Musical desks

In the beginning there were The Few, and all was good. After the few, there were the many. And when the many came, there were new job titles, and desks were moved about, but on the whole, it was good. But after a while, the Customer requested to be able to speak to the many, rather than just the few. The few who worshipped the customer made changes which affected the many, to accomodate the Customer. The many moved desks around, changed job titles, had mentoring schemes set up to supplement training, and took on extra roles to accomodate the wishes of the few.

It now remains to be seen as to whether any of this will turn out OK; I guess however at least the willingness to implement change is a good sign, and for the most part it seems like it will be a good thing on the whole. My main concern is that most of the time the customer doesn't know what they want, so making changes based on feedback from custonmers may not always be the best thing, and not being consulted regarding the issue does rankle somewhat.

mmmm, doughnuts...

After an extended period of not having any cakes at work, Thursday brought the arrival of many cream cakes and doughnuts. And this was good. Friday was also good, as for her birthday, VEH bought some savoury snacks which offset the cakes from the previous day. At this point, midway through the morning, I already felt stuffed - and after a departmental presentation - resulted in there being a huge amount of free sandwiches. As they were gfree, and provided by the company, I had to eat some of the sandwiches. I suppose therefore I was lucky when at the end of the day, and after celebrating VEH's birthday with a pint, I managed to find room for a full Thai meal in the evening. A nice meal, good company and an enjoyable time - but I really did feel stuffed!

WWW

Well, I've made a start - my new work in progress website is now available for you to ooh and aah at.

On a related note, while a few years back WWW was used to distinguish which sites actually used HTTP as opposed to other protocols, it's really no longer necessary - and yet people still insist on using it. While not that bad in itself, things are made worse, in my opinion, by failing to provide a URL which doesn't have the www bit on the front.

As for people abusing the alt paramater for the A tag - blame Microsoft for not adhering to standards and allowing them to get away with it. The alt parameter is for alternate text, whereas title is the parameter which should be used for the "tooltip" effect.

Crazy as a barrel of monkeys.

Autumn is here!

YAY! Autumn is here! NO more horrible hot sweaty days, stuck in a sweltering office with no air conditioning! Time for some weather with attitude! I much prefer it when the wind blows and its raining - it's so refreshing and everything sort of smells nicer.

I also really should get round to redoing my website too...

Time

Where does the time go? It hardly seems like a week already since my last post. Ah well. On to the rant.

Why is it that in this day and age, delivery companies cannot:

1. Deliver at the weekends (when I'm at home)
or
2. Deliver when I am in during the week

Why does it always have to be during office hours that they try to deliver at home? I'd much prefer they tried to deliver in the evenings. Eejits.

Carnival time!

Yesterday I spent an enjoyable afternoon (and evening) in the company of a couple of friends, and their nearly three year old son. We went into Malmesbury to see all the floats go past (it was the little ones first carnival) and then he also had his first rides at a fairground. It was just an enjoyable relaxing time :)

The tooth is out (there)

I must say, that after going to the dentist today, my opinion of dentists and their assistants, has been greatly improved. While I don't like going to the dentist, having a good looking lass for a dentist certainly helps! I have returned home minus 1 (or half, more likely) a wisdom tooth, and it didn't bother me much at all. I guerss we'll see how it is when the anaesthetic wears off...