I may have mentioned that I'm leaving my current job soon, to move back to the group that I was an intern in. Despite being the first of the non-managers to state my intention to leave, I seem to be the last to be set free ( Read more... )

Synchronicity is a weird thing. Just this week, I was composing another "Woe-is-me" LJ post about work burnout; the essence being that I feel like I'm moving from one anti-burnout crisis strategy to the next. I just feel like I walk into my current job, work flat out, nearly burning myself out in an attempt to meet the requirements. That and the ( Read more... )

Over in Dublin it's Pride week, and I decided that this year I'd actually go to an event other than the march itself; so I did. I went to an event titled
Workplace Diversity - PRIDE at Work. My main thought after was, "Cripes! We have a long way to go." A lot of the people speaking covered Lesbian and Gay, very rarely touching on Bi issues (very ( Read more... )

EU: Oracle is clear to buy Sun

Irish Times article on itWow. It's finally happened. Just over 9 months in the making. So now I'm an employee of a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oracle until such time that we're folded in wholesale ( Read more... )

Wow, life is all movement, but there ain't a lot to say for it. I mean, Lanzarote was fun, although I barely remember it now. Coming home to the ice, and a particularly cold Wednesday made me think of here as the perfect venue to vent my frozen rage about having to walk home from work for over 4 miles or when I went out, and got drunk with deadlybuzz and ( Read more... )

If you want a pre-transition tranny to feel uncomfortable, just post this on a chatroom in work:

( Cut because you probably don't want to see this )

So, I haven't taken time off work in an age. Ok, I went to London in March, but that's about it. As a result of that, and the fact that I bought 5 extra days annual leave, I have a whole mess of it knocking around ( Read more... )

I know we're all blind to our own flaws, and strengths, all to varying degrees, but there's one that's puzzling me ( Read more... )

After months of working on potential bugs in work, and writing "Trying to reproduce manually" it's only now that I've thought of the filthy side to it. I must be losing my touch.

Conversation on IRC in work
( IRC conversation, with names changed to preserve the lack of innocence )