For some reason I forgot that I'm putting this sort of thing on my blog these days - so I've replicated the post over here:

 http://bjdean.id.au/blog/archives/2008/09/#e2008-09-19T15_26_37.txt

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Here's a sort of long-running private joke between some of my friends and I...

Many years ago we were setting up a server monitor and it was decided that we'd come up with an executive summary style - that being a simple ''thumbs-up'':

attachment:ThumbsUp.png

Or a ''thumbs-down'':

attachment:ThumbsDown.png

Somewhere along the way the system developed a bit of an attitude and somehow the ''thumbs-up'' became a little bit more like....

attachment:FingerUp.png

Don't really know why I've posted that but a recent conversation lead to re-building those simple images and I thought I'd put them up in lights. :)