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Gmail’s down! Help help help!
24, Feb 2009Gmail is currently down, and many thousands of people have been on Twitter saying “Gmail is down”, “Is Gmail down?”, and “Is there life without Gmail?”. This normally dependable, efficient service has thrown its toys out of the pram and suddenly all of the people who use it to manage all of their email accounts, [...]
Don’t come here for careers advice
21, Jan 2009I’m currently a permie. That doesn’t mean I’m a member of some weird gang that really likes thermally treated hair, it means I work on a permanent contract. Permie is a common word for this, which makes it all sound a bit Tom Brown’s Schooldays – “That rotter Jerome is a permie, he’ll take hot [...]
SAP is evil
23, Dec 2008The German people are a good people. Reparations have been made for past mistakes, their biscuits and beer are excellent, I believe they have some beautiful landscapes though I have never seen them, and it is difficult to dispute the quality of their automotive engineering. I do however still blame the Germans for the most [...]
Play pretend
22, Dec 2008There is a thin veneer of niceness in the office, and it is all that stands between workplaces continuing to function and chaos breaking out. Just once in a while you get to see the cracks. The pretence that everyone gets along is fed by management speak of the ‘team’, back-slapping, exchanges of gifts (usually [...]
Monday morning
15, Dec 2008Rather than waffle on about Monday morning, I have described it in graph form.
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