Actually, the rule is "no MP3 players". So WMA is OK then.

Blimey. It's like 21 years (well, 20.5) since I first saw The Smiths live. I feel old. It was at the Festival of the Tenth Summer gig at the GMex. This person has scanned their ticket. It's not nearly as cool as mine - which is number 0001. Shame I can't find it.

Was chatting with my brother on Skype last night. I reckon I must look a bit silly with large headphones on and a microphone on a stand.

Our weekly progress meeting has been cancelled - probably because there hasn't been any. There's lots of stuff we needs doing (e.g. re-write the data access so it's not stupid and slow) but it's a serious offence to do anything without management approval. I disagree with this approach - frequently it is easier to beg forgiveness than it is to ask permission.

I find it amusing when people mail the entire IT department with their little problems. Especially when the mails contain user names and passwords.

Might go to the pub tonight. Best to take it easy though as SB's party is at midday tomorrow. Hangover + lots of small children = bad.

Stating the obvious: with processors not actually getting much faster in terms of clock-speeds, but instead acquiring more cores, this presents some issues. Mainly, the current generation of VB programmers who have migrated to .NET and are developing "services" are going to have to get the hang of threads. Scary. The (predictable) thing that we saw with our system was that, because we've got not automated load tests, there are a load of race-conditions that just don't appear until you put the bugger into production. Hmm.

Saying that, if you're developing an n-tier or a distributed app, having a quad core processor + a ton of RAM + VMWare (or equivalent) for your dev/debugging environment is going to be pretty cool. You might want a pair of big fuck-off monitors as well.

I'm just rambling now. If you have nothing to say, say it on the internet.