Tuesday 28 Aug 2007 by Orphi the AweKid.

I have a cousin called Olly. He’s a tad older than me; I’m not sure what age exactly. I haven’t really seen him (or that part of the family) for a great many years.

I do remember being over there a while back and complaining to my aunt that I have absolutely no luck with girls and I’m miserably lonely. I can clearly remember her saying “aww, come on, it’s not so bad. You’ll sort it out! Gee, I wish Olly was here; he’s just like you…”

Well, at the weekend, my dad received a pair of letters, addressed to myself and my sister. They’re invitations to Olly’s wedding.

…

So much for being “just like me”, eh?

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Tuesday 28 Aug 2007 by Orphi the AweKid.

The air temperature at my desk is now a slightly less uncomfortable 23.5°C. Thus far, the auditors have spent the day sitting in the meeting room with absurdly large piles of paperwork, and generally giving the people in QA a good grilling. (Cute QA Girl looks very sharply dressed today. It’s actually quite unattractive.)

Still, give it another hour or two and I’ll be able to go home… yay!

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Tuesday 28 Aug 2007 by Orphi the AweKid.

Clearing my throat and gripping the lectern I smile and face my audience clearing his throat and smiling with his hands on the bathroom sink.

(They might be giants, Till my head falls off, Factory Showroom.)

I should shake my tiny fist and swear I wasn’t wrong. But what’s the sense in arguing when you’re all alone?

(They might be giants, My lucky ball and chain, Flood.)

I am cow, hear me moo, I weigh twice as much as you, and I look good on the barbecue. I spend all day eating grass, methane gas leaks out my ass. Oh the ozone layer’s getting thinner from the outcome of my dinner…

(The Arrogant Worms, I am cow, source unknown)

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Tuesday 28 Aug 2007 by Orphi the AweKid.

You know, there was a time when if you wanted to write a web page, all you had to do was make sure you write compliant HTML, and make sure you save the file as *.html. (Or, if it’s actually on a web server, ensure it sends the correct MIME type.)

Then the guys at W3C decided that everybody should include a “doctype” header, basically telling the validator which DTD to validate your page against. Um, OK.

And today, it’s just crazy. The system no longer makes any sense. We now have XHTML which is identical to HTML except that it’s different.

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Tuesday 28 Aug 2007 by Orphi the AweKid.

It’s Tuesday morning. The temperature at my desk is an uncomfortable 17.8°C. And in a short while, a gang of government inspectors will be arriving to create merry hell for all us folks who are just trying to do our jobs.

Oh, and I also discovered today that my alarm clock is set to GMT rather than BST. Oops!

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Monday 27 Aug 2007 by Orphi the AweKid.

I turned the toaster on. The meter jumped straight to 2,100 W. In the time it took to make my toast, the toaster used 0.04 kWh of power. Eeek! This was with the toaster set to toast the bread. For some reason, all toasters come with a setting to burn the bread to a horrible crisp that nobody would ever eat. We don’t know why…

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Monday 27 Aug 2007 by Orphi the AweKid.

The saga continues!

It turns out that running Counter-Strike: Source still doesn’t put my PC over the 200 W mark. I’ll have to investigate loading the CPU. (POV-Ray?) Anyway, I played CS:S for about 2 hours, and this used 0.17 kWh.

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Sunday 26 Aug 2007 by Orphi the AweKid.

Yesterday I bought a device which enables me to discover how much power an item is using. I’m now frantically testing everything in sight!

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