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Hmm, So I seem to be really busy at work at the moment.

One of the most interesting things about crash development is how to split up one task into several parallel task, and trying to ensure that the management overhead, and the loss of efficiency from having distributed knowledge don’t outweigh the time gained from extra resources.

Or something.

And it cannot “just” work. It has to work well. The whistles must shriek, and the bells gleam. I have a vision of how my work should turn out, all I need to do now is deliver.

Meanwhile, Its enough to know that i continue to specialise in steep learning curves. And whilst I am losing my “Expert Status” in some fields due to advances, or better knowledge sources becoming available, I am still something of a “guru” in some areas, or at least I can still here the suggestion “Ask Ed” coming from discussions at the far end of the office.

Right. Time for bed.

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It Seems that Mcdonnalds have a exceptionally frank website (according to the register)

The McDonalds Make Up Your Own Mind is actually quite funny. just type something in the box to search existing questions….

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Yesterday I was working at home. This is a useful facility from my employer whihc allows me to be at work, but also at home and so available to take delivery of, say a new patio and garden paths.

Of course, the patio and paths were delivered in kit form. That is to say a had 24 paving slabs, a 488 block pack of paving blocks, and a bulk bag (up to a tonne) of sharp sand. Amazingly the delivery was without a hitch, there were no cars in the way, and the chap from B&Q was able to drop the three packs onto my drive.

But it was time to get it all round the back of the house….

The blocks took a couple of hours to carry through the house (I didn’t want to damage any after all) with vicki helping to stack them up on the paving round the back. Most of the stack will be OK where it is throughout building the patio until they are laid.

The slabs went into the garage. no need for them for a few weeks, but it was convenient to get them delivered too!

And as for the sand…. using 2 off 22L plastic boxes i barrowed sand round the back, and then tipped it into a spare bulk bag i had acquired (thanks dad.) used planks to get up the steps around the house, but it wasn’t as bad as i thought it would be. another couple of hours work though….

So a busy day. All I need now is time to actually do something with it!

Oh, and about another 100 to 120 black paving blocks as we had a nice idea about some edging…..

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Treemaps are cool. Well, they look cool. And thanks to WinDirStat, I can use them to see which the largest files or directories are on my PC. and suddenly I removed files which were taking up 25% of my hard drive. There. That’s better. That is cool.

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A nice non-news article from the Telegraph on the names some people try to use for their race horses. Full marks to the Telegraph for tactful explanation to the Majors and Disgusted, Tunbridge Wells as they are taking their breakfast tea, as to what is wrong with the names being suggested.

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