While researching Picante de cuy (Guinea Pig with spices), which I’m determined to cook and eat sometime, I came across a recipe for Braised Cat. Unfortunately, this breaks one of my rules about eating meat, as I know what I feed my cat on, but it’s all useful information in a recession.
Tasty cats can be cheezeburgers?. From http://catrecipes.com/recipes/index.html
I’m flying to California on Monday to meet the WANdisco team. I’d rather not fly. I’d like to sail over and maintain my green credentials. But it would take too long so flying it is.
I’m going from Heathrow. The flights are the cheapest and direct, but that means I have to get from Sheffield to London to arrive before 9 in the morning. Not a problem you’d think. We have these great things called trains.
Think again sucker
For the last six weeks I’ve been working for a company called WANdisco; a Silicon Valley based business with a product that the more I learn about, the more it fascinates me. In development since 2001, the current WANdisco product range is actually a two stage affair. First, a common replication engine called Dcone sits underneath every product and organises a type of Peer to Peer communication between instances of itself running on different physical servers. On top of this runs product specific code for each piece of software WANdisco has support for; currently Subversion, CVS and Jira.
So, the story quickly:
- I order Oreilly’s Subversion book from Amazon. I have just started working for WANdisco who sell a Multisite and replication solution for Subversion.
- I didn’t ask initially, but when I do my boss is happy to pay for it on expenses, so I just need a VAT invoice.
- I go to Amazon website to print one to PDF so I can claim it (no paper here nosiree)
- “You can’t print an invoice from the Amazon website, but if you contact us we’ll send you one”.
Honestly… It’s true.
I mean. I just don’t get this. They are going to post me an invoice, at their expense, so I can scan it in?
WTF.
