Thursday , April 5, 2007 – 14:48
From: Bragg, Kathy
Sent: 05 April 2007 11:34
To: $Employer_Global_List
Subject: IT support 12.00-13.00
Hi,
the IT department (me) is going to lunch from 12.00-13.00 today, so if you’re going to break anything, please schedule this for before or after this time. Should anything really disastrous occur, that you think I can help with, please call 0789404**** and summon me [...]
Friday , March 16, 2007 – 11:15
In a desperate attempt to prevent the proliferation of sticky notes in the around-the-monitor department, I added a feature to our system to provide an electronic version – available from the toolbar – where users could store these scraps of information, with the added benefit that they could now copy and paste them.
It was well [...]
Monday , March 5, 2007 – 13:29
I’ve set up a blog for our marketing people to start actually putting some content on our company website, and the first thing they did was complain that their first post looked strange on the blog.
Hmm, says I and had a look at the source. Full of Microsoft proprietary style information. I realised pretty quickly [...]
Wednesday , January 25, 2006 – 20:38
As many of you will know, I schlepp my weary carcass from Maidenhead to Basingstoke at an ungodly hour of the morning. One of the unexpected benefits of this routine is that I get to see some pretty cool sights of a morning usually involving sunrise, a windmill, a rubbish tip, deer and some random [...]
Thursday , January 19, 2006 – 9:16
I wish. For almost a week now I have been unable to switch my brain off at night, and have found myself spending hour after hour designing the new database that is required at work. Don’t misunderstand me here, there is no-one jumping up and down for this new system, so there is no actual [...]