Monday, July 24, 2023

Today’s work was mundane, more boring tasks revolving around computer system validation documentation. More on-boarding of a new contractor.

I have a call with the new contractor tomorrow to give them a walk-through of the system we want them to write a test suite for. I am dreading it because I find the communication so difficult.

One depressing element to this particular ongoing task, is that he is based in Odesa, and so I was genuinely worried about his safety after he didn’t reply to an email this morning.

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The main news in the online world was the half arsed twitter re-brand with what appears to be a Unicode character. Musk’s obsession with this brand name seems really rather unhinged. We’ve all sat on domain names that we always wanted to use for something really good, but this is a bit extreme.

I just saw the new logo referred to as a sans-serif swastika. Which may be the winner for joke of the day.

Delivery Curse

I’ve had a lot of issues with online orders recently. I can’t remember having many issues before now, the odd delivery here and there over the last few decades.

Lately, seems I’m cursed, four of the last five things I’ve ordered have been either incredibly delayed or have gone MIA.What are the chances? (As an old colleague would say, the chances are 50/50, either it happens, or it doesn’t)