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| 09:33.47 | ChoHag | I learned this morning that I can run CGIs with emacs. |
| 09:33.52 | ChoHag | I don't know what to think about that. |
| 09:34.44 | wethrin | you can do many things with emacs |
| 10:01.57 | gregj | http://i.imgur.com/YOAbm.jpg |
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| 10:26.56 | ChoHag | My wife's driving instructor's being a bit dodgy. |
| 10:27.33 | ChoHag | When she pulled him up for cutting the lessons short he said her concentration wavers towards the end, so when she suggested shorter lessons he said they wouldn't be long enough to be useful. |
| 10:33.04 | wethrin | ehrr |
| 10:33.18 | ChoHag | Indeed. |
| 10:36.41 | mindbndr | good morning |
| 10:58.40 | antiphase | Always nice to be a passenger with someone who can't concentrate on not killing you for more than 45 minutes |
| 11:02.03 | bilarh | i feel like a dirty chav... i want to buy an old impreza |
| 11:02.15 | wethrin | don't do it! |
| 11:02.37 | bilarh | why? :) |
| 11:02.45 | bilarh | this one has 470bhp on funny fuel |
| 11:02.48 | wethrin | points at the first part of your previous statement |
| 11:02.55 | wethrin | crushed clowns? |
| 11:02.58 | bilarh | and a six speed gearbox, better brakes, better suspension etc etc :) |
| 11:03.03 | bilarh | hehe nah 10% methanol |
| 11:11.49 | hali | pff, so chavvy |
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| 12:12.32 | dick_turpin | Afternoon all |
| 12:18.06 | dick_turpin | wethrin: Got a good'un for you today |
| 12:18.37 | dick_turpin | Customer: "I can't open an attachment on an email" |
| 12:18.37 | dick_turpin | Me: "I thought you had winzip installed?" |
| 12:18.50 | dick_turpin | Customer: "I do but the icon in the attachment won't open" |
| 12:18.50 | dick_turpin | Me: "Hang on you can open the attached zip file then?" |
| 12:19.05 | dick_turpin | Customer: "Yes but the word icon inside is not opening" |
| 12:19.05 | dick_turpin | Me: "Can you right click it please, what's it say in the property's?" |
| 12:19.09 | dick_turpin | Customer: "shortcut to O:/Customers/quotes/blahblah" |
| 12:19.10 | dick_turpin | Me: "They've sent you the shortcut not the file ask them to send the document" |
| 12:19.40 | dick_turpin | So we have two Muppets, the one who sent the shortcut and the recipient who doesn't know what a shortcut is. |
| 12:19.50 | dick_turpin | The End |
| 12:20.05 | andrewbl1ck | glad you got that off your chest :-) |
| 12:21.09 | dick_turpin | andrewbl1ck: Its the daily story, now sit quietly on the carpet and drink your milk :-) |
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| 12:43.02 | bilarh | i like dick_turpin's stories from the coal face |
| 12:44.18 | dick_turpin | bilarh: You'll like this one then |
| 12:44.38 | dick_turpin | Customer: "Can you get me a battery for our Acer Travelmate?" |
| 12:44.38 | dick_turpin | Me: "What model number is it?" |
| 12:44.56 | dick_turpin | Customer: "I dunno you sold it us" |
| 12:44.57 | dick_turpin | Me: "I need the part number off the battery really but if you can find out what model it is I can do it that way" |
| 12:45.01 | dick_turpin | Customer: "Cant you just look it up you sold it us" |
| 12:45.01 | dick_turpin | Me: "Yes OK I'll get someone to sit down and go through Sage" |
| 12:47.53 | bilarh | is that it? |
| 12:47.59 | bilarh | where's the punch line? |
| 12:50.06 | dick_turpin | I'll get someone to sit down and go through Sage |
| 12:50.20 | dick_turpin | Which must be read in a sarcastic voice |
| 12:50.32 | dick_turpin | Hello is that Kwik-fit yeah I want a tyre for my car, I dunno what size, I dunno what car! |
| 13:52.37 | gregj | http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8570244.stm |
| 14:07.01 | dick_turpin | gregj: Job titles always remind me of 'The Office' "Deputy to the Deputy Assistant Manager" |
| 14:08.02 | ChoHag | GAH! Ruby, dependencies and Redhat. |
| 14:11.45 | gregj | dick_turpin: aye |
| 14:11.46 | gregj | :0 |
| 14:20.59 | dick_turpin | I know someone who was working in a restaurant they said "I'm doing portion control at the minute" I thought Ooh that sounds important until the wife said "He's serving up food you idiot" Doh! |
| 14:22.25 | wethrin | dick_turpin: A good one? |
| 14:22.37 | dick_turpin | wethrin: The first one? |
| 14:23.16 | wethrin | Yeah. I read it :) |
| 14:24.01 | dick_turpin | Its been a double whammy today bit like buses nothing for ages then two come along |
