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Jeremy Falcon wrote: but because of the differences and the fact they became slightly impatient made this go from bad to worse. Hah! You had it easy. I spent two months implementing and extending Microsoft Content Management Server into a clients new website. It looked great, worked great (MSCMS is still crap though) and met all their requirements. That was all in SA on our local network, all nice and spiffy. Come the time to go install it on the clients 3000 user network in London... well things started out bad and then became just downright horrible. Firstly it took two days longer than anticipated to install the project thanks to the network admin guy not being around and me literally having to guess passwords and work around IBM 4000s (and here I am a MS guy!) Eventually it was installed, tests went great and I was happy. A last minute change with our partner ended up in me being shafted into training duty... Now I am not the most patient person when it comes to teaching computers and here I was tasked with teaching 10 burrough council nincompoops how to use a content management system when all they were allowed to do before was use Notepad and maybe a bit of Word if they were feeling bright that day. So we all filled into a training room, filled with nice shiny PCs, woot, looking up. Boot up the PCs, link to CMS... aahh whats that error message... Thats when the proverbial already-digested-and-expelled-matter hit the rotating-room-cooling-device. For four hours, with them all sitting there waiting, I battled to even login to the network. Eventually the network admin guy got out of bed and came to work. He then promptly told me "Oh, did'nt anyone tell you? The network cooling ducts are overheating causing the forth flour network to not work at all." Mine God! If I was not the Dali Lama himself I would have committed hari kiri right there and taken out the fourth floor in its entirity. I am a programmer, not a damned network techy! To cut an already long story short the whole implementation was a disaster because all 10-nincompoops thought it was our system that was at fault and so lost all faith in it. We spent three months battling at it, trying to change attitudes before we told them to shaft themselves and go back to producing their 10 000 page website using Notepad. Anyway, that is the last time anyone ever handed me over to do training, and thank god for that. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass
Paul Watson wrote: If I was not the Dali Lama himself I would have committed hari kiri right there and taken out the fourth floor in its entirity. LOL Jeremy L. Falcon Homepage : Sonork = 100.16311
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Paul Watson wrote: If I was not the Dali Lama himself I would have committed hari kiri right there and taken out the fourth floor in its entirity. LOL Jeremy L. Falcon Homepage : Sonork = 100.16311
Perseverance pushes past painful promenades - providing precious peace. Surely some striving souls survive symptomatic stress? Maybe my mangling might misguide malicious miscreants?Jeremy Falcon wrote: Paul Watson wrote: If I was not the Dali Lama himself I would have committed hari kiri right there and taken out the fourth floor in its entirity. LOL Glad I could be of some entertainment value to someone this evening :-) Jeremy Falcon wrote: Perseverance pushes past painful promenades - providing precious peace. Surely some striving souls survive symptomatic stress? Maybe my mangling might misguide malicious miscreants? Did you figure those out, or did you find them somewhere? They are brilliant. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and to be loved in return - Moulin Rouge Tim Smith wrote: Over here in the third world of humor (a.k.a. BBC America), peterchen wrote: We should petition microsoft to a "target=_Paul" attribute.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Paul Watson wrote: If I was not the Dali Lama himself I would have committed hari kiri right there and taken out the fourth floor in its entirity. LOL Glad I could be of some entertainment value to someone this evening :-) Jeremy Falcon wrote: Perseverance pushes past painful promenades - providing precious peace. Surely some striving souls survive symptomatic stress? Maybe my mangling might misguide malicious miscreants? Did you figure those out, or did you find them somewhere? They are brilliant. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and to be loved in return - Moulin Rouge Tim Smith wrote: Over here in the third world of humor (a.k.a. BBC America), peterchen wrote: We should petition microsoft to a "target=_Paul" attribute.
Paul Watson wrote: Did you figure those out, or did you find them somewhere? They are brilliant. Thank you. I wrote those and occasionally I'll add a new one depending on my mood at times. Give me a new letter and I'll write another one about whatever you want. :) Jeremy L. Falcon Homepage : Sonork = 100.16311
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Paul Watson wrote: Did you figure those out, or did you find them somewhere? They are brilliant. Thank you. I wrote those and occasionally I'll add a new one depending on my mood at times. Give me a new letter and I'll write another one about whatever you want. :) Jeremy L. Falcon Homepage : Sonork = 100.16311
Perseverance pushes past painful promenades - providing precious peace. Surely some striving souls survive symptomatic stress? Maybe my mangling might misguide malicious miscreants?Jeremy Falcon wrote: me a new letter and I'll write another one about whatever you want. x. Go on, bet you can. :) Simon I need your clothes, your boots, and your copy of VS.NET. Sonork ID 100.10024 I'm totally amazing at maths puzzles. Just try me. As long as the puzzle doesn't involve adding numbers I can usually get it.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: me a new letter and I'll write another one about whatever you want. x. Go on, bet you can. :) Simon I need your clothes, your boots, and your copy of VS.NET. Sonork ID 100.10024 I'm totally amazing at maths puzzles. Just try me. As long as the puzzle doesn't involve adding numbers I can usually get it.
