Amazon re-shipped my order with Parcelforce. They left it with my neighbour earlier today. It is now in my kitchen.
So, let’s recap.
DHL - lie on their website five times about leaving me a card, and ship it back to amazon a week later.
Parcelforce - it arrives.
No contest, really, is it?
Today’s subject: The wearing of sunglasses pushed up on one’s head.
On women, this seems to say, casual / impromptu hairband / just breezed in from Monaco in an open-top sports car.
On men, this seems to say, “I am a Complete Arse.”
Now, I am aware that this may be a male-centric viewpoint. It may even be [...]
Every time I walk past a sign saying
THIS MACHINE IS ALARMED
into my head pops
“I’m a bit nervous myself!”
I can’t be the only one to find it amusing that a packet of peanuts contains a big warning notice on the back saying:
CONTAINS PEANUTS
Impatiently wondering just where it is my lovely package from amazon.co.uk has got to, I log into the DHL parcel tracker web site, look it up, and am greeted with this:
Now, you can probably already guess how many cards I have actually discovered on my doormat from them, but just so we’re clear: NONE.
NOT. A. [...]
You could probably write an entertaining psychology paper around which image people choose for this link, too. For me it was this or “I am a statistic”.
Some thoughts have been crystallising in my head on this subject, partly thanks to ’s post earlier today, and partly due to a comment from another friend last week to the effect that “I don’t do blogs”.
The latter view was one I used to share. I think it stems from a combination of two views: [...]
Our app has kind of a portal-y front-end on it, which means we have a frame set with between two and four frames, all of which use basically the same CSS. The CSS is not cacheable because we’re running over https, so it adds a substantial amount to the payload for any given portal page.
The [...]
Don’t carry your cellphone conversation with you into the toilets. Just don’t. It’s Just Plain Wrong.
Crazy hours, a fixed deadline, a fixed scope, and dealing with risks by hoping they’ll go away. Project management at its finest.