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I just got a present from my mum, a book called McCarthy’s Bar by Pete McCarthy. Which is described as “The funniest book I’ve read this year”, Independent.
I am currently reading Set in Darkness
Thank you mum 🙂

I just got this email,
This email is a notice from the internet spelling police that your page contains an inaccuracy. Specifically you misspelled the word “inaccurate.” If your site was built by a “professional” web designer, we suggest you seek damages because it certinally doesn’t look professional with misspellings in it. If you built the page yourself, we commend you on contributing to the world wide web and invite you to find a spell checker and add it to your list of things to do before publishing a new page. There are several freeware spell checkers (some even on the web) that will do this service for you. Since almost without exception this particular misspelling occurred in an effort to correct someone else’s mistake, we encourage you to first look inward for areas that can be improved before being critical of others’ work.

Who gave them the right to say my spelling is crap. I know it is, so bite me.

I have been watching 42up, which has been following some people who grew up in England. They started at age 7 then visited them 14, 21, 28, 35 and now they are at 42 years old. I think more than anything else it is just depressing.

Should I feel productive? I just closed out 2 enhancement requests.

I am looking at my task list wondering if anything will jump out at me and look exciting enough to consider working on it. Most of the things are pending other people doing something first before I can close it off….

I just played around with a new tool from Microsoft for making IIS more secure. Pity it wouldn’t even complete on my machine since I had removed idq.dll at some point in the past. It would also be nice if there was a hint of a document explaining how it is doing things. Nice start but fairly useless in an environment of more than 1 machine.

Ok now my whole body is sore.

Yeah but I had a great days hiking. We started off about 9am this morning drove to Old rag near Shenandoah. Got to the car park about 10:30am. Hiked up to the summit then followed the circuit route back down the fire road then onto the car park back to the car by 5:30.
Here are a couple pictures

I can’t belive the week has been going so fast. Before I know it, it will be Christmas. I some times look back and wonder what have I done with the 4 years I have spent in the US. I think of Edinburgh, Scotland as my home, but I only spent 4 years at University there. Should I now consider D.C. as my home since soon I will have spent more time living in D.C. than I did in Edinburgh?