life
I’m happy to (belatedly) announce that I’m now back in full-time employment, having started as systems administrator at Australian Publishing Network’s Milton office. My colleagues are pretty switched on, the atmosphere is fairly easygoing and being on Park Road there’s no shortage of places to get
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I have been privileged, spending the last couple of days in the most wonderful company of my very special “better half” – a great meal Tuesday (the Himalayan Cafe in Brunswick Street, Valley is recommended if you’re out that way) and a perfect followup yesterday of a lovely afternoon and
humour
Tim Berners-Lee says the Internet is full of lies [http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,24363626-5014239,00.html] He’s quite right in saying there’s a hell of a lot of unsubstantiated and downright erroneous rubbish out there – look around FreeRepublic or StormFront or RaptureReady or
politics
* Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the United States [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/business/30pipes.html?_r=1&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin] * Virginia de-convicts AOL junk mailer Jeremy Jaynes [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/13/virginia_overturns_antispam_
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Thought I’d post a quick update seeing that’s it’s been a while. Firstly, I am again looking for work. I’m not going to go into detail other than to say I’m extremely disappointed and will be very careful who I work for in the future.
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Work: Is going well. Security and fixup work at the moment, a nice mailserver build (learning a bit about I/O kernel elevators) and miscellanea. Life: My love is back from interstate with all of her needed gear. Catching up with old friends from school via Facebook of all places.
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Heh, a month between posts? I must be getting slack. Things have mostly improved. I am again gainfully employed in a systems architecture / infrastructure development type role with Dedicated Servers / Hosting Shop here in Brisbane. It means less systems admin work (and the downsides like insane hours and being tied
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Well – what can I say? I’ve suddenly have some free time on my hands, however not the way I’d intended (some holidays). My employer decided – very suddenly I might add, over a coffee @4pm last Tuesday afternoon – to make me redundant as of the 13th of May. I
entertainment
ROLF (n); rolling on the floor laughing, while holding/playing a wobbleboard (for the non-Aussie / Pom readers, or you youngsters who don’t get the above reference, it refers to this man [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Harris] See what I mean on YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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Posted to the U-Zendo mailing list: [https://i0.wp.com/www.thatfleminggent.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/ch080428.gif] …even comic characters understand the concept of impermanence ? Me: I’ve been doing some server infrastructure and web R&D lately; I am a fairly recent convert to the
life
I’ve not had much inclination to update this (in case you’ve not noticed ;-)) but as I’ve updated the theme and done a bit of web design / hacking around I reckon “what the hell..” Life (and love): Where do I start? An almost complete turnaround; a bit
humour
[https://www.thatfleminggent.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/onnotice.jpg] [https://i1.wp.com/www.thatfleminggent.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/onnotice.jpg] Enough said.
