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It’s Friday afternoon. It’s a reasonably nice day. I have a lot of loose ends to tie up before I go on holiday. With all that taken into consideration I have to wonder why my brain has effectively bought itself an ice cream and is sitting on the beach.

My brain is obviously oblivious to the huge mountain of paperwork that I need to do, even if my eyes and my concience aren’t. They are, all three, currently having a little meeting to decide if any work should get done and, if so, how much.

Dammit, I think my eyes and concience are going to employ my foot so I can kick my own arse and make myself work. Luckily there aren’t any union rules in favour of Brain, so strike action such as this is illegal.

And so ends this post full of anthropomorphic personifications. I will try and get back to work, although I don’t think it’s actually going to be possible now.

On Saturday I’m flying to Spain for a week in the sun. Me being me, I’m not organised or ready in any way, shape or form… I’m starting to wish I had organised some stuff earlier.

Things that I’m yet to do:

• Book a rent-a-car for our journey from Alicante to the villa and back
• Get my Euros so I can buy things in Spain-land
• Buy a few books and other assorted diversions so I won’t miss t’intarweb
• Pack
• Find my passport

I realise that a few of those things are pretty fundamental and it’s starting to get me irritated. Especially as I can’t get the rental car that I need. I think I know where my passport is, so that shouldn’t be a big deal and the rest of the stuff is mearly time consuming.

Any single item on that list isn’t a big deal in itself, but all together it’s making me worried.

I’m sure it’ll all work out before Saturday.

Clientcopia? Wassat mean?

According to the website Clientcopia means “To cope with difficulties of a client attaining professional services and act to overcome them, despite that client’s blatant stupidity”.

Basically it’s another bash.org, but focused on the stupid things clients come out with. Some of the quotes on there are pretty damn funny, but having been on the recieving end of quite a few brainless client requests or demands some of them just make me cringe.

I’m not entirely sure they can be counted as terrorist bombs. More “slightly-fluster-them-with-loud-noises” bombs.

Apparently the there were four devices again, all partially unexploded and because of this there has been only one casualty. More info here.

I’m just glad that these terrorists happened to be monumentally inept.

According to Asa Dotzler of the Mozilla Foundation, the organisation who bought us FireFox, They are looking forward to Microsoft’s IE7 as it only runs on Windows XP and Longhorn (when it is released).

The reason for this is because 50% of businesses are still running on Windows 2000. Asa believes this will be a massive inroad for FireFox as Microsoft attempt to make Windows XP a required upgrade. Using Firefox will enable companies to help break the never ending upgrade spiral by making the latest browsing technologies available without being forced along the Microsoft route.

This kind of ‘upgrade or be forever obsolete’ attitude is probably part of the reason that Linux is also starting to make inroads on the desktop environment.

I, for one, am currently trying to have FireFox deployed across my companies terminals, but IE dependant websites still abound and are putting a spanner in the works.

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