Reporting from my hotel room in Bogata with a horrible cold.
I am stunned by the size of the IT outsourcing industry here, it feels like Bangalore a decade ago.
Lots of government tax breaks and drive with big players like Telefonica (In a telcos interest to get comms up to...
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Columbia's greatest export
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The Drainpipe
When I was a lad, a summers day was the excuse for mums to chase the kids out of the house, not like nowadays where parents are mostly terrified of losing sight of the precious offspring. In fact , my mum looked positively disappointed when I turned up after dark, looking for food.
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Muntjac Deer
I saw a muntjac tonight.
I believe they escaped from some stately home (Woburn?) And have since become naturalised in many areas.
Never seen them down here before. There I was driving home on my way back from Waitrose, Frampton playing on the hi-fi and this little pigmy... -
One more reason to leave the EU
So they don't compare the state of our hospitals to the rest of Europe:
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Tax disc saga continued
Yuppers to the poster who suggested staggering my tax disc applixations so that renewal never coincides with MOT renewal.
I say thus because yesterday saw ne pulling up at the Pink Elephant for my meet and greet service only to be told that they couldn't take my car as ot didn't have a... -
The reason I am in Leicester
The following is absolutely true.
I went for an interview in London yesterday morning. Still waiting on feedback
After the interview I met with my old boss (who got me the interview). We had a liquid lunch.
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Moving to the US?
Can't fight it anymore. Off again in two weeks so decided to get the wife & kids over for 10 days in between work & I'll stay for 6 weeks instead on business / visit.
Will spend a few days looking at real estate & schools before making a decision.
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Buggeridge on Friday
No sun - no moon!
No morn - no noon -
No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day.
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member –
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
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Sheep as a lamb
Sheep as a lamb, Sheep as a lamb
When I was a lad we didn’t have alcohol in our house. My dad was not a big drinker, the most he ever touched was about three pints on a Sunday afternoon, when he met up with his brothers at my nans house. My mum was teetotal and so it wasn’t like the... -
A most bizarre state of affairs
Still in the same gig, as technical team lead. Last 2 weeks. UAT is in the final stages and the data migration project I am heading up is also getting close.
Our project (only ickle 200K one) feeds into a 12 mil SAP project which is hitting the buffers. TBH I don't care as I will be long... -
My end to the weekend
Drinking, shagging, spiders, more drinking, PHP coding cos I felt guilty, shares in the company who make Raid going throught the roof unlike the spiders coming down the roof.
Carry on.
