No games for you!
DaleThere is an line of thinking, which quite a few companies follow, that you can’t have games on a company PC because “employees may play games all day”.(1) I’m sure…
“We can’t contact the Emergency Disaster Centre on the radio”
Imagine this, a scene in a Government Cyclone Shelter. "We can't contact the Emergency Disaster Centre on the radio" This particular shelter was built to withstand a Category 5+ cyclone.…
“No, I don’t have a crystal ball”
You’d be mistaken if you thought I could read minds. I do understand why you might think that, when you log a support call with the problem description “Computer doesn’t…
Ball juggling
Back in October 2006, one of the CSC Australia sales reps rocks up to my desk "That price quote Wayne gave us for support 4 different versions of SheepBotherer, is…
Staff problems
Note: this was a post from 2008, when I was working for CSC Australia. I'm having all the joys of, not only leading my band of Merry Men, but another…
“Quick, to the Government Bat Camry, Boy Wonder”
"… the Minister has just misled Parliament." Back in the day, senior public servants would have Parliamentary Broadcast boxes in their offices. You can tell someone’s importance by whether they…
A resistor is an …
electrical component which reduces the flow of electrical current. Plain old wire has a built-in resistance, which is why gold is preferred for some wiring applications. Darn expensive though. If…
A price to pay
Note: I wrote this in March 2007, but didn’t publish it at the time. As far as I know “Leo” is still working for my previous employer. There was a…
Me?, I just want a “Susie” poster
One thing I have noticed is that the shelf-life of a Ralph modem seems rather limited. So, for your consideration, this is a screenshot from an “inappropriate software report”. Now,…
Daylight savings ends for another year …
… and I suspect today is going to be a busy day. Back in the day, when I was working with mainframes, we would have to “stop” the mainframe at…