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1. Absolutely top of the list is more holiday. Or less days per week.
Maybe I'm just greedy but my 5 weeks plus flexitime just doesn't go far enough!
2. more money. (UK Civil...
May 5, 2006 at 7:33 am
My first program was written in 1974 when we did a week out from sixth form and went to the then North Staffs Poly to do a computing introduction.
It...
April 28, 2006 at 4:37 am
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...
April 25, 2006 at 10:14 am
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...
April 19, 2006 at 3:49 am
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...
April 5, 2006 at 4:27 am
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,...
April 4, 2006 at 4:37 am
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....
March 29, 2006 at 6:08 am
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...
February 9, 2006 at 4:59 am
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...
January 27, 2006 at 4:36 am
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 -...
January 25, 2006 at 5:55 am
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...
January 18, 2006 at 5:09 am
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...
January 11, 2006 at 5:51 am
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!
January 6, 2006 at 4:24 am
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...
January 5, 2006 at 4:16 am
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