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Just what I needed first thing on a Monday morning — to have to go to the dentist! I guess it was better than getting a toothache halfway through my holiday, which was bound to happen if I hadn't gone. Discoverered again that local anaesthetic and motorbikes don't mix, riding to work afterwards was a hassle with my balance not feeling quite right.

One of the worst parts of going to the dentist always seems to be the inane conversation or questions that you have to listen to while your mouth is wedged open and you can't answer. Maybe it's meant to take your mind off the fact that someone is rummaging around inside your head with assorted pieces of metal.

Victim of a sudden old music attack: listening to the Undertones, and then found a couple of songs by the Thought Criminals, something I thought I'd never be able to do.

What would you know, a quick attempt to find out a little about the sea-slug we found yesterday and I discover that there is a www.seaslug.com and www.seaslugforum.net! Not only that, but there are pictures of the beastie that we found.

Meandering back along the coast from Inverloch to Melbourne we stopped in at a few of the lookouts and went exploring the cliffs and rockpools. The two most interesting finds of the day were:

• A four-sided starfish! In amongst a myriad of small, green, pentagonal starfish, I found a mutant square one.
• A greenish weedy looking seaslug thingy, about 15cm long. When poked with a stick it squirted purple dye at us, then wriggled around across the pool. Quite an amazing find, I've never seen one before.

...and what would a day along the coast be if we didn't get a sudden urge to eat large quantities of fish and chips, then regret it immediately afterwards and spend the rest of the afternoon feeling way too full and way too greasy.

Quote from a conversation in the car:

That'd be either the Hairy Nosed Wombat, wombatus hirsutus, or the Combat Wombat, errr, the Common Wombat.

...oddly, there is a Melbourne band called Combat Wombat. Maybe not so odd after all, it does roll off the tongue quite well.

I have been very lax. Almost two weeks since last I wrote and many things have happened.

Mainly spent the last few days at work looking into the feasibility of amalagamating the various authentication realms that we possess. It would be really nice to be able to seamlessly sign-on to the Novell NDS, Netscape MDS, Microsoft and MIT Kerberos systems all at once, then have SSH and everything else just work. Been doing a lot of reading, looks like we've picked a non-trivial problem!

Why do I have an empty post telling me that there's a full moon tonight?