If the last post or two have hinted at just the tiniest bit of depression, they're probably not too far wrong.

I mean I've just spent half an hour trying to make sense of an email from my office colleague, Q, forwarding something he'd received that included links to various library OPACs around the country. Said catalogs were examples that had tutorials to show students how to use the OPAC and might give us ideas of how to do something similar. The trouble was the links seemed to be broken more often than not and the commentary in the email seemed to be inaccurate, until eventually I looked at the date of the email. 2002. Turns out Q had had several emails regurgitate from several years back (for no very good reason that he's yet established), but forwarded that particular one on to me without realizing it was one of this set.

So in an attempt to be a bit more cheerful, this came my way this morning:

Last orders
Last week we thought we had resolved the question of whether the glass is half full or half empty when an ana­lyst programmer revealed that the glass is twice the size it needs to be.
Many of you take exception to this.
Bill Ridgeway at Comput­er Solutions is typical of our mailbag this week: ‘It is obvious an equally true answer is that the amount of drink is half as much as it could be’, he points out.
Computing, 5th July 2007, p40
http://backbytes.computing.co.uk/2007/07/last-orders.html