Technology is wonderful – mobile phones, computers, broadband, podcasts, database systems, Windows – when it works. But when you are a DumTeeDum summariser and a whole week of DTD goes missing it throws your schedule out completely and alongside that you are trying to drive a new database system live, re-write bits of a website plus work out how to use Microsoft Teams the week just goes from bad to worse.
So the database – handed over the data to do a test upload and looked at the results. Turns out that every time data was saved you “deceased” the individual you were working on by default, luckily it was only a test database. Track the problem back to a data error in the dataload which just means changing a blank to a N (stupid system should treat a blank as N – who needs a database of dead people to contact!). The night before the live load you upload the amended and improved data. And the man doing the processing on the other end is emailed to say the new data is ready responds by saying that everyone else uses the same data for the test load and the actual load. I could not be bothered to point out that uploading flawed data was not my idea of how to manage a database!
Meanwhile in Ambridge the BBC continued to demonstrate that they hate the programme and want to kill it off sooner rather than later – only four episodes a week, Buddy Jade who was such a caricature as to be nonsense and the complete anarchy at Brookfield as David and Ruth argue over sheep vs cows. Not to mention Philip who is just unreal, or possibly he is one of the undead.
Kosmo
You thought we had forgotten you… Here, after 5 hours of recording is almost a proper Duteedum
Why should the young women of Ambridge not be making love nests and having rampant sex, why do the young men have to be seen to be “trying it out” for one night” and other sexist stuff? This editor seems to be not just putting the clock back decades, but reintroducing patriachical ideas that should be firmly stamped on.