It feels inherently wrong…

… to be in a meeting in Auckland at 9am and be back in the office in Hawkes Bay mid afternoon. Yet that’s how todays been. 7am flight to Auckland. Cab into centre city, making it just in time for the 9am meeting. Quick coffee after the meeting then cab back to the airport and…

Thursday, 10pm.

10pm. 527548 events logged by Snort since 7pm last night (the last database purge). The vast majority of those was during office hours today; not surprising given the general peak traffic time on the network. Snorby is holding up well although ruby seems to consume a lot of resources, and I managed to crash the…

Computer Science – A little humour

All programmers are playwrights; all computers are lousy actors. A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper, and the blinking red light. The best accelerator available for a Mac is one that causes is it to gain momentum at 9.81 m/s². My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.…