Odd Thomas Odd Blog

I often ask myself this question when I feel cornered by work and today is no exception. As per usual, we have a customer who wants something last minute and then buggered off on holiday, so I am left holding the baby, sorting out the IT side for the new website templates, only to find they've done a hatchet job of the content. Unable to let tardiness in presentation get the better of me*, I have ended up sorting out the worst of the content so that it is at least presentable-ish for the time being. All of which has lead to my still being in the office at 9:30 at night, with all of my plans for tonight scrapped. I am not a happy bunny. * Not that I'm top-notch when it comes to presentation, but I can at least make things look acceptable.

One of the first things I did when I bought my new computer ... broke it ... re-installed it ... broke it again ... repaired it (I said I was in IT, not good at IT) ... was to sign up for the SETI@Home project. I know, I know, there's a good possibility we'll never see anything come of this in my lifetime ... but aren't you just that little bit curious? Not even just a teeeeeny little bit? Well, I am! Mind you, perhaps we should be looking for something a little closer to home. We could call it Settee @Home and start with calculating the average intelligence of the couch potato; though as names go, it sounds more suitable for a project to work out the best way of providing instructions for flat-pack furniture. And before anyone complains about signing up for what, in their mind, is a worthless exercise, I've also signed up for Rosetta@Home ... so ... nerrrrr!