In the UK many people walk over to the shop and paydesk on the garage forecourt leaving their cars unlocked and often with keys in the ignition. It's just as...

As another sailboat fan I'd just like to retire from work and just live, not work to live. Time to go sailing, garden, enjoy all the hobbies and then go...

One of the joys of sailing is that you can happily leave the phone locked in the car on the basis that it would get wet and you couldn't use...

Here in the UK civil service they are very keen on peventing that sort of thing - we have a specialist defence fraud unit to combat it, regular business wide presentations,...

I've had one server get out of sync and be showing time about 15 hours ahead - looked like you'd done a day's work before you started!

The problem was with the backups....

....and your crack of dawn is my lunchtime...

It's thirty years since I did my computing degree and started in the industry and one of my first jobs was on the automation of the new Reading brewery.

This used...

My favourite vehicle? A VW camper van!

I've had them for the past 19 years, since following a wet holiday in Ireland and the birth of our first child we bought...

In the British Civil Service we are expected to undertake training and it is prioritised by whether it is

mandatory - eg required for legal operation of machinery etc

functional -...

Good luck to you. I moved recently here in the UK and from experience would say:

Don't be so optomistic about 2-3 days as 3 weeks sorting out the basics is...

I often have to return results requiring filtering on both tables AND a left outer join.

My answer is to use a nested subquery for the fields from the right hand...

Some of my Scottish partner's gems:

If it's for ye it'll nae go by ye!

You can't educate pork!

and (usually to my teenagers)

Act your age not your (UK) shoe size!

Nokia 6230i because it is a Nokia (after having various phones we vote them the best) hence the various chargers, headsets etc are widely available and mainly the same for...

Friday 23rd 10a.m. (UK time) and most of us are at work because:

1. Cover is required

2. We've run out of holiday leave days

3. We haven't enough flexi time credit to...

Apart from the usual running the home and parenting my two teenagers, Dinghy Sailing is our hobby. So much so that the main criteria for buying the new home had...