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Techy Fun: Why are things a rush only when a customer wants them to be?

September 7, 2007
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As I’m in the process of slowing shutting down other sites I’ve worked on (due to time constraints), I’m reposting them here. Here’s an article from “Behind The Frontline” which was going to be a cross between I Work With Fools, Worse Than Failure and Dilbert.

Category: Timewasters. Author: Web Site Submission.

We waited over *3 months* for a response from a customer over a simple issue. When they eventually decided to provide us with a response, then wanted us to jump to it and have the work done within the hour (on a weekend!).

Meme: Asperger Test

September 6, 2007
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From Gerph (aka RISC OS’s Justin Fletcher) is the Pie Palace Asperger Test. I scored less then Justin – “only” 30 points out of 50. 32+ scores “are generally taken to indicate Asperger’s Syndrome or high functioning autism with more than 34 an ‘extreme’ score”.

I work as a computer programmer, but haven’t been diagnosed with any mental impediment that I can remember (so amnesia could be an option 😀 ). What about you – what’s your score and occuption?

Techy Fun: Now, that’s helpful!

September 2, 2007
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As I’m in the process of slowing shutting down other sites I’ve worked on (due to time constraints), I’m reposting them here. Here’s an article from “Behind The Frontline” which was going to be a cross between I Work With Fools, Worse Than Failure and Dilbert.

Category: More Information, Please!. Author: Myself.

Speaking to a customer today who had a problem, I asked him which email program he used.

The “helpful” reply?

“What I normally use!”

I’m not kidding! I’m at the other end of phone line trying to diagnose a problem and now I’ve got to fathom out which email program from at least a dozen popular ones he just happens to be using.

The best bit is still to come.

When I asked him how long ago he last tried checking his email he replied:”Two days ago”.

I just told him to try it now, and guess what, his email downloaded. I still don’t know what his “normal” program is.

Personal: Car Annoyances

August 27, 2007
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I so regret getting a car. Since I purchased it about 6 weeks ago it’s needed:

  • New drivers side wing mirror after somebody hit it once I was parked up outside my house (4 weeks ago): Approx £8
  • Small paint repair on the passengers side after I got a scratch in either the local Tesco or work’s car park (2 weeks ago). Approx £
  • A new drivers side front tyre as the one the car came with had a slow puncture (Friday). Approx £40
  • Another drivers side front tyre as when I was staying at a Days Inn hotel on the M62 last night, somebody “speared” it and hence once I got home from Yorkshire it was flat. Approx £40

And those costs exclude two tanks of petrol so far (£40 each time), car insurance (£730), breakdown cover (£70) and the car itself. It’s tax is due in January and an MOT next year and I’ve still got to get it through a service (as it’s service history is unknown).

Why did no one warn me of all these “incidental” costs?