I'm off to work! On a Saturday! Amazingly, i'm actually really looking forward to it! We have a major release in 6 days (on Friday 13th!) and there is so much still to do. I'm looking forward to a day when i can focus and get through things without people interrupting me and sending me emails with different things to do.

Two weeks to go until ( Read more... )

I haven't posted for ages - nothing really meaningful, anyway. I don't feel too badly about this. But i feel a sudden urge to want to make a little update ( Read more... )

"The cat is very definitely out of the bag, and having kittens among the pigeons!"

Somebody just said that and i thought it was rather funny! :)

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My manager, who sits next to me, is quite a Harry Potter fan (though admittedly, not as much as me!) We have a magic wand on our desk and have taken to waving it at every progress bar and yelling, "Progressio!" in an attempt to make it go faster!

My manager also mutters, "Yer a wizard, Harry!" every time my computer background comes up, which is ( Read more... )

I had to put Vista on a virtual machine for testing purposes. I protested, but was overruled as i was the tester with the most free hard disk space.


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Trying to explain a new feature to the person who's going to document it ( Read more... )

This is impressive: because we've been looking at how our products will work on Windows Vista, Microsoft have put up a nice little case study about us! :)

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=200985

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Colleague: There's no Nestlé in there today ( Read more... )

Me: Is it Nestlé?
Colleague: No.
Me: Oh, good. *drinks some*
Colleague: What is it? ... oh yeah ... Nescafé.
Me: Nescafé is Nestlé ( Read more... )