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I have a pair of Motorola DECT phones hooked up to my Vonage account.  The battery life has got steadily worse, to the point where I only have about 90 minutes of talk time before they start beeping at me.  Here’s the odd bit - they beep a few times, showing 0% battery, then catch a second wind and keep going for another 30 minutes or so.  I have an athlete for a phone…

Submitted to the Daily Telegraph (for the Sunday edition) and the Times, maybe one of them will publish it:

Sir,

It is with a macabre amusement that I have watched the reporting surrounding the alleged plot to bomb planes flying out of this country. Surely if one was of evil bent, and wished to cause economic and mental chaos, leaking news to the Western intelligence agencies of an impending strike against aircraft is the perfect psychological operation in a post-9/11 world?

Consider that the ensuing panicked response from our esteemed government has had a large financial impact on business directly and indirectly related to airline transport, and has caused members of the public pure grief while trying to travel. I submit that the attacks may or may not have been real, but that the psychological operation against our government and ourselves was, and is, real - and was a resounding success.

The season finale for Doctor Who is next week, and based on the trailer from this week’s episode, it’s going to be a scorcher.  Robots, Torchwood, space rifts, confisaction of the TARDIS and out and out war.  Should be good!

This week was a definite ‘hide behind the sofa’ episode - I admit to hiding in the kitchen at points!

Years ago (heh), I worked for a .edu in the USA, same place I got my BS degree.  At the time, my boss preferred Microsoft to the campus choice of Novell’s Netware.  We had the odd stealth Linux server, and even an RS/6000 running AIX (as a web server no less), in the web/Internet department, and all of class scheduling, billing, payroll etc ran on an AS/400.

After I graduated, I worked full-time for a year under another boss - the guy who ran the farm of Netware servers.  Funnily enough, more and more Microsoft servers were showing up.  I had fun writing code that ran under Netware’s Perl, complete with NDS authentication.  I also wrote stuff in ASP and VB.

Today, I hear through the grapevine that Groupwise is out, replaced by Exchange, and NDS will be replaced by AD by next year.

Odd, they were such a bastion of Netware, and I actually liked Netware 6 (perhaps it was because the local console ran X?).

C’est la vie.

It’s amazing how interesting the ‘net can be.  From a link on Wandering Ways I ended up on Robert Scoble’s blog.  From there I found the blogs of Doc Searls, and John Ludwig.

From that mish-mash, I ended up finding Hamachi (a VPN application), Structured Blogging and all sorts of random interesting facts.  And I like random knowledge.