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A good oldie : The case of the 500 miles email

As I am tidy­ing up my home direc­tory, I found this old gem that I saved to keep me amused on a rainy day, the blog is as good place to pub­lish it as any. ——- Sub­ject: The case of the 500-mile email. Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 14:57:40 –0800 From: Trey Har­ris <trey.sage.org> To: 0xdeadbeef@petting-zoo.net […]

UNIX is fourty! Happy Birthday!

So, UNIX, love it or hate it has been around for a while. It’s now 40 years old, it makes you won­der if com­put­ing is really that fast mov­ing. I believe that the fun­da­men­tals remain the same. Tech­niques, ideas and  usabil­ity (hope­fully) improves with time, as more and more users use it and devel­op­ers con­tribute to it. […]

Police negotiations and stopping tactics in South Africa

As demon­strated on youtube. I’ve always thought of our police as being soft on crim­i­nals, I also won­dered if they’d use harsher and more bru­tal force to catch the crim­i­nals if the crim­i­nals would stop run­ning. This has answered my ques­tion. Share on Facebook

A Bullet hitting wall, slow motion

This is cool! From: Your daily gif blog : Bul­let hit­ting wall. Share on Facebook

I’ve passed!

I’ve passed my Prince2 Foun­da­tion exam. Wasn’t easy, but I got there in the end. I only have the Prac­ti­tioner exam to go now, it’s on Fri­day and I am not 100% ready for it Share on Facebook

The ideal birthday cake for the frequent flier

This made me laugh. This was received by some­one I know, the guy lives on a plane, usu­ally in the front on British Air­ways, usu­ally in First Class, and in the best seat in the house 1A. The level of details is amaz­ing. Won­der if it tastes as good as it looks Share on Facebook

BBC Box

From Gwyd http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8193518.stm “I think Subhi has been fur­ther than the BBC box this year…” LOL Share on Facebook

Prince2

I am doing Prince2 Course, while I like the way it thinks about projects, ini­ti­a­tion, deliv­ery and follow-up I can’t help think­ing it’s the cause why MANY projects espe­cially in the pub­lic sec­tor cost so much. I always think of projects hav­ing a life of their own (True) but Prince2 has the poten­tial to cre­ate a […]

Why you should not talk about work on Facebook

.….. while you’re friends with your boss If you’re not con­vinced, here is why UPDATE Alan posted this link from the BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/7914415.stm The girl is a much big­ger moron than I though, she needs to learn her les­son, the hard way. Share on Facebook

The flying sheep!

So how do you get a sheep up a power line? The answer is easy. Just look at the pic­ture above From the lit­tle I man­aged to under­stand from google trans­la­tion the story goes. The sheep got stuck on the power line fur­ther up the hill, where the sheep graze and  the wire is closer to the […]