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After giving up my 25.5 years service with my last lot, joining Maersk Oil and relocating me and the family to Qatar (I've been here 16 months), it was announced last night that they have lost the tender for the new JV to be implemented in mid-2017 and Total is the new partner.
Guess a year of transition is ahead!
Qatar is Calling: Well this changes things for the future![^]
I was rubbish at French at school, in fact refused to do it and walked out, and then spent the rest of the school year teaching myself Physics at the back of a room when the rest of the class were doing French. Got myself an O'Level Grade 2 (1 was highest).....was well chuffed with myself. 
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I suppose it depend on whether Total take over the staff or bring in their own people.
Certainly doesn't make for fun time.
Good luck.
At least the hand over is about 12 months and you'll get a bit of warning as to the outcome.
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I believe everyone is to be asked if they wish to remain with Maersk and move to other business units (not in Qatar) or stay with the NewCo. I imagine that they [Total] will bring in some of their own at key levels in the organisation.
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Well hopefully at least there are future options to ponder rather than just a shaft!
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Hopefully they need the men with the experience...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Hi Dave,
I hope this does turn out to be an opportunity for you that leads to some (more) great adventures !
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Thanks Bill, time will tell.
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The biggest incident report I ever had to do for shell was over a drilling incident in Qatar, caused by a network (let's just call it a) problem. They lost more money over that incident than Margaret Thatcher made in her entire lifetime -- several times more.
It was a fun report to produce, because I could really let rip, and pound loads of "You MUST do THIS in Future!" actions into a lot of jobsworths.
Opportunities like that don't come along very often, either, so it seems like Qatar may be the new land of opportunity.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Just logged back in to LinkedIn as I'm trying to contact my Accountant before the financial year ends in 2 days. Been using her for 10+ years and have just found out she has left the mob she was working for and now works for herself.
Had to change my password, verify my email and then found her profile more more barren than mine. Tried to see when I had last logged in but they don't have that information anywhere I can see.
I can see the last message I sent was 18-09-2013, will have to login to Facebook eventually to see how long it's been since I had a look. Reckon it's been 5 years and don't want to break the streak.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Stalker. 
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My wife crochets. She has skeins (rolls of yarn) all over the house. Under the bed, over there you name it.
So I thought I would cut some 4" pvc into 12" lengths and hot glue and stack em 8 wide and as high as the woman can reach for her to store them in. Nice efficient and tidy.
Cool, now she'll need a database to index yarn in the tubes. So at 12:00pm I fired up VB6 (cause it's RAD) to do at least a proof of concept for her approval. I did a GUI that looks just like the stack and asked her to get me some db fields she would like, and ran to Lowes to get some networking crap for a job tomorrow.
When I got back she said "Look at the web based yarn inventory site I found!" "And I'm already a member!"
Not "I love you for coding up somthing but..." No.
I know she is way better off with what she found but sheesh........
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That's harsh. Real harsh.
Someone pass this man a beer.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Ron Anders wrote: My wife crochets
That's a keeper
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I gotta question how you had such quick access to VB6.
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Shortcut in Windows. Fastest way I know.
Been around a loooooong time.
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Nish Nishant wrote:
I gotta question how why you had such quick access to VB6. |
FTFY!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Cause it's FAST. A scripting language with a straightforward way to implement a GUI and easy (for those who did it a couple of times) access to any DLL code that may be better in C/C++/Assembler.
It lacks only the support for functions exported with __dllexport, that's a pity.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Only crochet? You're getting off lightly. My other half is into knitting, embroidery, quilting and other miscellaneous crafts. The house is full of bits of fabric large and small, threads, yarns various, weaponry, incomplete projects, ...
The only thing catalogued is the Embroiderers Guild library of which she is custodian. And even then, the spreadsheet we inherited doesn't match physical inventory.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Peter_in_2780 wrote: The house is full of bits of fabric large and small, threads, yarns various, weaponry, incomplete projects, ...
My flat's like that. I don't do any of those things or have a wife/partner/sister/lodger who does. I just have a dog!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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I made a hat size calculator for my wifes projects.
Yeah thats all it does, it wasn't supposed to do anything more. 
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Is there any way you could convince her that yours would be multi-threaded? ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
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She knows a pant load about computers and software but she don't know vb6 isn't (technically) multithreaded or not.
So... yeah. 
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And tell her about how you can hook into system calls...
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Experience has shown that even a simple project like the one I was thrusting upon her would eventually need a feature that could only be accomplished by such hooking. 
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