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September 09: Updates have been thin on the ground here. I plan on taking a weekend of slacking off to rectify that: movies to watch, perhaps an update to the books being read, that sort of craziness.
September 03: I think I was expecting Take The Lead to be a bit more like Step Up, but I didn't know it was actually based on some semblance of reality which I guess makes it a more interesting story somewhat. It's not actually bad or anything, just that I somehow expected a bit more oomph.
August 28: Finally saw Inception, which quite a few people have been raving about; it's good, but I'm not sure it's take-you-by-the-scruff-of-the-neck-and-shake-you good that the raving I've been hearing has implied. Still, a good movie, definitely worth watching.
August 25: On the recommendation of coworkers I have switched off the "flood prevention" feature on the UPC modem, since by all accounts it doesn't work and only causes problems like the ones I'm seeing. Of course, I've already put a cheap MRTG monitor in place and haven't seen a single problem.
August 24: Sneakers found... behind the sofa. This is the universe laughing at me for asking people if they've found stuff they're looking for "down behind the sofa", I imagine.

UPC's 15MB broadband is all well and good, but they appear to suffer from periodic terrible DNS performance. I'm not sure why it's limited to DNS, or perhaps I'm diagnosing incorrectly, but it seems like I can ping things just fine in the middle of this sort of episode while being completely unable to resolve hostnames using either UPC's own servers or the Google public servers (yes, small sample set, but hey). I guess I should augment my MRTG setup to include some DNS resolver testing.
August 21: Shooter was good enough, but the ending feels like it was tacked on in response to negative reception of the preceding scene, which would have been the original ending. Hard to say without reading the source, of course, but still.
August 17: I've been living here for more than two weeks now, and I still haven't found my damned sneakers.
August 15: I've asked the Waze guys to set up an Irish Waze Forum, and got myself an Area Manager hat for the Dublin area. Lotsa cleanup to do, but there's another user also just snagged an AM hat for a slightly larger area overlapping mine, so I figure it should gradually start to look a bit better.
August 13: Classic Microsoft and their Macintosh love: Launch Word. Select "Check for Updates". This launches the Autoupdater tool, which in turn tells you there's an update. Ok, install the update. The update then pops up a dialogue box asking you to close all open Office tools... including the Autoupdater.
August 11: Miranda is ... odd. It's almost as if they came up with that hysterically funny breadboard quote that comes near the end of the movie, and then tried to construct something to fit around it. It's slow, and there are a few self-conciously arty shots that you find yourself looking at because, well, nothing's happening, but it passes the time well enough.