... not to buy anything that the BOFH recommends? I wonder whether he'd be eligible for a Darwin Award for this.

Brilliant!

At last!

Knock down Ginger meets Hi-Tech and a beautiful bouncing baby is born...

the boss isn't a single character... The boss is frequently... Err.. "Recycled"... Clickety click here, Zappity Zap there, and bang, one new boss vacancy at BOFH towers.

(What ever happened to *Clickety click*?)

...as he is replaced, suffers an "unfortunate" accident, etc before he even has a chance. Besides, he must be a slow learner for maximum comedic effect...

Tying adjacent door knockers together then ringing the bell just pales into insignificance <sigh>

Ah, Simon obviously knows the real meaning of GPS. It's a Geographical Punishment System!

In 300 yards, go straight over, off the cliff.

Just imagine the swag he could leave in the caches...

Or where he would hide his own caches...

It's fun, but really, the clues should have lead the boss to try and break into the ECHELON Antenna domes or some other govt installation guarded by humourless paranoids Black Helicopter drivers who would have held him for weeks for questioning :P

Where would he hide them?

Haqre n uvtu ibygntr ryrpgebqr

Of course! (That's rot-13'd for the uninitiated)

we know about the 'Recycled' bosses but how old is the PFY now ?

... I've done is setting some poor geographically challenged visiting Road Warrior's Home address to somewhere completely different. They just jump in the car, fire up TomTom and hit Home as the destination. I wonder how long it is before they realise they're heading in completely the wrong direction...

:o)

Well, on the topic of mobile phone tracking, I upgraded Google map on my TyTN the other day and suddenly found that it could pinpoint where I am without even a GPS device. Too bad the range is almost always off- by 500 meters at best (the bloody thing said I was standing in the lake near my workplace! when I tried it in the office) and 200 kilometers at worst (said I was in a village in a state to the north).

The updated Google Maps usually has a circle around the "location" showing the area you might be in. This is because it is picking up the information of which cell tower you are connected to and then guessing the maxium range of that.

On my N95 it starts with the acuarcy of 1700 metres based on cell location and then a few seconds later pinpoints me based on the GPS info.

The PFY would be about 30 - he made his appearance in '96 as the nephew of the (at that time) boss. BOFH and PFY working together got the boss fired 2 days later, being blamed for the person who swapped the Windows boot splash screens to something less business appropriate.

So the PFY was hiding there the whole time, was he? One would hope that this Boss would be a bit more observant. I can't see him lasting very long...

Never mind "clickety click", what happened to "draggety poke"?