Archive for August, 2001

Sunday morning: After the Holiday

Sunday, August 26th, 2001

A speedy two hour drive from the Lake district to Stranraer got us home on the earlier boat which meant we got to lounge around home for several hours. I fly off to London tomorrow for a training course in Advanced IP. Hope I don't feel quite so tired - I ...

roll your own DSL? Re-create the Internet?

Saturday, August 25th, 2001

Cringely has a good article about rolling your own DSL. At some point though it needs to be connected to "the real world" or "the real internet". http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010823.html My interest is more along the lines of setting up an undercurrent. Imagine I have a 2 mbit ADSL line (whoo baby...yeah). why don't I ...

The Holiday: continued

Tuesday, August 21st, 2001

Watched Kalifornia last night - still a good film. I guess that Pitt must be a good actor as he seems to be taking on all sorts of roles. He was good in this one and was also good in Snatch. The weather here was bright yesterday and we drove ...

The Holiday: Day One

Sunday, August 19th, 2001

We've been here for just over 24 hours. Ambleside in the Lake District. Feels like half the lakes are above our heads. It's wet. Really wet. Misty. Rainy. Spitting. Drizzly. Just watched Planet of the Apes. Pretty good. PLANET OF THE APES SPOILER --- PLANET OF THE APES SPOILER Course I can't ...

Congrats to Dee

Saturday, August 4th, 2001

Dee's starting a new job Monday week. Up to AO. Soon he'll be top of the World Ma! Top o' the world!

dav

Saturday, August 4th, 2001

Spent a few hours looking up details on a company in Belfast only to discover that they were featured on the front page of the JobFinder in the Belfast Telegraph on Friday last. Typical eh? Sometimes it seems that the online world is so far ahead of the offline one. ...

there may be trouble ahead

Wednesday, August 1st, 2001

Oh kay...went for a quick trip yesterday just to meet some cool guys and talk about cool stuff and it eneded up being something else entirely. Anyway - saw the most cool web content management application - does for corporate web sites what LiveJournal does for individuals. It's mad I tell ...