Wrong Side Of 40

Busted!!

Dumb bloody luck.. Just got in from a very nice evening out with Mrs OB, walked in through the front door and a triumphant younger son delighted in telling me that he’d found my blog !! Bummer … Now I have to watch what I say ( yeah right ! ) Shit happens..

iPhone 3G

Picked up a 16Gb iPhone 3G yesterday ! Very happy to have that now… Just waiting on Stealthsim SE to arrive so I can use it with my Orange sim. Crappily as has been well reported it doesn’t fit into the previous iPhone dock as standard although I’ve found that with just a little bit…

Back again..

Not posted for ages. In fact this blog was offline… I have a new host now ( www.hostinguk.net ) so it’s back. Anyway .. At work project z got finished (ish – it’s under constant development now it’s in place), new stuff is happening daily with it. Just come back from three weeks holiday and…

This is not my life ..

“I’m getting too old for this shit” is a line from a film I’ve long since forgotten the title of but that is very relevant right now. I’m sat in a data centre on a box freezing my ass off trying to get a server to recover from a lost array member and a failure…

Tired..

Too damn tired this morning. Went home last night pretty much on time and watched TV mostly, which was good, but didn’t resist the temptation to go on the Mac between midnight and 2am. I’m tired this morning. Tired as in can’t concentrate tired or as in need to go back to bed tired. My…

Lost in translation

At work we’re in the middle of deploying this software product which for the purpose of this article I shall call “Z”. We bought Z from an American company that’s actually run, so far as I can see, by some US based Russians. The technical support is done out of Moscow, the software and manuals…