It wasn’t so long ago that I said that I was going to be cutting down on my rescue work because of how busy we were going to be at work. Well, as it turns out, one of our deliveries has been delayed. Instead of arriving on Tuesday, it won’t be here until Monday now. […]
I am and have been a Sky subscriber for several years now. I actually subscribe to Sky+ which is Sky’s Personal Video Recorder. This allows me to record programmes for TV to watch later or even pause live TV while I’m watching it to go and make a cup of tea perhaps, or even attend […]
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 […]
First, an apology. For those of you who hang on every word I write (yes, both of you), I apologise for not updating you. Things have been quiet recently. Well, no, not quiet – because I have been manically busy, especially at work where we have far more work than time. It’s just there’s not […]
Happy St David’s day to you all. In other news, everything’s been confirmed with the new job and I’m now heading for the second week of my notice period. I haven’t published the new company’s name for now for obvious reasons, but I’m sure most of you can either work it out or know me […]
It’s going to be public knowledge shortly anyway, but I’ve just resigned. I’ve received an offer from another company which I accepted – I suspect the next month will be quite interesting as I finish a few projects off. I also expect that Teresa, who alo recently left, will be surprised that she was the […]
So the time has come. I need to upgrade from php4 to php5 – mainly because Sean’s bitching at me, but I kinda wanted to do it for a while and PHP5 is fairly stable now. So, I head on over to the ports tree and see what’s what. Right, so there’s a php5 port. […]
In a conversation with a certain Senior Developer: […] Me: Ya, thanks. Fuck you too. 😛 Him: sorry, you’re not my type. hairy? check. welsh? check. female? bzzz 😛 Me: You like hairy welsh females? Er, ok. Me: But your wife doesn’t ahve a beard… Him: there are no other types I worry about this […]
On Friday I had a conversation with a supplier that went something like this: Me: Hi, I need a quote from you guys for a managed server, with foo disks for the OS and bar disks for the Database, dual Xeon, 4Gb RAM, Supplier: Sure. I’ll email it to you. Me: Thanks. This morning I […]