This is actually Version 4 of my blog.
Enjoy!
There are some series of posts that go together. You can access them directly with the links below.
I’ve been haunting the digital wilds since about ’94, back when the web crackled, hummed, and occasionally threatened to set your modem on fire just for looking at it funny. A personal website here, a blog there, sometimes both held together with...
So the other day the Support Guys were a bit confused over a request in the Ticketing system. Subject: Website URL’s Please could you set the following websites to point to IP 192.168.123.2...
Its been a while since I have vented my spleen on here about the things that go on at the Asylum. So I thought I would take some time out and have a little “Vent“. I was originally hired at the Asylum as a Developer, and advanced my way up the...
I forget exactly when this incident happened. I do remember it was towards the end of the University season (either the year end, or midway). It was in my second to last year in University, and everyone was rushing about trying to finish papers,...
This morning it was quiet at the Insane Asylum! We were informed that due to planned work being done on the trees growing through power lines, we would loose our power supply for a short while. To prevent damage to servers/systems/coffee pots we...
It started off as just another day in the Asylum. Well not just any old day, but a Friday. The countdown to the weekend had been started. The coffee brewed. and all was well! Then IT happened. And not a cool interesting intergalactic space spider...
I am on holiday this week. A full week away from the Insane Asylum, work, customers or as I like to call them “The Bane of My Life“. So far I’m still full of the festive cheer, festive beer, and festive treats. I have been working my way through...
When learning a new programming language, The Internet convention is to make a “Hello World” program. For those of you none-coders out there, that is as simple as it sounds. A simple program to output the words “Hello World” onto your screen, or a...
I was at my parents place last night for a family meal. As I went to retrieve my laptop bag and coat to leave I spotted my father moving the furniture in their 1st room apart to make a large free area of floor. (No idea what you would call the...
I read a book many, many years ago. It was one of the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov, Either second foundation, or foundation and earth, I forget which. (I did read them all in order straight after each other, so the actual books blurred into...