And illegal in Victoria too! January 2, 2009
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(under the Surveillance Devices Act)
Beware of The Doghouse this holiday season. December 19, 2008
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Click on the picture to be taken to the video public safety announcement.
“I don’t care about PLATFORMS, Dammit!” December 18, 2008
Posted by Dale in : Businesses I like, Funny Pictures, Other Blogs , CommentsMy current business card is far too busy: 
The replacement:
“Platforms don’t mean crap. It’s all about getting the customer working again, and they shouldn’t be thinking about IT at all.”
Other images which didn’t make the cut (I was tempted):
“A fact often forgotten by people who work in IT.”
“Often introduced by bungy bosses …”
“Outside of work, I don’t want to talk about tech either.”
The back? I was going to run with this quote, but decided not:
I expect to pass through this world but once;
any good thing therefore that I can do, or
any kindness that I can show to any fellow-creature,
let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it,
for I shall not pass this way again.
All the artwork here, apart from the first card, is by artiste extraordinaire Hugh Macleod, over at Gapingvoid.com. You can buy his own designed business cards right here: Street Cards – Gapingvoid (bit expensive if you’re not in the UK).
“Wash This When Dirty” December 12, 2008
Posted by Dale in : Funny Pictures , CommentsAs seen on the Puma t-shirt I purchased last Saturday:
Overconfidence November 28, 2008
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Short collection of interesting things November 24, 2008
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The Three Laws Of Consulting, via Alik Levin’s MSDN BLog
- “In spite of what your client may tell you, there’s always a problem.”
- “No Matter how it looks at first, it’s always a people problem.”
- “Never forget they’re paying you by the hour, not by the solution”.
Stop stealing my blog posts…..
There has been some discussion recently on some DL’s here at Microsoft about sites that re-post blog posts without permission. I will call it what it is which is the theft of copyrighted materials for the purpose of monetary gain. I don’t like saying copyrighted because copyrights get a bad rap these days depending on who you speak to, but from the perspective that *I* sat down and *I* wrote the blog post, the work does belong to me.
- Stop stealing my blog posts (Chris E. Avis)
This sort of thing REALLY annoys me.
I wrote about ideas theft here: “I came up with it all by myself.” - on theft of ideas in corporate life
How to get my job - the secret of becoming a professional writer, by Jerry Pournelle
The other chair goes round and round in circles. November 21, 2008
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From an office in Alice Springs.
Two kinds of government chair correspond with the two kinds of minister: one sort folds up instantly and the other sort goes round and round in circles.
- Yes Minister, Open Government
If I close my eyes … November 14, 2008
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(yes, it’s back to the doghouse)
Attached: The Irish MANUAL Virus November 7, 2008
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Microsoft’s “MAID IN JAPAN” DVD November 2, 2008
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Seen over at Fumikoku’s Technet blog.
From what I can gather from the (poor) language translation (from Yahoo’s Babelfish), it was a pre-release “proof” copy. The typo was fixed before it made it into production.