Funding? Anyone?

I have so many nifty things I want to do. So many Ideas floating around in my head, from the nifty to the bizarre.

And they all involve gadgets of some description…

Anyone want to fund my exploits?

Why do we need so much variety?

What ever happened to Butter?

The stuff you cook with, bake with and spread on bread? Just simple butter.

I can get Low fat butter. Butter thats not really butter. Butter with added Omega’s. Low low fat butter. Half fat Butter.

Where’s the normal butter? In a tub. Just plain butter in a tub?

And Shampoo.

I don’t tint or dye my hair, its not permed, I don’t have dandruff, I don’t need extra volume.

I stood there for 5 minutes just staring at a wall of too much choice.

I just want shampoo, for hair, on my head.

*mumble*

Possibly cooler than Photosynth

Yes.

Now my little stick figure drawings can actually look decent.

This is possibly the coolest thing ever.

Researchers have come up with a way of taking your stick figure drawings (and keywords), and using them to find actual images that match. Then compositing them to create the complete image you were thinking of.

From Crunchgear

Google Wave is a lonely place

Everyone (at least, where I am), knows what Google Wave is.

And if you don’t, check out the About Google Wave page

I was quick to jump on it when Google first announced it, and I was lucky enough to get an invitation today. I’ve been waiting for months!

Its as awesome as I thought… but Its a lonely lonely place. You can only collaborate with people in your Wave Contact list. And my Wave Contact list is empty, because no-one else I know has a Wave account yet.

Its so lonely *sob*

Why is District 9 awesome?

It just is.

Its a Sci-Fi Movie, it has aliens, and people go splat alot.

Its great.
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I feel better now

I’m not sure about you, but I’m glad that someone has taken the time to do this research.

I link you to a paper titled, “When Zombies Attack!: Mathematical  Modelling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection” by Philip Munz, Ioan Hudea, Joe Imad et al.

Thanks guys, I believe this paper is a step in the right direction. The better we understand our enemy, the more prepared we are to protect the world from the impending Zombie Apocalypse

(Thanks Dave for sending me the link to the paper)

Numb

Its my on-call week, and its been a killer so far.

At the moment, I’ve got a guy on-site transferring a new IOS image to a Cisco Router (which is long looong past its End of Life date), over a Serial cable with XModem. This is going to take a while (its 1am).

Last night, I was up from 00:30 until 03:00 trying to figure out why a router dropped off the network. Only to be told this morning that it was due to planned works being carried out by a 3rd-party. Oops, we forgot to tell you.

So, I’m cranky, sleep deprived, and can barely focus on my screen. But thats fine, I’m only oncall until Friday.

What happened?

At the risk of sounding apologetic, I’m sorry I haven’t updated more often…

I started off quite well earlier in the year. Almost a post a day.
Sadly, I started to run out of ideas, and then work took hold.

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The door appears to be locked

Observations from my desk, near the door.

I often wonder what goes through some of these people’s minds as they slowly figure out that, the door is infact, locked.

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Cisco need to rethink their support

I recently had the mispleasure of trying to use the cisco.com website.

I wasn’t even trying to do anything with a Cisco router, or switch, or any Cisco hardware at all. I was trying to upgrade the software on my Linksys SPA942.

But its a Linksys device you say? Well yes, but Cisco bought Linksys in 2003. Obviously, they saw a gap in their product offerings (specifically, the home and small office market), and decided to fill it, by buying a company that was already filling the gap. (As is the Cisco way…)

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