This has just brightened up my day far too much.
Much gratitude to Unreasonable Faith for the heads up..
Browsing Posts in Humour
Alcohol was banned at Brazilian football matches in 2003 in an attempt to tackle violence between rival football fans. But with the country hosting the 2014 World Cup, Fifa is demanding that this ban be lifted.
Initially, I was a little confused as to why Fifa would be so worried about football fans’ right to get bladdered. Then I read this:
Brewer Budweiser is a big Fifa sponsor.
That clears up my question, and it also suggests a solution. Why can’t Fifa and Brazil agree to maintain the ban on beer, but allow the sale of Budweiser and other soft drinks?
There is a bit of a tradition, in various online corners, of posting pictures of cats – usually lolcats – on Saturdays. This is not normally something I engage in, but the timing does make this post from Indexed feel particularly appropriate.
A superb observation from the footnotes of Adrian Tchaikovsky:
(1) Leaving aside the New Age types who have rather galloped ahead of the pack in declaring the end of the world, scholarly debate suggests there is no actual evidence that the Mayan calendar portends anything apocalyptic at all (from the wretchedly sparse material available). It seems just as likely that they were all marking their great great… grandchildrens’ diaries for a particularly good party (2)
(2) Which in turn suggests that the Mayan culture was built on absurdly extended forward thinking and a careful attention to scheduling, and possibly the Spanish dealt them such a blow just because they failed to call ahead and book their invasion.
The Register reports that Christian satellite channel, Believe TV is facing “statutory sanctions” from Ofcom (normally a very hands-off regulator) for advertising dodgy products and claiming – among other things – that real medicine can be replaced with Ribena.
Halfway through the article, writer Bill Ray notes:
Ofcom also points out that anyone watching Believe TV is probably quite gullible
‘Nuff said.
I saw this on Google+ at the start of the month and have only just realised that I didn’t get around to blogging it. The image comes from How To Be A Dad and it is completely true.
Tellingly, the How Projects Really Work cartoon has become quite an icon in many offices, but I didn’t realise that the cartoon has also inspired a website.
ProjectCartoon.com has started with the original ten panel cartoon and added an additional eight cells – with more promised. More interestingly, the site also gives you the tools to create your own version.
Oh, the temptation!
This is brilliant. We have, at work, a shiny new helpdesk system that allows end users to log issues through either a web interface of by sending an email to a supportdesk account. The web interface works fine, even if it is a bit clunky, but the automatic logging by email is fun.
When someone sends an email to the supportdesk account, a ticket is automatically created with the text of the email copied into the issue description. The user then receives an email (from the same supportdesk account) informing her of the ticket number.
When, after a few days, the user wants to know why she hasn’t received an update they send an email, copying everyone who might be able to help her – including the supportdesk account that informed her that their issue had been logged. And another support ticket is created.
The programmer to whom the ticket was assigned (that would be me) hits Reply All and types a short message saying the issue is resolved and the ticket has been closed. And another support ticket is created.
The programmer’s manager then hits Reply All and sends an email asking the user if she received an automatic notification informing her that the ticket has been closed. And another support ticket is created.
At this point, the poor guy on the helpdesk hits Reply All and asks people to stop copying the support account because he is being flooded with support tickets. And another support ticket is created.
Someone should have tested a few real world use cases before they rolled this out.
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