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When I drove into work today the flag at the entrance to the site where I work was at half-mast. The sign which declares the "Alert Status" proclaimed "Amber". I can only remember seeing it at "Black" or "Black Special" before. I know this seems a bit like shutting the stable door but, in the circumstances, if the security staff didn't do these things, then we really would have grounds for complaint.

Back at work, "the interfaces" lumber on. Today we've kicked off getting an estimate done for one of the components which supplies the data to one of the main interfaces. Everyone agrees that this is a real monster. It involves doing some statistical sampling of a set of data. The test manager and I have been discussing just exactly how to test that this thing is working properly. Not test that it works (without falling over) but that it gives the right results and selects the right samples. Hmm. I think we may be discussing it for a little while.