Archive for March 18th, 2010

18
Mar '10

Unbelievable 1

   Posted by: lyle    in 1BEM, Driving, News

Over the last two days there’ve been two news stories about some truly incredibly bad driving – they really do have to be seen to be believed.

First there’s the story of the person caught driving to the garage – with their bonnet up in front of the windscreen. How they were able to see at all is beyond me.

And then there’s the one (with video footage) of the truck driver pushing a car along the motorway. Not just pushing – the car is sideways-on, and the entire thing is happening in the outside lane. I didn’t think truck drivers were even allowed to use the outside lane…

Gob-smacking.

18
Mar '10

How Not To Do Things

   Posted by: lyle    in 1BEM, Work-related

At work, one of the sites is called – for want of a better name – Money Manager. (That’s not the real name of it, for obvious reasons. But related, in one way or another.) It’s the brainchild – and to some degrees the baby – of one of the directors. His idea, his name, his plan, his approval throughout.

Ever since it was first created, it’s been in my head as Monkey Manager. The scripts for backing it up are called monkeybackup, the database is monkeyDB, so on so forth.

The rest of the web team have also taken to calling it Monkey Manager. No good reason, it’s just catchier and/or easier to remember than Money Manager.

Yesterday, in a “what we’ve been working on this week” email to all the directors, I referred to the site as Monkey Manager.  Not once, but three damn times. I didn’t even realise until I re-read the email at work this morning.

No-one’s said anything yet. I don’t know if they will. But all the same, the first reaction from me (and, to be fair, my colleagues) was “You fuckwit.”

Can’t say fairer than that, really.