Sorry Lib - I was enjoying a bacon sandwich...

[UK] I'd have thought you'd have a bit of a sore head!

[Lib] Well, fortunately it hadn't been cooked too fiercely. But getting the grease out of my hair is going to be a bind...

It doesn't matter how sh*tty the week has been , Friday always lifts the mood, doesn't it? Anyone know of any nice jobs going for someone bossy, intelligent and good at news writing? CV available on request. And The Dutch Miller is coming over again next weekend, :o)

Oh, and a lovely bit of spamming, which is a natural glow-worm or something: "ON fenugreek do maladroit.."

[pen] I think the next line is "beware the Jabberwock, my son!"

Morniverse seems slow today, or am I just toooooooo bored at work?

(UK) Not just today, either. The place seems infected with a kind of ennui. It'll pass, no doubt.

[Rosie] Well, I was hoping that someone might guess my AVMA before I left the office today, as I may well not be back online until Monday morning.

It's always very slow on Fridays. In fact I recall it being even less busy last Friday. Not that I check in here obsessively the whole time, of course.

Saturday was a non-starter.

There was an article in the paper a day or two ago about how boring and irksome working life has become even for people in well-paid professional jobs, what with vast amounts of form-filling and other pointless paperwork, meetings, meetings about meetings etc, etc. The way this place livens up during working hours shows how true that is.

The local authority I (used to) work for transferred our dept to Capita at the begining of Feb. I have had to drastically cut back to a minimum amount of browsing during work time. Before there was a woolly policy about internet use. However, my new employer begins their internet use and email policy with the phrase "You have no right to privacy"

I'm glad that my Brian Blessed impression didn't freak EVERYONE out. I'm well, thanks. Final semester. Argh. And I've been getting some lovely poetry in my spam too. But even better is the amount of recipes I get for Spam, being a GMail user.

(Inkspot) In that case don't do any more work than you absolutely have to. I hope at least you've retained your salary level.

MCIOS went down at 2.54 am today.

For about 5 minutes. You'd think a guy could take a server down for maintenance at 3 am in the user base's time zone.

FWIW, the timestamps on old moves from the first half of 1998 are now correct.

(Dan) Thanks for your efforts, as ever. Like Michael Howard, I am a creature of the night.