Magic

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo" as Arthur C Clarke didn't quite say.

An early start and a half hour delay on the M42 meant that I was rather desperate for the loo by the time I got to Dudley this morning, and then it was straight into the demo with the big boss. My testing notes from last week had been turned into a list of outstanding development items, and, to his credit, the manager from the consultancy company turned in a fairly smooth demonstration of the system so far. The big boss seemed quite happy and made some not-too-radical suggestions for improvements which I think will fit in without too many problems. After the main meeting I reviewed the issues as agreed and specified the reporting functionality. Rather worryingly, the programmer and his manager seem to have completely missed the point of the reporting hierarchy - so that team leaders and line managers can see and report on their teams alone - but going through the specification document again seemed to make it clear to them. I need to send them some live data to work with now which should look a little more realistic than the cast of 'the Archers' who currently inhabit the employee list.

No luck with my current (somewhat half hearted) game of CNPS - I have been looking for a 12 for two weeks now, and I've seen the numbers from 13 - 18 in sequence at least twice today whilst sat stationary on the M42. In the words of Buzz Lightyear, you're mocking me, aren't you ...

All I need to do now is remember to include the tag for the end of the post, like so :