- Garbage collection days
- Yesterday was a public holiday here in Sydney. Queen's birthday to be exact. And you know what? The garbage truck never comes around on Mondays, and thats probably why. All public holidays I can recall are long weekends, this means if the garbage collection day was Monday, 2 things would happen:
- Garbage people take a day off, resident are left with a full rubbish bin.
- The Council pay extra for garbage people to work on a public holiday.
Now since the first poses a health risk, and no sane MP would -ever- let his/her voters be stuck with 2 weeks of rubbish and a bin design to hold 1 weeks worth, it means therefore, option 2 must come into effect.
Now of course, the government in its infinite wisdom didn't want that to happen. So they came up with an ingenious idea: never have garbage collection days on mondays. Clever isn't it. This way, they never have to pay workers extra holiday pay (except maybe for Christmas, Easter, and New Year, but I am sure those are all long weekend style too).
Of course all it takes is for ONE region to have its garbage collection on Mondays to sink this consipracy theory.
- Garbage people take a day off, resident are left with a full rubbish bin.
- xchat
- For those won't don't know it, xchat is an irc client, written for X windows system on *nix systems. Now, its also available for windows. This means no more dependence on mirc, and I can sleep at night, knowing I am morally safe ;-)
- SMP in OpenBSD HEAD
- Yep, thats right, every one's favorite secure-by-default one-remote-hole-in-more-than-8-years server operating system, openbsd is getting symmetrical multiprocessing support, according to this entry.
System admins rejoice!
Back to doing past papers... it redefines fun...
Cheers,
Steve