oh well it was fun while it lasted, It only took about 7 hours or so. The visual effects are really good, but you don't have time to see it as your too busy keeping yourself alive.

This came in today

1st line Helpdesk Role in Woking, £12-£15 an hour or £22k - £24k + benefits
From: (??????@peoplesource.co.uk)

I've not spent 15 years in IT working hard to perfect my skills and to raise my game for some guy to spam me for a job no one work hire me for. Recruiters the market may be tight but spamming everyone and anyone for any job is not going to do your industry much good in the long run.

Introduction

Moving databases from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2000 is not impossible and can really be quite easy once you come to grips with the basics. Microsoft has made it very easy to move databases from 2000 to 2005 by using backup and restore built into the admin tools, but this is not backwards compatible and has caused some issues, to say the least. The content of this article owes a lot to the very talented Craig Murphy, who suggested using a publishing wizard for reverting 2005 databases to 2000 in a blog entry.

Article in full can be found here

http://www.codeproject.com/cs/database/MovingSQLServer2005to2000.asp

Got a flyer with a recent web order for Geek Squad; this is a US company that’s partnered with the carphone warehouse to provide online and onsite visits to repairs peoples PCs home and small business. Look at the adverts on their site; do you really want these people in your home; they are looking for Covert Operators and Field Agents, mission controller see: http://www.geeksquadjobs.co.uk/JobSearch.aspx . Anyone who thinks this is just a CIA front might be suffering from delusions; but it does seem to be a bit odd; don’t forget you can always get a post in mission control in a bat cave near you. This might have worked well in the US but in the UK I’m not so sure. If I want a computer expert to come to my house (heaven forbid) call them an Engineer for instant respect but I’m not trying to squeeze a few bucks from a desperate and hapless home users.

Can you imagine getting the phone call:

I’d be interested to see what sort of technical experts they send out, the experts in our local retailers are quite frightening telling me how gold plated network cables double my internet speed or the latest processor makes my broadband go faster how you need to be an expert to plug in USB devices. I won’t even start on their take on VISTA never mind how everything should be covered by an all inclusive 33% of purchase price insurance (they call it a warranty but its insurance).