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.
There should be a form of Caffeine-Breathalyser fitted to all computers that prevent incoming emails unless the operator has a sufficient amount of caffeine in their system to cope with lUsers. For my example I shall use my morning. 9am: Get into...
I thought I would just give you some update's on the fun of Busby's “Obscure Code”. AKA: The bane of the Internet.Update 1. After months of development, and testing we now have data files that meet the hundreds of requirements imposed on us by...
a.k.a Freelance Whoring A customer of where I work, who we will in the trend of this blog call “RedBack“, emailed me last night, unofficially and off the record. So its good I am protecting their identity :0) This customer has a server, but no...
Here is a Question. How much of the Internet’s Backbone is obsolete. Code that no one knows what it does or how it works? Let me give you an example: - I have recently been integrating my companies systems into several of the Major...
One of our customers recently moved half their business away from us to a BIGGER networking company for added security, better service, and to prevent having all their eggs in one basket. They had been looking into disaster recovery for a while,...
So at the weekly “Blame & Shame” meeting, it was mentioned that the SMS notifications of Server problems were possibly a bit excessive. The monitoring system sends out a notification of a problem every hour. If you happen to have your phone...
I’ve just finished re-watching the 1st season of “The I.T. Crowd“. I was reconfiguring a Laptop and needed something playing in the background. Now one of the running jokes in the show is the answer-all response to all phone requests “Have you...
Its that time of year again. Where I look back over the previous year and answer the same 40 questions.
2007 Edition
This evening I became a Companion of the Holy Royal Arch. There are three degrees in Masonry, the Entered Apprentice, the Fellowcraft, and the Master Mason including the royal arch. So while the Royal Arch is a separate order, it is highly linked...
A strange thing happened to me on the way into the office this morning…. That almost sounds like the start of a cheesy joke. But. Seriously. Driving into work this morning I got into a game of chicken with a Magpie, and almost lost. (It ended in a...