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Cool, what was you doing in this neck of the woods? Agree with you about going into Portsmouth, I try to avoid it as much as I can.
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I was working for Havant and Waterloo District Council designing and building a few of the new roads in the District; the road from the dual carriageway onto Hayling Island being one of them.
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xiecsuk wrote: the road from the dual carriageway onto Hayling Island being one of them.
Ah so it's you that I have to blame for the two lanes going into one palava.*
* I know it's not your fault, it's the idiots that race to get there first.
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The small dual carriageway piece is there because of the large number of people that used to work at the IBM site. It reduced congestion at the morning and afternoon peak times. I don't know how many work there now but my assumption would be "not many".
It was fun working on site. I used to get invited in for afternoon tea by the large houses on the right as you drive on to HI. It was, of course, to give them an update of progress and forewarning of any difficulties.
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xiecsuk wrote: The small dual carriageway piece is there because of the large number of people that used to work at the IBM site.
It's where I work now. Was IBM then Xyratex now Seagate. There is also Lockheed Martin on site aswell as a number of smaller businesses.
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As far as I know, IBM sold part of the drives business, possibly to Xyrates, and then moved the rest of the company elsewhere. I then worked for IBM at Warwick for 20 years before taking early retirement to go contracting.
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xiecsuk wrote: As far as I know, IBM sold part of the drives business, possibly to Xyrates
Yes that's correct. I think it happened late Eighties early Nineties, it was a management buy-out. A hedge-fund then got it's claws in in 2013 and eventually sold to Seagate, making those original mangers millionaires whilst the rest of us dodge round and round of redundancies.
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chriselst wrote: Pointless bloody disease ridden strips of cloth.
Only purpose to they serve is to remind you of meals you once had.
Presumably you're content with your shirt performing these vital services then? 
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Bow tie + fez == 
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That would be a tad naff, I always prefer to wear a pith helmet if I need to be extra smart.
veni bibi saltavi
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Especially to meetings. Then you can remove it to indicate that you are pithed off. 
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A black cloak, nothing less.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Please say you have something on under the cloak and NOT Sean's idea of casual wear!
veni bibi saltavi
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Last time I wore a black cloak, I also carried around about 30+ kg of chainmail, padding a helmet, a sword and a shield. Is that enough for your weak nerves? 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Still better than Sean au natural!
veni bibi saltavi
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I would not go to a gunfight with a knife and not to a crusade with nothing more than a black cloak.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Indeed! Who's going to wear that to work though? (See wot I did there?)
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Ahhh, tie fighters!
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Clearly they are referring to an ability to be REDUNDANT both verbally and clearly in their written communications!
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The irony of someone asking for good communication skills particularly written skills, and appearing to be in need of them themselves....priceless.
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chriselst wrote: As opposed to what?
Well obviously the position they are looking to fill will be the one writing the next job specification.
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/=--<o)~ /<^> (8,4)
Have fun with it
Solved but nevertheless the final hint!
Alright Hints:
1.Hint : It looks beautiful when you see it.
2.Hint : But if it was bigger we would die.
3.Hint : Make a silent wish when you see it.
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
modified 19-Nov-15 7:25am.
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Does that mean it's 10 letters, or it's 8 + 4 and you've only given us 4 symbols?
Or did it get HTML swallowed?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Looks ok for me, I see 8+4 symbols...
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HTML then: it was originally just "/=--"
He must have edited it while I was asking.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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