Ahh, I love the autumn weather... it is just such a wonderful time to be alive.

A game HOWTO - Well, I received our first contributed HOWTO document on running a game server on an SME Server V5. The game is Counter Strike, and I guess there are quite a number of people who like to play it. Anyway, we now have our first gaming HOWTO on the long list. Rather cool.

Friends don't let friends use IIS - I had heard about it, but today a colleague pointed me to the actual page from Gartner with their warning about not using IIS.

The W3C Patent Wars Continue - Nice to see the W3C's response and their lengthening of the comment period. Now it is time to get some longer and more solid comments in there. Of course, judging by the comments at LinuxToday, the W3C seems to have lost a great amount of credibility in a number of people's eyes.

Curling - Played in the first game of my league last Monday. Did fairly well given that it was only my third time on the ice. Our team lost, but we had a good time. We do not play next Monday, as it is Canadian Thanksgiving, but we are up again on the 15th.

Public Toilet Map of Australia? - You do have to sometimes wonder about our friends down in the land of Oz... Their explanation contained this:

Although the Map will be of use to all persons requiring information about public toilets, the Government recognises that incontinence can be an isolating condition which makes travel difficult. For this reason, the Map was designed specifically to assist persons experiencing incontinence with travel and daily living arrangements.

Nice that they are so concerned about incontinence... (this was sent to me by one of our Aussie developers)

I am an uncle - My wife's sister just gave birth today around 3pm. I now have a new nephew, Nicholas, who came into this world at 9 pounds, 7 ozs. Very cool!