Author: Two quotes of the day
– "Jesus saves, but Buddha makes incremental backups."
HP ProLiant ML570R
At work we're getting a new hardware infrastructure to support growth in our department. Amongst blade servers and whatnot, we're also getting one of these. It's coming with 17 drives and 16GB of RAM.
USA in Africa
A person of very little brain common sense has blamed advertising, children's power and anything else she can think of for the reason kids are so fat today (see related link).
The Dog Food Diet
This joke has been doing the rounds again, so I thought I'd post it to brighten up your day:
Welcome to Africa
The public broadcaster aired a documentary on circumcision recently, and traditional leaders (what a misnomer, that is) decided that the ancestors were offended, and a cow must now die to appease them (the ancestors). See related link.
eNATIS
The fancy new website for the National Traffic Information System (see related link), which is going live with a new system on Friday, had this to say. It was at 22:23 local time, three days before launch:
Look behind you – it’s the thought police
George Orwell was right, but just a few years out. See related link.
Idiot Word Of The Day
The idiot word of the day is "wilf", short for "what was I looking for?", in the context of aimless web browsing.
Creative Commons
The text of my site is now protected by a Creative Commons licence. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see more.
Cross-Platform Java blows chunks
Firefox and Thunderbird are resource hogs. Then again, what else is there that works the same way across all current platforms?