Thursday, August 16, 2007
  Eeesh
What a day at work - morning stuffed by databases pointed elsewhere and afternoon and evening stuffed by gremlins in machines.

Sometimes it's like trying to do a rubix cube in your head - would be nice to work with real machines that you could bash with a spanner.

Computers can be a pain the the @rse a lot of the time.

I wonder how much of this stockmarket volatility is caused by misconfigured automated systems following the electronic herd. Mind you, human error is probably just as dangerous.

the £128,000,000 typing error...
 
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