Posted: Sun 30 May, 2010 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: D4D™, Domestic, Thoughts, Work-related |
One thing that brings out my OCD is seeing empty days on the calendar of posts on the right-hand side. I don’t see them often, and it’s only this month that I’ve gone over 190 missed days all told. Considering I’ve now been writing D4D™ for nearly eight years (Eight years on 9th August, to be exact), that makes it a 6% fail rate so far. Could be worse.
But I still don’t like seeing those empty days. I know I shouldn’t care all that much – and in other ways it doesn’t annoy me at all – but all the same, I have to seriously resist the temptation to post-date some posts in order to keep my month filled.
And the reason I’ve missed those days? To be honest I’ve no idea. All the normal stuff is still going on, but the work/life balance is way out of whack at the moment, with work taking up way more time than it should do. Admittedly, I’m somewhat letting it happen, but it’s still out of whack. That’s something else to work on. Joys.
In the meantime, I’m going to try and not have too many blank days. But I’m also going to try and not get stressed about those blank days as and when they do happen.
Posted: Mon 26 April, 2010 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: D4D™, Domestic |
Some of you may have noticed a post that got done earlier this week and has now disappeared.
I got asked to take it down by one of the people involved, because – basically – they didn’t like what I’d said. So I’ve taken it down.
The opinion I’d expressed was an honest one – it was how I felt, and still do feel. But it got deemed as being pompous and potentially offensive to a couple of particular people.
So it’s been deleted, in the name of family peace and all that.
I can’t say I’m entirely happy about it – if I’m honest, it makes me wonder whether I should just give up writing D4D entirely. Time will tell.
Posted: Sun 28 March, 2010 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: D4D™, Domestic |
Don’t forget to put your clocks forward…
On a side note, I won’t be sodding about with trying to set D4D™ to use BST instead of GMT. It’s a pain in the tits, and I really can’t be arsed. So posts will be appearing earlier/later/whatever than they should ’til we return to GMT. Live with it.
Posted: Thu 25 February, 2010 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: D4D™, Work-related |
God I can be a twerd sometimes.
Note to self : When sending an email to directors of the company you work for, don’t bloody send it from a D4D email account.
Tithead.
Sometimes I really wonder how I’ve survived this long.
Posted: Thu 18 February, 2010 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: D4D™, Domestic, The '10 Writing Project, Writing |
This may be a really really bad idea, but I’ve signed up for this year’s Script Frenzy in April.
The challenge is to write 100 pages of screenplay in the 30 days of April. Should be interesting – assuming I can get my brain and motivation into gear.
Anyway, I’ve signed up, and we’ll see how it goes.
Posted: Thu 4 February, 2010 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: D4D™, Domestic, Security, Web Development, Work-related, Writing |
In the run-up to the Festering Season, I had one hell of a lot of work coming in with some documentation that needed doing in order to get us what’s known as PCI-DSS accreditation. PCI-DSS stands for “Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard”, and it’s a total fucking nightmare.
Anyway, one of the big steps in attaining this PCI-DSS standard is to have somewhere around a metric shit-ton of paperwork. No kidding. There’s some 230-odd points in the PCI-DSS standard, and each one of the bloody things needs documenting. It’s a serious bit of work just getting all the paperwork done.
With the other stuff I also had to do in order to get everything in place, the documentation took a back-seat, and we ended up getting it done by me speaking into a dictaphone, and then getting an audio-typist to type it all up. It was supposed to save me a stuff-load of time. And it worked – I’d got all the dictation done in two and a half days, and the typist did everything in time for mid-January.
Or so we thought.
It turned out that the audio-typist was a tossbag, and didn’t actually do all that much in the day they were in – at the end of which they said they’d done it all.
Cunty fucking bugger.
It’s taken me the intervening three fucking weeks to get things back to where I thought I was in mid-January. Three weeks of doing this sodding documentation, three weeks of making sure it’s right, and that it all makes sense. Oh, and still doing all my normal insane workload as well.
This goes some way to explaining why I haven’t been writing much on D4D in that time – I’m utterly damn sick of typing, and didn’t have the time or headspace to do much here.
I’ve just now finished the documentation for PCI-DSS. We’ll review it tomorrow and next week, so I’m sure there’ll be some edits. But that’s just fiddly crap – the most important thing is that I’ve broken the back of it. I’m done.
I’m also utterly fucked. But that’s beside the point. I’m done with the documentation. Happy, happy day.
Posted: Mon 1 February, 2010 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: D4D™, Geeky |
Already we’re one month into 2010. Where the hell did January go? (I know for me it went mainly in a blur of broken databases, fixing inherited ropy code and just generally fire-fighting)
Still, at least February starts with a nice palindromic date. I know, geeky as fuck. Live with it – we won’t have another one like this for another 110 years…