test please delete

[voodooflux]

I had wondered.

I have got through between 180,000 to 285,000 cigarettes in my time (the higher number being more honest) and last had a chest X-Ray when I was 16 so I have often wondered...

Well hopefully that's one less thing on your mind, and a stress that will no longer be contributing to your high blood pressure.

[BrowneIssue]

Yeah, there's an amazing amount of detail in the fluff - those chaps must really enjoy their work!

They must do. They certainly are not paid well.

[BrowneIssue]

29th of May the lat time I looked. BCS have nothing on that day, I looked

No, I see the Nepal & India events would not quite disguise a trip to London.

Would a formal 'Contractor UK' branded 'IT Networking Event' with an agenda of:

- finances;
- professionalism;
- membership of trade bodies (e.g. PCG);
- obtaining and retaining work;
- state state of the industry;
- the position and future of the UK in the global IT industry;
- outsourcing and its impact upon the UK economy

be sufficient? All those topics will be covered in depth, I am sure.

[DaveB]

No, I see the Nepal & India events would not quite disguise a trip to London.

Would a formal 'Contractor UK' branded 'IT Networking Event' with an agenda of:

- finances;
- professionalism;
- membership of trade bodies (e.g. PCG);
- obtaining and retaining work;
- state state of the industry;
- the position and future of the UK in the global IT industry;
- outsourcing and its impact upon the UK economy

be sufficient? All those topics will be covered in depth, I am sure.

It probably would, if I was still a contractor. Can't see them stumping up for one of their permies to spend the day in London netoworking and talking about how to get a new contract

But then, if I was till a contractor I could probably afford to blow the travel costs and hotel bill myself

[FiveTimes]

afternoon all

I trust everyone is well ?

I've made a MAJOR balls up in the latest release (code cut off yesterday), big bit of functionality missed out and the tester has made the whole team aware of what is missing

I might get some of it in by close of play today but it would be untested (again)

[BrowneIssue]

I've just this minute had to turn down an invitation to my favourite pub on this planet for lunch

[BrowneIssue]

And I don't have experience of pubs on other planets either.

Pubs on other planets? Pah! Once you're outside Britain you've got to stick to the lager, really.

I have NEVER had a decent real ale served me in any of the pubs I have been to off-planet. Not even the promise of "But we've got a guest ale on next week..."

I have NEVER had any beer server to me at anything like a sensible temperature in any bar I have been to off-planet, never mind the pubs.

And how many pubs are there in the CAMRA guide that are off-planet, eh? I'll tell you. Bugger all, that's how many.

Bloody aliens. They haven't a clue. Not a single Cask Marque amongst the entire universe* of them.

Even Zeity's had to come down here to get a decent supply of brains to experiment upon.


*Admittedly, I am making an assumption. I have yet to visit a pub outside the Mily Way, but I'm confident.

[DaveB]

Show me the way to go home,

[DaveB]

I'm tired and I want to go to bed,

[DaveB]

I had a little drink about an hour-a-go,