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.

No problem, I didn't mean it the way it probably sounded. Anyway I've just noticed that this so-called asiago cheese I've been munching on was made in Wisconsin. Now a bit of research shows that asiago is Denominazione di Origine Protetta, so they shouldn't be calling it that and I'd be surprised if they could even sell it in the EU under that name. Still, it's a good cheese, but now I have to go and find the real thing so I know the difference.

BTW, I'm off to New Mexico for a week, so this may be the last you hear from me till next Monday. The server will almost surely fall over in about 2-3 hours time. Expect reboots only during office hours in New Zealand. ttfn.

Read on its own, that last message really really looks like rab's part of some international espionage.

[Tuj] What? You mean you're not... one of us?