My first week back after my holiday hasn't been too bad. I've been holding my concentration a lot better, mainly because I've been getting back into the coding zone. The coming weekends still look busy though.

After missing him at Glasto I've got tickets for his Manchester gig. Anyone else up for a bit of dance mania? Tickets are selling out fast.

It was an amazing display of syncronicity that the subscriber count on the live-journal feed ticked over to 31 today. I know not everyone on my friends list subscribes so I had been meaning to hack up a quick perl script to iterate though LJ to dump out those missing …

So today I'm 0x1f, or 11111, or in normal decimal form 31. The number is a Mersenne Prime although probably not very useful cryptographically. My brother let me know that all of Jamaica would be celebrating today although less due to his persuasive powers and more related to Marcus Garvey …

Saw this href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040812/175/f06i1.html">item in the news today. I'm happy the BBC sees the sense in using open standards for their streaming systems. They experimented with Ogg for audio streams last year and have been helpful to me in the past …