Godlike

One department of this illustrious bunch of smegheads has just forked out a respectable amount of money on a piece of training software dealing with the Freedom of Information Act, which is supposed to go on the intranet.

It’s a piece of shite, and doesn’t actually fulfil most of the standards required of it by the IT department, such as not working in the default web browser (although in fairness they’re so archaic that the default browser is Netscape 4.7, which is now about four or five years old) and was supposed to write information to an Access database on who has successfully completed the form. Now, that’s a no-no, even on the Intranet, so they were trying to find a way to move the Access database to SQL Server.

“Well why not just rewrite the page so it sends an email saying ‘xyz has completed the training successfully and answered all the questions?‘ quoth I. “That way the person in charge of this farce piece of crap can keep records, rather than suddenly asking us in six months time what is in the database they have no access to.“

“Oooh, nice idea,” quoth they, “can you do that?”

It’s taken half an hour to rewrite, upload to the intranet, and test. All working fine. Now I just need to make out it’s taken several more hours than it has…

She’s Back!

And as birthday presents go (oh, and thanks, Karen & Pete for the surprise arrival from Amazon – it’s perfect and I’ll read it when I get back!) seeing the return of Sarah comes pretty high on the list.

She’s been off to Greece for the last six months or so (well, it feels like it, anyway) and it’s good to see her back in the UK. Now, about that blogmeet?

Protection

And on a similar note to the post below, I have to say, it’s a very odd feeling to go through a set of images, watermarking them with a copyright notice and the like.

Maybe I should find a wee program that’ll watermark images automagically – any ideas or suggestions?

Daddy G – DJ Kicks

If you’re into reggae, dub, or Massive Attack, then there’s a new album out that’s simply a must – DJ Kicks, mixed by Daddy G from Massive Attack. It’s absolutely stunning, moving between sensational old reggae such as “Armagideon Time” and Melaaz’s “Non Non Non” and then going all the way through to Aretha Franklin, Tricky and Massive Attack, and remixes of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Les Negresses Vert.

It’s got a lot of stuff that is identifiably associated with the “Massive Attack Sound”, but there’s other odds and sods in there too, and all told it’s just a superb laid-back album I’d recommend just about anyone to get so long as they have even a vague interest in this breed of music.

Even better, it comes with NO copy protection, simply an exhortation to respect the music. Which is what I usually try to do, rip it for personal use on PC and laptop, and that’s it.

Perfection.

Frothing

Grrrr. Bloody Sodding Oldham. Fucking vile christmas twinkly lights going up all over the town centre. Bastard frunthuffing Nativity scene in the shopping centre. Incredibly bloody naff and rancid Santa’s effing poxy grotto along with animafuckingtronic stuffed ugly animals. *seethe* Two of the frigging bastard things. Keffing twadgeknacking faux fir garlands with more chuntgropping bows and twinkly shitbagging lights.

Bah fucking humbug

Tweetly twatly carols on one sound system in a shop. I leave, muttering. It’s the second of November, and the Christmas stuff is well on the way to being sorted. Now I’m just waiting for the first sighting of a manky neon house decoration…

Fan-Mail

Wow, not often I get fan-mail, particularly from a New York Escort. I actually thought this was spam at first, then read it properly…

Hi,

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My blog has a bunch of regular visitors and I think that some of them would enjoy your blog. In fact, I’m hosting a Carnival to showcase other blogs on my site. If you would like to participate you can read about it here.

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xoxo,
Alexa