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’m not antisocial: I’m just not user friendly!“ I’m almost positive he’s doing it on purpose! In fact I am tempted to bring a shinai to the meeting tomorrow and teach the customer, not to mess with me! I’m working on MPD‘s project. You may...
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...
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...
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...
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...