Category: Life
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New Adventures in Cubeland
I just started a new job. This is for the same company, just on a new project (my fifth SAP implementation…), and meant another office move. Up to now, every change of project has meant a change of continent (Belgium > Singapore > U.S.A > Belgium > U.S.A) so I was relieved this time to only move to a new building on the same ‘campus’ (as they like to call it, to make you feel like you’re back in college). But what a difference. This new location is more of a change than any of the previous moves. I was previously… Read more
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Loitering with intent
Last weekend my integration into polite society took another step forward, as I took Finn on his first Scout camp-out. This, the wife  reasoned, would be something fun for Finn, and would also give me the ‘opportunity’ to socialize with some of the other dads. The wife normally takes Finn to the weekly scout meetings so why it is necessary for me to get involved too, I don’t know. That said, I have met some of them before and some are actually alright (Mr. Tim), so I guess there are worse people to spend time with. Plus, going with Finn… Read more
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Seek And Ye Shall Find…Something Irrelevant
And you thought I made this stuff up…  A couple of posts ago I was bemoaning spam comments being posted to this blog, and posited a scenario where people were looking for videos of dwarves blowing goats and found my site by mistake. Well, sure enough, it’s happened. I have some basic statistics software running against my site, which tells me (amongst other things) what sites have referred visitors to mine (I mentioned this last time) and also what search terms people used when they were directed to my site by Google (96% of the time) Yahoo (2%), or one of the… Read more
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Pygmy-minded spammers really get my goat
I read an article about Facebook yesterday, where the author was concerned about its use for ‘targeted advertising’. It seems that FaceBook users are blithely listing their favorite films, books, bands, and foods, and stating their age, location, and a bunch of other ‘personal’ information, unaware of the fact that this information is being used to serve up ‘relevant’ adverts. List your favorite film as “Pulp Fiction”? Don’t be surprised to see an advert for Tarantino’s latest (and no doubt inferior) movie pop up when it makes its rapid trajectory to DVD release.   Post an entry saying only Ritz Crackers can… Read more