{"id":619,"date":"2005-03-12T22:58:09","date_gmt":"2005-03-12T22:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/scrag-end\/"},"modified":"2005-03-12T22:58:09","modified_gmt":"2005-03-12T22:58:09","slug":"scrag-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/scrag-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrag-end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of nice stuff went on this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We managed to sort out the ongoing Aries load problems. Aries is one of our poor old servers that is still doing a sterling job. By his age he should really be in a bath chair, in the country, with loads of other aging servers and a tartan blanket over his power supplies. Good Aries!<\/li>\n<li>Me, Dave Harvey, Dave Harvey [not a typo] and Ian went down to see Brodie in his last week managing the lovely cricketers. Under the surface I think we all found the event a tad emotional; I did anyway. Nonetheless the overriding emotion was happiness. Such a good day. It&#8217;s odd when you find a truly friendly pub: when you are away for a long while and then come back, nothing appears to have changed and the locals all seem just as happy as they were the last time. Brodie&#8217;s pubs are always like that. We has some lovely bitter (Fullers &#8211; don&#8217;t knock it, it was the best bitter I&#8217;ve had since the last <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatsquirrel.org\/veghead\/pics\/gbbf2004web\/\" target=\"_new\">real ale festival<\/a>). A lovely chinese meal and lots of laughing in the country. Should be on the NHS.<\/li>\n<li>Friday was typical, but all the better for it.<\/li>\n<li>Today I worked at Daydream. Again, it&#8217;s nice to work somewhere else from time to time, especially with Ralph. We managed to achieve a lot and when I left I went for a micro-explore: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathewlu.com\/photos\/europe\/london\/Thumbs\/52.jpg\" target=\"_mew\">Ely place<\/a>. Ever since I heard an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.tv\/radio4\/excessbaggage\/index_20040501.shtml\" target=\"_new\">excess baggage<\/a> about it, I was obsessed with going there. Despite being located in central London, it is, or possibly &#8216;was&#8217;, part of Cambridgeshire. Apparently (although this is probably tourist bullshit) the city police still need permission from the Cambridge constabulary before they can enter it.<\/li>\n<li>Work managed to replace my aging phone with a 6230. 6230 &#8211; how bland does that sound ? If I were Nokia&#8217;s marketing manager I would start using cliches like &#8220;paradigm shift&#8221; in relation to this masterpiece. It looks bland too! but it&#8217;s a digital camera; digital video recorder; FM radio; MP3 player; diary; wap browser; bluetooth device; infrared devide; emailer and all round geek pacifier! Listening to Radio 4 on the way to work and some Carpetface MP3s on the way back <i>on my phone<\/i> really did it for me. How bloody annoying then that I have lost my bluetooth dongle. So annoying that I&#8217;m going to buy another one tomorrow. If it turns up, and it surely will, then I&#8217;ll sell it! Nyeh!<\/li>\n<li>Other nice stuff<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let&#8217;s not even begin talking about Michele&#8217;s parrotastic day \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Good night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of nice stuff went on this week: We managed to sort out the ongoing Aries load problems. Aries is one of our poor old servers that is still doing a sterling job. By his age he should really be in a bath chair, in the country, with loads of other aging servers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}