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All observed timing measures provided for the signature routines were performed on a Sequent Symmetry with ten 16 Mhz 80386 processors. The numbers provided are simply an informal gauge of throughput, rather than any authoritative metric.

Ahh, I think that was the same config as castle.ed.ac.uk, the mainframe machine I used in First Year A.I. They merged Castle and the other Sequent machine Festival to become Tattoo. Looks like that machine has been replaced by holyrood. Ah high powered computing those were the days.

Tysons Corner

Confederate soldiers in Manassas

Yesterday I decided I want an Ice cream. So I got in the car and went to Annapolis. I took some photos and had my ice cream. I wanted to take some photos of the bay bridge so I stopped off at the state park and walked along the beach. Then looked at the map and noticed that Ocean City wasn’t that far away. I have never been there and didn’t have anything better to do so I kept on driving. I had dinner in OC then drove home.

I know that my house is full of it, but when someone opens a cupboard door in a Film and you see a set of plates for under a second that you think that looks like the same ones you have from Ikea. Then the next scene is the lead actress drinking from a coffee cup that I know is from Ikea because I own a few just like that except in blue. Ikea is everywhere!!!!!! now the real confession I am watching “Me Myself and I”, I blame the Tivo.

I slept in late, woke up, went back to sleep again, woke up again, finished my book. It was not one of Ian Rankins best books, but we can’t be prefect every time. Had breakfast, well lunch really. The went into D.C. National Geographic always has interesting exhibition that change from time to time. This time they had one called Fragile Realms, photographs by Mattias Klum from Guyana, South America. Walked round Dupont Circle bought a CD and had some wonderful Tomato and Basil soup at Cafe Luna. Mmmmm.
Now I am wondering what I am going to do with the rest of the night

Remember the email I got saying that I had a spelling error on my website. I got this today.

I don’t really need someone to point out the occassional typo in something
that isn’t my work. What I do need is for people to stop wasting my time. Mr
Misspelled Web please piss off.

Regards
Ben
….
Am I the only one who finds this hilarious? The man sends us an e-mail
bemoaning our spelling and lo and behold he can’t even spell himself.
Examples of poor spelling are:

certinally = certainly
occurred = occurred

So in closing, FUCK you, you twat…

The original email was sent to more than just me, so these replies were cc’d to everyone 🙂

I am 70 pages away from finding out who the skeleton found in the soon to be Scottish Parament was, who killed the prospective MSP (minister of Scottish Parliament), and why a tramp with almost half a million pounds jumped off waverly bridge.

Geek Stuff:
I just tested a little app on a windows 2K machine. The app is supposed to lock the mouse into one part of the screen so you can have the screen visible but users can’t use the computer until a password has been entered. In under 2 minutes I had defeated the little beast. I couldn’t move the mouse but I was able to get access to cmd prompt or for that matter any other window. Ooops I guess it is not very secure after all.

Geek stuff:
I have been using a little app called cookie pal for a long time now. It makes me feel a little better if I know that people can’t track me through cookies. I have been using yahoo email more often in the last month or so, but I don’t like all the cookies that yahoo sets. If I block cookies from Yahoo I can’t get into my email. However I can ban yahoo cookies except the for the ones that expire in the current browser session, but i have to hit the sign in button twice….. Hmmmmmmm strange.