When mobiles started becoming cheaper I got one of the early analogue ones back in 1993, someone had put my number on flyers so I kept getting calls for illegal raves, got so fed up with the abuse that in the end I just gave them all an address for a random farm in the middle of nowhere.
Luckily it stopped after a month or so.
Shouldâve sent them to Bramshill House - lovely Jacobean pile set in 260 acres of very pretty Hampshire. It would then have been the Police Staff College.
The wife has been working solidly since Friday lunchtime on a sev 1 / cat A / âItâs all fucked Dave. Dave, itâs all fuckedâ.
From the thumbs up she just gave me (sheâs basically on a constant Teams meeting) I think she / they might have worked out what the problem is.
Excellent, hopefully you can now get on with your retirement in the peace and quiet (apart from going to gigs obv) that you deserve.
Suspect unauthorised or untested change. Same as most Sev1/Cat A.
âNo, of course we didnât update the firewall/database server/Active Directory tree over the weekend without telling youâ
It currently looks like backwash from a major outage with a cloud supplier.
The only sev 1 Iâve seen, where they really did call DR, was a flooded basement that was full of computers.
Had a few of those sadly. One with two iSDX telephone switches in the flooded basement.
blast from the past, used to work on those from v3.4 through to v7 Realitis
We probably have 2-3 P1 incidents per month, normally silly things but the latest should win a prizeâŚ
a lazy developer pointed the official government hostname to their AWS tenant hostname using a cname which then expired because only the company knew about it.
The MiL and her three daughters have a Skype call every Friday at 6.30. This has been going on since the first lockdown.
Every single week MiL is incredibly quiet, her speakers donât work, etc. etc.
The wife finally bought her a ÂŁ70 Anker mic / speaker USB puck this week, and her neighbour fitted it yesterday.
Theyâre on now and IT ACTUALLY WORKS.
No more half an hour of âcan you hear us?â, âwe canât hear youâ, âno, the volume icon!â etc.
IT JUST WORKS.
Thank you Jesus, thank you Lord 
So the subject of computers came up with the builder today 
His mate (5â5", missing several teeth, hard as a coffin nail) piped up âMy son is into computersâ
Builder: âYou was always buying him laptops dahn the marketâ
Anyway, long story short: his son is quite severely autistic, non-verbal, and at 15 has a side-hustle level testing for a US game company and pulls in $1400 a month.
Bravo to him, and bravo to the company for recognising that for unusual problems, neurodivergent people might be just the answer you were looking for (see also many hedge funds).
OK, you could kind-of call it child labour but to me at least it comes out an overall positive.
Lovely wee boy of about 10 on the tube home this evening carrying every football trophy imaginable including âyoung player of the yearâ.
Accompanied by his maybe 16yo brother, all the ladies in the carriage making a massive fuss of him which he really didnât like âStop being so shy bro. Say goodbye to the nice lady bro.â
One woman pointed out her boyfriend âHe used to play professional football in Brazilâ which he tried to play down, but with the wee guyâs eyes out on stalks he ended up admitting âa long time ago I played with Neymar. Buuuut, Iâm not Neymar.â
I assume that barring injury weâll see the young man on TV in a few years time.
Hope so.
Doesnât always happen.
A younger cousin was a brilliant footballer, and was on Spurs books as a schoolboy and a rising star.
Trouble was that as he got older he never physically grew big enough.
He never got over 5ft 6" and was dropped by the club.
Hope the lad you met has a happier outcome
The eagle from St Augustine Edgbaston
has been recovered at a scrap metal dealerâs after a tip off.
I wish I could say the same thing about the Barbara Hepworth from Dulwich park
Steve Ovett was stolen from Preston Park in Brighton in 2007 and melted down
He was reincarnated on the seafront in 2012
Not sure if this is positive or not.
I left the âtip walletâ (I was tip master for the group on a recent holiday in Turkey) on the aircraft
It contained 20 Euro in cash a credit card and a debit card.
The cards were cancelled immediately and have long since been replaced.
I sent an email to Airport Lost Property.
Got a reply today, they have the wallet containing 20 Euro and two cards,
The wallet is shagged and worthless.
They want ÂŁ20 to send it back to me
I have asked if they have a charity they can give the cash to and bin the rest
Waiting on a reply.
I have a bad feeling there will be a disposal fee
