Zerbey's Journal: March 21st, 2003

Friday! Long, hard week as ever.

We are finally getting ready to rid the storeroom of 400 ancient Dell machines, they're going to clutter up our external storage facility instead of cluttering up what is officially my office. In actuality, I've not been able to get into my office for almost a year now and in the intervening time it has become a dumping ground for the entire company. Just to make our lives even more difficult, our other storeroom is being converted to onother office - 10 people will be crammed into a space that 2 people would find confining. Where the junk from that storeroom is going to end up is a mystery, probably in my office or external storage. Both of which are currently at breaking point already. My company refuses to sell the wretched computers, something about taxes and asset value. I'm seriously considering making a Beowulf cluster out of them.

Two hours sleep last night thanks to our very fussy Son but, oh well that's Parenthood! He was fast asleep until the exact moment Kelly opened the door to our bedroom (which he shares with us) then his eyes snap open and a few seconds later he wants his bottle... :-)

I've actually paid for a subscription to Slashdot, been reading the site for almost as long as it's been around so it's about time I contributed. There's my good deed for the week.

In other news... we are at war with Iraq. I'm still not sure how I feel about this.

Random Thoughts:

* I am glad that the Iraqi people are finally being liberated. Hussein is an evil man and needs to be dealt with.
* I'm unhappy that so many people are going to have to die in the process.
* Why couldn't a peaceful resolution be found?
* Why are so many countries who call themselves allies siding against each other?
* The anti-war protests in both of my home countries frightens me, but that's the price we pay for freedom of speech.

I pray every day for peace and forgiveness when it is all over.

For once, I'm enabling comments in my journal - I'd be interested in other people's thoughts on this. Good or bad.