Archive for the ‘amusing’ Category

June 3rd

Windoze

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Have you ever done a search in Windows, and kept the search window open for a really long time? That ridiculous dog starts going crazier than usual!
Here is the dog, not looking at its best …

In case anyone is worried i drugged the dog, or forgot to feed it or something, don’t worry! It perked [...]

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April 23rd

OGC logo embarrassment

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Resumo: La nova emblemo de OGC (Ofico de Registaro Komerco) estas embaraseta.
So the Office of Government Commerce in London decided to make a new logo.
They got it printed on pens and mousemats but not until they presented it to staff did they realise that there was something a bit embarrassing about it.
Still, they’ve spent the [...]

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April 20th

Shock, a meme!

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I haven’t done a meme since moving to this blog, but this is a fun one. I hope people won’t hate me for it. You put your name plus a verb into Google (or i prefer Scroogle because i like to surf the web without being watched) and see what comes up first.
Thanks ladybird for [...]

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March 31st

Windows disapproval

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I’m on my course. Going well. It’s a short break now. I think the tutor is not a great fan of Windows either:
“If you go way back to when Windows was very popular …”
According to the tutor, that was around the era of Windows 3.1. It all went downhill from there!

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March 6th

Thursdays are funny

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My team leader is undertaking the onerous task of understanding our client/server communication product since the one person who knew it has left. I just overheard in a Geordie Big Brother mickey-taking voice:
Day 45. The server has connected to the agent.
The agent comes to the diary room.
Haha, made me giggle! :)
In other news, to the [...]

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February 20th

Fancy that!

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Haha, yeah i’ve been there before … try to avoid it as much as possible these days. Drama is just not my style anymore! ;)

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February 17th

East Angular

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Something just reminded me of Jade Goody and this classic conversation with Spencer about Cambridge being in London and East Angular being abroad:

Fantastic! :)
We are having a nice weekend. Yesterday turned out to be a lot busier than i expected, but the weather is beautiful and we went out for a lovely cup of hot [...]

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February 11th

Geeky overheard

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We have a strange, slightly unhealthy love of guids here. The following is quite a normal geeky conversation in our department:
Well what you do is you look in md_attribute_template.
What was the guid, do you remember?
Was it B869B370 …?
E2BF …?
We have developed this (utterly false) notion of a guid ‘mountain’ and we talk of them being [...]

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February 7th

Overheard at work

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If you could give me … 15 to 20 of your Earth minutes …
Let’s call it … quarter past Friday …

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February 6th

A little experiment

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Hope i didn’t kill anyone by printing the U+FDD0 code. With any luck your browser has protected you by not rendering it properly. Mine is simply giving me a question mark. Whatever you do, do not download any font that contains the symbol of the eye of the basilisk!! Let this be a [...]

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