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Allan Hartzog put a little piece on Online Opionion, which attracted the usual responses from people who don't understand. That's tolerable enough. What I find extraordinary is the debate I've had with a property consultant who doesn't understand how Council rates are charged in Australia.

Other idiot of the week award goes to the community development group Borderlands. With a mere three licenses for MS-Office I've done the responsible thing and installed the ISO standard and community-developed OpenOffice on other machines. Apparently users don't know how to open a file with a preferred application and they don't know how to save a file according to the desired file type. I'm going to write these people some real basic instructions. Then I'm taking off the TiL I've accumulated. I might come back.

Apparently I have to re-sit the theory exam for CCNA semester 2 because I didn't complete the prac exam. Makes sense? Not really, but I'm cramming just the same.

Over the next few weeks I have three major website projects. Good lord. Work is pouring in. My little room in St Kilda is no longer big enough to store all my computer equipment; so I'm also looking at setting up a retail/home outlet in good ol' Spotswood.

Last night played HeroQuest with droog64 as Narrator; setting is 5th Century Britain, a dark and stormy time. If we're lucky we may even see the boy Arthur pull a sword from a stone. Or we'll have to find the Eagle of the Ninth (OK, so that was a lot earlier), or deal with Catweazel

Nepal becomes a secular democracy. The "Hobbits" weren't a new species. Aus.politics joke; Mosley's ancestors discovered. Concerns about ectasy and political lies.

Comments

[sjkasabi.livejournal.com]

I'm all for both Eagle of the Ninth and Catweazle. But if you want the boy Arthur in the Eagle of the Ninth universe, you need to read one of the sequels, The Lantern Bearers. I haven't read it for years, but iirc, it'll be nice and dark and stormy for you.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Ahh, I seem to recall that was one of the books that droog64 plonked on the table. Now I have two positive recommendations I'd better read it!

[droog64.livejournal.com]

It's a good book; if a little nice. For a more savage, adult look at the Arthur myth I recommend Henry Treece's The Great Captains. Not at all historical, but a ripping tragic yarn.

I've been trying to read Bernard Cornwell's The Winter King, but I'm finding it a bit tedious. It's like an Arthurian airport novel.