HP/Compaq shows how to provide proper customer support…

My journey to work is a trip through roadwork city at the moment. It’s only a 35 mile journey along A-Roads and there seems to be always some roadworks being done somewhere along it. Today a new set started up in a place where the previous roadworks only finished about 2 months ago! What’s going on? Haven’t these people got better things to do than make my journey longer?

Rather amazingly, it appears that the European parliament has actually worked for us rather than for big business for a change. According to this article in The Register, the parliament has made numerous amendments to the proposed software patents directive. The important thing is that the amended version makes software patents sensible (i.e. available for true inventions) rather than the imbecilic system in the US.

Of course the industry lobbyist are less than happy, but that’s a sure sign that the amendments are probably a good idea anyway!

trundled along… in my absence, 5 tasks that I had been assigned to were either marked completed or abandoned. This reduced my list to 19 – the first time it’s been under 20 in two months. By the end of the day, it was back up to 23! I think they were storing them up till I got back…

Still, I completed one today :)

We had a great time. Jon and Teagan alternated from getting along wonderfully to shouting “yes”/”no” and “mine” at each other!

Don’t want to be back here.

Back shortly :)

With only a few days to go until our holiday, we’ve finally started thinking about it! The amount of paraphenalia accompanying a small boy is amazing. It seems that we’ve allocated one and half suitcases for Jon and half a suitcase for Georgina and me together!

With any luck, we’ll start the packing process tomorrow…

will have to wait as Georgina’s pregnant :) It’s still very early days, but we can’t keep the news to ourselves!

Update

As Georgina won’t be drinking alcohol for a while, Sylvia has suggested this cocktail:

“Peach nectar + ice + grenadine in liquidiser until ice is all mixed in.

Add Sprite & Sparkling water and spin once quickly (or use spoon in liquidiser so you don’t lose all the bubbles)”

We went out today to look for some P20 suntan stuff for our holiday. We didn’t find any in Worcester, so phoned up a few branches of Superdrug around here and found some stock in Bromsgrove. Back into the car we piled and off we went. As it was coming up to lunchtime, we thought we’d treat Jon to a McDonalds… also it was a way to shut him up from saying “I’m Hungrrrreeeee!” every 20 seconds! Just past Droitwich we came across a Little Chef and Georgina’s eyes light up – Fried Breakfast! So we pull into the carpark so that Georgina can have her fried breakfast…

Jon’s face crumpled when he realised that it wasn’t McDonalds! Georgina tried to tell him that it was better food here, but he wasn’t having any of it and so we passed up on a nice fried breakfast and had burgers instead… That’ll teach us to give him advance notice :)

This afternoon we have a company strategy meeting to talk about the processes we use in the company and how to make the production process more streamlined. Thus only half a day of “real” work and half a day of trying not to fall asleep!