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TTM: Time To MegaHAL

Monday, February 14, 2011

It seems that my Time To MegaHAL, or TTM, is about six weeks. I’ll explain. What generally happens is this: I start a new job, and meet a whole new bunch of people. After about six weeks, someone suddenly mentions “hey, you’re that MegaHAL guy”! It happened just today. My new boss, at a job [...]

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Deployment

Friday, May 1, 2009

Right happy with my new job this week… got some serious stuff done in four days, including a pretty comprehensive deployment script. And who can turn their nose up at free Nandos lunches, beer distribution while you work, and an empty office at 5pm every day?

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Infinite Loop

Monday, April 20, 2009

My machine at work was nagging me to activate XP, and all the licenses had been maxed out, so we bought a single copy of XP Pro, and I entered the license key. Everything seemed to work, and I left on Friday a happy man. This morning, however, it was a different story. Upon logging [...]

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USB

Saturday, April 18, 2009

I was using the computer in the boardroom at work, and someone had left their USB memory stick plugged in. “No worries”, he said. “Let me eject that”. He moved the mouse to the USB icon in the Taskbar, waiting for the balloon help text to pop up (it says “Safely Remove Hardware”), and then [...]

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