Aw man... :: Jeremy cracks knuckles. :: ...ok let's see what happens. Jeremy L. Falcon Homepage : Sonork = 100.16311
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: me a new letter and I'll write another one about whatever you want. x. Go on, bet you can. :) Simon I need your clothes, your boots, and your copy of VS.NET. Sonork ID 100.10024 I'm totally amazing at maths puzzles. Just try me. As long as the puzzle doesn't involve adding numbers I can usually get it.
Simon Walton wrote: x. Go on, bet you can. Well I asked for it. :) I wanted something a bit different originally, but after consulting my dictionary I realized there weren't any verbs starting with x. So, I couldn't very well have a complete sentence. I was able to pull this off thanks to remembering the cheesy 80's movie Xanadu. Check my sig for it. For me it means a person gets what they see. After all, Xanadu is supposed to be a good place, but even that good (like in life) can be seen as coarse if the eye is bitter This one was more fun too because I got to learn some interesting words that I'm sure will make people think I'm crazy(ier) if I can remember to use them in conversation. :) Jeremy L. Falcon Homepage : Sonork = 100.16311
xenophobic Xanthippe – xerophthalmic Xanadu Perseverance pushes past painful promenades - providing precious peace. Surely some striving souls survive symptomatic stress? Maybe my mangling might misguide malicious miscreants? -
Simon Walton wrote: x. Go on, bet you can. Well I asked for it. :) I wanted something a bit different originally, but after consulting my dictionary I realized there weren't any verbs starting with x. So, I couldn't very well have a complete sentence. I was able to pull this off thanks to remembering the cheesy 80's movie Xanadu. Check my sig for it. For me it means a person gets what they see. After all, Xanadu is supposed to be a good place, but even that good (like in life) can be seen as coarse if the eye is bitter This one was more fun too because I got to learn some interesting words that I'm sure will make people think I'm crazy(ier) if I can remember to use them in conversation. :) Jeremy L. Falcon Homepage : Sonork = 100.16311
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Amazing!! Jeremy, man, you are fushing talented!! I mean, really!!! There are some that learn along with time and then there's you who's born with it..:rose: Write me something with y and I'll flash it as my sig:-D sonork: 100:18407
Amit Dey wrote: Amazing!! I'm really flattered. My mother used to always (wait, she still does) call me crazy, but it's her fault. She always told me to look things up in the dictionary, so growing up I put in some serious dictionary time. As a result, I have an extensive vocabulary. I just rarely use it because if I do it's mistaken for trying to show off. :( Go figure. Amit Dey wrote: Write me something with y and I'll flash it as my sig You yard yellow years yieldingly; you yanked your yearning yoke. This is what is means to me... I've seen (including myself) people just let the days go on with no real drive or ambitions. They mainly whine about not having something, etc. They are giving in to not even trying for something new/better - hence the word yellow - as the years collect (pass by). The second sentence in the splice elaborates on one reason why. The yoke is the center of your being - your stronghold, etc. the one that - say as a kid - you had with dreams, passions, desires, etc. It states you got rid of it (i.e.; lost the faith). Anyway, I hope you like it. Also, you might have noticed all of these tend to follow a common theme, because I recently made a change in my life. Of course, this is just from my own interpretation, so they may apply to someone else in a completely different way. I'm honored you would want this in your sig. I am finicky about credit though (long story). I don't care if you leave it anonymous and let people wonder, just if the author is intentionally misrepresented. Jeremy L. Falcon Homepage : Sonork = 100.16311
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A teacher I am not. Today I was supposed to show two people how to use Crystal Reports to tie into a SQL DB. Okay, no big deal. I crank up the Crystal Reports designer on my machine and boom we have an error. So, for the meeting I go to another machine that has 8.5 installed on it. Guess what, I have never used the designer in 8.5 before. I've mainly used 8 with some 7. It isn't that different, but because of the differences and the fact they became slightly impatient made this go from bad to worse. My brain just gave out on me. Uh was about the most intelligent thing I was saying. :( I've used Crystal Reports a lot, but never 8.5 and I guess I shouldn't be a teacher because my brain loves to crap out in these situations. I rescheduled in a couple of hours so I can play with 8.5's designer, and I hope I don't screw this one up. Anyone else have any brain fart situations? Us brain farters have to stick together ya know. ;) Jeremy L. Falcon Homepage : Sonork = 100.16311
