Hey. Thanks for checking out the site. You'll find posts on geek stuff, Howto's, reviews of stuff I get, as well as musings on things that happen in my life, which tend to be music related, or job related, so expect some stories of horror from the IT field!.
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I’ve recently finished working with one employer, and start a new job tomorrow. This job was my first step into IT and it was quite a eye opener, mainly in the way of how not to run your network.
My former employer was a public sector company, and foolishly I expected things to be a [...]
Tags: networking, security, vnc, work
So I now work where they employ the use of certificates for wifi security, and I want to use the wifi on my iPhone since the data connection sucks. But how?
Well with iPhone 2.0 software, there is support for certificates. But how do you get it on your phone?
Well…
1. Go to http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/iphoneconfigurationutility10formacosx.html and download the iPhone [...]
Tags: certificate, iphone, wifi, work
Remember a while ago when I was losing my job? Well that happened, an I was unemployed. And that was fun. I saw a few films, relaxed and just wasted my time. Until one day later when I had a job interview. And then 2 days later, I started again.
My title is now PC Installations [...]
Tags: work
Today marks the final day of my working life in Financial Services. Today I had a trip to Manchester to demo a database, little knowing that I would probably not see most of my colleagues again. So Tuesday seems to be the last day for that. As of 15th May I’ll be unemployed (well 16th [...]
Tags: redundancy, work
That title may not make much sense, and thats cos its a really far off simily (look it up) to my current work situation.
As I said before, I’m currently impending redundancy, and this week, we reached the end of the consultancy period. What does that mean? Well they are now at free liberty to give [...]
Today I received a bit of bad news. My company has decided to close all its sales offices in the UK, and centralise the work in Manchester. This, as you can guess from the title, means bad news for me. My office, along with a few more from around the country will be closing in [...]
Tags: fired, job, redundancy
Today is Women’s No Pay Day. Its a day to make people aware that (as you see above) on average 17% of women are paid £4000 less than their male counterparts, thats the same as working for free from October 30th till the end of the year.
So please join in Fawcett and Unison’s campaign to [...]
Tags: , fawcett, feminism, no pay day, unison, womens no pay day
Tags: comedy, powerpoint, slideshows
Yes its true. I feel the mothership calling me. But the big questions is…what does working at the Apple Store pay? I’m trying to get a rough idea cos I don’t wanna go for a job to find out it won’t pay the bills.
So can anyone help, or give a rough idea? What is the [...]
Tags: , apple, apple store, genius, mac genius, salary, wages
Sometimes I want to scream.
I’ve been interested in the whole GTD methodology and have tried to undertake it in some parts in my own life. The main one is email at work. (I should point out I have to use Outlook being WinXP)
At my old job, my inbox just seemed to be a general dumping [...]
