Yesterday I was watching some of Spooks, which is a BBC drama that is shown on ABC in Australia. At one point they were looking for some bad guys, and came up with a company called ‘Cardassian Financial Services’. Through some investigation they confirmed that these people were bad guys – but they spent a LOT more time than they should have. You see, a Cardassian is a baddie from the StarTrek universe… One of the big major baddies…

Later on they had been trying to break out of the building whilst being held hostage. They managed to get a hole the size of a person on the concrete work, apart from the steel re-inforcing. But since it was a former team member who was taking them hostage, they decided to cover it up in the end. Why am I explaining this? Well, there was the following exchange at the end…
‘How do you explain a hole in the wall to internal services?’
‘Mice’
What I loved was how it was delivered in a deadpan tone…

Today my first battle is with Telstra. We have had a connection out since 9AM on friday and we need to get it restored this morning… I cannot believe how slow Telstra are at fixing thier problems when they stuff up!