i'm so sad.. i have no life..

[Raydred]

I am the only one trolling the boards at 2:00am...
I'm so sad...

[lostinbeta]

You are right, you are the only one trolling the boards at 2am, but I am the only one trolling the boards at 4am.

Whos sadder?

;)

Cheer up buddy :)

[eyeinfinitude]

And I'm the only one trolling at 1 am, now that's um...wait...nvm...:P

Sorry, I suck at cheerying people up. :P

[Raydred]

lol i couldnt sleep cause i knew you're up lol some weird twin connection lol jk =)

[lostinbeta]

Originally posted by Raydred
lol i couldnt sleep cause i knew you're up lol some weird twin connection lol jk =)


Well if I wasn't 2 hours in the future I would use the same excuse :P

[Raydred]

EG you cheered me up lol =)

no im kinda down cause i met a girl online last night (from my town) and i thought she'd be on, and shes not.. o well. todays another day.

[lostinbeta]

Awww :(

You can flirt with me if you want, it's not quite the same but... wait a second, flirting with your twin is just gross... man don't even try that!

Flirt with EG :love:

[telekinesis]

beer

[eilsoe]

2 beers

[asphaltcowboy]

hmm, the boards were pretty slow last night tbh (uk time). i mean honestly, what were you people doing? going out?! weirdos ;)

[grimdeath]

yeah the boards been kinda slow lately, i wasnt able to get connected last night thanx to my ISP i was going crazy i didnt have my kirupadose and was shaking like He!l well i turned on the modem today and im back did i miss much???

[asphaltcowboy]

Originally posted by grimdeath
yeah the boards been kinda slow lately, i wasnt able to get connected last night thanx to my ISP i was going crazy i didnt have my kirupadose and was shaking like He!l well i turned on the modem today and im back did i miss much??? lol, I meant slow as in empty... no one's around :)

flirt? with lost? my new favourite past time! ;)

[grimdeath]

i didnt mean it in slow as in terms of connection i meant as slow postings which = no one here lol

[asphaltcowboy]

heeeeeeeeeey! that's what I meant!

[mdipi]

we are deffinatly in a slump :( we will pull throught htough. look at BB, its getting back to normal. we will too

[Niann]

Hmmmmm I am the only one here at 11:30am Saturday... Am I the only one forced to work on Sat.? =0)

Cheers!
-Niann

[kirupa]

Nope Niann, you aren't the only one :)

[Jubba]

i work tonight (saturday) from 5pm - 2 am

[Alex]

i was up pretty late, i think to around 1 30, but thats not any kind of record for me. lol

[thoriphes]

i have a link to these forums in my links bar in IE. this is one of the first sites i visit once i log on to the net.

[Niann]

Yay I don't feel so alone now. =0)

Cheers!
-Niann

[Niann]

Half an hour more and I am outta here... Get one day off and back to work Monday. I love six day work weeks... Makes for good OT though. =0)

Cheers!
-Niann

[Soul]

I worked saturday (today) too. 12pm to 6pm :thumb:

- Soul :s:

[Kitiara]

I have all weekends off. :beam:

[reverendflash]

I have a custom search bookmarked, so when I open IE I click on that one icon & I find what I want...

Revhttp://www.aulman.com/rev.gif

[asphaltcowboy]

Originally posted by Kitiara
I have all weekends off. :beam: pfft! that's nothing! I'm an art student.. i've had an entire year off! :beam:

[Alex]

this is one of the first sites that i visit when i come on the computer. Ever since i found this site, i cant stay away for more then 5 min. :)

[Soul]

Media Students are better :P

- Soul :s:

[asphaltcowboy]

media students suck *ss ;)

[Soul]

I'll be making the films that you'll be watching in the future!! So watch what you say! :P

- Soul :s:

[Kitiara]

Ex-Computer Science student also rock. :beam:

[asphaltcowboy]

Originally posted by Soul
I'll be making the films that you'll be watching in the future!! So watch what you say! :P

- Soul :s: Er!! I'll be adding special effects and animation to the crummy films you make to make them ten times better! so ner!

