On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 17:14:14 +0100, Stephen wrote:

> On 27/07/2012 12:12 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> That's what you (they) get for voting a New Yorker into the mayor's
>> office.  Especially one whose hair, if trained by Donald Trump, would
>> be an improvement.;)
> 
> I think the word buffoon suits him.

LOL

Though I have to say his rejoinder to one of our presidential candidates' 
demonstrated skills of dealing with people outside the US was quite 
good. ;)

Jim

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On 27/07/2012 12:09 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> So far it's slated to go through Dec 31 - but who knows what that might
> lead to.
>

Indeed, break a leg. :-)

> I've got some ideas as to why the new product was on the list of things
> to work with.  It might have something to do with the fact that it's used
> for managing the testing environment for the other product.:)
>
> And keeping my mind active - yeah, today was like that...
>
> I*love*  doing this kind of stuff, and the feeling of accomplishment that
> comes with figuring something out.

A good feeling. :-)

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     Stephen

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On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 07:29:26 +0100, Stephen wrote:

> On 27/07/2012 12:09 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> So far it's slated to go through Dec 31 - but who knows what that might
>> lead to.
>>
> Indeed, break a leg. :-)

All I can do is what I can do - unfortunately, all hiring decisions are 
going to the CEO at present.  Even internal transfers are difficult if 
there's a pay adjustment, I hear.

But 5 months should give them some time to get the hurdles cleared, I 
hope.  The engineering manager said if it were up to him, I'd be back on 
as staff already.

>> I've got some ideas as to why the new product was on the list of things
>> to work with.  It might have something to do with the fact that it's
>> used for managing the testing environment for the other product.:)
>>
>> And keeping my mind active - yeah, today was like that...
>>
>> I*love*  doing this kind of stuff, and the feeling of accomplishment
>> that comes with figuring something out.
> 
> A good feeling. :-)

A very good feeling.  I took a component last week (first week back, no 
less) that hadn't been touched since 2010 and got it working without any 
major issues.  Had to ask one of the developers a couple questions, but 
it was really good to take something that had been abandoned after 
version 1.0 and figure out how to get it  working in the upcoming 1.6 
release. :)

Jim

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On 28/07/2012 6:42 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> Though I have to say his rejoinder to one of our presidential candidates'
> demonstrated skills of dealing with people outside the US was quite
> good.;)


I preferred Dave Cameron's remark about it being easy to do in the 
middle of nowhere. It will be interesting to see how many friends were 
made by nbc cutting the Olympic memorial to the London bombings.

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     Stephen

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On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 22:16:39 +0100, Stephen wrote:

> On 28/07/2012 6:42 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Though I have to say his rejoinder to one of our presidential
>> candidates'
>> demonstrated skills of dealing with people outside the US was quite
>> good.;)
> 
> 
> I preferred Dave Cameron's remark about it being easy to do in the
> middle of nowhere. It will be interesting to see how many friends were
> made by nbc cutting the Olympic memorial to the London bombings.

Oh, yes, I liked that as well.  As well as Mayor Becker's (the mayor of 
SLC) rejoinder that he'd be happy to provide your PM with a map of "the 
middle of nowhere" so he doesn't get lost - and a list of things he'll 
find in Utah that you won't find in the UK. :)

I'm glad I was able to watch the BBC version of the ceremonies - very 
little in the way of "you Americans are too stupid to understand the 
references so we'll talk over the music that you obviously don't care 
about to explain the things that anyone with a modicum of Google-fu can 
find out on their own".

Jim

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