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 [...]
March 6th
I am trying to put together a proposition for the company i work for to switch to fairtrade tea and coffee, fruit and juice. I am hoping to arrange a meeting, including accounts and marketing departments. I will show that it is a better deal for farmers and workers in developing countries, it will be [...]
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 [...]
January 24th
I got my computer fixed last night! My wonderfully helpful work colleague came over to help me get it all wired up back together in the new case. It was absolutely the power supply that was broken. We plugged it into the new case and it just worked straight away. Hooray! The new PSU is [...]
January 11th
I feel like a Life Review is in order. But i'll keep it short. [Edit] no i didn't! It's kinda long!
December 21st
Heheh, it felt like Christmas Eve at work today. Most of us are away next week, so it was a very laid back atmosphere. We were meant to be hammering a test system and i kept logging quotes from Scroobius Pip, such as "Thou shalt not make some noise for Detroit" - "Thou shalt not [...]
December 11th
I overheard a colleague on the phone. I have no idea what the call was about, but this was the half i could hear:
Always be satisfied with second best. If not third or fourth best.
Aim low.
Have i put you off yet?!
Okay. Bye.
Hahah! :D
December 6th
I am really enjoying coming home and singing the blessings and lighting the candles. It is reminding me how beautiful spirituality and ritual can be, when you simply view it as something to benefit your soul. Here is our chanukkiyah on day 3 of Chanukah:
I love how, despite the chanukkiah being so delightfully cheap and [...]
December 4th
I feel rubbish for many reasons. It feels like one of those DRAMA days that i used to have when i was a teenager. I am trying hard not to worry, not to be overcome by the situation, but it is a tough fight just to hold on to a thin thread of sanity.
Most disastrously, [...]
December 3rd
I aquired an extra monitor at work today. We are writing regression scripts and you really need two monitors to be able to do it effectively. They could only spare a 15-inch monitor, but it fits just perfectly against a 19-inch if you rotate it into portrait-mode! So it has given me an extra 768 [...]