Posted by Streakfury | Posted in The 9-To-5 Droll | Posted on 03-03-2009
“… and above all we do… not… fanny… about!”
Christmas tree update – it’s down! It only took two solid months, but our Christmas tree has finally been taken down. I personally wanted to see it stay up until March at least, but apparently it was just too big not to notice, and someone took it upon themselves to stick it back up into the loft. Perhaps we’ll break the record next year.
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Posted by Streakfury | Posted in Random, The 9-To-5 Droll | Posted on 17-02-2009
Modern-day jobs (or more accurately, careers) have far too much stress for my liking. It’s no wonder people burn themseves out by the age of 30, especially the logic-oriented professions that usually involve computers.
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Posted by Streakfury | Posted in The 9-To-5 Droll | Posted on 28-01-2009
I didn’t post an entry here yesterday as I wasn’t at work. (How bad does that sound – I didn’t waste time writing a blog entry because I wasn’t at a place where I should be doing proper work…?)
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Posted by Streakfury | Posted in Geek Stuff, The 9-To-5 Droll | Posted on 08-01-2009
As is often the case, I came into work this morning to be greeted with the usual people shuffling about and mumbling under their breath. It’s usual practice for computer technicians really, but this time they had a real issue to mumble about.
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Posted by Streakfury | Posted in Technology, The 9-To-5 Droll | Posted on 29-12-2008
…and by “it all” I mean “the festivities, but I still have to go back to work”.
Still, you can’t win ‘em all. I have had three three-day working weeks in a row, which is awesome because it means I’ve had more time off work than I have at work. I’ve noticed that there are certain things that I tend not to get done so much while I’m not at work – and I don’t mean the work stuff I should be doing at work. Posting on this blog, and also going down the gym, are the two things that I never seem to manage outside of working hours. That, and reading the BBC tech news site, deleting my spam emails, and keeping up with the goings-on on various forums.
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Posted by Streakfury | Posted in Random, The 9-To-5 Droll | Posted on 24-12-2008
I wonder what reindeer tastes like…
Well, it’s that time of year again. And unfortunately I’m stuck at work, doing not a lot. Still, today is the last day of work (until Monday) so that’ll make it three threee-working-day weeks in a row. Win!
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Posted by Streakfury | Posted in Finance, The 9-To-5 Droll | Posted on 05-11-2008
“Should the Iranian regime-do they have the sovereign right to have civilian nuclear power? So, like, if I were you, that’s what I’d ask me. And the answer is, yes, they do.”
Yesterday, everyone at my workplace was given the delightful news that the company still predicts that, due to the current financial climate, it won’t be making as much profit as previously thought, and so it was asking for everyone to pull together to come up with ideas to help save money. Oh, and it also asked if anyone would be happy to take voluntary redundancy.
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Ahh, it’s that time of the week again – Monday morning. Only this week I’m back at work.
I’ve had a change of heart where my next DJ set is concerned. I know I decided to record a mix of old trance classics, but I’ve been listening to a lot of newer progressive stuff lately and I’ve come across a few tracks that I think would make an awesome progressive trance mix. So that’s what I’ll be recording next… unless I change my mind again, of course.
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Posted by Streakfury | Posted in Geek Stuff, The 9-To-5 Droll | Posted on 17-10-2008
The last thing I did before bed yesterday was check my emails briefly. But I noticed that my iGoogle page had had a change of layout. The tabs that ran across the top of the page were listed down the left hand side, and each item in the list was expandable to show the title of each RSS feed/widget/object thingy on that tab. But I awoke this morning to find it had changed back to it’s original format.
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Posted by Streakfury | Posted in Society, The 9-To-5 Droll | Posted on 09-10-2008
“Please sir, can I have some more?”
Things have been pretty hectic at work today, so I don’t suppose I’ll have time to do a full blown War And Peace-style article today, but I’ll see what I can muster.
Leading on from what I was saying yesterday – along with the “bad” side of society comes the good side. For every person who thinks that the world owes them a living, there is someone out there who thinks it’s up to them to help themselves, and others in the process. Generally speaking, there are are more of these “good” people than there “bad” people, but as discussed yesterday, with the declining standards of society in general, this notion is changing rapidly.
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