Fri, 25 May 2007

Congratulations to Bruce & Luisa - and welcome Bob (a.k.a. Daniel)!

Huge congratulations to Bruce and Luisa on the birth of their very first not-so-tiny baby boy. I've no doubt this will be the start of the avalanche of Nonado babies (seeing as we've already had the avalanche of Nonado weddings...) - and hopefully all the pebbles remembered to vote in the Irish general election yesterday (to completely ruin an Embassador Kosh quotation.)

~. May Bob (Daniel) never be short of an internet connection and have a life full of happiness, irc nonsense, joy and plentiful bandwidth. Useless parent annoying child toys shall be sent in the post as soon as I can find someone - because every parent should experience the joy of a small child driving its parents mad by beating lumps off a Sesame Street xylophone ;-) Congratulations! :-)
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Thu, 24 May 2007

Today's observations...

Delicious Chicken and stuffing sandwiches are not so delicious when inhaled into one's lungs. After the initial tangy taste of the mayo there is much coughing.
If you want people to use your software it should ideally work. At least some of the time. If not, then at least have a competent support system with actual people who will talk to you and preferably tell you how to make it work, or at least comfort you so you want to hurt them less. If they have a ticketting system, they should respond to tickets raised in it in a reasonable amount of time. If they have a support phone line that you call, the confused support representative should not cut you off while attempting to transfer you to a colleague. Also, if you call back and after 15 minutes of being on hold leave a 'request for call back', someone should actually call you back.

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Mon, 21 May 2007

I CAN HAZ LOLCATZ!!!

Rach has a lolcat. It's true. I was at her place over the weekend to deal with a thorny issue she had with her back garden. 'Twas a mighty prickly problem, if I may alliterate... I'll post before and after pictures of her shed sized thistle soon, but for now - I present to you - 'kitten', her lolcat:

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Thu, 17 May 2007

Seen on IRC today...

< diamond> davisc: yes. the old testament was superceeded by the net testament

I guess the internet age has dawned upon the biblical scholars. Of course, this means that we should soon be able to google for our fates. ;-)
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Wed, 09 May 2007

LLU in Ireland

A huge thanks to Colin Whittacker from Magnet, who gave an insightful and educational presentation on some of the technical, political and commercial realities of Local-Loop Unbundling here in Ireland. Having had a flavour of the issues inherent in attempting to unbundle local exchanges in the shadow of an incumbent in the UK, I was very interested to hear of many similarities - and differences - between the two countries.
I shall consider this a 'mental' (blogged) note to myself to poke him for a slides, or maybe a write-up of the talk and some of the very interesting conversation in the pub afterwards :-)
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Thu, 03 May 2007

Good Luck Sinead!

Best wishes to Sinéad Engel, who is running for election in the Bradford and Undercliffe ward today. She'll find out in the next couple of days if she's changing her career to that of Local Councillor.
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