Author: graybo

Went for beer last night with Phil from college, Sarah, Paul F and Ian, and later met up with Paul S and his mate Mark. Admired the barmaid’s “attributes” in the Nags, but otherwise uneventful.

Waited and waited for the post to arrive this morning, but decided I could wait no more and had to get to work. So I should have my results waiting for me when I get home. Will post the outcome here.

Vaughan takes a break. Nice idea, but I don’t think I could ever trust anyone else with this site. And who would do it? Actually, I can think of a couple of people who might volunteer!

every home should have one of these (link poached from Marcia)

I’ve heard this morning that the CIM have sent out our exam results today by first class post. Which means they should arrive just before I leave for work in the morning. So expect my mood to be either bouyant or bad tomorrow.

On the subject of junk faxes, my friend David tells me: “Our company spends over $750,000 every year in fax broadcasting (junk faxes as you call them). They bring in over $2.2m in sales.”
But they are still a pain in the arse.

We’ve been getting a lot of junk faxes at work lately. They usually offer us things we don’t want, and even if we did want them, we’d have to dial a premium rate number to get them.
Today we received two faxes offering to get us off the junk fax distribution lists. Sounds good so far. But how do we achieve this? Ah yes, by dialling a premium rate number.
Hmm.

wise words

unusually, I can actually empathise with Tom at the moment, although it sounds like he has made a bit more progress than me. To Tom, my advice would be this – find a particularly trustworthy and patient friend and use them to offload all your unrequited phone calls and emails. That theory is working for me right now – hopefully, that friend will be able to give you good advice like “chill out, be cool, take it easy” and so on. This course of action will save you from appearing to be excessively “keen”.

Catherine blogged the virtual host thing too – on Feb 26th. I feel so outmoded.