I only heard about it today, but another one of the managers at work handed his notice in on Friday last week. Its a good job we have so many of them. The way it works is like something out of Dilbert. If a department is struggling because of staff shortages – like the helpdesk […]
Entries from May 23rd, 2005
Another one bites the dust!
May 23rd, 2005 · Comments Off on Another one bites the dust! · Work
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Trash TV
May 22nd, 2005 · Comments Off on Trash TV · Life
I spent this evening busy sorting out all my bills and mail and stuff. Normally I leave the TV on, with MTV or VH-1 playing as background music (no point having a real programme with my back to the screen.) Tonight Jayne was downstairs with me, watching a procession of trash TV. It was bad […]
Day trip to Essex
May 21st, 2005 · Comments Off on Day trip to Essex · Life
Today we all went off to Essex to visit my family. Well I say “we all”, but Chrystal is away all weekend at an army cadet camp shooting at targets and going for 6:00am runs. And Charlie was spending the day with his real dad, so actually it was just three of us going there. […]
Tags: Essex·Family·Football·Town Planning
On our way to Cardiff
May 19th, 2005 · Comments Off on On our way to Cardiff · Life
West Ham did the job last night and beat Ipswich in the play-off semi-finals, so now we are looking forward to another visit to Cardiff to try and get back in to the Premier league. Bobby Zamora finally came good with two goals. I always knew he was better than his performances at Tottenham. Maybe […]
10 Things I have never done
May 19th, 2005 · Comments Off on 10 Things I have never done · Life
At the moment a lot of bloggers are doing these lists (see Bloggers4labour, Rullesnberg Rules, The Thimble, and many others) so I thought I would have a go. The thing is, its not as easy as it looks at first. For the list to work I believe they should be things which are so common […]
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No more accounts
May 17th, 2005 · Comments Off on No more accounts · Life
Today was my last duty as Treasurer of the community centre. It was the public meeting where those few interested members of the public come along and vote in a new general council, so I had to present the accounts for the last financial year. I have had the various printouts and bank statements around […]
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No Internet!
May 17th, 2005 · Comments Off on No Internet! · Work
At work we were cut off from the world for a few days. On Thursday last week all the computers started playing up, and it turned out that a worm had somehow got past all the firewalls and virus checkers and infected just about every computer in the country. It was a very persistant worm. […]
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The Horror, The Horror
May 16th, 2005 · Comments Off on The Horror, The Horror · Life
Jayne and I went out to lunch today at Zari’s, an indian restaurant in Ifield. It was for all the (Labour) candidates in the county elections. A few couldn’t make it, but most did. It was a lot more fun than the meeting we had in the Labour club the other day about the elections […]
Proportional representation
May 14th, 2005 · Comments Off on Proportional representation · Politics
Is my vote wasted? There are a lot of articles in the papers, as there always is right after an election, about whether the result accurately reflects the voters’ intentions. A lot of the arguments revolve around how the outcome of national elections depend on marginal constituencies and only votes there really count. Being in […]
Tags: Elections
Helen Clarke
May 12th, 2005 · Comments Off on Helen Clarke · Politics
Who does Helen Clark think she is? She was the Labour MP for Peterborough, who lost her seat to the Tories last week, on a 6.9% swing, and then the very next day announced she was leaving the party and would join the Conservatives. As far as I know, Labour and Tory policies did not […]
Tags: Elections
