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[Kevin Wood]

Dont forget the montego. OK, forget the montego. 

If only it were that simple <shudder>

The Montego/ Christ thats a blast from'tut past.

Didnt Hyacynth Bucket have one?

Nah.....a crappy Rover 214, I think.

Honda Ballade 213 / SD3, I think. <shudder, again>

[The Sheriff]

Dont forget the montego. OK, forget the montego. 

If only it were that simple <shudder>

The Montego/ Christ thats a blast from'tut past.

Didnt Hyacynth Bucket have one?

Nah.....a crappy Rover 214, I think.

Honda Ballade 213 / SD3, I think. <shudder, again>

I has a 213S, quite nippy and quite acceptable at that time.

[Marks DTM Calib]

Dont forget the montego. OK, forget the montego. 

Ah bad memories.

I was driving down the outside lane of the M6 in a company one during my placement year at Alsthom in Stafford.

This dam Monte-no-go 2.0 estate which was then about five years old, had more rust than body work and tape around the screen, about 60K on the clock from memory

At 70 (cough) there was one HELL of a bang and the car jumped up followed by a screaming engine and stuff crashing on the underside of the floor pan.

I threw the left indicator on, looked towards the passenger wing mirror and could see nothing! A quick check of the rear view mirror and cars behind me were braking and swerving.

Glided it over to the hard shoulder and popped the bonnet.

At this point I discovered an engine which was very low on the passenger side, two drive shafts dragging on the floor along with a starter motor which was only just still attached to the positive lead. What was missing was the entire gearbox which shortly before expiring had dumped its oil down the passenger side of the car.

The M6 was closed shortly after to remove the lumps of gear casing, shafts and gears!

Scared the crap out of me!

[Gaffers]

My own experience from today.

Client's North America office with whom I am doing a lot of work right now to migrate from a proxy-ish type solution to a proper cloud-based proxy service.  This evening the local cluster failed, a firewall issue I am told, and those who had migrated were having some real difficulties.  The automatic failover normally provided by having services in the cloud failed, I called support where I got a less than helpful reply.  I called the account manager who was at home (it was 7pm UK) and he and I bounced ideas off each other and came up with a solution to which a simple test was needed to prove.  The response was less than helpful and no info was forthcoming so I was flying a bit blind.  Apparently a reboot fixed an issue I had identified and thus my test was not on the path of least resistance, I was ignored.  I am used to being treated as such, as most people dont give a sh!t about IT Security until they are in the brown stuff and need your help.  If there is another way out I often get the Vs......

I then heard that for some users a reboot did not fix the issue so I went and asked the PM if:

Are you finding anyone for whom the reboot did not work?

The reply was this:

How do you want me to do that? If issue is reported, I am aware of it. Nobody would have an issue for several hours unattended. Means, if you do not hear from people they are fine

this was at 9pm UK and bearing in mind I am a contractor I had worked 3 hours for free.  My reply was:

Ok.

I only asked because I am having mixed reports from elsewhere that it does not work for everyone.  I shall go back to my dinner and family.

Have a good evening.


So why am I expecting an arse chewing from my client (a different person) in the morning?

I need a new client........