Oct
01
2008
0

The figures tell a sorry tale…

An extract from Google Financials with four of the larget UK players in the Investment banking and financial services based back to a relative price at the start of September ‘08.
Those relative losses in value over one month make for painful reading…

RBS - buy at £1.50

Written by Scott Brown in: At Work ! | Tags: ,
Mar
07
2008
0
Nov
27
2007
0

phishing for lloyds

Just been sent in a phishing attempt, quite nicely done. Well crafted and linked back to the actual lloyds bank site

Main aim is to get you to punch in your user name and password and memorable answers which it then submits to a couple of email accounts. THESE EMAIL ACCOUNTS

mailto:lom.data@web2mail.com
mailto:lom.data@gmail.com

Please feel free to add these to the most useless and inappropriate mailing lists or offers sites you can think of. Ideally include them in any honeypot scripts you may have running on your site.

I thank you.

Written by Scott Brown in: At Work !, Computers and Internet, Rants, Technology |
Nov
20
2007
0

why ?

When you’re unhappy about something why are you said to “disgruntled” ?

Shouldn’t you be “gruntled” instead ? In the same way you talk someone out of an idea, you “disabuse” them of the notion.

Hmmm..needs more thought that one I think !

Written by Scott Brown in: At Work !, Musings |
Nov
07
2007
0

Sick

Oh lordy…two days in london. Got home last night and awoke this morning with a scratchy throat, enlarged glands (ooer !) and feeling distinctly shivery. Not good…and of course if it’s a bug I’ve no intention of going home and passing it on to the family.

bugger bugger bugger bugger

Written by Scott Brown in: At Work ! |
Nov
06
2007
0

Power ! We need more power !!

Brief morning browse of my faves from my hotel room in London brought me to elReg and this little beauty.

“With a total of 72 processors, 48 GB memory, and 3 PCIexpress ports, the Catapult draws less than 200 watts of power and fits in standard PC chassis.”

Blinkin’ flip ! All this for $15k and an opteron core in there for your desktop OS of choice for cluster control and workload management. Bugger me I though the nVidia graphics card processing clusters were good but this takes their pants down and gives them a good skelp on the bum to boot !

Written by Scott Brown in: At Work !, Technology |
Dec
28
2005
0

Nose to the grindstone…

Burbling away between holidays over the Xmas and New Year break today…The other guy in my team that does the same role as me has worked between holidays for the last couple of years (mainly cos he was contracting at the time…but anyways) so I agreed it was his turn for some time off.
 
Bit of a disaster on the way into work this morning…it was raining last night, then hailing, then at some point in the wee sma’ hours damn me it froze solid ! And it would appear that gritting services in East Lothian weren’t on the ball as I had a verrry tentative slippy and slidy drive to the train station…turned up late and missed the train so had to drive into town !?
 
The Minx had her first experience of Xmas which was quite good fun, but unfortunately all three of us had picked up coffs and colds a little earlier in the week meaning we were fu#ked come Xmas morning. M had been waking every few hours coughing and crying, and we were little better but there’s nothing like a good flu’ey cold and cough combined with sleep deprivation to make Xmas dinner go with a bang !? We were all in bed by 8pm on the 25th ?!?
 
Things are getting a little better though…M’s sleeping is getting back on track as her cough abates and Zo’s catching up on the zzzzz’s whereever possible.
 
Got the single nicest present ever though…a little A6-sized leather bound wallet with space for about 20 pics…"Daddy’s Boasting Book" and Zo had already put in about 7 or 8 piccies for me….there…finish on a positive note.
 
 

Written by Scott Brown in: At Work ! |

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