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Ben Brandwood
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General IT busybody. Director of Data and Big Data player-with. Wannabe runner and part time wine critic. Opinions mine
Subject: Fire. "Dear Sir stroke Madam, I am writing to inform you of a fire which has broken out at the premises of..." No, that's too formal. "Dear Sir stroke Madam. Fire, exclamation mark. Fire, exclamation mark. Help me, exclamation mark....
October 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
This is still my go-to focus work soundtrack!
September 16, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The flag is a big plus though.
January 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Wow really? Every “agile” development squad I’ve met who’ve been forced to use it loath it. Though in the majority of cases it’s how it’s been set up (not agile)
December 14, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Acute and rapid onset lead poisoning
December 6, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Lots of places have zero on tap these days, seeing lucky saint in a good few places available.
November 30, 2024 at 10:10 AM
Woah woah woah. To upgrade to that you’ll need to sign up for my Enterprise Data Platform monthly plan (prices not advertised)

You can’t afford Delta files.
November 14, 2024 at 6:15 PM
I mean this just isn't true. Sometimes it's CSV's in Azure Blob Storage (or Azure Data Lake Storage gen2, with hierarchical namespace if you are feeling posh)
November 14, 2024 at 4:43 PM
And the thing was, if I remember they were still fundamentally worse than just normal ball mouses. Tracking was all over the place and I got a cold wrist from the mouse mat.
August 9, 2024 at 8:41 PM
Haha. We had those in the University library - even if the place was packed the sun workstations were always available.
August 9, 2024 at 4:53 PM