honez

(Life-size model of the largest Estuarine Crocodile ever killed in Australia.)

If he gets the top bunk, Bubba will be the one shooting up.

I believe as part of her rehabilitation, her psychiatrist gets to spend at least one night in Corby.

Think of car insurance, crash tests, seatbelts, airbags, crumple zones, road rules, speed limits, etc. When you arrive safely at your destination and step out of your car, do you moan and complain about how much of a fraud insurance and car safety features are? Yes, they piss me off too. A lot of insurance is bollocks designed by people who like to put the frighteners on us. If the stuff you say is true Honez - and you seem to know the IT business well - how is it Italy didn't collapse when, according to accounts I've read, they spent hardly anything on Y2K? I can't speak from personal experience with Italian IT systems, but I presume their financial systems would have been riddled with the same problems. Like I said, if left to their own devices there would have been major problems, so my conclusion is that they must have done some remediation that went unreported. Maybe Italian programmers didn't code in the problems in the first place, but I seriously doubt that. From what I saw, there were major issues with the Aussie/British/American systems and it would have been a financial disaster much worse than anything we've seen with the recent roller coaster ride.

I cannot disagree more, Godot. To the outsider looking in, it may appear to have been a big beat up over nothing but a fizzle on the night. But I can assure you, if nothing had been done in the three or more years in the lead up to Y2K, it would have been an economic catastrophy. I agree that lifts didn't immediately fall into basements and planes did't fall from the sky, but almost all of the computer systems (I'm talking big finance companies, banking, insurance, telecoms, etc) I saw in the lead up to it failed, and often in ways that were not predicable and sometimes did incorrectable damage during simulation testing. For the big end of town, to do nothing would have been an unmittigated disaster. They spent up big to prevent it from happening. It is good -- very good -- that there really were very few and far between "Y2K" issues. Rather than the whole thing being a fraud, it means that the years of work taken to avoid such issues paid off and the money was well spent. Think of car insurance, crash tests, seatbelts, airbags, crumple zones, road rules, speed limits, etc. When you arrive safely at your destination and step out of your car, do you moan and complain about how much of a fraud insurance and car safety features are?

I believe going out with your sister is incest, not coincidence. Unless of course, it's in a darkened room at the Maryport Swingers' Club... Then it's both.

Sorry to be so low brow, but I really enjoyed the recent release of Iron Man. A jolly good effort, I thought.

Enjoy the lyrics to what is undoubtedly the world's greatest music video, Benny Lava.

No-one looks good in a McHat. Nice watch though. Can I have it when he's gone?

Oh, no. But he may be coming to this year's DL-Con as a laydee. I believe it's compulsory.

And for those of you playing along at home, that's about US$1.02 per litre for unleaded and US$1.32 per litre for diesel. Which according to my calculations is about 52p per litre for unleaded and 67p per litre for diesel. It's about AU$1.50 for unleaded here in Oz at the moment, which is around 72p per litre. Hardly expensive by British standards, but still a good 50 cents more than 12-18 months ago.

Never has a more compelling argument been proposed in support of Notapotato than this by the Ross Sisters.

Ah, this post reminds me of the good old days.

Is that better?

"Hi, I'm #574. Dr Frankenstein said the first 573 experiments didn't work out, but I'm perfect. Hey, does this car have a vanity mirror? Oh, here it is -- GAK!!"

Our illustrious captain out and about...

"I know what you're thinking. It is a pretty necklace isn't it?"

"Hmm. Which one shall I pick?.. Leftie I think."

Yes, DL has many experts, all of whom are happy to let you know this. Myself included.