It's not about me, it's about clue

[j4]

Email conversations you don't want to have last thing in the day:

ME: Please circulate the work you've done so far to attendees before the end of tomorrow.
THEM: Unfortunately, the webpages are too large to be sent via my email, so I will have to forward them to you all via UMS.
ME: WTFFF?
ME: What format are these pages in? Can you gzip them?
THEM: They are screenshots from Paint in Word so each screenshot takes up more that my email allowance.

Email conversations you don't want to have first thing in the morning:

ME: I notice this [Reporter PDF] says "Orders of Examinations 2005" at the top of each page. Shouldn't it be 2006?
THEM: Whoops! it has been printed like that!

*headdesk*

Comments

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

When I do a software release, the most manual part is to update the changelog file that we ship with it.

Yesterday, I updated the file, detailing the changes made. So I copied the header from the previous section, and pasted it in at the top. I added the new changes. I updated the date in the section header. I updated the file in the repository, kicked off the repositiory labelling process and then the build process.

Ah hour later, the email came back from a colleague - I'd forgotten to update the version number in the section header.

Argh!