My farewell gift was awesome

Tribute to protective plastic

Phones always come out of the box with a bunch of plastic sheets attached to the shiny plastic parts to protect them from minor scratches that can happen during assembly and bundling.

Some insane people insist on leaving this on their phones "cos it makes it look nice" or some other crap.

This video is for them...

Mmmmm...

Donuts

Cool trick in google talk

I just figured out by accident that putting *'s at the start and end of the message makes it go bold. Hazzah!

I am starting a new job

It's official, I am going into the world of contracting.

This is a steep learning curve for me as there are so many complexities added to your life for the sake of making life easier for the client I guess. They can just pick an hourly rate and agree to pay you that for an agreed period, whereas you need to get insurance and workers comp sorted out, and compulsory superannuation, and incorporation etc, and tax, and expense management and time reporting.... the list goes on.

Wish me luck.

Extreme talk time

With this box two phones get 6 hours talk time each.

LAN party of merit

Went to a LAN party on Friday night and we played TF2 till 6am Saturday morning.

I brought the test laptops from work again and this provided 2 more people the opportunity to enjoy the gibbing goodness on offer.

So kudos to Chesh, Joe, and Scott for the great hospitality and ethernet.