He talk it to talk for him, we're not sure how.

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Someone once asked me what it was it worth to me to become a corporate sell-out, at the time they were referring to Tescos and their bonus points scheme, I replied "A bottle of vodka" since that's conveniently what my points total came up to.
Marketing may be evil, but when you get money off stuff you were going to buy anyway then you begin to feel the lure of the dark side. So I'm pretty happy my bonus scheme included two coupons; one for vodka, one for orange juice; do they know me or what?
It is a very good thing I don't drive like I dance, especially to Prodigy songs.
Pirates of the Caribbean and Princess Bride were on at Film Club last night, yarrrr. Swashbucklin' pirate-tastic. yarrr.
Now to get this work day over as fast as possible, it must go, shoo, fly away little day, fly freeeeeeeeeee. Evening must hurry up, yesyesyes. Poing!

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Grinworthy comic today :)

Introspection for the wireless world

So I'm changing.
Everything changes, you can't escape it, every single moment that touches your life turns you into something slightly different. Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine. But conscious change is something else, looking out and trying to find something different and new, doing things that you haven't before and taking that chance because you don't know or have avoided it. That’s a different kettle of cats. That’s a way of finding something you'd never known or something you'd never even thought of. Being stuck in a rut and a routine can be reassuring, but you're not going to learn anything, expand yourself beyond your defined parameters or open any new Pandora’s boxes that'll make you blink.

But tread softly, like the monkey crossing a mine field, you need your eyes open as well as your foot hovering over the brake, get ready to stop if you learn you can't take it, but by the same score get ready to tear off the fast release strips and swan dive in when you discover something or someone wonderful.

I watched a film several years ago. It changed my life.
It was the sharp reality of seeing how certain things work, it was the identification of what the world makes and moulds you to be, how everything will shape you into what it desires unless you reach out and grab the cosmic playdoh and pummel it into something you want it to be.

Can you look back through your life and find a point where you can say "If I spoke to myself then I wouldn't be able to relate to who I am now?" could you surprise or scare yourself with what you are or who you're going to be? Or would you rather turn around and look ahead and try and see how far down the road you can see or guess and wonder what the next thing is that's going to be that changes you beyond how you can think now?

One of my friends told me I was changing. This may be true, but I'm going to make sure that my essential copyright and things I hold important aren't going to leave.

Stick by your friends, do whatever you can as much as you can.
You are only as good as your word, break a promise and anything you say thereafter is meaningless.
Respect your parents, they brought you from a drooling screaming brat to where you are today.
Excuses aren't a solution, responsibility and action are.

I'm not saying these are for everyone, I'm saying these are what I try to hold to.

Spooky Spam

I just received a car loan spam; I almost deleted it immediated; but I didn't and just read it quickly; at the bottom was this...

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Work snippets

Colleague: Theres no reason why that shouldn't work.
Me: Reason seldom has anything to do with the performance of <product>.

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Colleague: And whats the progress on <project>?
Me: *derisive snort*
Colleague 2: Well I think that says it all.

Work snippets

Colleague: What do I do with this document?
Colleague 2: Put it in the document archive.
Colleague: Where's that?
Me: It's where documents go to die.