Tom sent me a really weird link tonight. You thought installing RedHat Linux was easy? Try Installing Linux on a Dead Badger
(note: no badgers were harmed in the making of this blog entry)

If you like Drama, and Action, I can highly recommend the following shows:
CSI (Crime Scene Investigation)
CSI: Miami
Spooks from the BBC
Links are courtesy of TV Tome

Well, I’m now up into the top 1% of users in terms of work units for SETI@home – rank is 46,744 out of 4.8 million users.
Why do I do it? I don’t really know – I used to run the distributed.net RC5 client but once the contest was over, figured I might as well use those spare CPU cycles to do something more interesting. If there is intelligent life out there, maybe they’ll have the answers to some of the more difficult problems we face or maybe they’ll just wipe us all out so we don’t have to worry about the problems of exhausting natural resources, polluting the environment and so on.

Ok, I’ve finally switched. Now I’ve had the chance to use MacOSX I’m quite enjoying it. There’s all the power of unix but also the pretty GUI stuff that I’ve grown used to using Windows as a desktop.

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Well, despite my blog entry at the end of December, the snow didn’t really settle. It was quite disappointing. One of my New Years resolutions is to blog more often.. given the months between entries last year, that shouldn’t be too hard.

Finally, after days of waiting, it’s decided to snow. Unfortunately although the flakes are big ones it’s not settling on the ground because it was raining this morning too. It’s still snowing though so there’s hope yet!

…in the server case. Seems the fan has decided to pack in so it’s rather warm and has already caused 2 crashes in 2 weeks in a machine that’s not needed a reboot in months.

Found this url on a mailing list and figured it was just too funny not to share.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/69/33858.html

…monsters under the bed? Lots of little insects in the flour.

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