[19:38] <ibeardslee> morning
[20:03] <ajmitch> morning
[20:40] <snail> mōrena koutou
[21:01] <chilts> morning
[21:02] <chilts> am going down to 4 days/week from this week onwards ... sweet! :)
[21:02] <chilts> (negotiated with my contract extension)
[21:02] <ajmitch> so which day are you taking off? friday?
[21:02] <chilts> Wednesday :)
[21:03] <chilts> that's the best day
[21:03] <ajmitch> a mid-week weekend? :)
[21:03] <chilts> yeah ... more like a mid-week break :)
[21:03] <chilts> only ever have to work 2 days on the run now (which is my main reason)
[21:04] <chilts> also, 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] <chilts> so I decided Friday wasn't all it was cracked up to be :)
[21:05] <ajmitch> should have been monday
[21:05] <chilts> for me or for them?
[21:06] <ajmitch> either, then you get to avoid monday :)
[21:06] <chilts> heh
[21:07] <chilts> Monday ain't so bad when you have a Friday the day after
[21:08] <ibeardslee> I used to tell myself that when I got above a certain income threshold I'd start doing 4 day weeks
[21:08] <ajmitch> it never happened?
[21:08] <ibeardslee> unfortunately that was based on a fixed outgoing
[21:09] <ibeardslee> ahh the innocence of youth
[21:10] <chilts> but here's the deal, our outgoings seem to increase with our income ... how does that work?
[21:10] <chilts> something for you to think about
[21:10] <ajmitch> there are always new costs that can come up
[21:10] <chilts> it's called "Lifestyle Inflation"
[21:10] <ajmitch> yep
[21:10] <ajmitch> I'm sure you don't still live like a broke university student
[21:10] <ibeardslee> at the moment it's called rotten house
[21:11] <ajmitch> living off noodles every 2nd day
[21:11] <chilts> and gadgets ;)
[21:11] <ibeardslee> shhh
[21:11] <chilts> sorry :)
[21:11] <ajmitch> I haven't bought many gadgets recently :)
[21:11] <ibeardslee> I had more savings from 5 months as a builders labourer than I do now
[21:12] <ibeardslee> of course I also have some degree of equity in my house now
[21:12] <ibeardslee> it's not exactly savings
[21:12] <chilts> I think once a house comes into the equation, spare money goes into it rather than into savings
[21:12] <chilts> I have also found that
[21:12] <chilts> but that's ok, since it's still your pocket (somewhere)
[21:14] <ibeardslee> it would have been nice to have a little bit of cash to buy myself something for my birthday
[21:14] <ibeardslee> unfortunately it's also hads_ that missed out ;)
[21:14] <ajmitch> heh
[21:15] <ibeardslee> .. know anyone that wants to buy a mac mini?
[21:16] <ajmitch> I might have been tempted a couple of years ago, but I know it'd just gather dust now
[21:17] <ibeardslee> it was gathering dust in the tv cabinet as a media player .. but I want to move on to the new media player project
[21:27] <snail> on ubuntu is there a binary file viewer?  i want to look at utf-8 BOM etc...
[21:35] <ajmitch> snail: look for a hex editor or similar?
[21:35] <ajmitch> like ghex
[21:35] <snail> ajmitch: yes, but i don't need to edit, just view
[21:36] <ajmitch> right, but most viewers would probably be part of an editor
[21:37] <thumper> morning
[23:03] <snail> ajmitch:  ghex did what I needed
[23:49] <ibeardslee> looks like it might be time to tell HP go G<tab>
[23:50] <ibeardslee> http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/5367077/HP-confident-Kiwis-will-pay-40pc-more-for-TouchPad/
[23:53] <Atamira> mornig
[23:54]  * ibeardslee gives Atamira a spare 'n'
[23:54] <Atamira> oh thanks
[23:54]  * Atamira inserts the N into morning