agentz_osX's New Writeupshttp://everything2.com/?node=New%20Writeups%20Atom%20Feed&foruser=agentz_osX2002-03-16T19:40:14ZMarch 16, 2002 (thing)http://everything2.com/user/agentz_osX/writeups/March+16%252C+2002agentz_osXhttp://everything2.com/user/agentz_osX2002-03-16T19:40:14Z2002-03-16T19:40:14Z<p>Decided to clear out some of the crap from my <a href="/title/car">car</a> this afternoon. Actually it was more out of necessity than anything else.</p>
<p>I'm getting a new car on Monday. Whee!</p>
<p>I'm shocked at how much junk was in my car. I filled a complete bin bag full o' crap. And a plastic crate of things that I want to keep.</p>
<p>Oh I'm so glad I'm getting a new car. My old one needs so much money spent on it. It needs a new exhaust, the brakes all need some attention, it needs some suspension bits, a wheel hit with sticks, and it lets water inside where it really shouldn't. My car is mouldy. Don't you just hate that?</p>
<p>But anyway, did I say I was getting a new car? Roll on Monday lunchtime.</p>depression (idea)http://everything2.com/user/agentz_osX/writeups/depressionagentz_osXhttp://everything2.com/user/agentz_osX2001-07-06T21:49:35Z2001-07-06T21:49:35ZIts been said before but I'll say it again, depression is an illness and it can be treated like any other day to day illness.
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I was dignosed <a href="/title/depressive">depressive</a> a year and a half ago but I think I had been suffering for a long time before that. But I couldn't see it. I didn't believe what people were telling me. I was just tired. I couldn't sleep, and becuase I couldn't sleep I wasn't eating. I wasn't eating because I wasn't sleeping, and I wasn't sleeping because I was busy at work, I was busy at work because I wasn't performing, I wasn't performing because I wasn't sleeping.
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Thats all I thought it was, that my sleep pattern had been disturbed and wasn't settling down.
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It took an awful lot of persuasion from my partner and a couple of good friends to make me go to see a doctor. I was tired, not sleeping, thats all.
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I hadn't been to a doctor for years and wasn't sure what to say when I did get there. Over an hour and many tears later I walked out of the surgery with a prescription for<!-- close unclosed tag --></p><!-- close unclosed tag --></p><!-- close unclosed tag --></p><!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…first foot (idea)http://everything2.com/user/agentz_osX/writeups/first+footagentz_osXhttp://everything2.com/user/agentz_osX2001-04-30T18:55:20Z2001-04-30T18:55:20ZFirst Footing is also a tradition in <a href="/title/Scotland">Scotland</a> that takes place just after the <a href="/title/turn+of+the+year">turn of the year</a>, ie very very early on <a href="/title/January+1st">January 1st</a>.
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The process of first footing is basically visiting a friend or a neighbour just after <a href="/title/the+bells">the bells</a> bearing a gift of food or drink. In the past this was usually accompanied by a <a href="/title/lump+of+coal">lump of coal</a> (don't ask me why, I've no idea!).
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Therefore, if my neighbour was to visit my at 12:05am on <a href="/title/January+1st">January 1st</a> and bring me a drink, then they'd be first footing me.<!-- close unclosed tag --></p><!-- close unclosed tag --></p>SuccessMaker (thing)http://everything2.com/user/agentz_osX/writeups/SuccessMakeragentz_osXhttp://everything2.com/user/agentz_osX2001-03-25T21:13:30Z2001-03-25T21:13:30Z<a href="/title/SuccessMaker">SuccessMaker</a> is a comprehensive <a href="/title/computer+assisted+instruction">computer assisted instruction</a> package to assist in the teaching of <a href="/title/English">English</a>, <a href="/title/Science">Science</a> and <a href="/title/Maths">Maths</a> to students aged from 5 years. It is developed by <a href="/title/CCC">Computer Curriculum Corporation</a> and has been in continual development for over 20 years.
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The <a href="/title/SuccessMaker">SuccessMaker</a> package actually consists of upto 50 plug in type modules that can be purchased in packages to operate in either a <a href="/title/peer+to+peer">peer to peer</a> or <a href="/title/server+based">server based</a> environment. As well as the teaching modules <a href="/title/SuccessMaker">SuccessMaker</a> also incorporates a comprehensive management package that allows teaching and administrative staff to closely monitor student targets and attainment.
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One of the key concepts behind <a href="/title/SuccessMaker">SuccessMaker</a> is accelerated attainment. The makers claim to be able to achieve twelve months learning gains in six months. These claims are well backed by numerous studies carried out in countries including the <a href="/title/United+States">United States</a>, <a href="/title/Australia">Australia</a>, the <a href="/title/United+Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> and <a href="/title/Germany">Germany</a>.
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One thing that makes<!-- close unclosed tag --></p><!-- close unclosed tag --></p><!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…asset stickers (thing)http://everything2.com/user/agentz_osX/writeups/asset+stickersagentz_osXhttp://everything2.com/user/agentz_osX2001-03-20T21:16:01Z2001-03-20T21:16:01Z<a href="/title/Asset+stickers">Asset stickers</a> are used by organisations to identify and track their <a href="/title/property">property</a> and equipment, for example ICT equipment, <a href="/title/power+tools">power tools</a>, <a href="/title/furniture">furniture</a> and the like.
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Quite frequently they are made of some type of metallic foil with a strong <a href="/title/adhesive">adhesive</a> on the reverse. They usually contain a unique <a href="/title/identification+number">identification number</a> and some form of <a href="/title/contact+information">contact information</a> for the organisation that owns the equipment. The stickers are also usually designed that they are very difficult to remove, often manufactured of a substance that once applied cannot be removed in one piece - the sticker cracks into hundreds of tiny fragments that have to be removed individually, even then a sticky, gunky residue is usually left behind. This quality often means that <a href="/title/asset+stickers">asset stickers</a> are used to security mark expensive equipment.
<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>March 20, 2001 (thing)http://everything2.com/user/agentz_osX/writeups/March+20%252C+2001agentz_osXhttp://everything2.com/user/agentz_osX2001-03-20T19:05:27Z2001-03-20T19:05:27ZBejeezus am I tired today... I've just gotten home from work and I ache all over, had to get straight in the shower cos I felt so hot and sticky.
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And here was me thinking that working as a <a href="/title/Support+Analyst">Support Analyst</a> would involve being sat in front of a <a href="/title/computer">computer</a> in some state of <a href="/title/disrepair">disrepair</a> or other. For the past two days we've been overrun by couriers and other sundry delivery people, all bringing in shed loads of new kit.
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And I swear to god that my colleagues must have some sort of <a href="/title/sixth+sense">sixth sense</a> that warns them when a truck is about to arrive so they all bugger off out ten minutes before it arrives.
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So, last Friday, I'm sat at my laptop updating our <a href="/title/Assyst">database</a> when this driver turns up at the door and says <i>"I've got 27 boxes for you"</i>. I go look and find that he has 27 <a href="/title/Hewlett+Packard">Hewlett Packard</a> <a href="/title/LaserJet">LaserJet</a>s on the van. I start running round like a <a href="/title/headless+chicken">headless chicken</a> trying to find:
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<i>(A) Space to put the damn things </i>and
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<i>(B) Someone to help me</i>
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