Monday, July 31 2006

2:40pm Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 53.8%, Average: 11.8%
2:40pm Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 8.4%, Average: 2.8%

QOTD:
Gordon's Law:

If you think you have the solution, the question was poorly phrased.

Friday, July 28 2006

4:50pm Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 19.1%, Average: 19.4%
4:50pm Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 3.2%, Average: 3.8%

QOTD:
Lactomangulation, n.:

Manhandling the "open here" spout on a milk carton so badly that one has to resort to using the "illegal" side.

Thursday, July 27 2006

11:10am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 29.5%, Average: 15.4%
11:10am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 10.5%, Average: 3.8%

QOTD:
My dear People.
My dear Bagginses and Boffins, and my dear Tooks and Brandybucks, and Grubbs, and Chubbs, and Burrowses, and Hornblowers, and Bolgers, Bracegirdles, Goodbodies, Brockhouses and Proudfoots. Also my good Sackville Bagginses that I welcome back at last to Bag End. Today is my one hundred and eleventh birthday: I am eleventy-one today!"

Wednesday, July 26 2006

2:00pm Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 39.2%, Average: 17.1%
2:00pm Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 5.0%, Average: 3.6%

QOTD:
THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #8: LAIDBACK

This language was developed at the Marin County Center for T'ai Chi, Mellowness and Computer Programming (now defunct), as an alternative to the more intense atmosphere in nearby Silicon Valley.

The center was ideal for programmers who liked to soak in hot tubs while they worked. Unfortunately few programmers could survive there because the center outlawed Pizza and Coca-Cola in favor of Tofu and Perrier.

Many mourn the demise of LAIDBACK because of its reputation as a gentle and non-threatening language since all error messages are in lower case. For example, LAIDBACK responded to syntax errors with the message:

"i hate to bother you, but i just can't relate to that. can you find the time to try it again?"

Tuesday, July 25 2006

2:35pm Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 33.3%, Average: 14.0%
2:35pm Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 5.0%, Average: 3.4%

QOTD:
By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect Hungry.

Monday, July 24 2006

2:35pm Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 29.5%, Average: 10.4%
2:35pm Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 6.8%, Average: 2.8%

QOTD:
Slainte mhath! ("Good Health to You!")

Friday, July 14 2006

11:50am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 59.8%, Average: 16.2%
11:50am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 11.1%, Average: 3.4%

QOTD:
You should emulate your heros, but don't carry it too far. Especially if they are dead.

NOTE: Your chronicler will be on vacation for the next week (July 17-21). Regular entries will resume July 24th.

Thursday, July 13 2006

11:35am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 56.8%, Average: 17.0%
11:35am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 5.8%, Average: 3.4%

QOTD:
Of course you can't flap your arms and fly to the moon. After a while you'd run out of air to push against.

Wednesday, July 12 2006

1:15pm Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 30.0%, Average: 18.5%
1:15pm Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 5.6%, Average: 3.8%

QOTD:
Glib's Fourth Law of Unreliability:

Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cost of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.

Tuesday, July 11 2006

12:30pm Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 21.3%, Average: 16.0%
12:30pm Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 3.7%, Average: 4.7%

QOTD:
Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing.

Monday, July 10 2006

9:45am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 63.5%, Average: 8.1%
9:45am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 8.2%, Average: 2.6%

QOTD:
The Ruffed Pandanga of Borneo and Rotherham spreads out his feathers in his courtship dance and imitates Winston Churchill and Tommy Cooper on one leg. The padanga is dying out because the female padanga doesn't take it too seriously.

Friday, July 7 2006

11:45am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 64.6%, Average: 19.6%
11:45am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 5.7%, Average: 4.0%

QOTD:
Nobody's gonna believe that computers are intelligent until they start coming in late and lying about it.

Thursday, July 6 2006

9:30am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 60.6%, Average: 14.4%
9:30am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 6.6%, Average: 4.3%

QOTD:
1 1 was a race-horse, 2 2 was 1 2. When 1 1 1 1 race, 2 2 1 1 2.

Wednesday, July 5 2006

10:10am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 15.0%, Average: 7.6%
10:10am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 3.8%, Average: 2.2%

QOTD:
If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

Monday, July 3 2006

11:00am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 37.3%, Average: 8.4%
11:00am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 5.6%, Average: 2.5%

QOTD:
Let he who takes the plunge remember to return it by Tuesday.