Dear diary, it's been 5 days since my last confession… Well, the Christmas period was certainly as violent towards my liver as usual! Mostly good fun though. No carol singing this year, which was a bit unsettling after having made it a routine for the last 10 years. Although routine made a reappearance in the…

I remember reading a fair bit about how email is eating into the profit margins of Australia Post. It seems logical, although personally I think it'd have a roughly equal effect on phone calls as well… But yeah, anyway – the point is: If email's the nemesis of the Postal Service, then Christmas time and…

What a cornucopia of activity this weekend turned out to be !! We really do get a warm and mawkish feeling out of being reunited with people we haven't seen in a while, don't we ? OK, at least I guess I do. I really do wish there were more time available for catching up…

Yeah baby ! Got the archive section working. Biggest setback of the evening ? I’d have to say that it was poring through the Sybase ASE user’s manual looking for syntax on the datepart SQL function (which refused to work !), only to remember about 30 minutes later that I’m in fact working with the…

Oh boy, I've just been up to Burnside Village, and let me say, driving around in that carpark really brings out the best in people. I know it certainly got me nice & angry, which hopefully translates into a more entertaining read for you, my devoted reader. Far be it for me to make sweeping…

Dear me… I've just been informed of a hilarious concept – that of Scam Baiting. Almost anyone with an email address would know by now of the “Nigerian Scams”, where people are asked to supply their bank details to various folk in various countries, at the promise of humungous reward. Well this guy has mastered…

I couldn't let my brother's buttocks take “pole position” in this weblog (OK, there's possibly a better phrase I could have used there, but moving on…!). Several weeks ago now, a colleague of mine decided to go on a trip overseas to take in the sights, sounds and experiences of some other cultures. Naturally, all…

I don't really have much to say about the weekend just gone, because it was just your typical Christmas time variety of overeating burnt meat and getting tipsy, however I do have one article which will be of extreme disinterest to pretty much anyone. My dear brother Timothy seems to have gotten hold of a…

Well well, today we had our staff Christmas picnic. I'd have to say, it was a pretty fine time, if not a little… umm… RAINY ! What's that all about, eh ? A cold, overcast, rainy day in DECEMBER for god's sake !? Only a couple of years ago it was averaging about 37!! Very…

frobnicate /frob'ni-kayt/ (Possibly from frobnitz, and usually abbreviated to frob, but “frobnicate” is recognised as the official full form). To manipulate or adjust, to tweak. One frequently frobnicates bits or other 2-state devices. Thus: “Please frob the light switch” (that is, flip it), but also “Stop frobnicating that clasp; you'll break it”. One also sees…