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When I go to work I don't sleep well at night... well actually once asleep I am like a log, it's getting to sleep that's the problem.

I do 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off, the company provide all of my meals and accomodation, the unit they provide is really nice, it's two rooms. One room is the lounge and kitchenette, the other is bedroom and ensuite.

The problem I have is that for the first 4-6 days I can't get to sleep until about 11.30 to midnight, waking up around 6. The tiredness builds up and after that I go to sleep about 9 or 10.

I have recently become self aware of how much of a bad mood that puts me in and I responded poorly to some helpful suggestions because I took it the wrong way. It wasn't a full out flame war attack but it certainly could have been better.

Sorry Michael and the others that suggested corrections to the terminology.

Two builders (Phil and Eric) are seated either side of a table in a rough pub when a well-dressed man enters, orders a beer and sits on a stool at the bar. The two builders start to speculate about the occupation of the suit.

Phil: - I reckon he's an accountant.

Eric: - No way - he's a stockbroker.

Phil: - He ain't no stockbroker! A stockbroker wouldn't come in here!

The argument repeats itself for some time until the volume of beer gets the better of Phil and he makes for the toilet. On entering the toilet he sees that the suit is standing at a urinal. Curiosity and the several beers get the better of the builder.

Phil: - 'Scuse me.. no offence meant, but me and me mate were wondering what you do for a living?

Suit: - No offence taken! I'm a Logical Scientist by profession.

Phil: - Oh! What's that then?

Suit: - I'll try to explain by example... Do you have a goldfish at home?

Phil: - Er... mmm . well yeah, I do as it happens!

Suit: - Well, it's logical to follow that you keep it in a bowl or in a pond. Which is it?

Phil: - It's in a pond!

Suit: - Well then it's reasonable to suppose that you have a large garden then?

Phil: - As it happens, yes I have got a big garden!

Suit: - Well then it's logical to assume that in this town if you have a large garden then you have a large house?

Phil: - As it happens I've got a five-bedroom house...built it myself!

Suit: - Well given that you've built a five-bedroom house it is logical to assume that you haven't built it just for yourself and that you are quite probably married?

Phil: - Yes I am married, I live with my wife and three children.

Suit: - Well then it is logical to assume that you are sexually active with your wife on a regular basis?

Phil:- Yep! Four nights a week!

Suit: - Well then it is logical to suggest that you do not masturbate very often?

Phil: - Me? Never.

Suit: - Well there you are! That's logical science at work!

Phil: - How's that then?

Suit: - Well from finding out that you had a goldfish, I've told you about your sex life!

Phil: - I see! That's pretty impressive...thanks mate!

Both leave the toilet and Phil returns to his mate.

Eric: - I see the suit was in there. Did you ask him what he does?

Phil: - Yep! He's a logical scientist!

Eric: - What's that then?

Phil: - I'll try and explain. Do you have a goldfish?

Eric: - Nope.

Phil: - Well then, you're a wanker.

....everyone laughs at their expense but they are the first people we turn to when the shit hits the fan. Anyway here is a joke I thought was funny.

If you ever testify in court, you might wish you could have been as sharp as this policeman. He was being cross-examined by a defense attorney during a felony trial. The lawyer was trying to undermine the policeman's credibility....

Q: "Officer -- did you see my client fleeing the scene?"

A: "No sir. But I subsequently observed a person matching the description of the offender, running several blocks away."

Q: "Officer -- who provided this description?"

A: "The officer who responded to the scene."

Q: "A fellow officer provided the description of this so-called offender. Do you trust your fellow officers?"

A: "Yes, sir. With my life."

Q: "With your life? Let me ask you this then officer. Do you have a room where you change your clothes in preparation for your daily duties?"

A: "Yes sir, we do!"

Q: "And do you have a locker in the room?"

A: "Yes sir, I do."

Q: "And do you have a lock on your locker?"

A: "Yes sir."

Q: "Now why is it, officer, if you trust your fellow officers with your life, you find it necessary to lock your locker in a room you share with these same officers?"

A: "You see, sir -- we share the building with the court complex, and sometimes lawyers have been known to walk through that room."

The courtroom erupted in laughter, and a prompt recess was called. The officer on the stand has been nominated for this year's "Best Comeback" line.

I am wanting to create a database that people can submit scripts to, GIMP scripts. As an anti-spam tool I want to use a confirmation e-mail before the user ID is active. I also want it so that the user can use a password recovery form and have a new password sent to them if they forget.

