When CASE matters

With a programming background I understand that sometimes things are case sensitive and it matters. What I came across today was really beyond me. We had to install a third party tool and the process involves setting an environment variable in Windows. Simple enough we set one up and since we did so successfully in the past the client decided to start it off before I got there. It took pretty much the entire morning and a few emails to support for them to tell us that we had specified our path in UPPER case (eg. D:\DUMB\PATH) and it has to be in lower case (eg. D:\dumb\path). That was the cause of the error we saw when the code decided to turn the path into D:\D:\DUMB\PATH\.. when it saw our specified path in UPPER case. WTF?!?!?! Why would you hard code things like that? Mind you the path name cannot be changed and it has to be a certain name otherwise it will just not work.

Top 10 things I hate about London buses

10. Bus drivers drive too fast and you end up falling if you don't hang on to anything.


9. People who get on for 1 fricken stop, it's not that far, in fact you can sometimes see the next stop. Just walk dammit!


8. Fat people, please see 9, it may help. Should they pay double or is it discrimination?


7. Buses that don't stop even when there are heaps of space.


6. Possibly due to the fact that some people don't move into the middle of the bus.


5. People who insist on sitting next to you on the inside when there are heaps of other seats on the bus.


4. Fat people who may crush you when the bus suddenly breaks and they could potentially fall on you.


3. Buses that don't stop even when you press the stop button and you end up having to walk back from the next stop.


2. Buses that don't come and when it does, 2-3 of them come at the same time. Thanks guys, stick to the timetable next time.


1. Bus drivers changing shift mid way through the route, wtf is with that? They stop on the side of the road for 10min cos the new driver has to get ready. Can't you do that at the end stop?

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2009!

After an eventful end to 2008 and start of 2009 (Paris -> NYC -> Dusseldorf) things are pretty much back to normal. No more flying for me for a while and now back in London for don't know how long. Work has been pretty boring lately, not much going on at client, in fact I need to find a new project soon so hopefully something will come up. Will be discussing with work regarding my visa renewal this year, potential meeting setup to talk about it next week so will decide on my plans for the year when I work out what's going to happen with work. So 2009 has started off just like the rest of the world, with a bit of uncertainty, but hopefully things will clear up and sort themselves up!