Chris Hansen’s blog

H.M., a man who had no functioning long term memory, has died in a nursing home. Read his interesting story in his New York Times obituary.

…and many happy returns of the day!

• 10:11 morning tweeters. having coffee with a work colleague this afternoon to see what’s going on. #
• 16:20 had coffee with work colleague. he didn’t have much new information but did have some insights and wants my CV, so W00t in excelsis. #
• 17:15 @besskeloid : that’s great. have a beer for me. #
• 22:17 @MrPandaBehr : holy, jumped-up Jesus! That is a diet which would kill me almost immediately…I hope that maverick1303 exercises a lot… #
• 22:18 @urbanbohemian : i always look at their tweets, and if they’ve just begun, or have one entry, i sniff SPAM[tm] and block ’em. #

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• 21:33 have a meeting with my boss’s boss on Monday morning…is that “Taps” I hear in the distance? #
• 22:09 @tug from your lips to God’s ears…actually, I’d rather retire… #
• 10:11 morning tweeters. having coffee with a work colleague this afternoon to see what’s going on. #
• 16:20 had coffee with work colleague. he didn’t have much new information but did have some insights and wants my CV, so W00t in excelsis. #
• 17:15 @besskeloid : that’s great. have a beer for me. #

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(not that I have one everyday, of course…)

Otto the Octopus is bored. So he does what humans do to keep himself amused.

I have just been called by my boss and invited to a meeting with the manager of the department on Monday. I suspect that this is going to be the ax falling. I am not too upset about being made redundant, if that’s what happens, as we will not starve nor will we lose our home. I’ve had good experiences in previous situations where I have been made redundant. However, it’s always a pain in the neck to try to find work. I will start calling my acquaintances now and see what’s happening.

The best reason for remaining out of debt and saving up is redundancy.

Now, of course, I have four days to stew about this. Never a good thing.

Had dinner with my friend (and soon-to-be Lodge brother) Nadeem last night. We ate at Kiasu, the Singaporean restaurant at Bayswater. Had Hainanese Chicken Rice and Gado-gado as an appetiser. Very nice, and it was good to catch up with him.

Today I got a hard drive for my larger laptop, 250 GB, and installed Fedora 10 Linux on in to see what all the fuss was about. Compared to Ubuntu, Fedora is slow, clunky, and complicated. It also doesn’t have items such as OpenOffice as part of the distro. I suppose I will be able to download it from someone and install it, but WTF anyway? It would be simple to put it in the distro file. I will probably overwrite it with Ubuntu in a day or two, once I’ve finished bashing the heck out of it.

I love me that smooth jazz, BTW. Keeps me sane sometimes. Other times I like electronica and such. That also keeps me sane at other times.

Tomorrow I have an appointment at the Kings foot clinic. While there is a spot where the blister was, I expect it’s just something trapped in the skin and will be cut out by the podiatrist’s scalpel. In the evening we are going out to dinner with D and P. I worked for D when I was stationed at Morgan Stanley, and P is his Chinese partner. They are a great couple and lots of fun to be with. Of course, as they live around Bayswater, we are going to…(wait for it) Kiasu. I love it so it won’t be an imposition at all.

I need to do some studying for my Practitioner’s exam in Software Test Management, which is coming up next Friday. I hope that it will be OK. I’ve re-read the course notebook but haven’t tried either of the two mock exam questions. Will have to do that soon.