Random Musings - Day #252

9/9/9
Today was 9/9/9 and thankfully that day passed through near enough quietly.

Twitter RANT
Decided to just use twitter as following tool. Maybe I am not using it right but I think it's useless if you want to talk to someone new, really... You can't direct message unless they are following you. How the hell are you supposed to get a message across @someone and everyone potentially could see your tweet. No thanks. RANT OVER.

BTW my twitter is Shy 90, which I am now only tweeting useless 90s facts.

Internet Radio
A couple more internet radio stations to look out for. Some DJs that I know of are at Rockin Radio. Also found fallen sword via twitter.

Java certify me
Sun is telling me to upgrade my Java Certification.

More one-liners
This one was done on-the-fly. Figure out what the awk does?

cat all-result.txt | grep 10.0.0.1 | grep HIGH | grep 'MS0' | awk '{where=match($0,"MS0?-???"); print substr($0,where,8)}'

Turns out it was easier to replace an enhanced grep...

grep -o "MS[0-9+]-[0-9]*."

As shown in the modified one-liner...

cat all-result.txt | grep 10.0.0.1 | grep HIGH | grep 'MS0' | grep -o "MS0[0-9]-[0-9]*." | sort | uniq

To read a argument from shell... "READ IPS"

Random Musings - Day #43

It's Unix Time!
A geek thing this but tomorrow (Feb 13) at 11:31:30, the time sponsored by UNIX will be 1234567890.

More Radio
Here's a community radio station in Gillingham called Sunlight Radio.

Lastminute missed
I missed a golden opportunity today. I got in my emails (aside from the usual spam), an interesting email from lastminute.com that had an offer of hotels for 10 quid but it didn't start until 10am today. I checked at 9am and forgot about it due to work until 11am. Too late, most of the deals were snapped up.

Brown Envelope
The term brown envelope comes from big brown envelopes used to hide money as part of a bribes and corruption.
It's often associated with football too (a.k.a. bungs).

Close Team-mates
Talking of football, it looks like Frank Lampard and John Terry are getting a little too close for my liking as they trained for England 2-0 defeat to Spain.

Queen's Website
Well I heard on the radio that the Queen has a new website. The British Monarchy has been revamped. All I will say about it is if the Queen goes down, I go down with her!