I now have permalinks for each news item which should make life a little easier for linkers (it's that little # sign in the news item heading, use it). Also have permalinks for each "news day" (just to confuse things) and a new "news day" heading so that Ainsley knows what day I blogged which is apparently very important. Sorting libraries by colour is a good idea, however if you're in the blue section, which way is the green section or the red section or the black section? You'd need to learn which way the grades go...

Just digitise all the books and your problem is solved in a flood of unusable information.

There is a direct link between me being stressed and me getting sick. I'm getting sick. I'm stressed. See the connection?

Turns out the new song I wrote is an accidental rip off of the verse of "Come Anytime" by the Hoodoo's. Damn damn damn.

Wasn't CNNNN just brilliant last night? The Rob Hirst busking vs. little-kid-with-violin bit was excellent.

I'm gigging tonight at the Dan O'Connell. Be there. We promise at least one "new" song. ;p

And here for your enjoyment is yesterday's entry recovered from the bowels of Lotus Notes here at work...

Living in Southbank ain't all that great [The Age]. No food shopping. No cheap meeting places. No neighbours (either young professionals renting (70%) or retired empty-nesters owning) And the article doesn't even mention all the construction noise they're bound to have for the next two years.

Sure, Mark 'Chopper' Read may have been a scary guy in the past, I don't think his actions in life should be repeated, but if this country is at all serious about rehabilitating it's criminals then let the guy sell his paintings and books and whatever [The Age]. I'd rather he did that then cut someone's toes off.

More calls for monitoring what employees are doing with their computers at work [The Age]. How about monitoring an employee's productive output and not prying into how he/she gets that output? One person could surf the web all day and still get ten times more done than the person next to him who just stares at the wall and plays with himself all day. I'd rather pay a bit extra in internet fees keep my productive and enthusiastic employees rather than letting them bore themselves to death with nothing to do. Both my places of work now (back at the office and on-site at the place I contract 3 days a week) have very limited filtering that prevents access to specific URLs, such as gaming sites etc. However the majoritity of sites still get through, such as blogs, or news sites, which is basically all I read at work so I don't mind. Only occasionally do I feel like a 10 year old when I'm told I can't download anti-adware software or view a site with coding hints on it.

Bands use autopitch [via Slashdot]? Really? I hadn't noticed. My band uses "do lots and lots of takes then copy and paste" technology. Live on stage you can just suck our off notes.

iPod guy at work introduces me to Dolly Parton's two recent covers. The faily decent if freakishly country and overly long cover of Collective Soul's Shine and the scary scary SCARY cover of Led Zep's Stairway To Heaven. Eeek.

Mars! *spooky War Of The Worlds music* Look out for green steam trails.

Frustrations... there is work here at work at the moment, however I'm charged at a low rate at the moment for "support". To do "development" they need to charge more for me. This "more" amount is more than someone else, so I don't do the work. I want to do the work. It's only an hour or so of effort but it's something. I'm constantly telling people I'm a developer and they go "oh really?!". No... I'm just a support guy. Throw your bucket of poo my way.