| 14:32.09 | dick_turpin | Hands up any wordpress template guru's I need to modify my sites template and I don't know how :-( |
| 14:44.05 | dick_turpin | wethrin: Got one 'Hot off the press' |
| 14:44.47 | dick_turpin | Customer "The DDS4 Tape drive has failed its not working" |
| 14:45.16 | dick_turpin | Me: (After some questioning) OK I'll send someone out |
| 14:45.47 | dick_turpin | Engineer: "Why are you using DDS2 tapes? |
| 14:46.28 | dick_turpin | Customer "They are our old ones we're not throwing them away they've hardly been used" |
| 14:46.48 | dick_turpin | The End |
| 14:49.28 | bilarh | dick_turpin: please tell me you bill your customers for these calls? |
| 14:50.05 | dick_turpin | £65 |
| 14:50.13 | bilarh | bonus :D |
| 14:51.33 | wethrin | heh |
| 15:11.45 | bilarh | i must say i like ganglia more and more |
| 15:12.01 | bilarh | to begin with i wasn't convinced it was all that great, but it's actually really good for producing graphs for PHB's |
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| 15:43.10 | bilarh | so... my colleague called me fat earlier in the day |
| 15:43.13 | bilarh | but it's ok |
| 15:43.20 | bilarh | the seeds of revenge have been sown |
| 15:43.38 | bilarh | he's a nail biter, and he's got some liquid he puts on his nails to stop himself biting them |
| 15:43.43 | bilarh | apparently it tastes really really bad |
| 15:44.01 | bilarh | well, some of said liquid has now found it's way onto his water bottle :D |
| 15:45.39 | wethrin | puts the liquid on bilarh's lunch for misusing "its" and "it's" |
| 16:00.25 | dick_turpin | Grammar Nazi alert |
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| 16:36.53 | ChoHag | Can screen be made to hide its captions in split mode? |
| 16:37.31 | ChoHag | There's a caption command, but its options seem to be just "always" and "sometimes". |
| 16:37.33 | antiphase | xterm & |
| 16:37.35 | antiphase | HTH |
| 16:37.48 | ChoHag | It doesn't, no. |
| 17:17.42 | ChoHag | Advert: Woman looking at small frog & smiling. Cut to woman putting something small in her mouth with no frog in sight. |
| 17:17.58 | ChoHag | Someone didn't think this one through. |
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| 18:30.45 | gregj | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caPmw3OVQMo&feature=player_embedded |
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| 19:03.16 | lampuser | yo Dis |
| 19:03.18 | lampuser | how ru |
| 19:08.36 | DiscordianUK | is ok |
| 19:08.39 | DiscordianUK | you ? |
| 19:09.35 | lampuser | Not bad |
| 19:09.45 | lampuser | I wanna discuss some stuff |
| 19:09.48 | lampuser | when u get time |
| 19:09.57 | DiscordianUK | Such as? |
| 19:09.57 | lampuser | like I am going through some code |
| 19:10.03 | DiscordianUK | ahh |
| 19:10.11 | lampuser | discussion |
| 19:10.25 | lampuser | did u came back from to London |
| 19:10.30 | DiscordianUK | In what language? |
| 19:10.38 | DiscordianUK | Nah still up north |
| 19:10.43 | lampuser | what u doing |
| 19:10.46 | lampuser | up there |
| 19:10.56 | lampuser | Actually it is some C and assembly |
| 19:11.36 | DiscordianUK | I'm probably not coming back |
| 19:11.42 | lampuser | ok |
| 19:12.07 | DiscordianUK | I'm not an expert on C or x86 assembly |
| 19:12.23 | lampuser | what u code in then |
| 19:12.39 | DiscordianUK | perl, shell script |
| 19:12.56 | lampuser | ok |
| 19:15.22 | lampuser | I will hit u up when needed then :) |
| 19:15.31 | lampuser | what u up to these days down there |
| 19:16.04 | DiscordianUK | up here looking for somewhere to live |
| 19:16.44 | lampuser | nice |
| 19:43.20 | ChoHag | Of for fuck's sake. |
| 19:43.34 | ChoHag | How long has the internet existed? And NatWest still can't write a fucking banking website. |
| 19:43.38 | ChoHag | Morons. |
| 19:50.13 | ChoHag | Ah it has cookies from yesterday so it thinks I pressed back. |
| 19:50.14 | ChoHag | Logical. |
| 19:51.51 | lampuser | hehe |
| 19:52.06 | lampuser | I dont know why natwest is always hackers target |
| 19:53.03 | ChoHag | Well it's obviously not because of their excellent software. |
| 20:07.49 | ChoHag | "You haven't used this site for 10 minutes so we're going to close the transaction screen you were working through and replace it with a screen nagging you for attention like a fucking toddler." |
| 20:08.02 | lampuser | hehe |
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| 20:50.25 | gregj | http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2010/03/products2etude.jpg |
| 20:50.26 | gregj | title fail |
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