Cheap Therapy

If you’re in the eastern states of Australia and have installed your OS patches (Win,Mac OS X 10.3.9, 10.4.x,10.4.x Server) for this year’s changes to daylight saving (thanks to the Commonwealth Games, daylight Savings stops next weekend rather than last weekend) and still can’t work out why your Java apps aren’t handling the time change correctly, you need to upgrade your version of Java. (This will also affect changes to the US’s daylight savings next year.) It definitely affects Windows, not sure if Mac OS X Java suffers the same fate.

Java has its own set of timezone information embedded in it. Yay.

Of course, being in WA I otherwise don’t care.

This is pretty cool, it imports metadata from Python source files into Spotlight, allowing you to search on function and class names, version, author and descriptions.

In the wake of cyclone Larry local Queensland retailers are complaining that too much relief assistance will cause them to lose trade.

So, anyone got an idea how to contact the Mozilla/Macintosh help desk?

Thank you for your enquiry.

The browser/operating system you are using is not supported by BankWest
and accordingly, we cannot provide assistance in that regard.

While we understand your concerns and acknowledge that there are many
other operating systems and browsers available, many have been found
inadequate in some way for use with our internet banking facility.

Accordingly, the Bank supports only the major browsers and operating
systems in general usage.

Please refer to the following page on our web site
http://www.bankwest.com.au/Personal/Online_Banking/Troubleshooting/Brows
er_Information/

We suggest you refer to the Mozilla/Macintosh helpdesk for assistance.

If you have any further queries, please feel free to contact us again.
Yours sincerely
Di Roach
Customer Help Centre
BankWest

Earwax

“Spooning leads to forking” - T-shirt

“Flattery will get you everywhere” - T-shirt

“Yes, I own this ute, no I will not help you move house” - Bumper sticker, on a ute.

“We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact. ” - Jean-Paul Sartre

“You see these grey hairs? Well, making whoopee with the intelligentsia was the way I earned them.” – Dorothy Parker

“I didn’t say it was your fault, I said I was going to blame you” - T-shirt

I fear that Puggle has discovered that after bedtime we get the Roomba out to play with it.

Began with drinks at the Cap. S. with Skippy and a local Schnitzel fiend. Drove Skip back to my place (he’s still sans car) and picked up fish and chips for dinner (mmm… grease and salt). Dropped Skip home (well, kind of :), then some Battlestar Galactica…

Saturday was grocery shopping day, followed by cooking dinner (pork with cashews and pumpkin, not as successful as I’d have hoped), and then more Battlestar Galactica…

Sunday was an opportunity for sleeping in (including Puggle!), and then it was breakfast/lunch, and I took Puggle for a walk down to the park to chase birds, fraternise with dogs, and play on the swings. The time it took to for us to walk to the park was enough time to cook pikelets, get in the car and drive down and still be ahead of us. Many photos taken. Dinner, then Battlestar Galactica…

Now I need to find something else to watch.

It occurs to me that if I put all the storage at the front of the study before I get to the work surfaces (ie the desk and server), I’m more likely to file stuff rather than put it down on the desk where it accumulates until I later have to wade to the back of the study to file it.

There should be a design pattern for this if there isn’t already. If not I call it ‘Storage in Access to Workspace’.

Only spotted 58 wireless base stations from the back of the bus on the way home today. They’re everywhere! 32 were unencrypted and 2 were ad-hoc.