After the failed attempt to buy a replacement motherboard for the computer at home, it seems to actually be behaving itself OK. I still get the interference sometimes when doing heavy MIDI playback, but mixdowns seem to come out clear. Where the computer positioned is next to the conservatory (which faces south). On a sunny day, even in winter, it gets really hot in there. This seems to increase the chances of the computer randomly re-setting. More evidence for the temperature theory.

I do intend to give up smoking sometime soon - before it's pretty much outlawed. A month's cigarette money would go a long way towards a socket AM2 MB and a dual-core chip. Anyone got any comments on that? I have 2GB of DDR400 RAM which I don't really want to throw away.

Not looking for a gaming machine, but something that can handle audio and video editing nicely would be good. Especially if it has 3 PCI slots or Firewire so I can plug the video camera back in and actually do some editing.

I did plan to get some footage of people riding at the Quayside last year and put that together, but, yet again, I never got around to it. If you make your own wakeboard videos, you don't have to adhere to the convention of at least one jump-cut per second.

I just had the following conversation with a colleague:
C: "Is there a way to find out what server a database is on?"
H: "Yes. Ask $DBA"
C: "No, I meant a technical way"
H: "Yes, e-mail $DBA"
I am so helpful.

Apparently today is Internet Safety day or something. So no lemonparty links, no grooming and no spamming. OK?

Charlie Brooker trolls Mac users. With some success.

Intarweb pervs having to register e-mail addresses because we know how hard it is to get a new e-mail address.

Tony says nobody is planning to attack Iran. And we all believe him.