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I just happened to witness this gem as a non participating member. I happened to be in another department using their computer. This department was quite busy at this point due to them carrying out some extra work which they don’t normally do.

We had a young team leader in the midst who regards himself as, quite simply a ladies man. You wouldn’t feel these vibes off him straight off the bat, but he can be very entertaining. Also the companies’ cleaner is a very good looking woman. Not something you would expect but it just happens to be the case. She walked in and kind of roamed around the office. After the niceties hello’s and hi and what are you guys up to, our man went into his stride.

“Oh there is some extra over time work happening in our department. Fancy doing a few hours?” he said.

(I know it doesn’t sound like game talk but trust me you have to start somewhere).

She replied “… doing that?”
He replied enthusiastically “Yeah!”
“I can’t think of anything more boring.” She replied very unenthusiastically.
He took a moment, “Hey don’t say that, you’ll be working with me. How can that be boring?”
“Exactly what I meant, I can’t think of anything more boring than that!” She replied as everyone in the room burst out laughing as the poor boy looked on deflated.

I had arrived into work early that particular day. I was on a run of arriving early. With the rest of the group, arrived the administrator. He looked as he normally does except for two bits of tissue paper that were stuck to his face. They weren’t particularly large bits of paper but quite small.

After he sat down and taking sneak looks. I quickly figured he had stuck bits of paper over cuts he’d suffered, obviously by shaving in the morning. It looked very odd to be walking into work with bits of paper stuck to your face. I didn’t realise people still did this and even if they did, I’m sure they don’t walk into work and expect everyone to take them seriously.

This is for my boss if they should ever accidentally happen to pass by my blog:

Dear Boss,

I think you are courageous and a valiant leader. I am humbled to be working for you. I admire how you take this difficult role within your stride and how you are fearless when things get difficult.  I couldn’t think of a better boss to work for.

Anything that I have written or may write which you in anyway happen to dislike is purely fictional. However anything I write which is complimentary in anyway is purely from the heart. As I said I love working for you and couldn’t think of anything better than doing so. So forgive any slip of my fingers where I was supposed to type something nice but the fingers hit the wrong keys.

Boss did I tell you how good you look?

I’m sure it has been discussed and ranted and raved for many many years. Yes, I’m talking about the silliness which kicks into even the most normal of person around the end of the year. I’m going to put another spin on this by saying I quite like this madness. Don’t get me wrong here I don’t wish to participate in this madness but I quite enjoy watching it from a safe distance. I quite enjoy the fact everyone wants to finish work earlier including the boss who with the help of everyone all join in force to make sure this happens. This is the type of group bond which only comes from a united consensus with everyone with one goal one mission and they all work together to make sure it happens.

It’s not quite the Christmas cheer, gleeful hope and union of faith which everyone should be feeling but nevertheless in its own way I’m sure you would agree it’s beautiful. At least I think so.

Wish everyone a very happy new year. A year that starts on a Friday surely must be a good year. Definitely fills me with excitement.

I haven’t posted for so long its become embarrassing.

Recently I’ve just upgraded my compies from XP to Win 7. What a pile of gunk vista turned out to be fortunately win 7 is a very nice OS. It looks good, behaves very well and is super configurable. The art work, icons and the glass aero theme all work together very well.

I’m not sure if I’m correct in saying so, but it feels Win 7 makes more use of the hardware, which is maybe obvious as it requires more resources but it doesn’t feel slugish the experience is quite pleasant.

I was quite impressed when upgrading. Its the first time I’ve actually planned an upgrade as the cleanest upgrade from XP is a clean install. I backed up my firefox settings with MozBackup which saves all your settings and can even save your extensions. Watch out for google gears its best to un-install that and reinstall later. The upgrades on my main pc and the laptop took under 30 mins from beginning of install to logging into windows. And the install only asks a few questions and merrily works its way through the install.

I’m not one to follow hype but it did feel like lots for Win 7 so I thought I would take a look. I was super disappointed with vista and was very wary and cautious about how it would turn out. What I like is the new theme, I like the windows search system whereby it indexes everything and makes searching for files of all types incredibly fast. I really like the way photos and media is handled. I like the inclusion of windows media centre in the home premium edition.

