test please delete

[DS23]

oh there he goes... ouch!

[Zippy]

Going to leave TPD now. Night

[DS23]

Going to leave TPD now. Night

night night zippy

[DS23]

go on chief!

[DS23]

ka boom!

and so ends jaws

[DS23]

"i used to hate the water"

"i can't imagine why"

[NickFitz]

what a great suit. covered in anchors.

Wouldn't they pull the fabric out of shape?

I'd like to meet the tailor who could give a decent cut to a garment that had a hundredweight of ironmongery (or should that be chandlery) hanging off it in various places - and that's assuming yachting anchors, rather than the kind of thing oil tankers need

[NickFitz]

The missus bottled her wine a couple of months ago. Were down to the last 40ish bottles.

The beer I have should be ready next Friday.

[NickFitz]

The beer I have should be ready next Friday.

When I was at Y! the project reached a momentous point one Monday: we were going to internal beta

The Paranoids had signed off on it, the servers had been commissioned, a fundamental change in the way user authentication was done across all Y! properties had been implemented with the assistance of experts in the legal frameworks of dozens of countries (thereby rectifying a technical issue that had its roots in the protecting-dissidents-in-China problem)... it was a day when a final few bugs were being ironed out and new builds deployed on a ridiculously rapid cycle

Luckily, the Build Manager was also a brewer, to the extent that he was licensee of his local community centre and brewed ale for it in his spare time: he created a special brew for the occasion and installed a keg and tap at his desk

(N.B. it had to be top-pressure keg, as in situ conditioning of a cask wasn't really practicable.)

It was quite a remarkable day: most people were just hanging around drinking his beer from plastic cups filched from the water cooler, but now and again a cry would go up and a willing volunteer would rush to their machine, sort out a patch, commit it... and the man who had created the beer would build again, run the tests, deploy it, run more tests, and another cry would go up, until finally we launched

I would say that I've never been paid so much for sitting around in an office block drinking good beer with almost nothing to do; but in fact it's the only time I've been paid to sit around in an office block drinking good beer with almost nothing to do

[NickFitz]

While typing that last post I sort of noticed a dialogue box pop up and disappear, and one of the 'n' characters had disappeared from my post.

I wonder what the question was.

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