:beam:

[Soul]

*growls* :bad:

I won't be hiring you :P

- Soul :s:

[asphaltcowboy]

in which case, your crummy film will undoubtedly flop! :P


;)

[Kitiara]

Unless he hires me. :beam:

[asphaltcowboy]

Originally posted by Kitiara
Unless he hires me. :beam: ok, let's not start on that ;)

[Soul]

I'm not gonna be making blue movies Kit :P:P

- Soul :s:

[Kitiara]

Shame. :P

[Soul]

Well, maybe private ones ;)

- Soul :s:

[asphaltcowboy]

ooh! not again!

(I hope you noticed that I past up the opportunity to talk about kit and flopping and all that stuff :P sooooo much material to work with there! and it's all wasted cos I'm such a nice young man ;))

[Kitiara]

I am now a source for comedy, it would appear. :sure:

This thread has been officially Englished. :)

[Soul]

Haha another Englished one :P

Flopping asphalt!?!? lolol!! :beam: Guess Kit missed that bit :P

- Soul :s:

[Kitiara]

I'm losing it if I missed an obvious gag like that. :)

[asphaltcowboy]

eeeeeeeeeeeexactly ;)

morning btw :beam:

[Soul]

Morning my good friend :thumb:

- Soul :s:

[asphaltcowboy]

awww, ya little cutie :love:

[Soul]

Oh shush :blush:

[TOOL]

Originally posted by Kitiara
Ex-Computer Science student also rock. :beam:
I'm currently doing Computer Science and was just wondering if you had to choose a certain path to follow in your degree?

For us we have to make up our minds to either do software engineering or information systems. Software engineers get paid more but apparently there are more information system jobs around at the moment... ahhhhh what to choose?

[Kitiara]

I was pretty lucky with mine, it was a modular degree. There were about 20 or so different modules to choose from each year, of which you had to do six over the course of that academic year.

The modules themselves covered a huge range of subjects. There was multimedia, music, graphics, programming... You name it. I wanted to do the more techy programming side, so I took modules like C++, Java and web design. :)

I was really annoyed that the year after I left they bought 50 Net Yaroze machines and introduced PlayStation programming. :sure:

[Raydred]

i still need my degree... =( without it,,.. i am nothing (at lease to employers)

[Kitiara]

If it's any consolation, I did mine three years ago and it's not worth the paper it's printed on. :sigh:

All it really shows is that I could stick three years of listening to hirstute Computer Science lecturers in tweed... :)

[asphaltcowboy]

playstation... ewwwwwwwww :P

[Kitiara]

I wanted to learn and then go and work for Square on Final Fantasy. :P

It was a good course though. The whole web thing was just taking off, so the HTML module I took was very basic. That's why I'm mostly self taught on all my web skills. :) But the Java and C++ and VB and all that, they were good to learn. :)

[asphaltcowboy]

yeah, all self-taught over here :)

[asphaltcowboy]

(which is why I suck :P)

[TOOL]

Sounds like you had a nice variety of subjects to choose from. Unfortunately we don't get that choice. If you want to do multimedia I'm pretty sure you have to be enrolled in a Bachelor of Digital Art. I've been trying to get into some animation and digital image courses for my elective but they require prerequisites and I can't fit them in which really sucks. Hmmm playstation programming, that would have been really cool :)

[Raydred]

i want to learn game programming, that'd be so cool! =)

my friend is studing just that, game programming, and its aweseome. hes like the best or somthing. =)

[asphaltcowboy]

w00t! I get my art foundation results today! wish me luck! :thumb:

/me craps himself :P

[Kitiara]

Good luck. :)

I remember what it was like getting my results... Even now I can feel the panic. :stunned:

[asphaltcowboy]

hehe, thanks. it'll be ok methinks.. I'll definitely pass...? I hope...? :)

btw, what happened to that cybergold "rules" thread before it got deleted? (I assume it got deleted?)

