Now as you are aware I have not broke Busbys systems since going live with the project, I was thinking it was all flowing well and they had got "used" to me now, so end of all problems...

Then came the Xmas shutdown period, and I came back to work tried to log into the Busby firewall with me Actividentity card, and eye scan, DNA tests, etc only to get told "Account Disabled"? Moi? Account Disabled, do they not know who I am?

So i drop an email to my contacts there asking wtf? and after my main technical contact tried everything he was capable off he admitted defeat and passed the problem up the food chain to the Sys.Admin. Which was nice of him... Then 30 minutes later I get an email from said Admin, along the lines of!

"We do not deal with user account problems, please go phone the normal customer helpline."

Use the normal helpline, that the average mortal off the street would use? Do they not know who I am? We'll see about that.

A further 30 minutes later and i get a phone call from the sys.admin who sent me the email.

"Hi, yes Our Boss was in a meeting earlier, and just popped in, err it seems we are authorised to help you with your problem, and err she asked could we do it as a priority, so ignore my earlier email, I'll get it all sorted for you"

Harmony has returned to the Universe, Moi? The CodeNinje a mear mortal? I dont think so.. ;o)

See dear Reader, It may sometimes be "what you know" but its always "Who you know"

CN

:0)

Woo Hoo... Go Wales...

Happy New Year One and All.....

You try remembering your gmail account details, give up and try random email addresses in the "secondary email reminder" bit of the log in screen, and end up getting the details of half a dozen gmail.com accounts you had forgotten you owned, but not the one you are looking for....

Congrats mrax and J on your new baby girl..

Or should that be "I'm Alive!!" ??

      Who knows....
          Who Cares!!!

Anyway... I thought I should post, just to say I am still here, although fighting off whatever powerful lergy has made all my colleagues Ill for the last month or so...

So whats been going on in my life?
   No, seriously! whats been going on? Getting old now, memory not what it was!

Right I suppose I should do some work.

Laterz...

Well I have electricity again thanks to the nice people at the local hospital, who have loaned out one of their backup generators :0)

Gotta love the NHS...

( You know you're a Geek When... )

Well it may be nice weather for ducks. but not for humans...

After struggling home through rivers that used to be roads, passed cars abandoned at the side of the road, fallen trees, closed roads, I arrived home to find No electric, and since it had died at about 3pm, all the battery backup lights had run out, so I had an evening of no heat, light, anything.

And this morning I woke up to more the same. Its bad when you turn up to work several hours early to get heat & coffee (mainly coffee)

Well Saturday went differently from planned.

I was supposed to be taking part of a Martial Arts demo at a school fete on Saturday afternoon, but alas it was called off at short notice, so I found myself at a loose end...

But luckily as planetpete phoned to let me know the good/bad news he mentioned that he was off with nellsworld to take Jeff for a walk over the hills, and invited me along..

So a good afternoon was had, Its been years since i went for a walk through the countryside, I'd forgotten how much I used to enjoy it, ok, my legs moaned at me the following day for using them more than I normally do, but it was worth it. Nice walk, nice countryside, nice weather, Nice pint or two later.. And most importantly Jeff...