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{ Monthly Archives } October 2006

Please Give Generously

Katie (A Colleague from work) is running the New York Marathon next week, so if anyone at all would like to sponsor, you can do so online via the magic of t’interweb!
Katie Says…
I’m running the ING New York marathon in aid of a charity called ‘Get Kids Going!’, which raises money for disabled [...]

You stuck up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerfherder… Part I

While Lisa is waiting to start her new job, she has a bit of spare time. She has chosen to use this spare time to make me a Jedi Costume
A year or so ago, she picked the pattern up on eBay, and this week she has started to make it. Yesterday, she finished [...]

Crap Jobs

I really dislike crap jobs. Normally, I only get given crap jobs when they are long and laborious, and this is because people assume I will ‘have a way’ to get them done quickly. Whether it be a little tool, or a quick bit of coding or a macro somewhere that will do the job. [...]

Spammers have Sense of Humour?

I’ve just been checking my askimet spam trap, to make sure it hasn’t caught anything I shouldn’t, and I came across this (no pun intended):
A man walked into his doctors office, and asked him for 3 viagra pills.The doctor asked, “Why only 3?”
The man said, “Well, Friday my secretary is coming over, Saturday my girlfriend [...]

Virtual Desktops

I’ve had to sacrifice one of my work machines, as we have had a new person start who needed a faster machine. I had kind of gotten used to utilising both machines in organising my work, so I have decided to try getting Virtual desktops working in Windows XP (again). Sadly, as far as I [...]