If i’m entirely honest, it had been coming for a while, i just don’t think i’m quite cut out for being on my own again. tomorrow is a new day, and it’s a day I face alone for the first time in 18 months.
Sigh.

As we all get older, we’re going to see so many more people that we grew up with die… sadly, we’re going to live in a world where the recycled, manufactured popstars are going to be remembered as the ‘talent’
As soon as Elvis died we should have taken the Partridge Family Bus and shot every single one of these stars.

I see Microsoft are releasing a watch that can track where you are in the world… you’d think if you really didn’t know, you’d just ask the lady in the post office, that’s what i always do, works perfectly well for me.

safari is out. it’s Apple’s new web browser, and over the coming days and weeks, I will be posting my diary using and about this new technology.

iCal FTP
Use iCal without .Mac

Well, the no-Word-documents-thing was going really really well, but apparently change is too much for some people, so we’re going back to having Word outputted RTF documents (complete with their 5Mb filesizes) and embedded images.
So, I lost that battle… also, the CMS I wasn’t allowed to do is now being done by the external company, and they wanted to have a look at some of our GPL’d code for the forum, probably to pinch something from it, so a little glimmer of hope that I can point that out at some point… not that it’d matter, in fact I’m starting to notice that people take less and less notice of me…
Realised that for some reason, new directories have no permissions to do ANYTHING useful on the webserver, the webserver I still don’t have any access to…

Office XP – More bloat per dollar. Having far too many problems with converting Word XP documents (urgh!) to Rich Text Format (which is meant to be a standard!)
Downloading OpenOffice.org, which if useful I will get them to install on all our machines, as I believe it will deal with the whole standards thing a little better.

Trying to get IT to okay the use of VNC or in this case TightVNC – an Enchanced VNC distro.
Performance has increased about 8 fold when testing it, which means that people might not crack up when using it from remote offices.

NHS Information Authority – e-GIF: Help Using this Website – CompuServe users will probably find it quicker to download the software from the Adobe Forum (GO ADOBE)
CompuServe users?! Rock on!

Found this webserver running on an Apple Newton – This server runs on 4 AA batteries, in only 10K of heap on a 162MHz StrongARM SA-110 RISC processor, using NewtonOS Personal Data Sharing software (nHTTPd v2.043). This Apple Newton MessagePad 2100 is a multi-tasking, object oriented PDA with 4Mb of RAM and a 16Mb Flash storage card, connected via a Farallon PN895 Ethernet card.