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Out of the office for two days without reading email, and I only have 350 new messages waiting for me this morning. It's a holiday miracle!
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This is why I can't begin to contemplate taking a two-week vacation. I'm out for one day and I come back to a pile of email messages, most of them requiring my actual attention, and a big stack of stuff that absolutely must get done in the next three days. GUH! If I was out of the office for two solid weeks, I'd last about a day after my return before running shrieking out of the office in need of another vacation. How on earth do people manage to take extended time off and not go insane when they get back? Oh right, I think the answer for most Americans at least is "they don't take long vacations".
Okay, time to fire up some appropriate music (current choice: DholCutz Radio) and knock a bunch of this stuff out.
Okay, time to fire up some appropriate music (current choice: DholCutz Radio) and knock a bunch of this stuff out.
whinging
(I even used a title this time, so y'all could be appropriately warned. )
Back in the office today, although I got in and checked email to find that my boss had given me today off to recover from last week's trip. Not that I could've taken it anyway, because I have stuff that has to be done today. I have 560 new email messages in my inbox to slog through (of which 460 are new and need at least skimming, and at first glance at least 100 need me to actually pay attention to them), I have some scripts and templates that are due today that I worked on last week and promptly left sitting on my laptop (which is at home), I was up until roughly 3:30 this morning for some inexplicable reason, and I don't feel particularly well. Yay. It's certainly a very Monday sort of Monday so far. But hey, I've got a shiny new cellphone. That's something.
Heh. Someone in one of these 560 new messages decided to diss vi. I haven't had a good vi-vs.-anything else flamewar in a long while, so maybe there will be some entertainment today.
Back in the office today, although I got in and checked email to find that my boss had given me today off to recover from last week's trip. Not that I could've taken it anyway, because I have stuff that has to be done today. I have 560 new email messages in my inbox to slog through (of which 460 are new and need at least skimming, and at first glance at least 100 need me to actually pay attention to them), I have some scripts and templates that are due today that I worked on last week and promptly left sitting on my laptop (which is at home), I was up until roughly 3:30 this morning for some inexplicable reason, and I don't feel particularly well. Yay. It's certainly a very Monday sort of Monday so far. But hey, I've got a shiny new cellphone. That's something.
Heh. Someone in one of these 560 new messages decided to diss vi. I haven't had a good vi-vs.-anything else flamewar in a long while, so maybe there will be some entertainment today.
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It's that time again: time to try and convice the Powers That Be to blow the budget on a conference. Where should I start? Yes, I realize that to have a particularly useful answer you'd need to have more information; answering polls is so much more fun when you're pulling an answer out of thin air though. ;)
[Poll #950632]
My own preferences in order are: OSCON (although I'm severely hampered by the fact they don't put up any session information or registration info until well after I'd have to have registered for the other two I'm really interested in), MySQL, php|tek (I went to this last year and was pleased with the technical content). My coworker will probably go to LISA.
[Poll #950632]
My own preferences in order are: OSCON (although I'm severely hampered by the fact they don't put up any session information or registration info until well after I'd have to have registered for the other two I'm really interested in), MySQL, php|tek (I went to this last year and was pleased with the technical content). My coworker will probably go to LISA.
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Failure is just success rounded down, my friend!
Hacking on TWiki user registration code, or screwing around with my LJ layout to include a LibraryThing widget? If you check my sidebar, you'll see which option won out. I wish that a serif font was available for the widget, but no joy at the moment.
Hacking on TWiki user registration code, or screwing around with my LJ layout to include a LibraryThing widget? If you check my sidebar, you'll see which option won out. I wish that a serif font was available for the widget, but no joy at the moment.
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Easily-distractible girl's next move:
Translation: starting right about now, please don't assume I've read any LJ posts made between roughly 8:30 AM and 6:30 PM for the next week at least. Will try to catch up when I get home in the evenings, but I really, really have to try minimizing distractions at work until I finish up a couple of projects.
vim C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts shift+i 0.0.0.0 geekchick.livejournal.com:q!(Let's try that one again, shall we?) :wq
Translation: starting right about now, please don't assume I've read any LJ posts made between roughly 8:30 AM and 6:30 PM for the next week at least. Will try to catch up when I get home in the evenings, but I really, really have to try minimizing distractions at work until I finish up a couple of projects.
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I need to come up with a list of potential training opportunities before Friday so we can start working out which ones are reasonable and which aren't. Things I'm interested in: databases, particularly mySQL and/or PostgreSQL, XML, and AJAX. Possibly very basic Java. Here's stuff I've found so far that might work:
Got any other suggestions for training classes and/or conferences you think I should check out? My coworker will probably end up at JavaOne, so that's out for me.
- http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/show_agenda.jsp?showId=43
- https://www.cmpevents.com/SDw6/a.asp?option=C (the Web Services and XML tracks particularly)
- http://www.mysqluc.com/
- http://www.bignerdranch.com/classes/postgresql.shtml (Wow, does this look like fun. No, really. Except for lack of cell phone signal.)
- http://www.bignerdranch.com/classes/ruby.shtml (maybe, if I pick up some Ruby first)
- http://www.mulberrytech.com/services/classes/upcoming.html
Got any other suggestions for training classes and/or conferences you think I should check out? My coworker will probably end up at JavaOne, so that's out for me.