Ok this is the point were i introduce a new character to the weblog
eveyone.. meet Katy
She’s the most witty, enjoyable girl ive ever spent time with and she has an amazing smile… i had to post a picture at Andy’s request. Sorry Katy blame Andy.
So some of you that read the FT might have heard the news for those who haven’t you should click on the link.
It’s all lead to a lot of uncertainty and speculation in the office, not least to the future of my department. It’ll be a shame if any of the working practices have to change and more of a shame if the jobs go all together but something I’m trying to mentally prepare myself for, expect the worst and all that.
In other news I just managed to debug a major problem that has plagued two people so far in the office, it just spread to my personal laptop so I had to solve it. When people were opening up Word they would find that within 30 seconds it would close down again. A cursory look at Task Manager was telling that the memory usage was going through the roof. In order to work out what was going on I took a look through sysinternals’ process explorer and froze the process just before the crash was going to happen, with the tool I was able to look at the stack for word and realised that it had loaded about 100 copies of the same dll related to printers (something deep in the Windows kernel so I’m not sure entirely what it was). So it turned out that deleting my printer drivers fixed the problem. Not bad for 50 minutes of snooping around.
Look… the radio 4 announcer just read out my Brothers name (well if i was writing this at 10 this morning i could have said that anyway)… look who abridged the current book of the week on Radio 4 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/book_week.shtml
Ok so the end of last week summer seemed to arrive in London, the weather was absolutely beautiful and my office hit 29 degrees (celcius) on friday which was a little uncomfortable but I’m not going to complain. My only problem with the weather is that it reminds me that too many of my friends in london are confined to work….
On Friday after a long day (release day so an early start and late finish) i joined a number of work mates in the local for some drinks. only for everyone to leave after one or two leaving me on a balmy evening with a hankering for a proper night out. Only no one to call or sort a night out with, man this city is cruel. So i just sat in and ate a Chineese takeaway, and that was such a waste of an evening. especially as the good weather ended today so i’ve been stuck indoors. bah. hope everyone else is feeling more up than me. Oh and The Man In The Know… i have no idea who you are, and am getting a little bored of guessing, maybe i’ll turn on mandatory registration for comments.
