Thanks to everyone who sent me birthday wishes and cards this weekend.

My friend Jon came up on Friday and we had a couple of drinks. On Saturday Amy got things started by persuading me to come out at 5pm. I got home at 3:30am a little worse for wear. I blame the long day.

Jon went back home on Sunday and I spent most of the day in my dressing gown. Went and did some bowling with Ben and Cris in the evening.

My birthday was on Monday, moped around the house most of the day and went over to my parents and then for a drink with Ben and Cris again in the evening. We won some porn in the pub quiz which Ben snaffled away.

A good time was had by all.

Happy Birthday Beezly!

the Shipping Forecast, issued by the Met Office on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency at 00:15 today.

There’s something very soothing about falling asleep to the Shipping Forecast.

I just got a great correction to the PalmSource Developer Newsletter;

In Issue # 26 of the PalmSource Developer Newsletter, we inadvertently misquoted the industry analyst firm In-Stat as forecasting smartphone shipments at 266 billion units by the year 2010, compared to an estimated 54 billion units shipped in 2005. In-Stat actually forecasted 266 million units by the year 2010, and an estimated 54 million units shipped in 2005. That’s still a lot of units, and the slope of the curve represents a healthy growth in the smartphone business.

What’s a factor of 1000 between friends anyway?

Looks like fiordland.ubuntu.com (the default ubuntu time server) is loosing time (highlighted in red)…

     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==============================================================================
 fiordland.ubunt 193.79.237.14    2 u   17   64    1   86.350   30.454   0.001
 71.237.179.90   140.142.16.34    2 u   16   64    1  199.342    4.298   0.001
 ntp1.ja.net     193.62.22.98     2 u   15   64    1   25.256   -5.517   0.001
 ntp2.ja.net     .GPS.            1 u   14   64    1   23.713   -4.287   0.001
 ntp0.ja.net     .MSF.            1 u   13   64    1   20.058   -4.979   0.001
 LOCAL(0)        LOCAL(0)        13 l   12   64    1    0.000    0.000   0.001

Please, somebody, offer me the job of my dreams.

Surely that’s not asking much?