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gordoncoulter

  1. Courier was not a good word in the office today. Epic fail by them all about 7 hours ago via Twitter for Android
  2. Don't think I could write code that runs as slowly as iTunes if I tried. 2:32 PM May 29th via MetroTwit
  3. Badly managed Sharepoint logs (actually, unmanaged!)- 20Gb becomes 500k. 2:53 PM May 22nd via MetroTwit
  4. #amazon customer service chat is, surprisingly, awesome. type, type, type, replacement being dispatched. done. 7:59 AM May 18th via MetroTwit
  5. Press some key combo - now windows is reading out menu items to me in the style of stephen hawking 7:39 AM May 18th via MetroTwit
  6. @MMaryMcKenna At Edinburgh Airport you have to pay £1 to drop people off in your car! 2:40 PM Apr 25th via MetroTwit in reply to MMaryMcKenna
  7. @btbusiness been trying to get BTNET Prem support since 7:30am and am just held in a queue. 12:44 AM Apr 17th via MetroTwit
  8. Anyone having BTNET or phone problems today? Seems BT having some major problems. Been trying to get BTNET Premium support since 7:30am 12:40 AM Apr 17th via MetroTwit
  9. @richardbranson In a virgin shop yesterday ready to purchase. Didn't know my password, so they wouldn't take my business. #fail 6:13 AM Apr 1st via MetroTwit
  10. What's happening? My brain is imploding. MS Licensing - who makes up this stuff bit.ly/zkFrSX 2:26 AM Mar 16th via MetroTwit
  11. Refactoring a big class with a sledge hammer rather than a scalpel. Time to build the rubble back into something beautiful. 4:27 AM Feb 26th via MetroTwit
  12. Microsoft Volume Licencing - Start your day with a headache 10:00 PM Feb 20th via MetroTwit
  13. MS dropping OLEDB and going back to ODBC after SQL 2012. Did we just recursively pop the stack? bit.ly/peN7Yv 8:19 AM Feb 20th via MetroTwit
  14. @ianmoran when i have to reinstall an os i feel like i lost the battle. Dev system takes days of rebuilding. Horrible! 1:19 PM Feb 19th via Twitter for Android in reply to ianmoran
  15. GZip conquered (I think). Funny how the simple things are always the ones that cause the most grief. 11:45 PM Feb 10th via MetroTwit
  16. Good Sat morning start - 3 x Visual Studio open debugging 3 hops of web service calls. 10:21 PM Feb 10th via MetroTwit
  17. I really dislike the C# three /// documentation thing. Ghastly. 1:03 PM Feb 10th via MetroTwit
  18. C# Gzip - you will not get the better of me. Bad morning. Code 1, me nil :-( 2:03 AM Feb 10th via MetroTwit
  19. "Power" day - installed PowerTab, PowerGUI, PowerPivot. 12:33 PM Feb 9th via MetroTwit
  20. @kilnfc Just off the phone with support over a failed upgrade. All sorted in a jiffy. Very excellent service! 1:51 PM Jan 31st via MetroTwit