I get this Donkey Award - for not being awake!

I am officially stupid – I guess some of you know this already
In this particular case I DO have an excuse, and it’s not relating to my dubious mental state.

With the recently hot weather I have had great difficulty sleeping and, as a man who usually has little heavy sleep, this is not good for my concentration.

In this particular instance I mananged to take a trip to Sainsburys for a few bits ‘n’ bobs, placing the choice items in the boot for the trip home.
Brrrmmmmmmm…
Arrives at home to decant the car contents into their respective locations. Has a life (just for the evening you understand – I wouldn’t want you thinking I had a life!), goes to bed.
My girlfriend gets up and asks how I managed to leave the boot WIDE OPEN all night!
Unfortunately I had also not locked the car either!! :eek:
Oops!
Fortunately nothing was missing – that was probably the biggest shock!!!

Also, today I have had great difficulty concentrating to the point of letting a client down – Sorry Chris!
I had to eat much humble pie, and apologised profusely. Thankfully Chris is a nice guy…

I NEED SOME SLEEP!!!

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Website developers. A breed apart

Web Developers seem to be a different breed!

Before I go any further i HAVE to say – Jaimie from iNet engineers is a GOD SEND!!
A web dev who actually CARES about what he does, whom you CAN speak to, and who does what he says he will when he says he will!
AMAZING!!
(there’s a link to his blog on the  bottom right of the side bar…)!

Anyhow…

I have a client, he paid for a website.
The web developer built a website (not very good IMHO).
The client mentioned an update, which the developer developed.
OOPS – the client never made a formal request, the developer wrote the software off his own back.
When the authors of the software they use to run their business added exactly what the client wanted for free (the client knew this was coming but thought it might have been a chargeable update), they told the developer; Who promptly threw teddies out of pram…
Now my client is “of so little importance” that he doesn’t bother to turn up to meetings OR respond to the clients requests.

He’s lost the business to us now…

A special kind of stupid

A special kind of stupid for this donkey award…

I popped in to the chippy t’other day, I had to pass a Police incident to get in…
The Police had arrested one guy and were man handling another to the ground.

The story made me laugh and laugh.
Apparently there was a guy in the chippy, just in front of two UNIFORMED Police officers.
The guy walks out of the chippy and decides to wheel spin out of the car park.
Unsurprisingly the Police stop said man – who is drunk driving!!

Arrested (and should have been neutered to stop him polluting the gene pool)

The other guy thought he’d make his feelings about the Police known – loudly.

Stupid, stupid stupid…

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Demon Internet

#Rant#

And the awarding of the second ‘Donkey Award’ goes to…..

Demon Internet – for causing most of their Scarborough users untold problems WITHOUT warning them!

Picture the scene…
I have a branch office using a database located in my head office.
It’s a permanently connected data link, sending product information across the group and onto a connected website. My products are always up to date because the data comes from my own database. :)
Good so far…
Demon Internet decide (in their wisdom) to upgrade their Scarborough network to the new ADSL 2+ system.
They neglect to tell the people who use their service.
The screw up the upgrade.
Now my satellite office is offline indefinitely
Also, my router needs updating to use the new system
Getting a router will take about 1 day + travelling time + install

Now I have an unhappy client (thankfully it’s not our fault!)
All it would have taken was a simple “we are going to do this” email and we’d have scheduled it in.

We found this out early this morning after I had added a fix to the network for failing connectivity yesterday.

Sigh…

#Rant over#

On the plus side – our client wants to move their broadband to a new supplier

Now it’s BEER → BATH → BOOK → BED!
Sounds like a plan…

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Are the banks so desperate as to need our funds too?

One of the things small companies rely on is cash flow. That is the simple in and out of cash on a daily basis.

There is a business mantra, often heard from those of a financial lilt – “Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity, but cash is king”
Quite simply – turnover makes your company look good, but is it actually making any money?
- profit is what makes your company worthwhile, without it you might as well give up (though there are more intangible rewards)
- But over all, if you have no cash in the bank, you are stuffed!

Imagine how happy we were then when a cheque bounced – luckily for services not yet provided.
The bank credited the account and, when the bounce occurred, removed the credit. Fine – these things happen…
The bank then re-presented the the cheque automatically, but this time with one subtle difference; They didn’t credit our account first – so when the cheque bounced the second time, they duly removed a credit not given.
Result – Our account was down by the amount of the cheque. (I should add that the value had 3 ’000s on the end).
No apology, no recompense.
In a small business this can have disastrous results, and would have done, had Tor not spotted it. A huge dent in our cash flow for this month then…
Grrr…

BT and Daisy Telecom

I’d like to introduce a new section – the donkey award for absolute stupidity.

I went to the nursery to finish off the camera install from the other day, armed with the broadband details our employer was provided to configure the connection.

On investigating, the router told me that the connection status was ‘down’ – further investigation reveals that there is no broadband on this line AT ALL!!
The end client was being billed for a broadband that didn’t exist – SINCE AUGUST LAST YEAR!! What I had been given, and where the info came from, I have no idea..!
Daisy Telecom and BT being the culprits – what is going on?

In other news – I would like to thank Jaimie Dobson from iNet Engineers, for the opportunity to ‘Guest blog’ on his site
Jaimie used the details from our last eZine for a article on Spyware and Malware. read it here (original eZine) or on Jaimie’s blog here

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