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I went to lunch at the Cliff House (of Folsom, not the one in San Francisco) today. A guy that I worked with for the last couple of years has finally landed himself a job, and as it's a bit far away, we probably won't see him for a while. So most of the department came along.

The special of the day was blackened swordfish on a bed of spinach with orso and a citrus salsa dressing. Wow, was it good. I nearly had to eat someone's arm off so that they would hurry up and order so my food would hurry up and get delivered. Hehe.

I managed to get my AlphaServer going again. I reseated the boards and up it came. I'm rather happy that it did, as I didn't need the expense of another machine just at the moment.

Uhoh. I just took a really bad power hit here at home. The power went out and came back on in about½a second. I suspect someone just hit a power pole with their car.

All three computers went out. There goes the record uptimes. The bad news is that the Alpha and the laptop are not rebooting. The laptop is telling me that it has no operating system installed, so it looks like a full rebuild for it. The Alpha looks to be in even worse shape, with the SRM console (the BIOS, in peecee terms) failing to run.

Looks like I have some work to do tonight.

MoreTdFcommentary. Sorry, I can't help it! Two! Yes, TWO aussies leading classifications after the first stage of the 2003 TdF! Wow. With a record seven aussies in this year, I suppose I have to expect it.

Brad McGee holds onto the yellow jersey after nabbing 4 seconds on an intermediate sprint and, with the field receiving the same time due to the crash within the last 1000 meters, now is the clear leader of the race. I doubt if he can win the whole she-bang as predicted by his team director a few years ago (he said McGee would win the TdF in 2003), but I hope he can keep the yellow jersey through the team time trial. That would be way good.

And after today's stage, Robbie McEwen got the green jersey as leader of the sprint competition! I'd love to see Robbie knock off Erik Zabel for the second year in a row.

Go, the aussies!!!

Le Tour de France in underway with a wonderful win by Brad McGee in the prologue in Paris. With David Miller's unfortunate mechanical, Brad won the prologue by fractions of a second, becoming only the third Australian behind Phil Anderson and Stuart O'Grady to pull on the yellow jersey. Go Brad!