Tim's Bits and Pieces

I watched this film on Saturday night. The Plot (at least of the first half I actually watched) can be summarised as "Matt Damon goes nuts." Oh, sure there was more to it than that, but that was the part that stood out. To explain how bad it was by the hour thirty point I did not care what happened enough to continue to sit and watch it. The family members that did watch the rest of it tell me that I made the right decision.

Linux Magazine: Intrusion Stories:

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Based on a recommendation from Marko Kloos (Down the bottom) I've purchased myself a fountain pen, a Pilot 78G, plus a bottle of Parker Quink ink. All in all this set me back about $28 including pen, ink, and postage on the pen.

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I Like Guns by Steve Lee (an Australian singer)

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Happy New Year, may all your resolutions last longer than the first week.

A family in Cairns is being criticized in the comments on this article for not saving a joey from a large python. With some of the comments I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

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The ABC on Holiday Hangovers:

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... Labour doesn't respect it. (Not that the Coalition are necessarily much better) Man Protests decision to make his farm a carbon sink:

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An interesting read on the terrorist attack over Christmas: Over Detroit Skies. Since I didn't go on the Internet over Christmas weekend at all, I've only just heard of this.

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Today my company sent out a bunch of emails about a service update to our customers. Approximately 16,000 emails. To make things easy for customers who wanted to ask questions about the changes we set the reply to field on the emails to be our support email address. This was a mistake. The first problem is that out of 16,000 people a reasonable number are going to be out of the office a week before Christmas, but that was OK, you just delete the dozen or so new Cases with "Out of Office Auto-reply" in the subject. No, the real problem was the infinite loops of auto-replies that our case management system created with some customers ticket systems.