I'm from 10 years in the future
Nudging Garu (teh_inky) into posting recently has prompted me to do the same, as I've been as slack as slack can be in updating my LiveJournal manually. I do hope that my occasional auto-del.icio.us posts are useful to some folks, even though the odd one is a bit dull and work related. I've even gone to the effort of private-posting an absolute bundle of Ruby/Rails/Prototype links I've been using recently. Aren't I considerate! :)
Life is going well at the moment, really looking forward to Christmas. We put up our new tree the other night, it's really rather spiffy. Ooooh, festive!
Although it's probably deeply unethical, I'm going to share some of the superb quotes my team have garnered from the increasing number of emails we've recieved from the raft of new Indian WiPro contractors:
Been reading a lot of late, been concentrating on re-reading all of William Gibson's work. Virtual Light, Idoru and Neuromancer all finished in the last week or three (I only get about 40 mins on the bus and 30-40 mins at lunch every day). Forgot just how good Neuromancer was, to be honest. I first read it when I was at uni, and I don't think a lot of it sunk in - I had read The Bridge trilogy (backwards, initially) after picking up All Tomorrow's Parties for a song in a Waterstones deal. After standing back from it all and realising that I really, really liked this guy's work I ended up getting the rest of his work for Christmas that year. Bar a tattered copy of Mona Lisa Overdrive, which I think I bought the Peterborough Oxfam for about 30p. :)
Anyway, point is that I read it all too fast - I took in the story, the characters and the twists but none of the nuances, none of the background wonders that make the books so much fun to read. Little things, like never finding out what colour Molly's eyes are under the mirrorshades - just make his work so open but focussed at the same time. Have any of you ever read Gibson's work? I'm sure you have, but I'd love to know what other people think about it.
Started reading The Difference Engine (a collaborative work with Bruce Sterling) yesterday, which I have never read before. Very cool so far.
Had no end of worries and woes with my work laptop recently, so I've taken it upon myself to rebel against the norm and resurrect one of our 'spare' (read: hidden) desktops as a linux box in order to get some real work™ done. Apt is such a wonderfully lazy package management system, I loooove it. Compiled ZSNES this morning in order to get some Earthbound played during the approaching pre-xmas slowness at work. :D
Back to that real work now, though. Yeeee.
Life is going well at the moment, really looking forward to Christmas. We put up our new tree the other night, it's really rather spiffy. Ooooh, festive!
Although it's probably deeply unethical, I'm going to share some of the superb quotes my team have garnered from the increasing number of emails we've recieved from the raft of new Indian WiPro contractors:
- As pointed by <>, there were a few extra space in the file names. Can you please assert if the plan is according to the standards?
- I am require Clearcase access, for defect resolution. Please assert!
- Attached is the corrected implementation plan. Could you please run the same.
- Could you please assert is this is according to the standard implementation plan format.
- I as a developer for staffware remediation project would requires the username/password to accessed ClearQuest. Please the find attached the filled up form for the same
- Then my Oracle Client installation is not had done and is there is any dependency for Clear Quest Access
- Please do the needful with the warm Regard
- It has been installed but how about getting user/Password naming? Please advice me in this concern!!!
Been reading a lot of late, been concentrating on re-reading all of William Gibson's work. Virtual Light, Idoru and Neuromancer all finished in the last week or three (I only get about 40 mins on the bus and 30-40 mins at lunch every day). Forgot just how good Neuromancer was, to be honest. I first read it when I was at uni, and I don't think a lot of it sunk in - I had read The Bridge trilogy (backwards, initially) after picking up All Tomorrow's Parties for a song in a Waterstones deal. After standing back from it all and realising that I really, really liked this guy's work I ended up getting the rest of his work for Christmas that year. Bar a tattered copy of Mona Lisa Overdrive, which I think I bought the Peterborough Oxfam for about 30p. :)
Anyway, point is that I read it all too fast - I took in the story, the characters and the twists but none of the nuances, none of the background wonders that make the books so much fun to read. Little things, like never finding out what colour Molly's eyes are under the mirrorshades - just make his work so open but focussed at the same time. Have any of you ever read Gibson's work? I'm sure you have, but I'd love to know what other people think about it.
Started reading The Difference Engine (a collaborative work with Bruce Sterling) yesterday, which I have never read before. Very cool so far.
Had no end of worries and woes with my work laptop recently, so I've taken it upon myself to rebel against the norm and resurrect one of our 'spare' (read: hidden) desktops as a linux box in order to get some real work™ done. Apt is such a wonderfully lazy package management system, I loooove it. Compiled ZSNES this morning in order to get some Earthbound played during the approaching pre-xmas slowness at work. :D
Back to that real work now, though. Yeeee.