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...Are fun! One way mirrors, free booze, constructive comments on your products, free food and the endless comedy of people mispronouncing your company's name :-)All fun and games when you work at Vodonfone! (Imported from my old blog) …
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I'm just on the coach back from the Vodafone annual Ball. That was amazing. We knew there would be four musical acts on - but no one had any idea who they were. First up, the incomparable Madness if that had been the headliner, I think a lot of people would have gone home happy. Straight after that - Sheryl Crow! I must admit that I could only name three or four of her songs, but she is an amazing singer and put on a great performance. Third, Blue. Blue are best described as musical Chavs. …
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I had a hair cut the other day. My hair is now short. Well... Shorter. It's still halfway down my back but it feels so odd. Still, it's nice not to have split ends :-)I remember whenever anyone at school had even so much as a trim we'd chant "haircuuuuuuuut".I never knew why. (Imported from my old blog) …
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I love attending pub quizes - it's the trivia geek inside me. There's nothing quite like putting your mind to the task of solving odd riddles, remembering the exact date of an event, or working out who did what. All good, clean, wholesome fun! Apart from the foul stench of tobacco - the sooner they ban smoking in pubs the sooner I'll be in to spend my money. Who wants to come home smelling like an ashtray after a night out? It's bad enough that most pubs have the jukeboxes on so loud you can't …
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Thanks to a team of good friends - moving house isn't nearly as stressfull as I thought it would be. Although not having any curtains means that a dawn waking is inevitable. (Imported from my old blog) …
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[This was the Friday Giggle sent to Vodafone UK Grads last week. Enjoy!] Welcome to the New and Improved "Noise!" Your official guide to what's going on in the mobile industry. Rapid Increase in Product Numbers The mobile phone industry was thrown into chaos last week as Sharp made public its plans to launch what it described as "a massive amount of numbers." Rumours began to fly that their new handset would be the "GX-50000", Sony Ericcson quickly countered by launching the "T69999999",…
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Yet more mumblings of e-voting at El Reg. Does anyone seriously think that e-voting is a good idea? Ignoring the fact that PRIVATE companies have complete control over the PUBLIC election process and ignoring the usability nightmare and ignoring what happens when there's a power cut, you still have the fact that it wont solve the fundamental problems of voting. 1) Low voter turn out. I think this could be solved with an improved voting process rather than first passed the post and more a…
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I use a RIM Blackberry (6720 I think) to get my emails and browse the web on the move. I think its interface is deeply lacking and the hardware is flakey to say the least. But it has an amazing keyboard. I couldn't imagine typing anything this long using predictive text - or even handwriting recognition. I still love my Treo 180 - but its consigned to a drawer until there's a Blackberry client for it. The same goes for any smartfone - unless my email comes to me I'm just not interested.…
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So, this is a just a blog to record some trivia. It's also to show y'all some of the interesting (but non-confidential) stuff stuff I do at Vodafone. And if anyone that I used to know but lost contact with during my wilderness years should find this... well so much the better! How have you been? (Imported from my old blog) …
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