Occupational Health & Safety
DaleIn Victoria, an injury in the workplace does include "health" includes psychological health Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004, section 5 Definitions. I never knew that until recently. In a…
Get it wrong to get it right.
I wasn't entirely surprised to learn that some academic has learnt that people who make a mistake, learn their subject better. No surprise there. There are occupations where most of…
Geranium from the garden
Gardening Australia: Geranium
“Drift in cars.”
If you like this, you might like some of the other Motorcycling posts.
“Mouth more closed.”
Enterprise desktop support is a mindset. If you’ve never done it, it’s likely you’ll not understand the issues of how things scale. A solution for 5 PCs may not scale…
Children in chimneys
In a discussion about what is acceptable behaviour in the workplace: “In the past we used to send children up chimneys to clean them as well.”
When it becomes an addiction
“It’s dangerous for me not to have a BlackBerry”, started the fault report. Followed by, “I’ve got a broken BlackBerry” So I called the user, ‘Dangerous as in life threatening?’…
“My screen has waves on it.”
Back in 2001, the users were complaining that their computer screens had waves on them. The cause of these “waves” were the HUGE electromagnetic fields being generated by the power…
“Please do not abuse the machine”
(as seen at Richmond Railway Station, September 2009)
Semi-regular web-link clearance – October 2009
Internet Explorer Cannot Download https://something (Eric Law's IE Internals) Earlier today, I was asked to troubleshoot a secure site where file downloads were always failing. Having seen this problem many…