Not a very productive week, the more machines that we install Sophos anti-virus software on at Monash, the more machines we seem to have that are experiencing problems. Or maybe that should be, that are eXPeriencing problems, since most of them seem to be on Windows XP. No amount of removal and reinstallations seems to work. The NetWare 6 native file access product is driving me crazy too, the test server works perfectly, the production one will let Windows machines login but not Macintoshes. No amount of “try this, try that” type advice seems to be helping.

…and this morning’s idiot of the day award goes to the man in the Subaru Forester. Holding a thick-shake to his mouth with his left hand, and a phone to his ear with his right, he still managed to stay mostly in one lane as he drove with his knees up Swan Street.

Yay, time to get away for the weekend. Off to Lorne(-38.55,143.9666667) to sleep in late, eat good food, drink good coffee, slurp good wine, and be with good friends.

Drove down through the miscellaneous 60, 70, 80 and 100 km/hr zones that make up the continuous road-works that is the Geelong road. I’m astounded that people can manage to do this twice a day and not get caught by a speed trap, some of the transitions from one zone to another are not easy to spot, and the mix of old, new and temporary road-markings is frightening in the dark!

Well the first meal of the weekend was a failure. Pizza from the only take-away shop left open in Lorne(-38.55,143.9666667), it was an evil slimy affair covered in diced pig and not much else. Marko and Jo had trouble containing themselves when the sole waitress in the empty shop used the intercom to order the pizza from the cook in the kitchen, roughly a metre behind her.