2008 July | wisefaq.com

Of Tin-Foil Hats and Binaural Tones.

There is some thought that listening to binaural tones can improve your attention, concentration, and consciousness.

What are binaural tones you ask? Good question!

Let’s go with my simple explanation. Say you are wearing a stereo headset. In your left ear, a sound is playing at a 400 Hz frequency, and in your [...]

Get The World’s Best Butt

As seen in the Herald Sun, Monday 30th June 2008:

A workout to get your butt into shape, need to do the following three times a week at least.

Walking lunges 15-20 each leg reps, for 3 sets Leg Curls 15-20 reps, for 3 sets Roman Deadlifts 15 reps, for 3 sets Leg [...]

Too much choice.

Choice, as anyone will tell you, is a good thing.

Unless you need to fix a leaking tap.

Travel to the local hardware store to buy a x-size tap washer. Disassemble tap, “oh, it’s a y-size washer.” Reassemble tap with leaky washer. Back to the hardware store to buy the right size washer. [...]

TechNet Plus is GOOD value for money.

Particularly if you’re in the IT industry. And the main reason I like it:

Full-version software for evaluation – without time limits – including Microsoft operating systems, servers, and Office System software.

Now when I was working for a large IT company, I got that benefit for free, via our corporate Technet / MSDN [...]

Three More Years of Outsource Avoidance…

Worked for a company rather like this. For Financial Year 2008, the goal was to off-shore to India, 40% of operations staff. We lost a lot of good people, and not just good at their jobs, good people as well.

The comic is from the popular Non Sequitur comic by Wiley Miller

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Date Mail Merge Bug fixed in Office 2007

Versions of Microsoft Word before Word 2007 had the following annoying bug:

Consider an Excel spreadsheet with the following data.

Name Date of Birth Ed Apple 03/12/1978 Fred Pear 12/04/1956 Rosemary Peach 04/12/1968

The astute will notice the dates are in Day.Month.Year format.

Now we mail merge into Microsoft Word

Ed Apple 12/3/1978

Fred [...]

And not a word of thanks – on re’orgs

There was a team of folks who worked near by. They performed Second Level support type work for a large mining customer, and they (the team) were based in Melbourne.

Then, one day, a re-org occurred, and their jobs were shifted to Sydney.

The team members were told that they had to find [...]

Customised license plates

Once contracted for a government vehicle registry. Now customised license plates were, and still are, a big money spinner. Brings in huge dollars each year for the registry.

My involvement? NIL. I worked in IT support. Working in IT support does give you an “access all areas” pass though.

Back to customised plates. [...]

3 cans of Super, and 3 cans of poofter drink while you’re at it.

They definitely do things differently in The West. Meekatharra, made famous by Kevin ‘Bloody’ Wilson, sells low-alcohol beer as "poofter" drink.

I’ve seen the original receipt, so I know it’s true.

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You’d have to have worked with Mainframes to understand.

Source: ACS Bulletin, July 1990

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