Another assortment

December 10, 2006 by paul
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In no particular order:

it was my company’s ~~Christmas party~~ holiday banquet yesterday – good fun and Kerri even won $100 HMV gift certificate for singing a song!
we saw the latest South Park – the World Of Warcraft one – excellent!
I left an article (from Network World Canada) on my desk to remind me to post about it: just a snippet about Google, but a profound snippet nonetheless:

Google Inc. wants to make the information it stores for its users easily portable so they can export it to a competing service if they are dissatisfied, the company’s chief executive officer said this month. [...] “If you look at the historical large company behaviour, they ultimately do things to protect their business practices or monopoly or what have you, against the choice of the users,” he said. “The more we can, for example, let users move their data around, never trap the data of an end user, let them move it if they don’t like us, the better.”

Excellent philosophy – giving the users the freedom to change service provider means the company has to work at keeping their customers happy. Kudos, Google.
I missed a badminton session last week – I think it’s the first one I’ve missed in 6 months or more! Last minutes changes in plan meant a late night trying to reschedule a mass of meetings – I know not everyone will like the new plan but it’s the best that we can do, I believe.
I replaced the server’s power supply – I knew the old PSU was getting quite noisy but now I’ve replaced it it’s evident that it was really bad – now there’s just the gentle gurgling of the liquid cooling system
I need to upgrade the BIOS on the (Win2k) games PC as only sees ~170Gb (I think) of the new 300Gb hard drive. I’ve downloaded the updates [protected LJ entry] but the floppy drive doesn’t appear to work (it’s enabled in the BIOS, the light is on but there’s no activity and it’s not seen by Windows) and I can’t seem to convince it to boot from either a USB Flash Drive or CD/DVD … so how to get it to run the BIOS updater?
It’s time to liven up our website – I think the blog will become the main part of the site (i.e. the main page) but I also want to update the layout a bit. See the next post (which I’ll be writing in a minute) re: a request for suggestions.