There’s a thin line between annoyance and personal freedom. Whatever you may think about the utterly ridiculous ‘yout’ trend of havin’ your arse hanging out in public I don’t think pushing it through the already overloaded legal system is one of them. Frankly if you want to look like someone incapable of purchasing the correct size clothes then that is up to you.
AKA: The Stupidest Request to Make in Post Production and How to Avoid It.
Do You remember Letraset? It was a sheet of plastic with the letters of the alphabet printed on it. You scribbled on one side and the letter was magically transfered to a sheet of paper. Repeat this process a few dozen times and et viola! you have a sentence! As you can imagine this was a somewhat laborious process, with slightly variable results. I re-imagined this old tech from the perspective of a Geordie, with a somewhat reduced character set […]
Marvellous, I can now log my periodic temper tantrums. Windows Server 2008 has a reliability utility, so no doubt I’ll be able to use this to graph the reliability of the IT manager (me) over time and my relative stress levels too.
I’m having broadband speed issues here at work and have been going through the usual rigmarole of testing with BT and my ISP. I happened to notice this acceptable rates listed for the various advertised line speeds by BT: BT minimum acceptable speeds for broadband service: 100kps or more – acceptable on 512kbps products 200kbs or more – acceptable on 1Mb products 400kbs or more – acceptable on 2Mb, 4Mb & 8Mb products Let’s just study that for a […]
I am trying to trace a phone line here at work and stumbled upon this diagram, whilst checking out the wiring. The bit on the right was the part that caught my eye, particularly “The quality of wiring carried out by many older BT wiremen is often approaching art in its perfection” Here’s our krone for the phones – all installed by BT I should point out: High art as you can see. Perhaps he was having an off day..
Perhaps we all spend too much time staring at the small worlds on the screen..
What’s your style of cookery? Do you systematically destroy the kitchen whilst preparing a meal and then have to have it completely refurbished afterwards? Or do you obsessively wash and tidy up as you go along?
