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This weekend I have mostly been learning how to sail
Got a week sailing in Croatia coming in up May and thought it may be an plan to have some sort of idea about what I am doing when I get there ( Read more... ) -
Merry christmas all
Have a good one, off now until the new year.
David -
So, 2200 job to go. But where?
You've probably all see the announcement that Virgin is to shed 2200 jobs over the next couple of years. While I'm reasonably comfortable that I'm in one of the safer areas it does make for an element of concern.
More news soon hopfully. -
Snow
Wasn't expecting that this morning ( Read more... ) -
Thank You Kerry Katona
I, for one, would like to publicly thank Kerry Ketona for her heroic attempt to get the current financial crisis / credit crunch / tsunami of debit / extinction level event / etc. from the front pages of the press by slurring her speech on TV.
I feel this was a valiant effort of self-sacrifice and should be applauded.
David -
My qualification run
Back at the tail end of last year I decided that, for various reasons, it was time I got me a degree. I've been studying various things for the last few years (holistic and sports massage, nutrition, personal training) but that was more as an idea of something to do outside the world of IT so after much humming and haaring I ended up picking a ( Read more... ) -
Load balancing is great until....
... one of the servers that you have chosen to log people on based on their employee number being even or odd failes so 1/2 the company can't log on.
Er, or so I've been told.
This message has been brought to you by the letters M, B and I.
David -
An interesting thing happened to me...
Last friday I went to the CLA game fare in Blenham palace. As is not uncommon at big events having filtered through about 45 minutes (or 4.5 miles) of traffic trying to get in to the show ground I ended up following lots of shiny 4x4s for which the field we were going in to was obviously the closest they had been to off road along slightly damp ( Read more... ) -
Meatloaf
Went to a concert of his in Romsey last night. He's really raher good. -
An open letter to Nintendo
Dear Nintendo marketing department ( Read more... )