Online Again

Well, I'm back, after a hardware-failure induced absence of a couple of days, and a general laziness induced absence of all of the previous week.

My almost fresh-out-of-the-box fancy router with inbuilt firewall etc has apparently given up on the internet (lets hope it doesn't start a trend) and while it happily enables my PC to talk to my Bro's PC, it don't seem very interested in letting either of us talk to the wider world. However with a little help from the ever useful Lint and his USB ADSL modem that reminds me of a frog, I'm back online long enough to send a detailed complaint to the manufacturers of the guilty silver box. Hooray!

Unfortunately my hardware woes seem to be the limit of my memory of vaguely interesting news for the last week or so. Work is pretty much unchanged, so read some previous rant about "projectitics" and suchlike to get a feel for what is going on there. On the bright side, I might be out of a job by the end of November... things are extremely up in the air at the moment, but my cynical-sense is tingling, and suggests at the very least my slim pay packet is going to take a cut to "very little indeed". As much as I'm determined to deliver Chip's project in a blaze of amazing programming and nay-sayer hat eating (if the nay-sayers don't have their own hats to eat I'll buy them some, because I very much want to see it), pay cuts and pointless reshuffles may not encourage me to stay around much longer than that. We'll have to see. My Cynical-Sense may be out of joint due to TCP/IP packet withdrawal symptoms, and I may end up getting a payrise or something equally unexpected.

Yesterday’s remarkably upbeat horoscope on the company intranet site (which suggested some stunning specimen of the female species would knock at my door and by impressed by my amazing wit and charm) proved to be untrue. Nobody knocked at the door, never mind an attractive young woman, and I was in a decidedly un-witty and charming mood anyway, so it's probably just as well.