Tuesday, May 31st 2005

9:59am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 20.2 %
9:59am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 5.4 %

QOTD:
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.

Friday, May 27th 2005

11:06am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 20.8 %
11:06am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 5.0 %

QOTD:
The world is not octal despite DEC.

Thursday, May 26th 2005

9:19am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 20.4 %
9:19am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 4.3 %

QOTD:
Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.
-- Augustine

Wednesday, May 25th 2005

11:40am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 25.1 %
11:40am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 8.6 %

QOTD:
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

Tuesday, May 24th 2005

9:12am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 13.6 %
9:12am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 5.4 %

QOTD:
Poorman's Rule:
When you pull a plastic garbage bag from its handy dispenser package, you always get hold of the closed end and try to pull it open.

Monday, May 23rd 2005

12:10pm Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 10.9 %
12:10pm Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 4.4 %

QOTD:
... it is easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all. In other words... their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws.
-- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, on the products of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.Friday, May 20th 2005

9:02am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 47.8 %
9:02am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 5.7 %

QOTD:
So, is the glass half empty, half full, or just twice as large as it needs to be?

Thursday, May 19th 2005

9:41am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 28.2 %
9:41am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 8.9 %

QOTD:
Dear Sir,

I am firmly opposed to the spread of microchips either to the home or to the office, We have more than enough of them foisted upon us in public places. They are a disgusting Americanism, and can only result in the farmers being forced to grow smaller potatoes, which in turn will cause massive unemployment in the already severely depressed agricultural industry.

Yours faithfully,
Capt. Quinton D'Arcy, J.P.
Sevenoaks

-- Letters To The Editor, The Times of London

Wednesday, May 18th 2005

9:54am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 43.8 %
9:54am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 6.4 %

QOTD:
Anthony's Law of Force:
Don't force it; get a larger hammer.

Tuesday, May 17th 2005

11:52am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 37.8 %
11:52am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 12.5 %

QOTD:
I find your lack of faith in the forth dithturbing.
- Darse ("Darth") Vader

Friday, May 13th 2005 (Watch out for black cats and broken mirrors!!)

1:34pm Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 49.8 %
1:34pm Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 11.4 %

QOTD:
This is clearly another case of too many mad scientists, and not enough hunchbacks.

Thursday, May 12th 2005

9:25am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 89.3 %
9:25am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 12.7 %

QOTD:
A man said to the Universe:
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the Universe,
"the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."
-- Stephen Crane

Wednesday, May 11th 2005

2:11pm Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 62.8 %
2:11pm Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 12.5 %

QOTD:
. . . I have some bad news for you. This is a very bad neighborhood. Many of the houses are boarded up. There is trash in the street. People will jump in your face and try to sell you things you don't want. And there are people waiting for you to walk down the wrong alleyway so they can mug you. Welcome to the World Wide Web.
--James Healan in Spyware Weekly Newsletter

Tuesday, May 10th 2005

9:47am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 79.4 %
9:47am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 11.9 %

QOTD:
The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much.

Monday, May 9th 2005

11:26am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 84.4 %
11:26am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 17.4 %

QOTD:
I went to my first computer conference at the New York Hilton about 20 years ago. When somebody there predicted the market for microprocessors would eventually be in the millions, someone else said, "Where are they all going to go? It's not like you need a computer in every doorknob!"

Years later, I went back to the same hotel. I noticed the room keys had been replaced by electronic cards you slide into slots in the doors.

There was a computer in every doorknob.
-- Danny Hillis

Friday, May 6th 2005

9:50am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 82.4 %
9:50am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 12.1 %

QOTD:
Two battleships assigned to the training squadron had been at sea on maneuvers in heavy weather for several days. I was serving on the lead battleship and was on watch on the bridge as night fell. The visibility was poor with patchy fog, so the Captain remained on the bridge keeping an eye on all activities.

Shortly after dark, the lookout on the wing of the bridge reported, "Light, bearing on the starboard bow."

"Is it steady or moving astern?" the Captain called out.

Lookout replied, "Steady, Captain," which meant we were on a dangerous collision course with that ship.

The Captain then called to the signalman, "Signal that ship: We are on a collision course, advise you change course 20 degrees."

Back came a signal "Advisable for you to change course 20 degrees."

In reply, the Captain said, "Send: I'm a Captain, change course 20 degrees!"

"I'm a seaman second class," came the reply, "You had better change course 20 degrees."

By that time, the Captain was furious. He spit out, "Send: I'm a battleship, change course 20 degrees."

Back came the flashing light: "I'm a lighthouse!" We changed course.
-- The Naval Institute's "Proceedings"

Thursday, May 5th 2005 (Happy Cinco de Mayo! - 05.05.05)

11:21am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 79.8 %
11:21am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 15.1 %

QOTD:
I was pulled over for speeding today. The officer said, "Don't you know the speed limit is 55 miles an hour?" And I said, "Yes, but I wasn't going to be out that long."
--Steven Wright

Wednesday, May 4th 2005

10:30am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 82.4 %
10:30am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 12.6 %

QOTD:
"Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk ?"

Tuesday, May 3rd 2005

9:25am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 73.8 %
9:25am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 13.4 %

QOTD:
"Arguments with furniture are rarely productive."
-- Kehlog Albran, "The Profit"

Monday, May 2nd 2005

11:26am Current Inbound Bandwidth usage: 84.8 %
11:26am Current Outbound Bandwidth usage: 16.1 %

QOTD:
Don't abandon hope. Your Captain Midnight decoder ring arrives tomorrow.