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What is it with cupcakes?

31/3/2012

 
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Wife of a colleague has decided to see whether there's money to be made on the cupcake gravy-train.  Which is good news for me, seeing as how her chosen testbed is the collected IT geekery of Atkins and he keeps bringing in boxes of them to test out on us.  Figure as long as we can keep stalling the process with rounds of 'needs a little more lemon in the butter icing...' we're onto a good thing for a few weeks...

£2.50 she's going to flog these for. Each! £2.50!
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Yesterday, Abby went to a friend's house after the early end-of-term finish. Arrived home bearing these. All her own work, apparently. Well, the icing was anyway. "One for Daddy, one for Mummy, none for Hatty and the rest for me",  she suggested. Not at all selfishly.

I know you're wondering: bottom right is a rabbit's arse.

I am not giving her £2.50
I mean, they're nice n'all... but why has the world gone bonkers for them? It's not as if they're proper cakes...

I am going to start a 'One True Cake Movement'. £1.35 in Waitrose, enough for a whole breakfast.
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At the head shed

29/3/2012

 
Spent today at Euston Tower - the official head office of Atkins, since Uwe took over as Chief Exec last year. Here quite often nowadays and rather enjoy hotdesking on the 29th floor, because:
  • It's nice to feel the power radiating from just down the hallway
  • I can get some work done in peace and quiet
  • I have sensible meetings about the strategy of the organisation, rather than not-so-sensible tactical distractions about why my computer doesn't work
  • A nod of greeting from the UK MD lifts the spirits in the morning
...but they all pale in comparison with the proximity of the quick and easy lunch venue, a mere lift journey away.
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I LOVE Pret a Manger...

Apple maggots

28/3/2012

 
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I can barely bring myself to open the box and stroke it. It's been quite an effort to secure one:

iPad 3 buyers must undergo series of degrading trials

But, for a short period of time, we are officially a three iPad household. I can only say this out loud if I mutter.

"Maybe Steve wouldn't have done this. But Steve is gone now"

PMSL, frankly.

WiFiWoe: Did you see what I did there?

26/3/2012

 
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Yes. I put a bloody repeater in. An abomination of a solution, since it inherently throttles performance against what I should get from the wireless router... but at least I now seem to have a strong, stable signal which gives me ~4Mbps+ odd.  And I can always reconfigure it as an AP if I ever get round to running cables to it.

It is shit though.  It might take my mind off the last year's shenanigans but... it's shit.

Now that's what I call proper Sunday lunch

25/3/2012

 
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