Archive for October, 2001

So…an announcement tomorrow

Monday, October 22nd, 2001

Apple, my favourite fruit company, is announcing some sort of new "breakthrough" device tomorrow with the only information available on it being: "Hint: It's not a Mac." As intended, this has got the media doing somersaults. Partly because it's Apple and by calling it "breakthrough" they are setting the bar pretty high ...

Unhappy

Saturday, October 20th, 2001

I'm not happy about the state of the world. For as long as I've been able to understand the concept, I've been a victim of bigotry and sectarianism - par for the course if you live in Northern Ireland. Every time I was stopped at a vehicle checkpoint, even as a ...

Extremists

Sunday, October 14th, 2001

The Secretary of State for NI has declared the peacefire for two Christian Extremist groups null and void. Their participation in terrorising the people of the province including throwing a pipe bomb at schoolchildren is to blame for this. The Unionist members of the Local Assembly have now called for ...

oooh, kay….

Sunday, October 14th, 2001

I don't know about you guys but CodeRed and Nimda caused one hell of a headache. I'd be inclined to demand the heads of every administrator who had an infected server under their control. I have four or five machines and none of them were affected - then again NONE ...