Faith’s Hair

We have achieved that Friday feeling but unfortunately without the accompaniment of a crunchie bar. Today’s hot topic has been Faiths hair. Anyone who has someone fabulous in their office can understand the great fun as we comment on said persons changes in outfit and hair. Faith on Monday said “I’ve only changed my hair once this week” and I am proud to announce that she has managed to change her hair twice since then. She has also wowed us all by coordinating her shoes, hair, clothes and shoes. We will have to get some photo’s of the fabulousness.
We have also decided on having a penny box. Sharon apologises for everything, Faith uses the word thinga and I have an appetite for office biscuits. I’m not sure what we will do with the kitty maybe it’ll be enough for our staff Christmas lunch. We are keeping our ears open for Lydia and Ida's habits but except for Lydia very politely harassing her GP I’ve got nothing.
This afternoon has been spent in a meeting looking at strap lines and exhibition boards, Faith and I are off to London, Beware! We will spending time with people from the warehouse industry so we are very excited to see if and where we can get new sites. The more sites the more computers.

September fun

September, the season of new starts, shiny shoes, the end of summer. Well, for some of us. In C4A we have lots of new starts, Sharon has joined our team and brought her own style of fun to the office. We are also going to be moving into the main office as we have expanded into the offices next door. So lots of people new people and new horizons. On the subject of schools we have been supported by local schools we have received over 100 computers in the last month from a variety of schools go have a look at our news.

Smashing computers

I have always fancied connecting and sledgehammer and a computer, they seem like much less work than a wall and that the ensuing sound effects would be both satisfying and loud. This week I have been reading articles about what happens with old computers when you dispose of it and especially what happens to the hard disk. One of the options was, yes you guessed it, smashing it up with a hammer- which perhaps does not have the dramatic element of smashing it up with a sledgehammer but I am sure satisfaction would be great but is it really the best way to destroy the data?
One of the best tools available for wiping the data off hard drives is called "Darik's Boot and Nuke" or DBAN for short. You can download DBAN for free from http://dban.sourceforge.net/. Run this tool properly and give it the time it needs to go through the hard drive and the data is gone forever. We use a similar tool in our workshops called EBAN- according to our expert it “overwrites the entire hard drive with a pseudo-random pattern of numbers that makes it impossible for data to be recovered”. I’m not entirely sure what this means but for those who do understand these kinds of things I’m sure it makes sense.
So my plans for a sledgehammer will have to be shelved, instead Ida suggests I take up line dancing, Lydia suggests crochet, Faith suggests to wait for another opportunity to smash things. You will have to wait and see what happens....