mykrocosm

From http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?YouKnowYoureInaBigCompanyWhen

Classic… a few of these seem more than a little familiar!

• The email system doesn’t use standard protocols and won’t work on most platforms, but it books conference rooms automatically… sometimes… until it stops for some unknown reason and forgets your appointments and you start missing meetings…
• You’re sending email and your company address book returns 30 matches for your recipient, most of which aren’t even on the same continent.
• Getting approval to purchase a $3000 laptop is no more difficult than getting approval to buy a $10 stapler.
• The programmers and other technical workers have to maintain their own network separate from the MIS-sanctioned corporate network.
• The company’s web site lists dozens of locations, and yours is not included.

The people I work with will be nodding their heads right about now.

We noticed recently that a non-descript bush in our front yard was bearing bright yellow fruit. Thanks to my mate George who was the first to pop one in his mouth, we’ve started to enjoy their delicious, tarty sweet flavour. For a couple of weeks we had fun asking guests to identify them. At first they look like tiny apricots, but we were fairly sure from the texture of the flesh and the clinginess of stone that they were some kind of plum.

Today I plugged the quoted sentence “tiny yellow plum” into Google, and bingo.

Mirabelle Plums

PS - The article lists August to September as the harvesting months. Obviously that’s not the case Down Under, so I added the words “(Northern Hemisphere)” to the article. It’s a nice example of how, when it comes to Wikipedia, a small change from anybody can make a big difference.