Posted: Thu 9 February, 2006 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Thoughts, Work-related |
Blimey, work’s dead stimulating today. Not.
OK, so we’ve finally been able to sort out the problems that plagued the set-up this morning – something to do with one of our American contingent rebooting servers, and getting it wrong, forgetting about some NTFS/Samba file shares that should’ve been unmounted before rebooting the servers, and then remounting them afterwards. Or something. I kind of know what he’s banging on about, but at the end of the day I don’t really care, and it could all be summed up by “So, what you’re saying is that you fucked it up, yes?“.
But since then, and since I’ve updated all the stuff I’d done over the last three days, getting it to work against Simon’s fuck-ups and failing-to-be-bothered-to-do-what-I-asked, it’s been fark-boring again.
So boring and dull, in fact, that I’ve even tidied up my desk, and got rid of a load of now-useless stuff from last year.
No, it doesn’t make me look any more efficient, or anything, but it was another of those “I really should do that at some point” jobs that days like today are made for.
Posted: Thu 9 February, 2006 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: D4D™, Own Business |
Of course, one good thing about working from home over the last few days has been that I also had the time (and, for once, the inclination) to sort out a sort-of-corporate(ish) website for my own private web-design stuff and so on. It used to be the site I used for my limited company, but as I folded that up last year, I needed to re-do some of the stuff so it was more about being me, rather than a limited company.
So I’ve spent time re-writing bits, re-organising other bits, and updating it as and when necessary. And now it’s live.
On that score I intend to keep work stuff and d4d™ a bit seperate, so I’m not going to add links between the two. I don’t mention d4d™ over there either, as it’s a personal site. Let’s face it, I’ve been known to bitch a bit about pain-in-the-bum clients before now, and I don’t want that to be easily linked to from the business side of things.
I’ve been thinking about putting a “workblog” into the other site, but as yet I’m still undecided. It smacks slightly of spreading myself too thin, to keep another blog even semi-updated as well as the regular stuff on d4d™, but it’s something I’ll keep on thinking about while I see how other stuff goes over there.
But at least it’s another thing struck off my “to-do” list.
Posted: Thu 9 February, 2006 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Work-related |
So, back in the office again. All’s quiet so far, but that’s partly because a lot of them are up at some videoforum event in Earl’s Court today from the look of it.
Of course, that’s also the cue for half the systems stuff to go tits up too, which doesn’t really help.
All in all, it’s not really looking like a fun day. Hey Ho.
Posted: Wed 8 February, 2006 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Domestic |
All done! Now it’s just the rest of the work that needs doing…
Posted: Wed 8 February, 2006 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: General |
Today is the final day of the bathroom suite replacement. Our nice plumbers sorted out the majority of the stuff yesterday, so again we were left with working toilet etc. – always a good thing! Of course, if they hadn’t, it also would’ve meant I’d have been far more reticent about drinking beer last night.
Today he should just be here for a couple of hours, doing the finishing bits. And lo, we’ll have a complete new suite. Happy Day.
Posted: Tue 7 February, 2006 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Getting Organised, Thoughts |
I’ve just re-found an album I used to love when it first came out, Bomb The Bass’s “Clear“. Amazon says 2002 for it’s release, but that must be the re-release, because my copy has a “© 1995” on the back, and I know that’s just about when I got it.
It’s odd, because I don’t think I’ve listened to this album in at least four years, yet to me it still sounds as fresh and fantastic as it did back then. It must be a fair while, as it hadn’t even made its way into my MP3 files – a situation which has rapidly been rectified, I have to say. And listening to it has brought back a lot of memories of the ’95-’98 period when I listened to it a lot.
And that is why I’m fairly averse to throwing away CDs and the like. Sometimes you just forget how good something is, or don’t listen to it (or read it, or whatever) for a long time, but then you go back and think “Oh, yeah, that’s bloody good”
Posted: Tue 7 February, 2006 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Getting Organised, Own Business, Thoughts, Work-related |
Over on his site, Gordon’s talking (for some of the post) about how his workload’s about to explode.
It’s interesting, because at the moment I’m in kind of the same boat. In fact, my workload should have already exploded, but I’ve pushed a couple of deadlines back so that I’m not utterly rammed with stuff. One of the new sites I’ve been talking about was going to be going live on 1st March, but what with one thing and another, I’ve decided to push it back to somewhere around Monday 3rd April (what sane site would launch on April 1st?) instead.
If all had been sane in the world of Lyle, I’d have been well able to get the site done by the first deadline. However, what with the office being in a state of decorative flux, and the bathroom work that we’ve been doing, I’ve lost most of the weekends so far this year, which makes for developing to that deadline rather difficult. Also, we’re going to be away for the first week of March, which makes it rather daft to try sending a site live, then sodding off for a week. Talk about recipe for disaster.
Oh, and in there as well I’ve also got to build a new PC. Yes, attempt #2 now that I’ve got a new Shuttle box to replace the one ordered before Christmas that turned out to be a right lemon. (Sorting out the RMA (Return to Manufacturer) may take a bit more time, but at least we’ll have that new PC) Which may or may not be easy, when you also take into account the back-ups, moving across of data, email, bookmarks, music, etc. etc.,
And once I’ve got the first website done, I’ve got two other ideas hovering over the horizon, which I intend to get straight on with once I’ve sorted the first one. And in addition to that, I’ve started lining up some work for myself doing private sites (and in one case, redoing one I did a while back) which’ll keep the money coming in as well. Oh, and my normal job too.
So yes, the workload’s due to grow exponentially in the next couple of months. It’ll be interesting to see what actually comes out of it all, and whether the expectations and predictions I’ve made for them will come to fruition or not. Only time will tell…