Well, I don’t know how that’s happened. I could have sworn I had made more posts recently. I haven’t been working the past two weeks, I registered with the agency but no work yet. It feels weird not going to work every day like I have been for the past year. I do find it… Read More »

My last day at IBM today. It’s a bit weird, I don’t really feel it’s sunk in yet. I’ve been collecting a few items of memorabilia. We’re going out for lunch as a team today, after a free lunch for the whole department yesterday. I’m going through all the last-minute things I have to do.… Read More »

I had my driving lesson last night. It was pretty fun. The instructor was a good one, friendly and encouraging but also critical. He drove me across town to a quiet residential “proving ground” where I drove around doing lots of left turns followed by lots of right turns, then basically just drove around getting… Read More »

Really Quite Bored. That’s what that stands for. I’ve got a week and a day left working here, and I’m looking forward to finishing. I’m feeling really sleepy at the moment. I’m looking forward to my driving lesson, driving a van and starting work as a Kitchen Porter for 4 weeks. OK, so I’m not… Read More »

Woo, this rocks. They’ve added proxy support to Zempt:http://www.zempt.com in version 0.3 (I had to download an even newer version to make it work with my proxy) So I can now post without having to faff around with my browser. Which is nice. Seems pretty nice so far.

Some scummy little brazilian kid hacked the forum on one of my sites today. Wasn’t much point to it, and I reinstated it pretty quickly and easily. It will be even easier in future, now that I’ve backed up the database. Annoying, anyway. Some people obviously don’t have anything better to do with their time.… Read More »

Yeah baby, yeah. You know when you’ve been “Googled”:http://www.google.com/search?q=joe+wrigley&btnI=I%27m%20Feeling%20Lucky Number 1, baby. Not some name-stealer in the Essex police. Ha!

I’m a bit scared. The last time I drove a car on the road was in April 1998. That’s over 5 years ago. On 12th July I have to drive one of these: !http://www.ford-van.com/images/lwb-transit.jpg! from Winchester to Nottingham to Reading to Winchester. In light of this fact, plus the fact that I’ve got to do… Read More »

Right, then. I don’t post here very often, because I don’t have a lot to say. That’s what blogging is about though, really. Millions of people spewing rubbish into the ethernet (see what I did there?) and clogging up Google with their blithering. So, I decided this morning to try a bit of a kind… Read More »

*sigh* I have had a nice week’s holiday, and now I’m back at work. I don’t want to be. Only 19 more days here at IBM. How did that happen? We had a nice ride down to Devon on Friday afternoon, it was chucking it down for the first half hour or so, but as… Read More »