Last night turned out to be an eventful night for me. I had absolutely no plans, until about 6:30 when Chris rang me to see what I was up to. We organised to go out to dinner. While I was getting ready for that, Shane popped up online and invited me over to his place… Read more
I’m getting slowly closer to getting this FAT driver working in a usable fashion. As can be seen below, it’s now finally able to open the root directory and look for files in it. It should be able to traverse into other directories, too – I just don’t have a suitable test image handy. I… Read more
So here’s some more crap on data retention by ISPs. In this particular case, the attorney general of the U.S.A. is telling ISPs they should voluntarily record the last two years of data from all their customers. Ahuh. Let’s just see how the maths work out on that… Let’s be super conservative first up. Let’s… Read more
Hehe… funny because it’s true.
I stayed up late watching Lost. So sue me. :) Actually, I’m going to go have breakfast now. Rob, I won’t be in the labs this morning. :)
So, how’s this for bizarre – Stefan was working over last summer in Las Vegas. Yes, just a few hours away across one measly little border from where I was. He was working at a casino, in fact, although not as a high-rolling blackjack dealer; some kind of secretarial work or somesuch. It was a… Read more
Grrr… I’ve just poked at Qantas’ Frequent Flyer program, and it seems I’d earn a good 17,000 points for each return trip to San Francisco I’ve done. That’s enough for a return flight to Sydney, each time. Or a good portion of a return flight to, say, the Whitsundays. ‘course, I’m pretty sure my dad… Read more