As part of my job I have to think of worse-case scenarios, and plan/consider the response for them. As I’m a full-time computer geek, this is along the lines of “what if this computer fails”, or “how to recover last months reports”, or “can we cope with double the demand”. Disconcertingly, managers always also go […]
I was resting up yesterday, recovering from a long and drawn out cold that finally caught up with me and sapped all my energy. Couldn’t face work, so just took it easy and wandered around in my dressing gown, largely sipping orange juice and watching old saved programmes on our almost-full PVR. The door-bell rings, and […]
Lots going on at the moment, and the website has necessarily suffered. Took a break from running for much of last week. My left shin has been feeling a bit sore, probably due to the number of hills I ran whilst on a break up near Aberfoyle last weekend. Beautiful scenery up there. Autumn really is […]
Once more unto the breach!, and once more we do battle with Glasgow council and associated hole-digging/cone-placing cohorts. We returned from our 2 week holiday to find some of those flimsy barricades around a shallow hole in the ground right outside our house, carefully positioned to cause us great difficulty in getting our car in and […]
We’re back from our holidays and feeling quite rested, although the drive up from North Yorkshire today, where we’d been staying in the fishing village of Staithes for a few days was awful as it rained and rained and rained all the way up the M6. Normally, you see, it only starts raining when we […]
In a conversation over dinner recently we started talking about cartoons, and it got me thinking: Is there a Hanna Barbara or Looney Tunes vs Disney schism, in much the same way as the Beatles or the Rolling Stones? I never really liked the Disney cartoon characters. All far too mundane and ‘proper’. Donald Duck was […]
Frances and I took a walk down to Glasgow’s Tramway, which is “one of the leading contemporary visual and performing arts venues in Europe“. It’s also only a 20 minute walk from our front door, which is nice. It was a spur of the moment decision, after having seen a mention of an exhibition in the […]
One of my clients is currently looking to hire a full time systems administrator (More details here), and we’re finding it incredibly difficult to find the right person. Whilst we do get a lot of CVs, I’m finding it incredibly frustrating getting solid candidates that I even want to interview. On the whole the CVs […]
Living up here in Scotland after spending most of my life in England, you catch yourself being quite puzzled by the really small differences that a few hundred miles can introduce. Occasional words that are different, that get dropped into conversation are one thing. Bank notes are another. So it’s the Bank notes that are […]
Well, I’m sat here on a Saturday morning waiting for some folk in London to do a few things as part of a disaster recovery test for a client. Going well so far, and I’ve got a bit of spare time and thought I’d have a general ramble about ’stuff’ that’s going on. As far as […]
