We have broadband now - YAY! Liv got a trial thing from Bigpond from her work or something, and I think it's ment to be free for two months or something, which is cool! I still don't understand the whole 'megabytes downloaded' thing and how it works by that and not hours (we've had pre-paid internet in the past), but I guess we'll see once the bills start coming in!
Still, after experiencing broadband, I don't think I could go back to dial-up. I can see videos now without it taking hours to upload!
Anyway, that's enough of my rant. Nothing's been happening so I haven't blogged. This is the most exciting thing that's happened to me recently - I've joined technological age!
I thought it was about time that I shoved something on here, so here are a few new words for 2007 (I got the email back in January):
* BLAMESTORMING. Sitting round in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a Project failed, and who was responsible.
* CUBE FARM. An office filled with cubicles.
* PRAIRIE DOGGING. When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on. (This also applies to applause for a promotion because there may be cake.)
* SITCOMs. Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids or start a "home business".
* SINBAD. Single working girls. Single Income, No Boyfriend And Desperate.
* PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE. The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
* ADMINISPHERE. The rarefied organisational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the "adminisphere" are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve. This is often affiliated with the dreaded "administrivia" - needless paperwork and processes.
* 404. Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found" meaning that the requested document could not be located.
* OH - NO SECOND. That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake (e.g. you've hit 'reply all').
* MONKEY BATH. A bath so hot, that when lowering yourself in, you go: "Oo! Oo! Oo! Aa! Aa! Aa!".
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4 comments:
after broadband you will never go back. Congrats.
Love all those phrases. my faves are blamestorming 404 and monkey bath. the sitcom and sinbad are clever too
Congrats indeed!! May the broadband be with you! I still grow amazed at the thought that people once did without the internet at all!!
And LOL @ those words. My fave is blamestorming.
My faves are blamestroming as well, and percussive maintenance - I'm a great believer in that one!
ahhhh, yes. percussive maintenance is my forte too!
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