School Reunions

We had a school reunion on the weekend. The first time many of us had actually seen each other for nearly 20 years. And what fun we had! The night is a bit of a blur, but bits keep coming back to me. It was great to see everyone again, despite what some associates were saying beforehand (they obviously hated school - I LOVED IT!)

I heard that I was retired (I'm not) and that I'm a millionaire (I'm not), which was quite fun :-)

In the footsteps of giants..

Many years ago, I read an article/interview with Jeff Bezos - the guy behind Amazon. They started as do many tech companies in his garage, and had no idea what was going to happen .So that they could keep an eye (ear!) on what was going on, they made the server beep every time they sold a book.

They had to turn the beep off after a few hours, as there was just a continuous BEEEEEEEPP noise.

That has stuck in my head for years now, and in some spare moments earlier I put together something that does much the same. A small UDP server on my PC which simply takes an incoming message sent over UDP. I've currently got it set to go "pop" when a site gets a visitor, and, get this - a lovely cash register noise when a revenue earning action happens :-) Love it!

No doubt I'll get bored of the constant pop-pop-pop, but it's fun for now :-)