Richard suggested that people turn up wearing tuxes and hawaiian shirts, as a tribute to our office manager who's headed back stateside. Then he backed down to "a nice suit and a hawaiian shirt". In the end, ( it was a little half-hearted... )

Back from Seattle, so I've unlocked all the posts made while I was there (no sense advertising to all that I'm not at home, you know?) and I may have a few more comments to add later ( Read more... )

I'm in Seattle - in the WAC, to be precise - and will be here for the next two weeks. I'm also currently expecting my luggage to arrive at some point. I am now regretting my quip to the check-in desk as I heaved my bag onto the conveyer: "Do you want it checked through to Seattle?", he asked, and I replied, "Sure. I don't want to see it again ".

( random notes )

incoming waider alert: August 31st - September 13th. YHBW.

You may be drinking with some techie people if you say,I still don't know what "persistent rebalance" means!
and everyone laughs.

Problem of the day: speed of light insufficiently fast.

I met a guy today who I used work with back in 1998. And the first thing that came to mind when he came over to (re)introduce himself was that I'd loaned him a book, and never got it back from him.

Snow Crash, in case you're wondering.

dave: so the Blood Donations guys got in touch to say my details were on that laptop that got stolen.[1]
waider: someone's cloning you right now
dave: and we're hiring!

[1] The Irish blood donations people lost a laptop in New York recently with the details of 150,000 blood donors on board.

I was shooting the breeze somewhat with one of our security folks today, and I jokingly said something like, "yes, but I'm crazy", to which he replied (approximately), "sure you're crazy, but you do things the right way".
Which was nice.

Loosely paraphrased from a conference call today:engineer 1: It's not like this was handed down from the mountaintop by Moses.
engineer 2: Right. Besides, I looked him up in the company phonebook, and there's no listing.