This blog has been quiet recently. Very quiet. In my defence, I have been busy – extraordinarily busy. On thr bright side this does mean I have a few things to blog about. Two callouts to start off with, there’s a rant brewing about suppliers and in all that I’ve been told I can blog […]
Where have I been recently? I’ve spent this last week in Reading. We’re using a billing system made by a company called Portal. Except a while ago Portal got bought out by Oracle and now the product’s had its name changed to “Oracle Billing and Revenue Management”. Snappy title. So I’ve spent a week down […]
I was going to write a post on how thanks to someone deciding to upgrade Xorg in the FreeBSD ports tree, it caused me a problem or two. After two days of compiling, installing, tweaking, and generally spending time on trying to a desktop system working at work, I really couldn’t be arsed. I appreciate […]
I’ve been touched this morning. Oy, you in the back, stop sniggering. Not like that… I am moved by my muse to write a blog entry. It’s not particularly fascinating, but hey, it’s 0600, what do you expect from this time of the morning. I’m sat in Aberystwyth, just got up. I’ll be leaving shortly […]
My apologies for those who find offensive language intolerable – you may want to turn away now. Because words fail me in expressing my utter disgust at how fucking stupid this idiotic woman was. If you’re that bloody stupid, YOU SHOULDN’T EVEN HAVE A BLOODY DRIVING LICENSE! Right. I feel better now after that little […]
This weekend I mainly spent at my Grandmother’s in west Wales. About 10 years ago my Grandfather died, leaving my Grandmother with a large detached house and a rather large garden to look after on her own. I, unfortunately, moved away and my father’s never been with living things – he’s an Architect and spends […]
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I have a few blogs that I read as part of my daily routine and a few of those have made me stop and think recently. Inspector Gadget posted some time ago about the horrifying case of a young police constable who was beaten and left in a vegetative state by what appears to be […]
Sorry for the lack of updates, but we’ve been quiet recently. Yes, damnit, I’ve had enough, I want to go on a callout now. So where am I today? Well, about the time that this will hit the Internet, I’ll be in Lima in central London. Somewhere around Westminster. No, it’s not a rescue, it’s […]
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On a mailing list I’m on, where a bunch of geeks were discussing Christianity: “If only Jesus hadn’t forgotten the safeword, we wouldn’t be in this mess.”Â
There’s a general superstition in the emergency services over the use of a certain q-word. Indeed, both Lynfa and Sean are known for being “responsible” for a callout having used the said word immediately prior to the pagers going off. Lynfa in particular seems to be the team jinx for callouts. But it’s been…well…y’know…recently. Nothing […]