Lev Lafayette's journal

A distressful event of the week. A old friend of mine has disclosed that she has breast cancer. It has caused me a great deal of sadness, not the least being because she is quite young (<25). Her spirits seem quite positive, so there's been either some positive diagnostics as I think it may be or she is being more courageous than is necessary.

Thanks to the generosity of my new-found employer this post is coming via ADSL. Speaking of which, guess who had to go into the data center of the Australian Stock Exchange this week? Wow, that place is secure. I've also be learning about an amazing little product called Nagios. It makes the life of a sysadmin very happy indeed.

As part of tradition, the summer solstice provides the opportunity to compose and reflect on the events in my life from the past year. 2004: A Year in Review. May I just take this opportunity to thank everyone who has been reading this journal and for all your kind comments.

Here's some good news! Carmela Baronowka won a Wakerly Award for her documentary, Taliban Country!... and some more good news, my old Perth-friend Brian Choo has recently had his amazing art published by Allen and Unwin in
The Big Picture Book.

Another interesting event of the week was meeting KMFDM and excessivepurple in real life. I was a bit of a fan of theirs about ten years ago and was pretty happy to see they were still going strong. Picked up their Sturm und Drung DVD and got the band to sign it like a real fan-boy.

Once upon a time, I worked, quite briefly for a certain member of the Victorian Parliament. He proved utterly impossible to work with for a whole variety of reasons and so I resigned and moved on to more sensible position. Some seem to think that he's up to some branch stacking. Some even suggest he's done it before with monies from dubious sources.