Thursday, December 08, 2005
Things I learn[t]/[ed] today
1. 25th Anniversary of John Lennon being "moidered" in "Noo Yoyik"*.
2. Overnight, my bath hot tap has slowed to trickle for some reason.
3. Audi drivers get very seriously pissed off at you if you cut them up on a one way street.
4. Audi drivers are cocks who then drive right up close behind you in what could be called "icy conditions" just to prove their manhood is more substantial than mine.
5. I left my work ID card behind.
6. I still love my job.
7. To format a mergefield in MS Word to represent currency ALT+F9 and add \# "#,##0.00" after the field name.
8. People in Brussels don't log off when they say they will.
9. JPG compression really sucks when wanting to do stuff with pictures and transparent forms.
10. No-one took my game ideas seriously :o(
11. I've now done most of my Christmas shopping
12. Despite claiming that he knows better and producing nothing but lameass excuses, Sturge really wants an iPod. You know - one of those nasty, proprietory pieces of plastic tat that prove people are sheep when it comes to "the latest thing". Tsk.
13. Rob's network is sorted.
14. Don't ever run sfc/scannow in a command window without first checking for WinXP discs.
* Tell me do, dear reader. I have been to The Big Apple twice now, and both times I never heard anyone say "New York" as "Noo Yoyik". Does this actually happen? Have I missed it? Or is it simply low quality Brit dramas and/or Hugh Laurie in "House"?
Oh and speaking of accents, which I was. Vaguely. The BBC is currently running a version of Dickens' David Copperfield in the mornings at 10:45 and also at 7:45 in the evening. In the story, Young David has to spend time in a place called Great Yarmouth. Great Yarmouth is, if you look on a map of the UK, in Norfolk. However, the BBC (being a quality institution) have once again employed someone to play Emily with a West Country accent in place of a genuine Norfolk one. Damn them and their simplified vision of country folk.
Or should that be "vision of simple country folk"?
No matter.
2. Overnight, my bath hot tap has slowed to trickle for some reason.
3. Audi drivers get very seriously pissed off at you if you cut them up on a one way street.
4. Audi drivers are cocks who then drive right up close behind you in what could be called "icy conditions" just to prove their manhood is more substantial than mine.
5. I left my work ID card behind.
6. I still love my job.
7. To format a mergefield in MS Word to represent currency ALT+F9 and add \# "#,##0.00" after the field name.
8. People in Brussels don't log off when they say they will.
9. JPG compression really sucks when wanting to do stuff with pictures and transparent forms.
10. No-one took my game ideas seriously :o(
11. I've now done most of my Christmas shopping
12. Despite claiming that he knows better and producing nothing but lameass excuses, Sturge really wants an iPod. You know - one of those nasty, proprietory pieces of plastic tat that prove people are sheep when it comes to "the latest thing". Tsk.
13. Rob's network is sorted.
14. Don't ever run sfc/scannow in a command window without first checking for WinXP discs.
* Tell me do, dear reader. I have been to The Big Apple twice now, and both times I never heard anyone say "New York" as "Noo Yoyik". Does this actually happen? Have I missed it? Or is it simply low quality Brit dramas and/or Hugh Laurie in "House"?
Oh and speaking of accents, which I was. Vaguely. The BBC is currently running a version of Dickens' David Copperfield in the mornings at 10:45 and also at 7:45 in the evening. In the story, Young David has to spend time in a place called Great Yarmouth. Great Yarmouth is, if you look on a map of the UK, in Norfolk. However, the BBC (being a quality institution) have once again employed someone to play Emily with a West Country accent in place of a genuine Norfolk one. Damn them and their simplified vision of country folk.
Or should that be "vision of simple country folk"?
No matter.
