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Today I am copying every patent published by Australia from 1920 through to the end of 2009 to our mainframe - 1,561,185 records.
It's taking a while. 😕
What are you doing ? ( or should that be [b]meant[/b] to be doing ? )
Unemployed, looking after 1yr old daughter.
Currently migrating a bunch of Blade servers into a domain and bringing them up to baseline (sanity and health checks, driver updates etc).
Fun fun.
Researching business opportunities in Almaty
Taking a break from Excel to read STW.
Er... I mean working hard. Yeah, that's it.
Waiting to go into work this afternoon, when I'll be in a clinic with a bunch of kids with diabetes.
Unemployed. Trying to find work.
Co-ordinating the testing of some car tyres in Spain..
filing in an incident report of an assault by a client on me.
I do get to write lots of swear words and will get to see a counsellor to make sure I am ok. Handbags at dawn from a young junkie with lots of intent and no skill.
working from home had an op on both big toes yesterday so stuck with feet up in the air banned from riding and generally pi$$ed off!!!! still emails are all done!!
Some stuff on one pooter and ripping cds to go on my iPod on the other one. Tis a slog.
Running SQL sever agent jobs to test SSIS (a database ETL tool)
Identifying photographs of Victorian street scenes in London. and thinking about imminent 20% redundancies...
Writing personal performance reviews for the past year.
It looks like it should be an interesting work of semi factual experience-based fiction.
junkyard - are you a dealer?
Designing wedding album on laptop downstairs and processing raw files from last weekend's weddings on the desktop upstairs.
The album is a nightmare as the bride has taken it upon herself to design the whole album for me on scraps of paper, with scant regard to the fact that the album is square, not rectangular 🙁
New clause in bloated contract coming up re album design.....
No I am a youth worker it is my job to find him employment
Waiting for a train at Crewe, sooner I drive the better...
Trying to improve the flow performance of a manifold that controls gas going into a fuel cell. Lots of 3d cad > drilling in workshop > testing in lab...(repeat). And so it goes on.
Nearly lunchtime & its Brussels pate' on seeded bread today.
After lunch...the calcs for a cylinder for a nuclear plant.
I'm waiting for my level to deploy so I can check some camera re-positioning.
Completing a contract for the companies parcel spend and creating 2 cat plans for international transport and Ireland transport
Anyone want to take cakes to Ireland and Mycoprotein to america??
Nothing. Waiting for my next contract working on defibrillators to start.
EDIT. Anybody know of any service engineering type work in November...
turning people's medical misery into 4 digit codes
Trying to ensure that the plant builds the best quality engines possible - more than a little bit challenging at the moment
Been unemployed since Monday 🙁
project managing the £700k re-roofing of a grade 1 listed building
Editing a video of a group of students talking about their experiences whilst on placement.... about as exciting as it sounds!
I'm on holiday till the 9th, I was going out for a road ride, but now it appears I'm going to the station to pick up my daughter.
I'm on a rest day because I worked 13 hours yesterday. I'm going to sign the paperwork for my new car this afternoon after a lazy lunch watching TV.
Reading about poststructuralism while eating toad in the hole.
Lunch, coming up with a formula for a paint, then this afternoon I will make the paint before spraying it. Then tomorrow I will test the paint, decide what improvements to make and repeat.
i'm with you CaptJohn, except i'm eating cereal and [i]avoiding[/i] reading about post-structuralism 🙂
Before lunch:Teaching students the factors that affect the level of consumption (C) in an economy, given that AD = C + I + G + X - M
After lunch:Teaching students the factors that affect the level of consumption (C) in an economy, given that AD = C + I + G + X - M, but to a different group of students
work!!?
i've had a jolly relaxing morning and am about to be off on the bike. on my return i may muck about in the gardening before settling down for some nice coffee and a bit of a read. captjon's choice may have me flicking thru some old books.
should i work monday to friday? i think not!
Gearing up for another months bill run. Just imported a new CDR loader for a new supplier and working through the rejects. Exciting stuff!
I'm on holiday still.
Trying to negotiate a Dead of Varitation to enable my client to carry out an equipment upgrade. 😕
Doing a root cause analysis of a hydraulic issue on a sewage works to understand why we have an overflow at c450 l/s when it was designed for up to 900 l/s, and once I'm finished I need to work out how to fix the problem.
Just except it there is only one job now adays using excel or something similar.
Beating our current MPLS provider up with lower costs from one of their competitors!
on the sick.
been for a very gentle 2 hr bike ride as part of my rehab........ 😉
headfirst - Member
Before lunch:Teaching students the factors that affect the level of consumption (C) in an economy, given that AD = C + I + G + X - MAfter lunch:Teaching students the factors that affect the level of consumption (C) in an economy, given that AD = C + I + G + X - M, but to a different group of students
Why are you misleading them?
Auditing the land owned by a Government department
Reading celebrities on Twitter for a feature.
And feeling like a bit of a lightweight, workwise, compared to some of you now.
On the sick.
Spent most of the morning tracking down a highly elusive bug caused by uninitialised variable "A", which caused variable "B" to also go uninitialised (a function pointer) resulting in an impressive crash later on, but by that time variable "A" had been given the correct value thus covering its tracks.
