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Thursday, July 13, 2006
 
Daily drudge

I'm fairly close-mouthed about my job, usually. This is partly because there are certain elements of confidentiality about what I do (which I take seriously), and partly because I don't want to get into trouble if I occasionally grumble about my employers. But... to those of you who harbour even a shred of desire to find out what I do during an average work day ... this post is for you.
Minutes spent trying to remember what it is I have to do next: 20

Minutes spent wondering what it was I was trying to remember two minutes ago: 30

Number of cups of proper coffee drunk: 1

Number of cups of machine-brewed vaguely coffee-ish gunge drunk: 7

Percentage of energy spent drumming fingers on the desk: 3%

Percentage of energy spent tapping foot on floor: 4%

Percentage of energy spent running away from colleagues who are getting pissed off by my incessant finger-drumming and foot-tapping: 6%

System design documents updated: 3

System design documents screwed up and tossed into the bin: 2

Number of times distracted from what I'm doing by people wanting a progress report on what I'm doing: 4

Number of times approached by gormless wannabe-techies wanting to know how to follow simple instructions written in 5-year-old language: 11

Number of times telephoned by unbelievably gormless users with a PhD (Gormlessness) from the University of Gormless wanting to know how to turn their PCs on: 59

Lines of fiendishly incomprehensible code written: 400

Minutes spent reading yesterday's fiendishly incomprehensible code and trying to work out what the hell I was thinking of: 45

Mail servers fixed: 2

Mail servers broken: 3

Mail servers thwacked enthusiastically with a big hammer: 1

Stuck email messages liberated: 109

Meetings attended: 1

Meetings fallen asleep during: 1

Blog posts written: 0.05 (it's an average, OK?)

Pounds spent on overpriced canteen food: 6

Pounds spent on overpriced car fuel: 15

Kids dropped off: 2

Kids picked up: 2

Kids enraged by refusing to let them throw their shoes at each other while I'm driving: 2

Kids calmed down by singing The Piglet Song in a silly voice: 2
No cigarettes or gallons of red wine - sorry, Bridget. (Although I do like a small glass of single malt on occasion; donations to the usual Swiss deposit box gratefully received).


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Monday, July 03, 2006
 
Verloren in übersetzung

Here's a fun little music-lyrics game I saw over at Selkie's place... the instructions are:
  • Randomly pick a song from your music library
  • Find the lyrics for the first four verses/chorus
  • Go to Google Translation and translate the lyrics from English into German
  • Take the new German lyrics and translate them into French
  • Take the new French lyrics and translate them back into English
  • Post the NEW English lyrics and have people guess the original song.
So here's mine - it's not too bad, I don't think. But then, I know what it is.
I was in fires of angry opens created the hurricane, and I with my mother in the rain of forcing screamed, but all it it east is at present indeed an air! But it is, is precisely me version of setting the lightning leaping, is to him air! I formed by one, witch bärtigen was raised, me without teeth with a right of handle behind me, but all it it east is at present indeed an air! But it is, is precisely me version of setting the lightning leaping, is to him air! I of washed high and on the left was drowned, me for deaths. I fell to the bottom with my feet and with me saws which purged it. I wrinkled the eyebrows in Krumen of a crust of the bread. My crown with top with a right by my head. But all it it east is at present indeed an air! But it is, is precisely me version of setting the lightning leaping, is to him air! The version of setting the lightning leaping, is it an air! The version of setting the lightning leaping, is it an air!
Answers to be tied to the left leg of a carrier pigeon no more than 25cm in height and sent to the Norwegian Consulate in Nairobi. Alternatively, you could always post a comment.


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