Thursday, January 29, 2009

Love/hate

In my day job, I am a software developer working primarily in Microsoft languages and a Database Administrator dealing with Microsoft databases, and I like their stuff on the whole, it's good, it works and it's good to use on the whole. Tonight I had a job to do which involved ensuring that we had a continuously updated copy of our main database on another server which would live in another building so that should the unthinkable happen and our offices be destroyed, we had a working copy of the system elsewhere.I practised and planned this carefully...

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Arse crisps

I finally got O2 to actually talk to me and it turns out that because I boght the phone through Dial-a-Phone, I'm not eligible for the free bolt-on until the end of March. Fucksocks.Well, to cheer me up it's time for the new series of Oz and James' drinking adventures and there's this which is just bloody hilarious.Chin ch...

Monday, January 05, 2009

Urge to kill...rising...

O2. I thought they would be a good mobile network to move to a couple of years ago after Orange went down the toilet (they were bought out by a French Telco and the customer service died a death plus I couldn't get a signal either where I lived or worked which made a change of network a pressing concern). I had previously been with Vodafone for years but for some reason I decided that I should give another operator a go. Anyway, long and short is that I shifted to O2, albeit via the Carphone Warehouse. In truth I hadn't realised I was going via...