On the subscriber list to a Lincolnshire local newspaper where I worked in the 70s (yes, I am that old) one of the subscribers was a certain Mr. Cock - what on earth possessed his parents to give him names of John Thomas?
Posts by Cleryoptrus
4 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jan 2020
Thinnet cables are no match for director's morning workout
In IT, no good deed ever goes unpunished
Tuesday 26th April 2022 08:19 GMT
In a couple of days, I knocked up a lovely system that took seconds for each transaction, compared to the then labour intensive manual process which took nearly 45 minutes. As there were a planned 10,000 "transactions" my system was wholeheartedly embraced. My reward was to be one of the "transactions" ........ I was made redundant using my own system. Ever since, I have deloped a nervous twitch when being anywhere near redundancy calculations.
Captain Caveman rides to the rescue, solves a prickly PowerPoint problem with a magical solution
Friday 20th March 2020 14:59 GMT
Can you help?
A little (very) old lady of my acquaintance brought her Kindle round to me, "Can you help me, you know about computers, it won't work". I did the standard holding of power button for a minute and, lo, it rebooted. After a few minutes I checked that it was OK - to be met by 50 Shades of Grey! I instantly realised that she would die of mortification on the spot if she realised I could see her reading tastes so I set it to the Home page and handed it back without comment.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