[Kitiara]

Yes, it was deleted. :)

[asphaltcowboy]

d*mn! I wanna know what happened! :P

right anyway, time to face my destiny/grisly demise - catch you lot later! have a nice day! ... AT WORK! :beam:

[Kitiara]

Good luck mate. :)

[Soul]

Aww I was enjoying that thread :P:P

- Soul :s:

[chris9902]

Playstation programming.

what like games or the console

Because PS2's are made on Linux (just to get up Microsoft’s nose)

Anyway that thing you said Kit about your degree not being worth the paper it's printed on, that may be how you feel about it but I bet it is good thing to have. When you go for a job most people don't care if you can make web sites like a pro or program NASA space rockets if you can't prove it you don't get anywhere.

So don't knock:sigh:

not everyone gets the chance to go to Uni. and do Computer Science courses.:sigh:

[Kitiara]

It was handy for getting my first ever proper job after graduating, because aside from that I had no real experience. But ever since then, people have been more interested in what else I've done, not my degree. I suppose it does look good on a CV. :)

[chris9902]

Yeah ;)

plus all the stuff you have learnt like on you site were you have a massive list of different codes you've learnt.

Anyway shouldn't you be working at 11:15?

[Kitiara]

I'm a woman, I am multitasking. :beam:

Well, I did a couple of languages at A Level, and then a whole load more at degree level. I guess it looks pretty geeky when you see that list. :sure:

But I could never make up my mind whether I wanted to design or code, so in the end I opted to do both. :)

[chris9902]

multitasking!

does your boss know?

[Kitiara]

Haha, yeah right. :P Anyway, he's too busy trying to book his honeymoon to notice what I'm up to. :P

I work quickly and I have never missed a deadline yet. :beam: Besides, I need er... screen breaks? :)

[chris9902]

CLASSIC!

i was on the Churchill site recently, i just wish i had a cradit card i want one of that nooding dogs...LOL

http://www.churchill.com/img/dog.gif

Ahhhhhhh.... YES

[Kitiara]

Argh! Not that dog! That's forced into my email sig every time... :sigh:

I <i>hate</i> that dog. :P

The site is getting redesigned at the moment. By me. Mwa ha ha! :evil:

[chris9902]

whats wrong with the dog?

i bet you don't like the ads either do you?

anyway i have to get back to doing nothing (Mr. no job)

and you should.... well..... take a screen break..... LOL:smirk:


PS good luck with the new site Kit (not theres any thing wrong with the one now:sigh: )

[Kitiara]

Cheers. :)

I don't like the current one myself, it grates on me. My new one is way different. :) I'll never get it past the Marketing dpeartment, but what the hell? :)

And the ads irritate me too. :P It's alright when you don't work here surrounded by nodding dogs. There's on on the desk opposite me. It just sits there nodding all day. I'm going to stick a pen in it's head. :evil:

[chris9902]

how could you want to do that?

http://www.churchill.com/img/hm_dog.gif

look at him!


they should make a stress ball one for you Kit.

anyway are you at work now, what do you do there?

apart from make the new site that marketing will not like and look at a nooding dog:sure:

[Kitiara]

Yeah, I'm at work from about 9 - 6 each day. :) What do I do? Surf these forums all day. :)

Basically I'm the web developer and designer for the company. I do churchill.com and all the other companies we own, like the insurance bits of Nationwide, CSG claims, NIG, Devitt, Inter... There's loads. also do all the banner advertising, online graphics work, intranets, extranets... I'm trying to build a shopping cart merchandising system at the moment as well. :beam:

Actually I do a lot. :) Not that you'd know it, half the time. :P

[chris9902]

yeah you do, i was thinking you just talked on here but you really do do alot of stuff ...... and talk on here.:thumb:

i take it your not the only one becuase that is WAY to much work for one woman and her dog ....LOL, i love that dog:)

[Kitiara]

Nope, I'm the only coder / designer here. :)

Everyone else in eCommerce is a project manager - they write the specs and I make the pages, do the graphics etc. :) There's a development house over in India that deal with the transactional pages and the quotation engine, but otherwise, it's just little me. :beam:

[chris9902]

whaaaaaaat! :!:

that is amazing, really, i make web sites just to learn how to do it but i have a VERY short attention span do i keep changing them then i get board making them from nothing. (when of my many weird things):crazy:

good luck doing Everything then re-doing it becuase of marketing:sigh:

LOL

[Kitiara]

Marketing are my stumbling block. :P

It's fun, it's a great job. Lots of responsibility. :)

Although I reckon we're going to get bought out by Direct Line in the not too distant future...

