So I’m now a mac user….. kinda. Only in the work sense though. At the office Christmas party I asked the boss if when the next new hire is in the office they could get my current work laptop (an Acer somethingorother) and I could get a new low end Macbook. Mostly I spend my […]
Mac Switcher…. Kinda Read Post »
Came into work and… well, lets just say it’s not a good hardware day. I’ll use a “screenshot” of system uptime to illustrate: 04:20:30 up 8:41, 1 user, load average: 433.59, 175.21, 112.95 That really high number? Normally that’s in the 0-2 range. Yea. Eeek. Update Another one…. 16:53:35 up 2 min, 2 users, load
Dear Shaw….. provider of both home internet and internet to the main feed at work. Why did you choose my week on call to decide to do things?
Gah. Today is my first day of a week on call for work. That means anything at the fairly large ISP (by Vancouver standards anyway, feel free to mock me if you live in Silicon Valley) goes wrong that’s customer affecting, 24/7 for the next 7 days, I’m the one with The Phone Number forwarded
First Day of First Week On Call Read Post »
A day of firsts for me, though none of them really hugely exciting 🙂 First time finding one of my old jobs (from the graphics place where I had the MacBook) on a job search site. I’m sure other jobs of mine may have ended up on places like that, but I’ve never actually found
Today at work we finished a project we’ve been working for for a couple of weeks by sucessfully using it on actual real clients. Not sure how secret it’s supposed to be, but basically it’s a system we built for a client that’s very similar to what you get when you use internet in a
A Working Product Makes Me a Happy Alan Read Post »
Well, for the first time today I took the West Coast Express. Other than not knowing how to get a week ticket and getting a day instead (tomorrow I’ll be getting the month pass, which’ll cut my cost per day down from $19 to $11), it all went fine. Had to get up a bit
First Day on the Train Read Post »
Another question to the consultants out there…. or anyone else who wants to chime in. How long should you remember things for clients? I get called up occassionally and asked “what is the ftp login for SiteX?” or “can you tell me how to log into the admin area at SiteY?” I have been smart
Data Retention as a Consultant Read Post »
The last while we’ve been moving the office for work from the old locations (two separate small offices) to one large main office. Still in north van, so the drive is still sub-optimal, but the environment itself is much nicer, other than the still ongoing construction that is. Having everyone in one spot seems like
Sometimes it’s really nice to work at an ISP-like company with a big-ass pipe connected to the interweb….
Lovin’ Work Downloads Read Post »