I very recently came across Ben’s Brother due to Den­tynes newest com­mer­cial. I like many, many others were drawn in by the addict­ing song selected. ‘Stuttering’ is the name of the track, and it’s per­formed by Ben’s Brother. I’m sure this track alone will launch them into new realms of star­dom. As I tend to give bands the ben­e­fit of the doubt, I decided to get my hands on their latest (and only) album “Beta Make Fairytales”. As it turns out, they are not a one-​hit-​wonder. They are, in fact, a rather tal­ented band that reminds me faintly of Cold­play, Maroon 5, and even Snow Patrol.

So as some of you may have noticed, I didn’t post at all last week. Quite simply, this is because I spent pretty much every waking hour at work. Hell I gave up sleep­ing hours to be there to. Wednes­day I was at work for 18 hours, got 4 hours of sleep, then went to work the next day for a fun-​filled 31-hour shift. A word to the wise, if you are ever installing ISA server into your topol­ogy, for the love of all that is sacred and pure make sure you put it onto a sep­a­rate server then the one hold­ing your web­site. Trust me on this. Unless you want to be awake at 3 am, 6 hours before your project is being pre­sented to 100 impor­tant people.

Another help­ful tidbit: if you are tired enough, you can actu­ally sleep on a cement floor! I proved this by pass­ing out in our con­fer­ence room for nearly two hours. I say passed out because it wasn’t sleep in any sense. I actu­ally felt worse when I was roused. Ah well, such is my work-​life.

Onto the random para­graphs that sum­ma­rize my life in the past little while!