Mutiny as passengers refuse to fly until Asians are removed. "Passengers refuse to allow holiday jet to take off until two Asian men are thrown off plane."

I'm gobsmacked. This sort of thing happens in this day and age? We've come so far with racial discrimination - to fall so far so quickly? Blame the terrorists? I don't...

"You can still be happy with a job not-well-done, as long as you gave it 100%."

Although it sounds counter-intuitive, its not. There's a myriad of reasons why a project might fail that have nothing to do with the effort put into it. Your requirements might be fluid, your deadlines restrictive, your budget too tight, etc. These things are not new in any project, and in fact seem the norm. Its how you approach the challenge that makes the difference. If you give up before you start because you know you can't meet the deadline, then you've already lost. But if you can figure out some way to make it work, even if the end product is not what you want, then there is nothing to be unhappy about, especially if you can make it. It seems you can reach some sort of zen-like acceptance of being simultaneously happy and unhappy while being perfectly alright with it all.

At least, that's the conclusion that I've come to after completing the last project at work. We took a piece of turd, cut it up, mixed it around, put it back together and polished it up good enough for release. Its not the piece of poop I wanted to release, but given the contraints we had, I reckon we did bloody well to release something that didn't smell all that bad.

After a busy couple of weeks leading up until Thursday's new product launch at work, I was looking forward to a nice relaxing weekend where I could just laze around.

But no. You know what happens when you tempt fate. Now I have to clear out the spare room because the ceiling decided that it didn't like the roof anymore - its clean come free of the beams and is saging about 4 inches. Great.

Want some free shit?

Hope its not water damage.

Normally I don't like embedding external media into my site, but I thought with the proliferation of cool stuff floating about YouTube and Google Video these days, why the hell not?

For your viewing pleasure:

This apparently was another one of those "Internet Phenomenons" around April or so (you know, like the Badger thing, All Your Base, etc). I can't believe I missed it (or can I?).

Clickedy on the picture to have your brain washed clean.

If you feel like you could just stick it on in the background and listen to it all day, that's okay - I feel that way too.

The tune itself is a fragment of a Finnish folk song called Ievan Polkka, sung by Loituma. Next up is a video of the folks from Loituma singing the full song (although the sound isn't very good)