OJ’s rants

Regular readers of Dilbert are currently kicking and screaming about the site’s new Flash-based design. Personally I don’t mind it, but at the end of the day it matters not.
Why?

After more than 3 years on the bench I’ve decided to take the plunge again. Today I signed up for the Gold Coast Airport Marathon. The event will be held on the 6th July ‘08 — which from today means I have a total of 80 more days to prepare.
I’ve been back into running training [...]

I thought it was about time that I made you all aware of a site that’s worthy of attention. I don’t usually like to just send out a link and shut up, but I’ll make an exception this time.
There are stacks of link blogs out there, most of which suck. I have subscribed to so [...]

A timespan like this probably doesn’t mean that much to you.
It does to me.
Thank you, Marley, for such a good night’s sleep!

This is just a brief follow-up to my previous post on the keyboard I bought.
I’ve now had the chance to use it a fair bit, and I thought I’d give you a small summary based on my experience.

It rocks.
It’s better than I had hoped.
It is sex on a stick.

Buy one. Now.
That is all.

Before I even started using Vista, I hated UAC. I read about it all over the place, and laughed at the stupidity involved in asking users to constantly “cancel or allow” every action they wanted to take. As soon as I was forced to use Vista for work (both on my work laptop and on [...]

Xavier Rudd has hit the nail on the head with that song. It’s becoming more and more evident that our cash isn’t going as far as it used to.
It has been very difficult not to notice that the cost of everything we do is just sky-rocketing. Today, after another extremely expensive trip to the shops, [...]

I’ve been thinking about building a web application or two for a while, but I haven’t yet found the time to invest. I don’t think this is going to change very soon either. I’m not the kind of person who usually likes to get stuck into something unless I know I’ve got a couple of [...]