test please delete

[BrilloPad]

I must confess that 16 & 17 year old girls really aren't my cup of tea... much prefer 30 to 40 year olds...

I wanna go home... stuck here... bored tulipless... listening to a tutorial on maths...

Deep joy, not.

you like 30 to 40 at a time

seriously, I reckon women in their thirties want alot more rumpy than younger women. SP take note...

[Sockpuppet]

seriously, I reckon women in their thirties want alot more rumpy than younger women. SP take note...

Oi!

We're going out again on Saturday. I think she actually starting to dig me which is a scary thought. It means she's a lot closer to breaking me.

erm I mean

At least if she comes to the CUK meet ups she'll have someone her own age to play with

[NickFitz]

aroiund christmas it was getting quite crowded - I think we nearly had to build an extension.

TPD is an extension - by now, it's an extension of so many consciousnesses it's even become self-aware

(In case anybody's wondering, I'm not the CUK user test please delete, although I have certain suspicions about who might be... )

[NickFitz]

I get my timesheets signed off every week, and payment is made the following Friday. Never more than 1 timesheet owing.

Tomorrow will be a case of logging on to bank and shifting it into deposit account

NewClientCorp is 30 days from date of invoice as standard - so many of their non-IT people (DJs and so forth) are, in fact, freelancers of some ilk that their payroll system is completely geared up to include such things.

They seem to have it down quite nicely, although I'll be interested to see how it works when invoice dates veer slightly off course - I forgot to invoice yesterday, so I suspect this will delay remittance by one day.

Still, they do seem to pay in thirty days exactly - no mucking about chasing up an Accounts Payable department staffed by people who appear to use the Mayan calendar, as has been the case with other clients

[NickFitz]

Indeed... I might ask for 1 day week at home and see how it goes.

I've been thinking about that... we finally have a full-time technical owner whose job is purely to ensure that we have whatever technology we need to do the job in the way that's best for the project, and he has the (correct) attitude that what's best for us is best for the project. One of the things he's said we should all have is VPN access - and given that one of the permies works from home three days a week (he made it a condition of taking the job, knowing how much they wanted him ) I might be able to cut it down to three nights a week in London

[NickFitz]

they are always unimpressed in general. they are far far too angry.

[NickFitz]

you mean something is going round eating ducks and students and stuff - crocodile suspected.

but we know the truth eh zeity

Ssh!

[NickFitz]

I hope I get the century OR the pali - to fail on both would be sad.

mind you, if I got both, it would be superb! It would make my day.

Happy Day for Scourer!

[NickFitz]

Anyway, nighty-night denizens - I think I can actually get something rather cool completed tomorrow morning, which will not only make the client happy, but also give me something to feel good about on the way up the M1.

The last few months always seem to have involved Fridays where one either knew or suspected that something was going to fail to meet the sprint deadline, or had already done so - in the proper spirit of agile development no blame is apportioned when that happens, the team as a whole simply works together to find out how to avoid similar problems in the future, but it's still frustrating.

This last sprint has gone much better - it looks like our sprint planning is becoming more realistic, and our techniques for dealing with unexpected contingencies and incorporating them into the workflow are really paying off, so we're aiming for truly achievable goals and achieving them, which makes us all happier

Night all

[BrilloPad]