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James O'Neill (@james-oneill.bsky.social)

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Dormant here.
Microsoftie emeritus, Scuba diver, father of 2, pentax camera lover and F1 nut. @james-oneill.bsky.social

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And a couple more bits of #midjourneyart . There was a Doctor Who episode where Vincent Van Gogh met the Doctor... Ok then #midjourney what would happen if the Daleks met Claude Monet?

And a couple more bits of #midjourneyart . 
There was a <a href="/bbcdoctorwho/">Doctor Who</a> episode where Vincent Van Gogh met the Doctor... Ok then #midjourney what would happen if the Daleks met Claude Monet?
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Kafkaesque experience trying to cancel the account for the 3G dongle I had with @Vodafoneuk. On line needs a text which they can't send. So I cancelled the DD. Today I get a Debt letter. Call the number on it "we can't put you through to anyone" But you're a phone company!

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New gig, dealing with idiot 3rd party company who want to verify everything on my CV. "Prove your Microsoft certification status!" OK: I have a 4 digit MCP number & passed exam 001 30 years ago last weekend (I missed the anniversary). #BeforeTheyWereBorn

New gig, dealing with idiot 3rd party company who want to verify everything on my CV. "Prove your Microsoft certification status!"  
OK: I have a 4 digit MCP number &amp; passed exam 001 30 years ago last weekend (I missed the anniversary). 
#BeforeTheyWereBorn
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Twitter ads are bad. But instagram ads are worse, and weird. What algorithm selected this for me? MI5, if you're reading I'm flattered to be selected for the ad, but no thanks.

Twitter ads are bad. But instagram ads are worse, and weird. What algorithm selected this for me?
MI5, if you're reading I'm flattered to be selected for the ad, but no thanks.
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Every time I watch @skysportsf1 and see the adverts for Workday I think "Smug and complacent", "Finance and HR" . I'd love to see that stats for how the "Departments for treating people as things" are seen Workday adopters vs a control group.

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A little bonus from my current contact, the client had a lunch time lecture by the brilliant Hannah Fry that I got to watch. Some stuff I knew shown in a way to make me go "I never thought of that". A superb explainer of stuff.

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We know UK voting system is weird. Lib dems (who always said so) increased their share by 0.6% & got 8x the seats (greater % of seats than votes for once). SNP lost 1/3 of share & 80% seats. Labour get a landslide with 1.6% share increase vs their previous disaster.

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It's coming home... One of the things I remember from my time working for Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team was seeing the Trophies, and this trophy is special. We were asked to NOT touch it, so I couldn't photograph Lewis Hamilton's name on it... Congratulations Lewis

It's coming home... One of the things I remember from my time working for <a href="/MercedesAMGF1/">Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team</a>  was seeing the Trophies, and this trophy is special. 
We were asked to NOT touch it, so I couldn't photograph <a href="/LewisHamilton/">Lewis Hamilton</a>'s name on it... Congratulations Lewis
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Only the very foolish say "See how the other lot screwed up - we'd never screw up". The wise know understand say "There but for the grace of the God go any of us". This will make people will laugh twice as hard when it's you.

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Wanted to change tariff with ScottishPower but a key system couldn't see smartmeter readings their others saw. In trying, I met a 7 day turn round on email; a callback that never came, a glacial web-chat, & dreadful IVR & this. I concurred & switched to Octopus Energy

Wanted to change tariff with <a href="/ScottishPower/">ScottishPower</a> but a key system couldn't see smartmeter readings their others saw.  
In trying, I met a 7 day turn round on email; a callback that never came, a glacial web-chat, &amp; dreadful IVR &amp; this. 
I concurred &amp; switched to <a href="/OctopusEnergy/">Octopus Energy</a>
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Since I was being bolshy about customer service, for balance... Volkswagen UK one of your people went really above & beyond for me on Friday: just wouldn't give up if he could make the customer (me) 100% happy.

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Since the name change I have thought "This is an x-account Bereft of life, it rests in peace, it's shuffled off this mortal coil, rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. It is an ex-account" I will be elsewhere from now on.