This type of thing is bog standard on just about any web site you sign up to, do you think I can find the code that does that? No.

Does anyone know of a PHP script that I can just rip out of someone elses creation? GPL licence prefered.

Update (7th August): A mate of mine put me onto the Hotscripts web site. None of the free ones match exactly what I want to do but I can use them as a base.

I fly out tomorrow and that means I will have internet all the time, just not using my own laptop. Still it means I able to do what I want just about 12 hours a day on the net.

Anyone know any good web based games sites?

Whoever said "build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door" had no clue what they were talking about, none.

If you want to make money all you have to do is get Paris Hilton to hang your ordinary mouse trap off her nipples or put tap water in bottles, charge twice the price as other bottled water and call it Skinny Water.

That is not a hoax site, it has real people paying real money, fucking idiots.

... those that know binary and those that don't.

Telstra is the major telecommunications company here in Australia, their service sucks. I have been waiting almost 2 months for a phone line. I moved into a new house in an old suburb and since they don't do overhead lines they had tro get someone to dig underneath the road.

It was estimated that the date of completion was the 10 August. The case manager said he would contact me a week before on the Friday 3rd and tell me if the line was still on track for the 10, no such luck, there was no call.

I tried calling them on the Wednesday but I had to explain my story about 8 different times to 8 different useless people, none of them understood what I was asking. On the Friday I called and only had to explain my story 3 times before I was put onto a guy that knew what was going on. He said that there was some cable thing and it was on a supervisors report and it should be done early this week.

All of this week I would pick up the phone and see if there was dial tone. Finally I rang them this morning and they told me that they would make an appointment with a tech to visit on-site next Thursday. The supervisors report thing was done on Monday.

So they knew that the line was ready to go yet they did not contact me to see when I wanted an appointment for a tech's site visit. I could have gone weeks just checking for dial tone never knowing that they had finished their shit on their end and were waiting for me to call them and check on the progress.

Fucking idiots need their head kicked in, how the fuck am I supposed to know they had finally got their shit in one sock and were waiting on my phone call?

I hate how when I put my finger on them they sometimes accept that as a click, then I go to move the pointer and it drags things all over the place, stupid touchpads.

I should search the Ubuntu forum to see if I can turn that behaviour off.

Last night my son had one of his mates over for a sleep over, my wife went to a David Campbell show so I was looking after them by myself. We did really have anything to eat so I decided to get pizzas. I drove to the local Dominos and they charged me full price for 3 pizzas instead of discounting the second and third pizzas. When I got home I opened the boxes and was glad I got 3 instead of 2 like I planned, these "large" pizzas were small enough to fit on a dinner plate.

When I first started working 3 strapping fit teenagers could not finish off 2 large pizzas, now 1 adult and three small children were able to finish 3 and still be hungry.

Large my arse, soon they will be calling a 2" pizza a MEGA, I refuse to buy from them EVER again. Dominos can kiss my butt crack and stick their pizzas in theirs. Wankers.

Recently there has been some rain and the huge drain had water flowing in it. When I was a kid you would not have been able to move it would have been so crowded.

In these days of super caution we are stripping away the fun for our kids. I took my daughter down there and we walked through it, sure it was a infintisamal tiny risk that we would catch the plague and destroy the entire world but hey it was fun.

I just found out that I am too far from the exchange to get ADSL and it felt like a kick in the guts, stupid Telcos could not organise a fuck in a whore house.

What the hell am I going to do now?

I was told on Friday that I was too far from the exchange for ADSL, I was not happy about that and decided to start a campaign in our local area of everyone registering their interest so that Telstra would see that many people in the area wanted ADSL and they would do something to make it happen.

I contacted the Progress Association president and asked him about ADSL. Turns out that some people in the area can and some can't. His house is about 100m from mine and he has ADSL.

I rang the ISP company and they ran a cable length test and found I was 4.7km from the exchange. Normally the limit is 5km but the problem I have is that I am on a thinner cable and it's distance limit is lower.

There must be the thicker cable in the area if others can get ADSL, so I am ringing Telstra on Monday and asking why I was put on the thinner cable when I stated at the very start that I wanted this line for ADSL.

With a bit of luck they will change me over to the thicker cable and I wil have ADSL next time I fly home in 2 weeks.