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    This week, I have done ....

    • HTML, CSS
    • jQuery, jQuery UI(widgets: accordion, tab, dialog) & jQuery Grid
    • ASP.NET using MVC including writing an Action that returned a JSON result.
    • .NET Data Visualisation to create charts
    • Dynamic LINQ to repository classes that uses NHibernate to talk to SQL Server
    • T-SQL and Stored procedures
    • SSIS and SSRS
    • Applied my knowledge of various financial products and trading strategies

    And ...
    • I’ve de-fraged the hard-disks on my workstation and my laptop
    • Been to Tesco’s, done the laundry, cleaned the whole flat
    • Kept out the pub since Sunday.


    Please, please, please can I eat my lunch with the cool kids next week?
    How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.

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    Xeno points: +5 - Asperger rating: 36 - Paranoid Schizophrenic rating: 44%

    "We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to high office" - Aesop

    #2
    Built a couple of checkpoint firewalls.
    Submitted two detailed design docs for a bid.
    Had two interviews (Got 2nd on both coming).
    Re-certified my CCIE.
    Hang on - there is actually a place called Cheddar?? - cailin maith

    Any forum is a collection of assorted weirdos, cranks and pervs - Board Game Geek

    That will be a simply fab time to catch up for a beer. - Tay

    Have you ever seen somebody lick the chutney spoon in an Indian Restaurant and put it back ? - Cyberghoul

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      #3
      Yes. Pop into one of the parties on here for the new, hip kids. It's a real eye-opener.
      +50 Xeno Geek Points
      Come back Toolpusher, scotspine, Voodooflux. Pogle
      As for the rest of you - DILLIGAF

      Purveyor of fine quality smut since 2005

      CUK Olympic University Challenge Champions 2010/2012

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        #4
        Originally posted by zeitghost
        The other thing I've just done is take a lump out of my hand with a BNC socket...

        Lovely...
        Didn't your scales protect you?
        ǝןqqıʍ

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          #5
          Originally posted by DiscoStu View Post
          Didn't your scales protect you?
          <Bad Austrian Accent>
          Ze Scales, zey do nuzzing!
          </Bad Austrain Accent>
          "Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.

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            #6
            Built a free nagios based monitoring sysem complete with nifty nagvis based webpage that is better than the monitoring system the client paid £500,000 for.

            Much to the embarressment of the IT director that sponsored said expensive pile of tulip.

            Monitoring over 90 servers and 1500 services with lots more to come...

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              #7
              - Won a bid to do a database design
              - Started working on a C++ rules-engine
              - Created a business card
              - Booked in for a networking event next week
              - Gone through hell when CVSDude migrated a client's account and screwed it up
              - Managed my team on work involving soft-body physics and more mundane development work
              Originally posted by MaryPoppins
              I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
              Originally posted by vetran
              Urine is quite nourishing

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                #8
                Re-oiled the teak garden furniture.

                Played footy with my 18 month old son in the garden.

                Done some gloss painting.

                Hit f5 on Jobserve 999,999 + 1 times

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                  #9
                  Emailed July's invoice
                  Submitted this week's timesheet.


                  I could do with a break now.

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