I lost two days of my life this weekend, to my ISP, who on two occasions assured me that my ADSL password was what it wasn't. By 7pm tonight I was frustrated almost to the point of tears. Only by swapping out 1s for Is and 0s for Os did I hit the magic combination of keystrokes that once again brought a torrent of sweet sweet TCP, UDP and ICMP back into our home.

Molly, our little dog, has had surgery on her ahem rear-end, and has spent the weekend being spoiled rotten by me and Gemma. She seems to be on the way to a full recovery, poor little thing.

I haven't noded for almost two weeks, being mega busy at work rolling out the vampireware (it sucks the lifeblood out of anyone who comes close), and having to renovate my personal website, now that I'm so close to finishing my current assignment, and therefore all moral requirement to stay at the firm. Dot-coms are crashing daily out here -- time to move on, hopefully to something in open source evangelism. I'm looking forward to doing work that I can believe in again..