Just a quick note to point out a couple of presentations on Queuing. I've recently shown the second (which admittedly has some significant things in common with the original, and not just the web-based slides). Either way, you are welcome to look at them online, and the original html source, and some source code, are …

Recruiters: Here's the rules. The first recruiter to tell me the company name, and then send the job-spec gets to forward my details - if I think it's interesting. No company name, or spec, no chance If you send my details without my OK, you lose. And I tell the company you are a loser (chances are, they are too). …

A quick fun post for those of you with an Amazon Kindle - some instructions on how to a) jailbreak your reader (trivially easy), and then b) put your own wallpapers on there, so you get a more interesting 'screensaver'. It's really easy, no more than 20 mins and a couple of reboots/software updates. Most of the time is …

I was out last night at the The Big Xmas [bash] #, near Silicon Roundabout. It was a fun night out meeting various people, tech, business and recruiters. Oh, the shame though - I was wearing the same T-shirt as someone else - and, yes, I have indeed replaced people with small shell scripts. Now, to the main part of …

Phew. That would have been embarrassing if I'd not passed my ZCE on Thursday afternoon (Jun 4th, 2009).