5 questions to think about when you talk to someone with power.

Posted on June 9th, 2009 in Stuff by pete

Or even, come to think of it, anyone in a position of power from a member of a school association to the head of a multinational corporation. You don’t have to directly ask the questions, just maybe think about the answers to yourself and determine how you’re going to deal with the person:

1. What power have you got?
2. Where did you get it from?
3. In whose interests do you use it?
4. To whom are you accountable?
5. How do we get rid of you?

Number 5 is most relevant to politics and elected positions but can be translated to work environments.

These are originally was by the great parlamentarian Tony Benn

Billy Britt – excellent pisstake.

Posted on May 28th, 2009 in little bit of politics by pete

Tim over at bloggerheads gets some cracking ideas – usually about once a week.  This has to be one of his better ones.  Enjoy Billy Br*t (the racict sh*t)

All in protest of the BNPs current sad effort to promote themselves on the back of, well just about anything.  It seems they’ve got the bit between their teeth, the stock photos on hard disk and the leaflets bunged into  letterboxes all around the country.  Not here, yet, more’s the pity.  The last canvasser that called to the door of this house asked my 30-something year old wife (it was a few years ago!) “Hello dear,  are your parents in?”

She informed the octogenarian gent that she was the householder and was she brushed off with a friendly pat on the hand – ” Yes deary, I’m sure you are.  I’ll call back” .  He was Tory and a bit elderly so we let him off, but if anyone calls here fron the BNP they’ll get the full Dublin accent, a discussion regarding breeding and hopefully a Billy Br*t hand puppet waved at them (as soon as I find out where you can buy them)

The BNP are about as welcome as a fart in a space suit around here.  I’m hoping it’ll stay that way.

VMWare Server 2.0 Console not working

Posted on March 19th, 2009 in Linux, Work, novell by pete

I’ve had a few issues recently  opening a VMWare Server 2.0 web based console with Firefox 3.07 running on OpenSUSE 11.1.  The console session just didn’t appear, which is a problem when you can’t SSH into the target VM due to lack of networking.  The answer is obscure but works well:

VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=TRUE firefox &

With this, the console works correctly as expected.  Lovely.

Tom’s pink nose

Posted on February 22nd, 2009 in Stuff, cats, photos, pictures by pete

Toms nose

Little Tom having a sleep on Mark’s bed.  Hes a very placid cat – as seen here. I was clicking away pretty close to him and he couldn’t be bothered even opening his eyes through the commotion.  No fear.

No Problems

Posted on January 11th, 2009 in Stuff by pete

What I like to see, a lovely ‘No problems’ icon in my browser telling me that all is well in the world and I’m doing my job:

no-problems

The addition of the ‘Zzz’ text, showing me that my duty is done for today and it’s time to get some sleep is especially welcome.  Tomorrow, we’ll be back on the job.

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