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Friday, January 07, 2005

That’s the end of year thing done. Now what’s in store for 2005?

Back at work since Wednesday - Monday being a holiday, and Tuesday being a day upon which Fiona and I decided that our lives would be richly enhanced by not going to work but instead inspecting motorcycles, dining well and catching up on DVDs – and am slowly gearing up towards reinstating something resembling a work ethic. This is to say, I’ve just made out a list of all the things I should probably attempt to accomplish before my boss gets back next week. The list is not inconsiderable.

I’ve been asked to stay in the IT Section for ‘the next couple of years’ to manage a small project and the section’s governance. The latter means that I will be managing the budget, improving the record-keeping from its current negative state and ensuring that our reports to the Executive aren’t a source of shame and embarrassment. Not exactly the synopsis of an arresting career, but I give the impression of having an aptitude for it, so there, it appears, I go.

Broadband

My quest to actually play the copy of World of warcraft sitting on my desk continues to suffer setbacks. Having cheerfully selected an extremely good ADSL connection deal offered by TPG.com.au, I was rather bitter to receive an email last week informing me that my house was too far from the telephone exchange for their connection to work. Bugger. But if you’re in the market for cheap and quick broadband and you do happen to live in one of our nation’s larger metropolises, do check out their deals. At the very worst you’ll know for sure whether you live in an technologically-remote neighbourhood...

As for me, it’s looking rather tragically like I’ll have to go with the suboptimal lowest-common-denominality of Telstra BigPond.

One of us. One of us.

Rob has a blog now. Pity him even as you fear for yourselves.

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2 Comments:

All of you need to get RSS feeds, so I can plug you into my electric obsessive website checker (okay, fine, RSS Reader, whatever).

And I still say TPG's deal is irritating dressed up as cheap.

linbot

By Anonymous, at 3:52 PM

Tell me more of RSS feeds when I have a constant connection to my place of abodage.

I don't recall you bitching about TPG to me - what's the issue?

By Dave, at 9:14 AM


	Friday, January 07, 2005 That’s the end of year thing done. Now what’s in store for 2005? Back at work since Wednesday - Monday being a holiday, and Tuesday being a day upon which Fiona and I decided that our lives would be richly enhanced by not going to work but instead inspecting motorcycles, dining well and catching up on DVDs – and am slowly gearing up towards reinstating something resembling a work ethic. This is to say, I’ve just made out a list of all the things I should probably attempt to accomplish before my boss gets back next week. The list is not inconsiderable. I’ve been asked to stay in the IT Section for ‘the next couple of years’ to manage a small project and the section’s governance. The latter means that I will be managing the budget, improving the record-keeping from its current negative state and ensuring that our reports to the Executive aren’t a source of shame and embarrassment. Not exactly the synopsis of an arresting career, but I give the impression of having an aptitude for it, so there, it appears, I go. Broadband My quest to actually play the copy of World of warcraft sitting on my desk continues to suffer setbacks. Having cheerfully selected an extremely good ADSL connection deal offered by TPG.com.au, I was rather bitter to receive an email last week informing me that my house was too far from the telephone exchange for their connection to work. Bugger. But if you’re in the market for cheap and quick broadband and you do happen to live in one of our nation’s larger metropolises, do check out their deals. At the very worst you’ll know for sure whether you live in an technologically-remote neighbourhood... As for me, it’s looking rather tragically like I’ll have to go with the suboptimal lowest-common-denominality of Telstra BigPond. One of us. One of us. Rob has a blog now. Pity him even as you fear for yourselves. 2 smartarse remarks Post a Comment 2 Comments: All of you need to get RSS feeds, so I can plug you into my electric obsessive website checker (okay, fine, RSS Reader, whatever). And I still say TPG's deal is irritating dressed up as cheap. linbot By Anonymous, at 3:52 PM Tell me more of RSS feeds when I have a constant connection to my place of abodage. I don't recall you bitching about TPG to me - what's the issue? By Dave, at 9:14 AM