Dead Dick
DaleSeen in Monday’s Age: The most eye-catching wearer was a pregnant woman waddling around with the "Sick of Dick" message. Dick being Dick Gross, St. Kilda councillor who voted for…
Trade and airline magazines
We could tell whether the boss had travelled by the latest off-the-wall idea Software as a service! Off-shoring! Calculating carbon usage of software! On the last point, there are people…
If I close my eyes …
(yes, it’s back to the doghouse)
Inflatable Leg
A friend had a dog like this, it was a Jack Russell mixed breed doggy. If you took your shoes off so you could walk on the new carpet, "Humpy"…
Customers like to (re)use the methods of the support team …
I was doing some code cutting the other day for a customer. Indirectly. I had sent a DOS batch file to Customer A, in response for an urgent fix request. …
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…
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?…
You’d have to have worked with Mainframes to understand.
Source: ACS Bulletin, July 1990