Three More Years of Outsource Avoidance…
DaleWorked 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…
Date Mail Merge Bug fixed in Office 2007
Versions of Microsoft Word before Word 2007 had the following annoying bug: Consider an Excel spreadsheet with the following data. Name Date of Birth Ed Apple 03/12/1978 Fred Pear 12/04/1956…
And not a word of thanks – on re’orgs
There 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.…
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
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…
“Insert your new desktop image here.”
One of the cleverest hardware integration guys I know came up with this picture. It was created for a test Standard Operating Environment test release. And demonstrates what we do…
Learning from implementing a change.
I, of course, researched everything beforehand and had it all planned out so that the implementation of the new policy went without incident. Well, maybe there was a little trial…
There is a new Tomb Raider on the way.
And it will be called Tomb Raider: Underworld. Due in November 2008. Back in 1998, Tom Fairman suggested Politically Correct Raider. Seems a shame that Eidos never took it up.…
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…