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people fired.

The good news: really great Internet humor is picked up too.

From the land of "Put the shrimp on the barby, Marlene:"

I was travelling on a tram the other day and in one seat
there was an old digger (Australian soldier or ex soldier)
reading his newspaper.

Across from him was a juvenile with a spikey mohawk haircut
coloured pink, green, orange and yellow.

The old digger kept looking over his newspaper at him.

Finally the young bloke spat the dummy, and yelled at the
elderly gent, "What the f......k are you looking at you silly
old bastard, haven't you ever done anything outrageous yourself ?

As cool as a cucumber the old digger put down his paper and said,

"I screwed a parrot once, and I was wondering if you were my son"

Actually, I consider the people to have fired themselves.

It's weird when you're on the controlling side: I almost started putting
skull stickers on my terminal for each 'kill'. Thought it would be funny.

(Real Country Song Title:)

Fortress SMS is a phone based application
to send and read encrypted SMS text messages.
The messages are encrypted prior to transmission
and can only be read by the intended recipient on
entry of the correct password.

Trial version available (fully functional reader
but only allows up to 3 characters in the password
for outgoing messages). Although the password is
processed using standard cryptographic
techniques prior to encryption, sending messages
using the trial version should NOT be considered
secure.

http://www.fortressmail.net/fortress_sms.htm

As a way to bury the hatchet and do something nice I'm offering a free
printed copy of the LTC manual [signed] to the first 5 (to celebrate
the # of years the project has been going) people to send me an email
with a short snippet of their interest in the LT projects [will remain
private if desired].

For those who haven't been to my website, I'm offering printed copies
of the LTC manual for sale as a way to fund some of the projects I do.
The source of the manual will remain PUBLIC DOMAIN as part of the
archive. The printing is mostly to provide nice printed manuals for
those that work with the library and to raise funds. Since attending
conferences [and providing stipends] and buying hardware costs money it
would be nice if I wasn't fronting all of the costs. I also plan on
bringing copies to the conferences I attend next year as freebies.

I'm waiting on the first draft print [from lulu.com] to examine the
quality of the process. I'm sure it's going to be fine (they're in
business for a reason I imagine). At which point I will edit, refine
and add to the manual for the first printing.