Perseverance pushes past painful promenades - providing precious peace. Surely some striving souls survive symptomatic stress? Maybe my mangling might misguide malicious miscreants?I was a speaker at VSLive 2001 in Sydney, Au and whatever could go wrong with each of my presentations, did go wrong. At one point in one of the talks, I foolishly throught I could get a really simple demo going and it failed, fialed, failed.....then it failed one last time for good measure. I tried to make light of the situation by cracking a joke, but I had a tough crowd that was obviously not amused. In another talk, the only thing I could say was, "It worked just as you guys were walking in the door....geez man!" - "geez, man" :omg: - I said that to a room full of developers - niiiice! :| I came away from there with a much clearer understanding of what it means to practice, practice, and practice some more, get the demos to work each and every time, have a "plan B" ready, and to cool it with the over-confidence thing. It's nice to be confident, but it's better to have things work when it really counts. Essam - Author, JScript .NET Programming
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A teacher I am not. Today I was supposed to show two people how to use Crystal Reports to tie into a SQL DB. Okay, no big deal. I crank up the Crystal Reports designer on my machine and boom we have an error. So, for the meeting I go to another machine that has 8.5 installed on it. Guess what, I have never used the designer in 8.5 before. I've mainly used 8 with some 7. It isn't that different, but because of the differences and the fact they became slightly impatient made this go from bad to worse. My brain just gave out on me. Uh was about the most intelligent thing I was saying. :( I've used Crystal Reports a lot, but never 8.5 and I guess I shouldn't be a teacher because my brain loves to crap out in these situations. I rescheduled in a couple of hours so I can play with 8.5's designer, and I hope I don't screw this one up. Anyone else have any brain fart situations? Us brain farters have to stick together ya know. ;) Jeremy L. Falcon Homepage : Sonork = 100.16311
Perseverance pushes past painful promenades - providing precious peace. Surely some striving souls survive symptomatic stress? Maybe my mangling might misguide malicious miscreants?Jeremy Falcon wrote: I rescheduled in a couple of hours so I can play with 8.5's designer, and I hope I don't screw this one up. How'd it go?
"When a friend hurts us, we should write it down in the sand, where the winds of forgiveness get in charge of erasing it away, and when something great happens, we should engrave it in the stone of the memory of the heart, where no wind can erase it" Nish on life [methinks]
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Amit Dey wrote: Amazing!! I'm really flattered. My mother used to always (wait, she still does) call me crazy, but it's her fault. She always told me to look things up in the dictionary, so growing up I put in some serious dictionary time. As a result, I have an extensive vocabulary. I just rarely use it because if I do it's mistaken for trying to show off. :( Go figure. Amit Dey wrote: Write me something with y and I'll flash it as my sig You yard yellow years yieldingly; you yanked your yearning yoke. This is what is means to me... I've seen (including myself) people just let the days go on with no real drive or ambitions. They mainly whine about not having something, etc. They are giving in to not even trying for something new/better - hence the word yellow - as the years collect (pass by). The second sentence in the splice elaborates on one reason why. The yoke is the center of your being - your stronghold, etc. the one that - say as a kid - you had with dreams, passions, desires, etc. It states you got rid of it (i.e.; lost the faith). Anyway, I hope you like it. Also, you might have noticed all of these tend to follow a common theme, because I recently made a change in my life. Of course, this is just from my own interpretation, so they may apply to someone else in a completely different way. I'm honored you would want this in your sig. I am finicky about credit though (long story). I don't care if you leave it anonymous and let people wonder, just if the author is intentionally misrepresented. Jeremy L. Falcon Homepage : Sonork = 100.16311
xenophobic Xanthippe – xerophthalmic Xanadu Perseverance pushes past painful promenades - providing precious peace. Surely some striving souls survive symptomatic stress? Maybe my mangling might misguide malicious miscreants?Wow!! You did it again. Jeremy Falcon wrote: As a result, I have an extensive vocabulary. Now that's an understatement.:) Your vocabulary is astounding. Jeremy Falcon wrote: I'm honored you would want this in your sig. I am finicky about credit though (long story). I don't care if you leave it anonymous and let people wonder, just if the author is intentionally misrepresented. I hope my sig ok. Thanks a bunch!!:) sonork: 100:18407 You yard yellow years yieldingly; you yanked your yearning yoke. -Jeremy Falcon