Well done England!
Month: August 2003
The Mind Boggles
“The US military said that soldiers had mistaken Mazen Dana’s camera for a rocket propelled grenade launcher.”
It just beggars belief…
BBQ
We used our new barbeque last night for the first time. In time honoured tradition, this state of the art cooking machine was used to cook sausages! We were suitably impressed with how easy it all is with a gas barbeque and were soon eating sausages in a bap with onions. Even Jon enjoyed it so it must have been ok!
The Tip
I have spent my lunchtime taking rubbish down to the tip today. We have now cleared the garden of all the stuff that was accumulating as a result of us unpacking :)
The tip here is a little disorganised with people just parking willy-nilly all over the place. In Croydon people parked marked out bays so as to maximise the number of people that could unload at one time. Presumably they don’t have enough people here?
One Lightening Strike
and 50 million people are without electricity…
Talking About Money
or the lack of it! One of the side-effects of moving was that we cleared all our debts and have a clean slate. We did a rough budget and we are pretty sure that we can just live on my salary. However this month, that hasn’t worked. I think it’s because we over-spent at Homebase (buy shares – we are good customers!) getting stuff for the house. We also had a few one-off things that I didn’t account for. Next month should be better as a result.
It’s just a bit frustrating that we aren’t quite living the easy life yet…
Frustrating
Our Internet connection isn’t very good at the best of time, this is not the best of times… Today has been very frustrating because our Internet connection has been much worse than usual and has made dealing with our live server an excruciating experience.
MSBlast
MSBlast is an automated worm that is taking advantage of a MS RPC exploit. The main feature that you’ll notice if you get it is that your computer reboots all the time!
elke_tanzer has a good description of how to get rid of it if you have it.
Good luck to famousamy and everyone else who’s affected in getting rid of it.
Succinct
Interesting weather forcast on the radio today:
“Finally some fresh air”
And that was it! Then the presenter moved on to another subject!
Struggling
I’m struggling with SQL today. I’ve got a lookup table of a lookup table and can’t work out the SQL to do a search. As an example, consider the following:
Table 1 – books:
fields: book_id, price, title, author
example:
1, 2.99, ‘Life’, ‘A. Slug’
2, 4.99, ‘The Universe’, ‘A. Planet’
Table 2 – book_fields:
fields: field_id, field_name
example:
1, ‘cover_colour’
2, ‘cover_type’
Table 3 – book_field_lookup:
fields: book_id, field_id, field_value
1, 1, ‘blue’
1, 2, ‘hardback’
2, 1, ‘blue’
2, 2, ‘softback’
How do I find all hardback books that are blue?