Be Excellent To Each Other

Good, that's an anti-social habit, anyway.

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MaliA law services
John Coffey PC Repair
Grim..'s breakdown service
The Richard Gaywood Science Consultancy
Kalmar's Electricals
The Chinnyhill Amstrad Centre

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The list goes on and on.

Someone has illustrated the performance of a 100 million Euro fund with Wingdings smily and sad faces.

Was it you?

No.

ICE CREEEEAM!

An ice cream van just rolled up outside. It... it's er.

The tune it's playing is Il Padrino.

If I'm out for a meal with the nephews and neicrs, can I give them booze? Uncle Mali wants to demonstrate that beer and food goes well together. They are 15 and 14.

legally (I thought you would know that) it's 13 to consume beer/wine with food with the appropriate licence.

I'd check with their parents first though

Malc

My work today involved touring a distillery. And tasting whisky.

Jeff Stelling to quit Countdown.

FFS Channel 4, just do what you should have done in 2005 and employ Fred Dinenage. He's the man only man fit to step into Richard Whiteley's shoes.

They did talk to Fred in 2005 but it was Lynham who got the nod over the Kray Twins official biographer and former presenter of top daytime quiz Gambit.

I can't believe that's 8 years ago, fucking Hell I'm old

(I'm "The Stranger" in all that)

I've actually shed a tear re-reading that.

Malc

Good news: Chiltern Railways has a shiny new train to take me to Oxford

Bad news: I missed it.

It's pissing it down here, today, and I don't have a coat.

Chucking it down here, too. Guess I'll cancel my planned bike ride* and do some learning instead.

*Fuck that; I'm not Chinny — I want to enjoy my rides.

[Tenuous link] Talking of rain, here's The Shower Project. i'm not sure if this is SFW or not.

Wow, that's a really nice background image. More sites need to do that.

What's a 999 kill? Is it something to do with lag?

I've just been reminded of something...

One of the folk who work here, every time she needs a capital letter on a word, she'll turn caps lock on, type the letter, turn it off again and carry on. I already knew this and have mentioned it to her before.

However, last week I saw her typing and then needing to delete the word she'd just typed, which she did by hitting the left arrow key, pressing delete, left arrow, delete until the word was gone.

Does she type with one finger, so needing her typing finger free of the shift key to type an uppercase letter?

Yes, essentially the ping would be recorded as 999 on the playerlist, which effectivly means they had lost connection to the server.

Malc

Nope.. I think it's just sheer habit.

Making the tea in the office kitchen just now and got chatting to one of the programmers. He was telling me about how he struggles sometimes to think of the correct word for things (it took him a minute of pointing at the kitchen sink before he could remember the word "sink"), due to a stroke he had four years ago. Left him unable to read or write for two years apparently.

"That's awful!" says I.

"Not really," he replies. "Got two years off work for that!".

I really do like this place!

Do you work with my mum?

I do

I remember when our typing pool (when we still had one) first got word processing in 1990 and after their basic training some of them just couldn't grasp the concept. One of them carried on for years hitting the return key at the end of every line, and indenting paragraphs by hitting the tab key at the beginning of each line.

This was OK until she needed to insert a word, which of course wrapped the text on to a new line. She'd then cut and paste any words that had wrapped on to the beginning of the next line, which in turn wrapped the text again, and on it would go, with her getting more and more frustrated.

We also had one who was sure someone was hacking in to her account and changing her docs. It turned out she had switched on the spell checker and it always prompted her before changing words, but she'd just hit return continuously until she got to the end of the document, not realising it was changing every queried word as she went. I thought we'd come a long way since then, but your example seems to prove me wrong.

I seem to see something similar far too frequently from some people online, who seem to insert their own line-breaks and try to dictate the width of their own content instead of letting the layout handle it.

Some people are strange beasts.

Me neither. I really ought to get an umbrella someday, but it's only something else I'll leave behind.

Just delightfully stubborn I find. Hugely resistant to change as well.

For example, moving from Office 2003 to office 2007. We've found if you just change things and give them no option to go back, they soon adjust. It's a bit fascist, but it bloody works.

x1000

During my time at EDS/HP I have been part of large rollouts, changing from Green screen, win 3.1 and XP to Windows XP or Win 7 (dependent on when the rollout was). It is oddly very upsetting to folks when they have to change.

I can understand the work and play but how would a Mars a day help you rest?

Getting some people to let go of Windows 98 was utterly baffling.

"It works, why change it?"
"Because it's not compatible with the new network system"
"But that worked, why change that?"
"To keep up with increased network demand"
"I don't use the network"
(whisper)"You will after we nuke 98 from your machine over the summer. MWAH HA HA!"

Now try and do that with 240,000 users....

I suppose if you softened it you could use it as a small pillow.

???

You could cut it open and crawl inside it to keep warm if you are caught in a blizzard.

It's because all the work and play it's helped you to do has cleared your backlog at your job, therefore reducing stress and enabled you to have an enjoyable experience with friends, therefore increasing your sense of general well being. You're now in the ideal situation to rest, without worry or nagging doubts.

I am off today and tomorrow Going to go and get my hair cut and coloured today, then might also get my eyebrows waxed. Need to speak to the solicitor about my will, then pay a couple of bills, then hopefully complete Fallout 3! Exciting stuff, eh?

I've been meaning to do mine for a while. Theya re fairly easy to do, but it is well worth getting done properly.

Once all the parts of my divorce are done.... I will do one.

We got ours free with buying the house, so we have made them up but we still need to go in and sign them. I need to try and arrange life insurance as well actually.

I've been meaning to get a will for ages. Now that I'm a home owner and married, my responsibilities have changed so I should get one sorted.

Clients and Architects and so hateful. I hate them even more when they have no money. Go away, you idiots.

I just had to go through all the paving options with the stupid client. He has no money for extras, yet the paving area has increased 60%, which costs 30% per metre more than tarmac. More + More = Fucking MORE. He can't understand it. The paving rate per metre is within the bill rates, yet he can't seem to understand that increasing the area of the more attractive and expensive paving, will increase the price per metre. Fuck off, fuck head!

Now he wants me to do some kind of cost/product balancing exercise, changing the Architects design so he an afford the prettier paving.....OMG.

I sighed the biggest, most agitated sigh I could and said I would speak to the Architect and to his QS. I can't be fucking arsed, stop creating work for me, you twat!

Doing an image search for Davpaz on Youtube is the most terrifying experience on the whole internet.

Whereas "Chinnyhill10" comes up with pretty much what you'd expect.

That's less freaky than if you use Davpaz as its like flicking through your own memories mixed up with someone elses.

Kalmar doesn't work at all.

Changing the design at this stage? That's going to cost.. more.. isn't it? Plus architects fees

I wish....

Plus, the Architect has had his fees, they own his soul until the end of the job.

Just seen the house we sold for £95k in 2000 on Rightmove for £235k. Ridiculous.

I have a cold, I can't be arsed to cook and have loaded up four van fulls of crap from BFF and my own house. Take out it is then.

Also whoever moved my sofa (a chesterfield coincidentally) in the house was a wizard, it won't fit out of the living room door leading to the front door and is currently sat in my back garden as it won't go down the side of the house either. Going to have to ask neighbour if we can remove fence panels.