I like the fact that where I now work there are a mixture of people, not just people in IT. I’m used to everyone speaking the same techy language because everyone was that way inclined at the software company where I used to work.

When a colleague came over to my desk to discuss the fact that he couldn’t put a two letter code followed by 10 into a field in one of our applications I naturally thought of a temporary work-around:

‘You could use hex for now, I suppose.’ (i.e. xxA instead of xx10)
He looked at me as if to say, ‘What?!’ but was very humourous about the whole thing.

He had no idea what hexadecimal was, which to me, is incredible! Outside of IT, isn’t hexadecimal common knowledge?