Posts by OzBob

Antipodean adventure?

Go to Bathurst 1000! Bogans, Big-Bangers and Eskys as far as the eye can see.

http://www.v8supercars.com.au/championship/2014-v8-supercars-championship/supercheap-auto-bathurst-1000

Saw a legendary sign down at Lands End Cafe

"We do not replace food stolen by seagulls". Must have had a few 'Merkins through recently threatening to sue.

Damn!

Was enjoying the article until I saw the RIP at the end, which meant there was not going to be a follow up.

A pity with all these entrepreneurs collecting old kit, no-one is collecting the memories of those who used it (and how they made it work). Perhaps we need an archive of their experiences for future generations to refer back to?

And not a single mention

of Kelvin Warwick (aka Captain Cyborg, and various other profanities too crude to list here).

Glad to hear you made it through your dark days

I would be interested in hearing from more Register IT professionals about mental health issues. It seems to happen a lot but gets talked about hardly ever.

Classic Basil

Basil Brush: Hello Killer

Cilla Black: It's Cilla.

Basil: Oh, terribly Corry.

boom boom.

Doesn't the mac

have voice recognition that could type it for you?

Is Russell Brand one of the other 4 UK entrants?

Please please please please please please please please please please please please please

Might as well have called it

a flux capacitor.

Oversold it, major fail!

You had me going right up to the part when you tried to tell me a Red Dwarf fan was married (and to a girl!).

Forget the Superbowl

It's the World Cup of Cricket in New Zealand starting shortly. American Football is as incomprehensible to the rest of the world as Cricket is to Americans.

http://www.icc-cricket.com/cricket-world-cup

I am jack's complete lack of surprise

"X" must have been more than the cost of a recall.

Nice to see Juno MaGuff is getting work

after "Inception".

An organisation as bad as that is described

does not happen on it's own. It takes dedicated incompetence on the behalf of HR, the immediate supervisor and the IT manager. Not to mention an internal vendetta or two.

I have seen great managers in IT, they are assertive, have the ear of senior management and are direct and honest in their dealings (with both subordinates and their peers). And they are as rare as hen's teeth.

"The Imitation Game"

The "U-571" of Turing Biopics (What a complete load of tosh, dramatacised up for Hollywood).

You're out of Large

we work in IT, our Large is everyone elses Medium. Please restock.

Sarah had to verbally tip-toe through the monologue about minorities and women

But some very relevant points made.

Sounds like someone

wrote the spec for this comms kit after watching "Aliens". (And we all know how well that turned out).

Herr Bunter, please expedite your return to the US

to face the charges you are accused of, and stop wasting our time with these petty distractions.

Name me on instance where an intercepted Skype call has been determined to infringe on someone's privacy.

Seriously?

Woz is moving to the one part of Australia that always gets left off the souvineers? (Did you ever see a plate or ash-tray of Aussie with a Tasmania on it?)

So

the intern with the fetish for stop-frame animation has moved on to greener pastures? Meh

Problem with Time Travel Movies

is that they need to be intelligent enough to stimulate thought, and simplistic enough to make money in America. Dilemma much?

Saw it yesterday in HFR 3D here in Wellywood

Not half bad, did drag on at the start and I will admit it is basically a vanity piece after the LOTR. The madness scenes with Thorin were quite effective and it did not feel as contrived as the first 2 (with the introduction of the love interest yadda yadda). Sir Pete should have trimmed it at 2 episodes but I'll buy the 3D edition of this one in 9 months to complete the set.

well that spells the end

for kink.com and it's associated websites, who seem to revel in that sort of thing. (Seriously NSFW).

Apparently the big meme so far

is that there is a second black person in the Star Wars universe. And he's a storm-trooper.

PS. What the special meaning of the droids and the rocks in the supercalifragalistic edition?

Kim dot Blob is nothing if not inconsistent

last week "I'm broke and a pariah"

this week "I earned 40 million last year, spent 10 million and never fled the country so I'm not a flight risk"

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/63702162/Kim-Dotcom-earned-40m-while-on-bail-court-hears

I would love total equality in the workplace (IT or otherwise)

but men passively resist this. Why? Because so far "equality" means "all the stuff men get to do". When I get 50% of the "stuff girls get to do" (interior decorating decisions, keeping a home, both nurturing and disciplining offspring) then I will be more open to talk of "equality". But most Men are not interested in these sorts of thing and society as a whole does not think less of them for it. True equality is still several generations away, once men and women have cottoned on to the fact it means a larger change in attitude than has been made so far.

So long fatso

Don't let the door hit you on the way out of the country.

What no BOFH?

And the polos are sold out already.