I was still writing (handwriting - anyone remember that?) slashed zeroes years after leaving IT - imagine that would cause 50/50 hilarity/confusion nowadays…
Always a great way to start the journey to work
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Seems a shame for Blue Ribbon winning, technologically advanced for its time ship. Did follow for some years efforts to preserve it but the cost was eye watering without a commercial partner.
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Am I smelling the first act of a last-minute rescue staged by, say, the world’s richest man ? Cue 'Elon Musk Saves The United States !" headlines. If not then I hope it’ll be sunk off the west coast of Florida so at least it’ll be a wreck in the Guff of America.
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I think the final destination is off Florida funny enough, once I guess stripped of any hazardous material in Alabama.
Deliberate dive I’m afraid (sorry).
An occasional watch is Terry miles channel on YouTube who goes round the country finding old pubs with a piano in.
Here he is in the east end with an unexpected Terry the fish singing
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Sadly he lacks the imagination to come up with something like that. Now, if someone else proposes it in his earshot, he can add it to the long list of things he didn’t think of but does take credit for…
Shithousery of the highest order from HP
HP adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls • The Register
Used to watch those years ago when he used to play the pianos in airports and shopping centres etc, the boogie woogie stuff was really good.
Glad he’s stopped dyeing his hair though, looked like a right weirdo before 
Quote from the article
The reason for the change? Getting people to figure it out themselves using online support. As HP put it: “Encouraging more digital adoption by nudging customers to go online to self-solve,”
or, in my case, nudging this potential customer to buy my hardware from someone else.
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HP first response
Subcontracted tech support to Scarfolk (for more information please read again), which is a slight surprise as I thought they were at full capacity with their work for HMRC.
“Who knows why we were taught to Fear the Witches
And not those that burned them”
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Reminded me of this