What I like most is that you can move folders such as My Documents. You could do this on previous versions too, but this time you can also move your My Pictures, Music folders etc, to where they actually exist. If you keep these on separate partitions like I do this feature is super useful.

Windows did recognise all the main hardware and installed the drivers. A few minor hardware wasn’t recognised but I was easily able to find drivers. Win 7 uses the same driver model as vista so finding and installing vista drivers is acceptable and won’t cause any issue.

The cost is one aspect which I don’t fully like. I wish it was a little less. I’m hoping they will take a leaf out of apples book and start selling there OS closer to $30 but we can hope.

Should you rush out and upgrade ? if you’re on Vista then I think you definitely should. If you’re on XP with a newish pc and you feel up to the challenge of moving then go for it. If your PC is ageing a little I’d say hold out a little while, prices are sure to drop and also due to the sheer amount of XP users Microsoft have been forced into support XP for another couple of years.

Michael Jackson walk of fame star

Michael Jackson

It was a little surreal waking up to hear the news of MJ passing away. Especially knowing his farewell tour was only a few weeks away in London. What a way to leave.

Michael Jackson – Human Nature

Looking out
Across the night-time
The city winks a sleepless eye
Hear her voice
Shake my window
Sweet seducing sighs

Get me out
Into the night-time
Four walls won’t hold me tonight
If this town
Is just an apple
Then let me take a bite

Chorus
If they say -
Why, why, tell ‘em that is human nature
Why, why, does he do me that way
If they say -
Why, why, tell ‘em that is human nature
Why, why, does he do me that way

Reaching out
To touch a stranger
Electric eyes are ev’rywhere
See that girl
She knows I’m watching
She likes the way I stare

If they say -
Why, why, tell ‘em that is human nature
Why, why, does he do me that way
If they say -
Why, why, tell ‘em that is human nature
Why, why, does he do me that way
I like livin’ this way
I like lovin’ this way

(instrumental section)

Looking out
Across the morning
The city’s heart begins to beat
Reaching out
I touch her shoulder
I’m dreaming of the street

Chorus
If they say -
Why, why, tell ‘em that is human nature
Why, why, does he do me that way
If they say -
Why, why, tell ‘em that is human nature
Why, why, does he do me that way
I like livin’ this way

(Repeat Chorus – Ad-lib/fade-out)

Tricky – Pumpkin

Pumpkin
you’re hollow within
More how I’m to slowly
let their harm
Give us some
It’s sad until
Like flowers untamed
Shine out ends
I find what will make him
Love me
Life is our find
Hollow is he

I can’t breathe and I can’t see
MTV moves too fast, I refuse to understand
You go your way and I’ll see mine
Feels like wasted time
And it feels like I must be blind
How’d you like yourself?
You don’t know yourself

To a hollow kind, don’t mind
Love is some of you
Don’t dabble in fall of failure
How bad,ooh,ooh

Tricky and Alison Goldfrapp:
I smell of she and I fail to be
Well anyway,well anyway,well anyway

See how high
Go on

I can’t see and I can’t breathe
I can’t see and I can’t breathe
I can’t see and I can’t breathe
I can’t see and I can’t breathe
Well anyway, well anyway

She said “I’ve a problem, I’ve done something stupid.”
Yas: “So why are you here, leave my office take your problem elsewhere”

I was joking, I’m approached at work with similar opening lines all the time. Its my department which ends up cleaning up the mess from other departments. Luckily in this instance the problem turned out to be far easier.

The lady from the quality control department had received some ladies belts. She had tried them on. Starting with the smallest obviously. But was surprised when size large didn’t fit her. So she had sent a sample of the belts off to the technical department. Normally my department would be informed of this but on this occasion she had not done.

Anyway she was telling me the story of how she tried putting on size large and it didn’t fit! what crossed my mind was well maybe you need an extra large. Obviously once the words ‘extra’ and ‘large’ crossed my mind I knew in this instance I need to keep my mouth shut no matter what happens. It was one of those volatile situations whereby speaking the wrong word no matter how remotely related or unrelated it is will cause a reaction which would have left her feeling bad. Women and sensitive go hand in hand like red leather and gloves.

She finished off by letting me know the technical department had found no faults and that the size was correct. Then she said well either the size is small on these belts or I’m just fat and I’m now going to go and cry.

Please not in my office I thought. Leave the belts here and I will get them to the right waist, I mean place!