November 2004 Archives

This is nice spooned over pork chops before you cook it in the oven. It's probably quite nice with cheese and biscuits too, but I haven't yet tried that!

Ingredients
2 large onions
4 teaspoons crushed dried chillis
3 tablespoons brown sugar
1/2 pint of water
1/8 pint of malt vinegar
50g butter

1. Chop the onions up, coarsely
2. Place them in a saucepan with everything else bar the vinegar and cover.
3. Simmer on a low heat for 30mins, add the malt vinegar, simmer for 10mins and use.

Simple, tasty, and a damn sight cheaper than the product it's based on!

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So today was day 1 of the release of a new build to a client. Lots of last minute testing and tweaking, but an altogether rather nice and stable piece of software being deployed. Certainly our best yet, by all accounts. Overtime last night though, which was good as extra money always helps!!

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A long, long time since I had an active blog. May 2003 was when I stopped actively blogging in fact! A lot's changed since then as well;

• New job
• Left University
• I've gotten older
• Probably some more stuff I've forgotten about!

New Job

My job title is "QA Analyst" and I work for an IT company that specialises in developing products for the hospitality industry. Basically, pretty much every pub, bar or restaurant that you go into that's owned by a chain of some description will be using some form of integrated tilling and back-office solution. I QA components of the back-office solution that ends up in a lot of those.

So, what's a "back-office solution" then? Well, it's marketing gobleydegook which translates as, "the bits of software that look after dealing with cashing up, ordering, stock control, payroll and the other odds and ends that make a unit managers life bearable." In other words, dull and boring and lots of frikkin numbers.

Oh, and I can almost 100% safely make a bet that you (in fact any of you who are UK residents) will have been in a pub, bar, restaurant or similar who are using one of our products. It's like the Borg, but on a smaller less gun-metal coloured scale.

Left University

Says it all really. 5/6 of the degree, long story, don't ask.

Gotten Older

23, bah. Not as old as Iain, or Scally for that matter. And that cheers me up, but will probably result in a rude comment or three, oh well!

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