Tag: work
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What Does This Bug Report Mean?
A bug report just came in from a client I'm responsible for at work. It reads:
...Main menu - home page - The 'g' of outstanding debts is permanently underlined.
Correct.
I'm not even sure what this message means. It looks like the client is telling me that the letter 'g' at the end of the … -
Swimming To Work
Dan's coworker Gareth leaves a window open and floods the office.
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Hospitals
My Gran's been taken into hospital: we could've seen that coming when we visited while up that end of the country for my cousin's wedding. She'd protested about the possibility of being admitted then, stating that "she'd been in hospital three times before and they hadn't managed to kill her yet," which is an interesting …
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SmartData (And French Visitors) Night Out
Dan and his co-workers (and plus-ones) go out drinking.
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Today’s Progress
Today's progress - at work - has been stunning, compared to the problems of last week. This morning, I came in, plugged in, did the mandatory e-mail and blog checks, read some news, then got down to work. I slapped on some Pink Floyd (Echoes and Division Bell) and the code... just... worked. By just …
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Paul Is The Most Fucking Random Person In The World
Paul M: fucking nutter. The most random person you're ever likely to meet. But you've got to love his sincerity.
This morning, I'm happily sat at my workstation, staring, as I do, at program code and pausing from time to time to check the RSS feeds of the usual crew, when the phone rings: Matt answers … -
So I’m Sat At Work…
...minding my own business, and some random guy walks in through the office door, looking lost. Nobody seems to get up to see to him, so I - in my new desk, which is quite close to the door - go over to greet him. "Is there;" he begins, sounding a little unsure of himself, …
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Our Web Developer’s “Line Of The Day”
Yet again my concern for the value of an Internet Computer Science degree from UWA is raised, as a dippy co-worker with two years of such a degree behind her asks me for help:
"Dan," she begins, "How do I make a table in PHP?"
For those of you that don't know quite as much about web … -
Aber Graduates Earn Least In UK
This is just fucking weak: the average salary of an Aberystwyth graduate is just £12,968... the lowest in the UK. And on this crappy 'probationary period', that's still more than I earn. Fucking shitty.
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Dan Breaks The Internet… Again
Whoops. You'd have thought I'd have learnt my lesson when I fucked around with BIND last year, and 'broke' a small portion of the internet, but no. I managed to 'break the internet' again while playing with the Domain Name System settings on big. That's why Scatmania was inaccessible for the last day or so …
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An Idea - How To Get Treeware Junk Mail Banned
Here's a thought: a way to try to get unsolicited (treeware) junk mail banned -
Every time you receive a bit of junk mail, just go and put it back in the post box: it's almost all franked mail, and so the post office will re-sort it and deliver it back to you. Put a tally … -
You Know Your Program Is Convoluted When…
...the client calls up and says, "I'm not sure if this is a bug... or a feature... but -"
Bovini is fucking scary these days. -
I’m Still In Aber. Yay.
[this post has been partially damaged during a server failure on Sunday 11th July 2004, and it has been possible to recover only a part of it]
I'm still in Aberystwyth, which I thought was a good thing even before people who don't have the same benefit complained [Alec complaining, Ruth complaining, Adam complaining] about it. … -
Out Of Place
Something feels out of place. Probably just the time of year, the amount of work I have to do, etc. The only good thing about working as long hours at work as I have been is the anticipation of how healthy my next paycheque ought to be. Which it'll need to be, because I'll be …
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Frustrating
How frustrating is it to write 5 CDs for clients, only to discover an error in some SQL scripts on them that mean that they won't work outside of the development LAN... <grr>
It's the world rebalancing the good and bad things, I guess. Making up for last night's wild rampant sex tour of the flat …