February 3, 2010 | Category: Funny | No Comments »

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.

January 20, 2010 | Category: Funny, Work | 1 Comment »

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?

January 2, 2010 | Category: Hopeful, Inspiration, Life, Work | No Comments »

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.

January 1, 2010 | Category: General | 2 Comments »

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.

November 1, 2009 | Category: Tech | No Comments »

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.

June 26, 2009 | Category: Inspiration, Life | 3 Comments »

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)

June 18, 2009 | Category: Inspiration | 1 Comment »

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

February 21, 2009 | Category: Funny | 5 Comments »

Yawning cat

November 5, 2008 | Category: Funny | 2 Comments »

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!

October 17, 2008 | Category: Inspiration | 2 Comments »

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I was going to work this morning and like every other Friday there tends to be less traffic so I set off a little later than normal. As I know I can get there on time. On my way I pass a stretch of country side and since this area ia pretty high up you get to see a lovely panoramic of all the hills around and the small little building dotted around.

In the mornings specially when the weather is a little foggy a mist covers part of the landscape. It really is quite a beautiful site in the mornings. I can imagine its probably under appreciated as everyone else like myself is only there as they are driving to a destination and at that time in the morning likely to be work.

I’ve noticed the weather can create some wonderful scenery and completely change the surroundings or at least let you see it in a different light. This morning was rather special.

The night before had been very cold and in the morning as its becoming light I was driving along and when I came to the main road I noticed an amazing skyline which I must admit I have never witnessed before. The sun appeared to be rising but it was not visible. The sky was full of lots of small little ripple like clouds that were giving the sky a textured look not much unlike the earth surface if we were to look down on it. What was truly amazing was the colour of the sky. It was an immense golden orange colour which was filling the whole sky with its hue.

I have seen some truly post card style scenery along this route but today the golden orange sky added colour even to the clouds and I was in awe by how impressive the sky looked. So much in fact I felt like parking up on the side of the road to take a picture.

I couldn’t stop and take a picture as I had set off late, also I knew that the sky would only stay like this for some minutes only. So I include a picture at the top which is also quite impressive. Its been awhile since the weather has made me feel like ‘wow how amazing’.