons, 50,000 of my first harddrive, or about 2 or 3 Windows apps (*maybe exagerrating there :)).

After 10+ years of reluctant service, my £49.99 Curry’s special vacuum cleaner has given up the ghost. Well, the bag “she could take n’more Cap’n”, and with the bag a filling and the motor a heating, came the final torrid yelp of a coil burnt out.

 So, I’ve just ordered one of these bad boys. All the positive comments are probably written by Mr Morphy or Miss Richards, but one things if for sure, it’s guarenteed to end up sucking one way or the other.