So, two years after going to work for the Great Satan on this, I finally got fed up with earning low-margin outsourcer's wages and decided to join the great tide of Kontraktor Skmu and have landed myself a nice little earner doing systems management stuff at a large investment bank in Dorset. This is a lot nicer, being away from the Big Smoke and ( Read more... )

Well, that has to be the easiest new job I've ever blagged my way into. Although I had a few interviews, I ended up taking a contract with an old mate whom I phoned just on the off-chance that he might have soem work for me to do.

So for you London-based BOFHen, I'll be Beating the Eagle from December 1st!

Guess what? It's my 37th birthday on Sunday.

So tonight is drinking practice for tomorrow night's grand booze-up in Winchester with Dorian WINOLJ, whose birthday was on Thursday.

I'm going out now. I may be some time...

Bugger. I have the distinct impression that it would be wise for me to start looking for a new job.

If there are any Solaris/Linux/Oracle wrangling jobs going in the Bristol to London area, I'm yer maun.

I've just lied at the What D&D character are you? meme.

( Find out which D&D character I am )

Having been out belting around the Solent in a speedboat for 6 hours or so with various interesting people (including drpete) at the weekend, and already suffering from a slightly knackered lumbar region (the sacro-iliac joint, for the techies), I now find that my lower back is pretty much immobile and rather painful, requiring industrial quantities of ( Read more... )

So, I've been taking the poo-coloured Fireblade to work for the last few days, having resurrected it from under a tarp in a dried-out mudhole in the garden ( Read more... )

Fred, my 3-year-old brown-spotted Bengal cat, is dead ( Read more... )

Web server problems... "The sky is falling! Quick, man the pumps!"
Ah. The firemen are on strike... bugger.

Oh, thanks to ramtops for sorting this here account out for me.

Hey-ho, time to stroll off home and prepare the Graet Event on the Archers tonite.