You all seem to have forgotten Mission: Impossible.

Toddler shoots self in face after finding gun under pillow | US news | The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015 ... ce-arizona

FCUKING. SORT. IT. OUT.

I predict more mandatory toddler gun training.

Obviously, the solution is more armed police in nursery schools.

Getting up too quickly after spending ages staring at my tablet - twingy side ahoy!

Stood on the bed to look into the top cupboard and smacked my head on the fancy light fixture. The lights no longer switch on.

That sounds like an excuse if I ever saw one


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Well turns out it tripped the fuse so the upstairs lights all turned off. Flipped the fusebox switch and it all came back on. Turned on the bedroom light and it tripped the fuse again. will investigate tomorrow.

Turn the fuse off. Undo the 2 screws holding the fitting to the ceiling then tighten the wires gong in to the fitting after checking for damage to the wires.

Yeah, saw that earlier... You have to wonder what, er, crossed their mind.

Just took a whole load of photos for the photo comp... as I was trying to do two things at once every single one is not focused where I wanted it to be. Doh!

So.. grab a drink and listen unto this tale of woe..

As some of you may know, I work at a University. One of the things that University does to support students with various disabilities is we lend them laptops if, for some reason, they are unable to use the provided 'public' PCs.

Recently, one of our students had one of these laptops break down on her.

Did she return to the IT support department and ask about getting it sorted? No. She found the university IT director's home address and turned up at his door unannounced in the evening demanding he get it fixed, because all her University work was on it and because it was University laptop it was our responsibility. It was also apparently our responsibility to back up her work for her.

Needless to say, he was somewhat unimpressed by this. He put her in touch with the IT support manager (a good friend of mine) and told him to get it sorted.

Turns out the hard disk in the laptop had failed. He agreed to meet her to take the disk and see if it could be fixed, while fitting a replacement in the laptop so she could continue to use it.

They met and she handed him the drive in a padded envelope. He picked up the padded envelope by the wrong end and she hadn't sealed it. So the hard disk dropped out of the envelope and bounced across the tiled floor of the place they'd arranged to meet.

Despite this, they sent the disk off to a recovery firm for assessment. The recovery firm replied saying they could recover the data, it would take three weeks and cost £1500. My friend told the IT director, expecting him to say "sod that, she broke it, it's her problem". The IT Director, quite possibly worried an apparently unstable woman knew were he lived, actually said "That's way too long, find someone who will do it quicker". My friend found a second firm who said they would do it in a week for £3500. He went back to the IT director expecting him to say "OK, that's too much, go back to the first lot". The IT Director actually said "Here's the company credit card, get it done."

The firm successfully recovered the data, and sent the original disk and a portable HDD with the data on it back to us. In the same box. hmm.

My friend received the parcel late in the day. Later that evening he realised he couldn't actually remember where he left the parcel. Frantic phone calls, emails & etc discover he'd actually left it on someone's desk in another office.

The next day he retrieved the package and thought "I know, I'll just make a copy of the portable HDD just in case, then if she breaks thing again we can just say 'here's everything that really matters' immediately."

While doing the copy he saw several quite unusual error messages. On examining the data on the drive he found

A) there was in fact next to no University work related data on the disk, just one whopping great big iTunes collection.

B) The iTunes collection and pretty much every other document on the disk had been attacked by a piece of 'ransomware' malware before the drive failed, and is utter gobbledygook until someone pays a bunch of crooks a fair lump of cash to reveal the encryption key.

On further investigation it also transpires that all the relevant work pieces had already been handed in printed out on paper by the student in question.

It's a several TeV particle collision of fail.

Sweet fcuking Christ