Yeah I’ve only got these 3 days to get through before I head off to Gnomedex Thursday morning. I can tell you, mentally, I’m already gone. *L*
Not that I won’t do my job well and make sure all of my loose ends are tied up before I head out for what will be 12 days away from the office, but I find myself just not caring at all about the other stuff that normally goes on around here. It’s kinda nice.
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Yes, I’ve been issued, although it may be only temporary, a Blackberry so I can be reached wherever I am. (Truthfully I’ve been issued one because if I have to support them, it’d help if I was familiar with using one!) Anyway. the first lesson I learned, don’t keep it too close to my laptop…
I didn’t realize how much of my time would be spent this week resetting passwords. Not network passwords, passwords to the Postini email quarantines. Seems that our service was upgraded, and moved to another server. Naturally the new server didn’t recognize the cookies that were set by the old server so all those folks who…
I just went public with part of the intranet site. I pointed people to the webcalendar subdirectory and gave an explanation of the conference room calendar and how to use it to book a conference room. We’ll see what sort of feedback I get. (I’ll be keeping an eye on access.log to see who actually…
So, there I was, settling in after the telephone debacle at work, popping open my copy of Amphetadesk in yet another attempt to get somewhat caught up on my tech news and tech blog reading, when the browser opened up with a bizarre error message about something HASH being outside the allowable array for use…
She mentions a round of layoffs as an example of breaking trust, and I’m glad she included that. All too often, when a round of layoffs occurs, senior management will return to talking about the culture or set of core values they expect all employees to follow without ever acknowledging that it’s different now. You can’t just return to talking about the importance of teamwork and diversity when you just canned 10% of the team as if nothing happened.
From Scripting News, Dave’s followup to a post about suddenly getting 1000’s of copies of the same message: “Postscript: I hadn’t opened any of the emails, I just did, and saw that he’s marching through all four-letter combinations of email addresses at one of the domains I own. I turned off email forwarding, hopefully that…
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