And not a word of thanks – on re’orgs
DaleThere 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.…
If you don’t have a Blackberry, you’re a zero – according to ANZ bank exec.
... something I wrote in 2007, which has been sitting in the "should get around to publishing" queue. "If you don't have a Blackberry, you're a Zero", according to Kimberley…
Some of the things I don’t miss with my old employer
Some of the things I don't miss with my old employer: Being "re-org'd" in May 2007 while being at a workshop in England. Going from a non-billable position to being…
21 Things to do when quitting work
This is the list I used when I finished up at my last job. Writing in blue shows what I did/what actually happened when I tried to complete the task.…
“I came up with it all by myself.” – on theft of ideas in corporate life.
Seen this twice in my 20 years in IT. This being the theft of someone else's ideas, and claiming them as their own. First time I saw it was in…
Some quotes I’ve gathered
The idea is not to create a crisis and then thrash about to solve it - its to avoid the problem in the first place with the best possible planning…
Beware the Evangelists, or people with a vested interest.
CA PestPatrol is a dog of a product. And it probably still it, I've not looked. Why do I call it a dog? It's supposed to be an anti-spyware product,…
Knowledge transfer
*ring* *ring* goes the phone. "What do you know about the 'letsrebootthepcandreallyannoythecustomer.exe utility?" First written in 2005, by Mahatma Coat. We tried getting some modifications to it. We were partly…
Matthew 22:21 – Render to Caesar …
There are three things which will get you into trouble in life, thus explains why I returned a USB memory stick to my employer. It was a surprise to the…
Meet FIDO – Mascot of the FIDOnet network
FIDO is the mascot of the FidoNet community. A sad bunch of lonely IT geeks wonderful group of community-spirited people who ran Bulletin Board Systems (BBS), networked to FidoNet. Actually,…