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ibeardsleemorning19:38
ajmitchmorning20:03
snailmōrena koutou20:40
chiltsmorning21:01
chiltsam going down to 4 days/week from this week onwards ... sweet! :)21:02
chilts(negotiated with my contract extension)21:02
ajmitchso which day are you taking off? friday?21:02
chiltsWednesday :)21:02
chiltsthat's the best day21:03
ajmitcha mid-week weekend? :)21:03
chiltsyeah ... more like a mid-week break :)21:03
chiltsonly ever have to work 2 days on the run now (which is my main reason)21:03
chiltsalso, I remember asking people who were on four day weeks why they took Friday off ... "So we can go away for long weekends" ... "how often do you do that?" ... "Almost never" :)21:04
chiltsso I decided Friday wasn't all it was cracked up to be :)21:04
ajmitchshould have been monday21:05
chiltsfor me or for them?21:05
ajmitcheither, then you get to avoid monday :)21:06
chiltsheh21:06
chiltsMonday ain't so bad when you have a Friday the day after21:07
ibeardsleeI used to tell myself that when I got above a certain income threshold I'd start doing 4 day weeks21:08
ajmitchit never happened?21:08
ibeardsleeunfortunately that was based on a fixed outgoing21:08
ibeardsleeahh the innocence of youth21:09
chiltsbut here's the deal, our outgoings seem to increase with our income ... how does that work?21:10
chiltssomething for you to think about21:10
ajmitchthere are always new costs that can come up21:10
chiltsit's called "Lifestyle Inflation"21:10
ajmitchyep21:10
ajmitchI'm sure you don't still live like a broke university student21:10
ibeardsleeat the moment it's called rotten house21:10
ajmitchliving off noodles every 2nd day21:11
chiltsand gadgets ;)21:11
ibeardsleeshhh21:11
chiltssorry :)21:11
ajmitchI haven't bought many gadgets recently :)21:11
ibeardsleeI had more savings from 5 months as a builders labourer than I do now21:11
ibeardsleeof course I also have some degree of equity in my house now21:12
ibeardsleeit's not exactly savings21:12
chiltsI think once a house comes into the equation, spare money goes into it rather than into savings21:12
chiltsI have also found that21:12
chiltsbut that's ok, since it's still your pocket (somewhere)21:12
ibeardsleeit would have been nice to have a little bit of cash to buy myself something for my birthday21:14
ibeardsleeunfortunately it's also hads_ that missed out ;)21:14
ajmitchheh21:14
ibeardslee.. know anyone that wants to buy a mac mini?21:15
ajmitchI might have been tempted a couple of years ago, but I know it'd just gather dust now21:16
ibeardsleeit was gathering dust in the tv cabinet as a media player .. but I want to move on to the new media player project21:17
snailon ubuntu is there a binary file viewer?  i want to look at utf-8 BOM etc...21:27
ajmitchsnail: look for a hex editor or similar?21:35
ajmitchlike ghex21:35
snailajmitch: yes, but i don't need to edit, just view21:35
ajmitchright, but most viewers would probably be part of an editor21:36
thumpermorning21:37
snailajmitch:  ghex did what I needed23:03
ibeardsleelooks like it might be time to tell HP go G<tab>23:49
ibeardsleehttp://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/5367077/HP-confident-Kiwis-will-pay-40pc-more-for-TouchPad/23:50
Atamiramornig23:53
* ibeardslee gives Atamira a spare 'n'23:54
Atamiraoh thanks23:54
* Atamira inserts the N into morning23:54

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