Work

Well, I’m in the midst of doing the unthinkable. Instead of being sane, and re-writing the content management system I wrote, uhmm… three years ago now from scratch, re-architecting it up from the ground, throwing away the bad bits and replacing them with shiny new ones, I’m…. fixing it. Ugh. However, I’m doing this out […]

“Even though all signs point to it, I don’t think they’re trying to poison us” Wow, that’s some bad coffee they have brewing this morning. Yeach!

My reliance on caffiene is now complete. This is related to my previous night, which I’ll detail when I get a bit more blood in my caffiene flow.

So I was thinking to myself as I got water today, seeing a developer (pokernut) walking down the hall: “I could pretend to trip him or pretend to punch him or horse a bit.” “No, no, no,” my mind replied, that would be immature, you’re a project manager and other important sounding things, that’s stuff

My (possible) new job will involve some or lots of project management, and I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for good books on project management or the tools like MS Project. Amazon can only give me so much info, I tend to trust people’s suggestions more. Besides, a search for “project management” gives

If everyone could send me some good karma for around 10 tomorrow morning it’d be much appreciated. More news tomorrow night to let everyone know what’s going on.

Hmm….. I’m pretty sure that this can’t be good… Final count is 1248… I’m going to guess that this is $othercoders way of subtly suggesting I get rid of the debug output that gets messages sent from cron 🙂

Apparently we had an open house at work today. I had to leave at the normal time to pick up some film I had developed (scans of anything decent Real Soon Now), so I only got a little bit of the joy. Unfortunately most of the joy of this occurance was head honchos deciding that

Each day I’m reminded why I’m not doing phone support. One of our salespeople calls and as I’m the only one here, I got to take the call. I don’t mind this, it only happens once a month or so and the questions are never the hard ones. Anyway, my conversation went something like this:

Not much happening here. Cold is mostly gone, laundry is done, dishes are done, and the cats are fed. I’ve been searching for a nice web based CMS for the intranet at work, which basically means I spent the day surfing the web. Seems that most are PHPNuke clones/rip offs, others are simply dead or