This is actually Version 4 of my blog.
Enjoy!
There are some series of posts that go together. You can access them directly with the links below.
I finally gave in to peer pressure, and went to see the doctor about my eye. So a quick in/out to get it confirmed I have conjunctivitis and need eye drops, get a prescription, and sorted, all under 10 minutes. God bless the NHS! So I’m standing...
I have spent the last few weeks suffering for Conjunctivitis. “A couple of weeks?” I hear you ask. Well, The first week as it started getting worse I was convinced i’d just scratched my eye, making it inflamed. I was wrong, as my doctor told me...
Today is a special day in the geeky calander. Unix or Posix time is a means computers, part of the internet, and millions of systems across the world use for time keeping, calculating, and things like that. Well today @ 23:31:30 (11:31 and 30...
So we have a new customer, lets call him “MPD“. Simple job (in theory) He’s fallen out with his web designers/holders and needs his site putting up somewhere else, (or he split from company and wants to go into competition, I did not ask which)....
In the words of a Modern day philosopher :- Mr. T “Got no time for the jibba jabba!” Well the Governor of the Insane Asylum has decided the Inmates need a new communication system, to cut down on the expense of plumbers to fix broken pipes from our...
OK. Over at the Techno Insane Asylum we have a small problem. Our Windows Systems Administrator has left, and has left our windows servers in a bit of a state. We urgently need some work doing, to try and rectify about six years worth of neglect....
Your there warm and comfortable in bed, semi awake, at peace with the world. Then. AWOOGA AWOOGA AWOOGA“Mutter, WTF!!! arrghhh… Whys my alarm going off on a Sunday morning!“ Grab phone, silence alarm, and stare at phone in accusation, how dare it...
A Bit of Background… MONDAY: Well the battery warning light on my car came stayed on slightly longer than normal on the morning’s commute to work. And it stayed on every time I was under 2k RPM on the way home. So I thought “Ahhhh! somethings up!...
Now as you are aware, I have not broken Busbys systems since going live with the project. I was thinking it was all flowing well and they had got “used” to me now, so the end of all my problems… Then came the Christmas shutdown period, and I came...
I was reading on t’interweb about the Russian owners of Livejournal laying off most of its staff without any severance packages, and since all of these people are in the technical area, leaving only sales people left its a bit of an interesting...