A friend sent me this photo, which I found very moving. He had in turn received it from someone else but I have been unable to find it or information about it on the web. I did find some information about organisations staging fake prom-related crashes to teach school children about the dangers involved in drinking and driving. After looking at this image again I wondered if this image might be from one of those demonstrations. In any case it is still a very powerful image. If anyone has any further information about the situation depicted here, I would be most interested to hear about it.

In case you haven't got the message yet, cars are dangerous, and drinking and driving kills!

About a month ago I succumbed to temptation and bought myself an iPod. I then started looking at podcasts that I could download and found one that I really love. Coverville by Brian Ibbott is a 30 minute show, published 3 times a week, that presents cover music. I have downloaded the entire archive, thoroughly enjoyed listening to it, and have heard many great versions of songs I already knew, as well as some I had never heard before. If you like to hear, different, interesting music I recommend that you check it out.

Note that you do not need to have an iPod or other portable music player to listen to this and other podcasts. They are mostly published in MP3 format so you can download them and listen to them on your computer too.

I took a crashed hard drive home from work on Friday, intending to strip it and use the platters for a project I am planning. While I was stripping it I decided to make a photo opportunity of it.

...that one of my photographs, Mutt-A-Glo-Glo, has been flickrzenned as one of the greats of Flickr.

I am a software developer and also the backup administrator in our office. I often get people coming to ask me to do something related to a software project, or to ask me to perform some administrative task for them.

That's no problem, but, why, oh why, do they have to stand behind me and watch? Do they think it will happen faster or I won't do it right now unless they wait. I find this particularly annoying with administrative tasks, which can involve remotely logging in to some server that is as slow as molasses. If they're not watching I can carry on with other tasks while I wait but if they are watching I just have to stare at the monitor and fume about the sluggish computer and watching cow-orker.