http://mickworld.knobbits.org/blog Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:08:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Found this in an old archived branch for a project I’m working on. revno: 1 committer: Adrian branch nick: cat timestamp: Fri 2007-05-11 15:14:08 +1000 message: FIRST POST http://mickworld.knobbits.org/blog/20070807/30/ I was browsing through realestate.com.au last week, and look what I found. I checked the place out. They were putting in a few new light fittings and new blinds, and that’s about it So I went through the tortue of moving out so they could do some minor renovations and charge ... http://mickworld.knobbits.org/blog/20070725/real-estate-agents-are-evil/ So as I mentioned before in my previous post, I am currently available for work. Although I would be most suitable for unix/linux based work using C/C++ or perl, given my experience I could confidently take any of a number of roles, including system administration, architecture, project/team management etc. I am looking ... http://mickworld.knobbits.org/blog/20070626/available-for-work/ I’ll give everyone a quick rundown of my life since, uh, 9 months ago. Goddamn, has it been that long. On August lst year I left utbox.net, after having been rewarded for turning the business profitable by being demoted. I took on a contract job at ThreatMetrix and worked there until ... http://mickworld.knobbits.org/blog/20070625/the-past-9-months/ 10 million dollars is enough so that you would likely never have to work again, even if you spent extravagantly (by most standards). You could leave that to sit in a bank account and make six figures on the “abysmal” interest. So you wouldn’t have to work anymore. You ... http://mickworld.knobbits.org/blog/20070104/what-would-you-do-if-you-won-10-million-dollars/ An interesting combination of shows to watch on the same day is An inconvenient truth and Walking with Monsters. The former explains how if we don’t stop pumping carbon dioxide into the air, the amount in the atomosphere will increase by something like 5-10 times, and the temperature will increase ... http://mickworld.knobbits.org/blog/20061012/different-perspectives/ For those that were wondering why knobbits.org was misbehaving, Yesterday I was alterted to the fact that connections into my server were timing out. I checked up on this and discovered that the server’s IP was effectively being blocked. Pings to said IP were being responded to, but not ... http://mickworld.knobbits.org/blog/20061002/am-i-being-hijacked/ I needed a function to do this to help me do my budget. It was PITA to write so I’m sharing it in case other people find it useful. Here are versions in perl, python and OpenOffice/MS Office macros. There are also functions to do the reverse, and ... http://mickworld.knobbits.org/blog/20061002/how-to-calculate-taxable-income-from-taxed-income/ So while I’ve been looking for work I’ve also been dabbling in all sorts of things. Let’s see: - I modded my x-box, which you already know about - I have bought a PS2 and plan to mod it as well :) I sure hope this is a moddable version - ... http://mickworld.knobbits.org/blog/20060929/geeking-out/ this is a simple ebay sniper, designed to be run from an always-on linux box inside screen(1). It’s different in that I tried to make it resistant to changes in eBay’s site layout. It did break when I tried it a few days ago for the first time in a ... http://mickworld.knobbits.org/blog/20060928/hacklets-ebaysnipe/