March 31st
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!
March 6th
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 [...]
February 20th
Haha, yeah i've been there before … try to avoid it as much as possible these days. Drama is just not my style anymore! ;)
February 17th
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 [...]
February 11th
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 [...]
February 7th
If you could give me … 15 to 20 of your Earth minutes …
Let's call it … quarter past Friday …
February 6th
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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 [...]
February 4th
Good morning, it's the guard.
If there is a Ken Wiggins* on the train could he please pop his head out on to the platform? We have your …
…
… We have something of yours.
Everyone on the train laughed! :)
*Name changed for privacy.
January 28th
Pro-Microsoft colleague: My computer's crashed!
Me: So has mine.
Pro-Microsoft colleague: How come?!
Me: Because it's Windows.
What more needs to be said?!
I found some wonderful Windows errors. Haha! My favourite is "An error occured while displaying the previous error". Heheh! :)
January 12th
Such a cute Sinfest strip today:
Let's blow ourselves up for an alien to marvel at!
Today i am mostly doing chores, getting ready for a day off tomorrow. We'll be going to London for lunch with a friend, and then to a workshop about Jewish people and their non-Jewish partners.
Last night i was investigating the Universal [...]