Feb. 26th, 2008

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I was going to write something amusing about lunch with one of our new Chinese engineers who is over here for a couple of months on training.  It was to do with how challenging he was finding the whole knife and fork thing.  I usually get a few gasps on Asian business trips when my hosts typically gear up to have an expression like I probably had watching Charlie and then I get some pouts and claps when it transpires that I'm pretty handy with chopsticks.

The trouble is I then had to stop at a road traffic accident on the way to collect M and nothing seems very funny now.

A gardening crew lost control of their truck and rammed themselves into a high earth bank.  They were all alive, that much I could tell, but the position of the truck and the damage they'd done, and their lack of English basically made it completely impossible for us to do anything until the police and fire services arrived.  If things had been worse, or, heaven forbid, there'd been a fire, there wouldn't have been a whole lot we could do.  The passenger door was jammed solid and needed a crowbar or more to free.  The guys were in shock and crying and not communicating and the driver was unconscious but moving.

I normally would at least have liked to have removed the car battery but the front of the vehicle was 6 feet in the air.

It's not nice being helpless, and once the fire crew arrived there was not a lot I could do anyway.  I hope they're alright.

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WWdN: In Exile

He might appreciate the Wil Wheaton review of his work:

...and I started The Atrocity Archives. The Atrocity Archives is fucking brilliant, and as much fun to read as advertised. I highly recommend it.

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It's a mess in here.

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New Laptop

Feb. 26th, 2008 03:44 pm
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I've had a bit of a nightmare with the new PC and it's being swapped out for a new Dell latitude which is a bit more sensible as a road warrior type device.

In an effort to prolong it's life the sysadmin type is getting me one with a Solid State HDD - any thing I should be wary of?  Or is this the answer to my prayers in terms of speed and power management?

Now I have to persuade him not to remove the image it comes with.

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Washing, shredding, tidying and tomorrow I get to lug a hardware firewall to San Diego.

Gosh.  What an exciting life I lead ;)

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