On top of which the crashes only happened after a fully cold boot because the belatedly initialised value of "A" then persisted in RAM through resets.
All this in assembly code. With no debug interface to the hardware.
Upgrading Oracle database today - application server tomorrow - in between sorting lots of other faults. Good job I can multi task 😀
Reviewing WCAG 2 and setting up a fancy slideshow pro gallery using the flickr API
looking after my 1 year old son..
Writing a report trying to explain an a structural 'issue' we had on a vibration test - and then piecing together heaps of data from the structural analysis of the proposed fix even though it would have been fine if it had been made correctly in the first place.
Writing up the notes from a morning discussing ROTA implications with the GMP CTR ECBRN representative ...do I win a prize for using the most unintelligible abbreviations?
Screw work! I've just taken a couple of days off, a nice pic below of todays ride for all those slaving away 😆
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restoring backups to a server which broke.
Taking 2 hrs to do 10% of a db.
About to deliver a session on social class and identities.
Sat on a train from Waterloo, going back to office after a meeting 🙁
Checking the Google Analytics and setting up goals for the latest website I've built ([url= http://www.paincommunitycentre.org ]www.paincommunitycentre.org[/url], if I can be so bold as to post it here!).
Also, moaning about the new ITSM software we've just implemented - I think if I had built it, I'd be looking for a new job...
Rachel
Catching up on some studying while writing a project handover, before moving onto my next fun filled task of this week. Oh and rebuilding my laptop, drinking some coke, thinking about biking this weekend and sorting out the companies telephony during a BT outage. Who says men can't multi-task?
Building various (online training/elearning) demos for a couple of prospects, while trying to juggle (er, complete) 5-6 live projects.
Preparing for tomorrow's internal meeting.
Working on some pro-mat.
Collating material for a new site build.
Anaesthetising a patient so the surgeon can replace a bone in his hand. it's in the not very interesting part of the operation at the moment. the surgeon would no doubt disagree.
Also unemployed. Trying to find work.
Software Engineer in Ceredigion just in case....
Finishing off a virtualisation cluster design for our Barcelona offices, to offer HA/DRS across geographically dispersed sites.
I don't get a site visit to implement. 🙁
Work out a practical way of managing re-usable source code for the European Space Agency:
1. The basic mission control software
2. The Earth Explorer mission variant
3. The Global Monitoring variant of the Earth Explorer variant
4. Three Sentinel mission variants of the Global Monitoring variant
5. Back compatible with the Aeolus and Swarm missions
It should be layered like Lasagne. But it's currently spaghetti.
variable "A", which caused variable "B" to also go uninitialised
Chris: you know you can use longer variables names in proper programming languages!? 😉
Waiting for my weekly 4.15 Wednesday conference call with a big client. It's always 50/50 as to whether the call goes well or the client decides to be awkward. Been with us for five years so far so think we doing the job right(ish)!
Then writing up notes and chilling.
Night ride at 8pm with a few mates.
Off sick :0( Currently looking at bed and breakfasts in the middle of nowhere to escape to next week to help clear my head
Due at work in less than 3 hours, so now off for some kip.
I've done the school runs, looked after our 4 year old for an hour or so, walked the dog twice, sawed some wood and chopped kindling.
The Mrs will come in the night and ask why I've never emptied the dishwasher of course or done any other house hold chores.
Need to access work emails but forgot the URL for the server so it can wait until tonight.
Surface modelling some half-bolted link dies for my friends in Poland 8)
Day off today
Although I did pop into work to pick up some mud tyres for this evenings ride
Unemployed. Trying to find work.
Gone are the days of coming out with £700 a week 🙁
Nipped home to bleed my rear brake. Now anticipating this eve's ride. First night ride of the season.
Orf in a mo. BYE!
Building a 7MB excel model.
trying to prepare for a business trip next week to 2.5 big customers.
And Cranberry, can you tell me how to get hold of a set of patents for free (a couple of hundred would do, but pref more) or for very little money?
Building a 7MB excel model
That's definitely the most impotent willy wave of all time 😆
DEALS 😡
Well today I have spent 4 hours with two groups of students going over their engineering projects, Ive just finished working on a vehicle layout and now going to work on designing a new security feature for the South African CV market (maybe sometime I will find time to design my bike as well!)
Waiting to jump on the Brommo and charge to Waterloo, weaving like a fish through the London traffic and scattering pedestrians and lard-arsed northerners out of my way as I plummet towards and round, the IMAX Death Race 2000 circus....
Not working, studying Excel 2007 + vba etc. Anyone want a Excel developer? I'm very cheap!
Survived the call.
Thank ****.
Packing up to go home... but I've been doing virtualisation stuff, building a new server, dev'ing in VBA (Access 2000... horrible stuff), and doing pen testing on one of our systems. It's an interesting job, can't complain!
Spent most of my morning screaming at my year nine class to stop being horrible to each other.
Then had a really nice lesson with my small class of knackers, never seen disaffected kids use a dictionary so fast.
Then a semi ok lesson teaching students how to fill out their APP sheet to monitor their progress.
And then a good twenty minutes discussing with one student's tutor how he was the densest kid I had ever met, he's like a caractature of a stupid kid, a living dopey from the seven dwarfs.