Saw this the other night while going through some of the TED talks (you really need to check those out if you haven’t already btw) and found this one which I loved. Coming from a reasonably big family by today’s standards, it spoke to me in a way that really made sense. If nothing else, it describes people you know or grew up with very well.
Yep. Been there!
Saw this and was immediately transported back to typing furiously at my keyboard doing college assignments only to have one of the cats come over and walk across the keyboard to get my attention! 🙂
Neither of them sat on my hands though. This cat’s a genius!
OK, so I’ve had all the Christmas meals for this year (apart from the important one) and can now reveal that the big £30 a seat one I went to for our work do was quite simply nowhere near as good as the one I had in the company eatery for £3.50.
I’m not saying the one at the hotel wasn’t serviceable or enjoyable, the food’s always a bit ropey at these kinds of things (more school dinners than fine dining) but that’s usually part of its charm! The DJ was OK as Christmas party DJs go and the casino theme meant we could all merrily gamble away with bits of plastic. The company was pretty good too. I managed to bump into two of my oldest friends (the friendships not the people!) there. Getting a chance to catch up was great and I’m sure we’ll use that as an excuse to find our way into a pub soon for a proper natter.
I still have to go back to the food though, it really was frozen TV dinner kind of quality and served to us by what I’m assuming were new recruits as many of them had no idea how to carry two plates on one arm. I’m not saying I’m an expert but I learnt that in my first week at a pizza restaurant!
Never mind though, the company and joking about more than made up for the food quality. Even if most of the jokes were about the food!
Moral of the story: Get the basics right and the rest may very well follow. Get them wrong and the rest won’t matter.
Oh and make sure you try the food at the cafe, its better than you expect! 😀
Well, its that time again where I start getting the bug to write little silly programs and get the geek out of my system so I thought VB would be a good place to start. Yes, I know, I should be teaching myself Powershell but I want to have a bit of fun while I’m at it so I thought trying to write a command line app to do various things might be fun.
Yes, I’m very sad like that but hey! I enjoy it and its not hurting anyone (that I know of!). 😀
If you fancy having a go at anything like the stuff I’m doing, I’d advise you check out the Visual Studio Express 2010 products available for free download on the Microsoft Website here.
Anyhow, my download’s finished so I’m off to play for a bit!
As anyone who knows me will agree, muffin madness seems to decend on me occasionally and I end up making loads while trying to perfect my recipe. Once I’ve got it right, I’ll get it up here for people to try. Until then, you’ll just have to do with a photo!