[TheOrangeOne]

oooh, trade secrets leaking out there. Any more gossip for us Kit? How about what the churchill dog gets up to at the weekends? From what I here he becomes a MRS churchill dog........

[Kitiara]

Hehe. :)

It's no secret, there was a front page article in Insurance Times a while back about how we're getting bought by Direct Line. This was of course the first any of us employees had heard about it.

Managemtn were forced to issue a statement to us all, basically denying everything, but we don't believe that. They sent out another statement a fortnight ago saying that they can't make any comments on the rumours in case it affects share price. Which we take to mean that we <i>are</i> getting bought. Otherwise they'd have just said "no" and got it out of the way. Ah well.

I'm all for a red phone, me. :)

[TheOrangeOne]

perhaps you could have a hybrid phone - dog thing. that would be funny!

Why is it that with big corporations, the employees are always the last to know about anything going on? True most of them probably don't care, but even so......

[Kitiara]

We do care if it's our jobs on the line. :sigh:

Who knows though? Heh, we certainly don't. :) My proposal for the new website design is heading more and more towards red and white and phones. :P

[TheOrangeOne]

its a red and white phone revolution! You could be the queen of opressed red and white phones everywhere! Why, with an army like that, you could take over the world!

Seriously though, is it likly to affect your job? If you do get taken over, will you have to join forces with the evil Direct-line webmaster (sorry, dont know your job title) or will you lose your job?

[Kitiara]

Beats me. I seriously doubt that Churchill would just cease to exist, it's too big a company for that. It comes down to three possible options really.

One: We're currently owned by Credit Suisse. Direct Line buy us from them, and we carry on as normal.

Two: Direct Line buy us, and phase out the Churchill brand over time in which case we could have to join with their eCommerce dept.

Three: We get bought and fired.

Oh, and I suppose we could not get bought. So four options. Who knows, really. The board aren't giving us any clues, it's all just rumours. :)

[TheOrangeOne]

'the board' = evil, no matter what the company is. I hate big companys because the guys at top 'earn' an insane amount of money.

I also Love big companies because you get greater job security and, in general, better training.


Grr.... Im sure you will be ok Kit, they wouldn't want to lose someone as great as you :)

[Kitiara]

Well I also earn a fair bit, so I'm not going to complain too much. :beam: But I think we're pretty safe job wise, at least for a while longer. :)

[TheOrangeOne]

Im bored of my job at the moment, nothing much going on. But its ok because Im going to Uni in september (Nottingham Trent!) and my company is sponsoring me :)

Is there anyone on the forum who is from/near nottingham?

[chris9902]

Originally posted by TheOrangeOne
perhaps you could have a hybrid phone - dog thing. that would be funny!

like the phone from the BT add

but with a Dog and he could sing, who let the dogs out:P

[Niann]

When HSBC (Yay Brits!) bought us we carried on as normal. All that changed was how we display our logo... We had to add "Part of the HSBC Group" at the bottom. =0) Although its kinda cool, Now we (as part of HSBC) are the second largest financial group in the world. (Citi Group is the largest.)

Cheers!
-Niann

[chris9902]

who did they buy

[TheOrangeOne]

maybe they bought niann's soul?

"niann, part of HSBC group"

Maybe we should put that under our names? "part of the KIRUPA group of companies"

[Niann]

Something like that...

I work for Household International, a part of the HSBC Group. =0)

Cheers!
-Niann

[asphaltcowboy]

aww man.. I missed all this conversation... and I'm too mashed to read it... :(

[chris9902]

lol... it was my just asking Kit what she did...???