Somethings are complicated enough to NEED a geek!

Today I met with our friend and colleague to give him a heads up on the technologies he’ll be working with for a potential client.
My role was simply to make sense of the setup at the clients site (they are hosting their own website), so the developers could make the site sing :)
It took a while to get hold of the administration passwords, but once found and logged in, we were given free reign to “ferret around” ← Clients words, not ours
I backup up a copy of the website, added a secure FTP account AND hopefully proved invaluable to the webdevs themselves

I’m such a helpful geek

Tor got a call later today saying (I think) that the guys were sucessful with the pitch – I hope my bit helped…

On a more personal note – I had a dreaded Migraine yesterday. They HURT!
The word itself – Migraine – has been much abused over the years; now it seems to mean a headache.
THOSE OF US WHO SUFFER KNOW THE DIFFERENCE!
For those who are free from this affliction, feel lucky!

I started getting my personal aura about 10:00ish, an unusual blurring of the vision making focussing on one thing almost impossible; this rapidly progressed into the inability to think clearly (some would say this is normal for me ) and on into forgetting simple words.
I HAD to set off home before it got worse. Amazingly the journey was traffic free – someone looking out for me :)
Got home, went straight to bed, woke around 17:00 when my GF came home.

That was Thursday!
I missed going to the Theatre too! :neutral:

Hopefully it’s going to be a good weekend – I have to mow the lawns
There may be beer…

#Nice list of tags on this post – sometimes you wait for ages for a good one to come along, then before you know it, they are all there at once!#

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Speak & Spell - voiced over by Stephen Hawking

Title spelling intentional

So Apple have unveiled their latest money wasting piece of iPood technology:
New talking iPod Shuffle unveiled :twisted:

I must be getting old – down at the bottom of the article, there’s a sample of the iPood announcing a song – Speak & Spell anyone??

For those of you of a less antediluvian nature Speak & Spell was an ‘educational’ toy from the 70s and 80s – most of the time we simply made it swear or generally say rude words though

Nostalgia freaks will love this:
Speak & Spell Emulator

With the possible exception of the deranged nature of designers and their affinity for the PCs, I totally miss the point of the Apple brand – it’s true that, in general, they tend to do a better job of presenting a PC to the outside world and ‘Just Work’ (this is NOT true but the Apple fraternity like to perpetuate the myth; If yours does have an issue getting support is like looking for the proverbial rocking horse manure – there are also viruses that effect Macs too)

The iPod’s sound quality is inferior to its contemporaries AND the cost is higher too – why would people pay MORE for an inferior product???
It can’t be the fact that it’s got a ‘snazzy’ interface alone, can it?

Maybe it’s Maybelline?
More likely people just can’t see the wood for the trees…

Emperor’s new clothes methinks :evil:

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A Mac Mail Server

A good use for those Mac machines

Only kidding…

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Sinusoidal because today was full of ups and downs.

Popped over to see someone we haven’t seen for YEARS – he’s got a good database project for us. :)
During the end of the meeting he asked if I knew anything about Teleconferencing – Yup (I used to install the Tandberg units) so I got to play with a Polycom one :)
Found out it wasn’t correctly connected to the ISDN – and found out several other engineers had missed it (including BT!)
On to a winner so far…

Steps out of the meeting feeling good – totally flat tyre – puncture
Luckily I carry a pump – few minutes later I’m going to the garage – new tyre (more expense)
Notices the time – too late for any food, got to go to my next appointment…
Feeling sad…

Gets to my next appointment – need to fix a failing web cam – fails to fix it
Gets home feeling pretty unhappy, have to go food shopping. This has the mind numbing effect of making me forget my woes and acts almost like therapy

It started good – fell flat in the middle but I’m feeling neutral now it’s bedtime :neutral:

Hoping for a better day tomorrow…

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Today I was tasked with the mission (should I have an option NOT to accept it):

Create a directions page to our office, from the M606 and from Leeds city centre…

I think I did a reasonable job:

Directions

I also have another mission – having installed a multi-monitor solution, I need a multi-monitor sized box thing to stand them on.
They are a little low at the moment – Get out the big boys tools and save myself a lot of neck ache (this of course does not in any way refer to a pain in the neck )

My creation was truly a masterpiece to behold – actually a simply wide ‘n’ shape was what was finally produced…
It’s good though, and performs brilliantly. I guess that’s the main criteria fulfilled then.

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