I was going to a blog post on some usability thing on Facebook, but I'll get around to this after I get back from snowboarding.

Instead I'll go back to the true spirit of the internet ... pointless crap.

My answers to the rest of the survey were not much better. Still 5 mins of my time, possible £20 voucher.

I'm sure I'm going to land up on a hit list of researchers and survey people one day.

This person in this picture IS NOT ME.

I mean it looks like me. It's even wearing Oakley glasses. I've never owned Oakley sunglasses in that frame though. Or a green shirt like that.

Freaky. Even I spent 10 mins trying to figure out if it was me. And I know me, and that not me.

Found by my mate Nolan on http://technocrati.com/, which is not http://technorati.com/ (one might say the site too is a doppelgänger).

I’ve been fighting a silent battle of the last few weeks.

In the corner of our office we have a floorplate with a few cables coming out of it that stretch to the printer, the WiFi hub and NAS hard drive. Every day the cleaners come in, lift the floor plate up to plug in the vacuum cleaner and then drop the lid back down when done.

Unfortunately this pinches the cables and network cables don’t like to be pinched. Plus it annoys my sense of tidyness (right you can stop laughing right this second thankyouverymuch)

I complained to office management to no avail. I asked the cleaners directly to no avail.

So eventually instead of complaining I thought I would do something about it. I took a 4 plug multi-adaptor and plugged it in and left it on top of the floor box.

The next evening I was working late (well I was working normal hours which seems to mean late) and watched the cleaners come in, open the floor box, unplug the empty 4 plug adaptor, plug in the vacuum cleaner, unplug the vacuum cleaner, plug back in the empty adaptor, drop the lid and pinch my cables.

Sometimes you just can’t win.