* Posts by Kydoimos

7 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Oct 2014

BOFH: What's your point, caller?

Kydoimos

Outsourced IT

I once logged a ticket to complain my email client wouldn't open (in the awesome days of 2007 when I was still forced to use Lotus Notes). We had outsourced IT support, since the company IT guy had managed to turn himself into a project manager for something else about 6 months earlier.

I didn't hear anything back for 4 hours or so. Eventually in frustration I logged into the web-app (on someone else's PC because it wouldn't work on mine) to get access to my emails... the idiots had sent me an email asking me if I had tried rebooting my computer (and no, rebooting hadn't fixed it the first 3 times I tried).

I may have complained. A bit. Loudly. With four letter words.

Alice, Bob and Verity, too. Yeah, everybody's got a story, pal

Kydoimos

Re: tl; dr

I assumed the doubled story was the secret message.

Photographer hassled by Port of Tyne for filming a sign on a wall

Kydoimos

Photo competition

I had forgotten..... They actually sponsor a photography competition. Maybe the photographer in question should enter his video?

http://reflect.portoftyne.co.uk/home/

Kydoimos

I replied to someone else's comment to state this already, but couldn't resist re-saying it. Their boss is (or was a year ago) an ex firearms trained police officer, and once spent a reasonable amount of time telling me all about it, because firearms officers had been on the ports site for a Prime ministerial visit and he wanted to tell me how much he missed it.

The PoT are fairly PR minded, I'll be keeping an eye out to see if anything else gets announced.

Kydoimos

Their head of security (was - I haven't been to the site in over a year) an ex fire arms officer. He told me all about it the day David Cameron came to visit the PoT.

LOHAN's final test flight set to honour PRATCHETT

Kydoimos

GNU Terry Pratchett

A mans not dead while his name is still spoken.

It's even GRIMMER up North after MEGA SKY BROADBAND OUTAGE

Kydoimos

That's not the north!

It's positively middle of the road.

I can confirm that up here in the wilds of Northumberland (so far north we used to be Scotland), my sky broadband is working perfectly.