Friday, July 08, 2005
Adventure 28: 8th July 2005
“Where is the Centre and what’s Excellent about it ?....”
Hi all, it’s been over a week since my last entry. I’d like to say I’ve been really busy, but as we all know that’d be a complete lie…I am on a mission or a quest though to discover what and where the centre, of excellence is....It would seem that the Centre is distributed, across northern Europe and no one can tell me what's excellent about it...
Just to finish off….
Monday 27th June:
15:00: Bill Zunpronoucable, has called me into his office for a “5 minute” chat, admittedly at my request. I quickly discover that a “5 minute” chat actually means a 1 ½ hour chat, cuh stupid me eh.
The content of that chat centres around the fact that the department as a whole has suffered three restructures in past year, evidence for me that it’s not just the Centre of Excellence section, who’s title has little to do with what they do.
According to Bill though, he’s not the boss, I’m not the boss of anyone and no one is my boss, we’re all the same and we all bring different skills to the party. I don’t remember there being a party, or bringing any skills to it. I look at him incredulously and comment, “I’m sure you honestly believe that” (one too many management training courses imho) “but Bill the people out there aren’t daft, if you’re the same as us then why would you attract a salary many times that of mine ?”. Apparently the answer is simple, it’s not all about money and I’ll probably find that given exchange rates my salary and his are probably similar ( I DON’T FINK SO!)
17:00: I’ve escaped from the Bullsh%t and make it home.
Tuesday 28th June:
10:00: The grand wizard has invited me to a meeting. Excellent, I didn’t have much else on so a meeting is quite something. Apparently the company BobbySands Technology are coming in to talk to us about something. He can’t give me anymore than that because he’s forgotten why they were coming, so I do a quick web look up on their company and discover they do data warehousing management software and other really good stuff. Really good that is if you have a data warehouse and it needs managing, which….we don’t.10:20: One of the quickest meetings in history are over, they asked us if we had a data warehouse and if it needed managing and when the wizard said “err no”…they kind of left fairly hurriedly…
Friday 1st July:
10:00: Doctors today to talk about my ankle which seems to be giving more and more grief, I simply can’t run on it which makes the Monday night game of 5,6,7,8,25 a side tricky.
11:00: Back at work, I was literally in there for about 10 minutes. I told the Doctor, my problems he said “oh” and then referred me to the hospital, cracking !
Saturday 2nd July:
It’s the bleedin’ weekend, it’s also Jack’s school “fun” day, and I have his new bed to make. We bought it from Argosments so I know it’s a. going to be a flat pack though looking at the size of the box in the hallway I’m not so sure, and b. I know it’s going to be a pain.
11:00: I begin unpacking the box…My god there are so many bits to this. Having arranged all the bits in Jack’s room and arranged him in a corner still playing his computer game, I can begin. First things first I unpack the instructions…”Tools required: 1 x Allen Key (that doesn’t actually fit any of the screws) – Supplied, Hammer (not supplied), Bradel – not supplied”, Bradel ?? I don’t know anyone who still has one of those, I’m intrigued as to why. I break open my cordless drill which will now double as a bradel !
12:30: Lunch
13:30: Recommencement of construction….
14:30: I’m in full swing, when I hear Mandy talking to someone…It’s her Mum who’s coming to the “fun” day, apparently though I’m not, pretending to be a bit upset at the prospect of having to carry on making Jack’s bed I trudge off back upstairs….
15:30: Nearly completed the bed from hell, then I discover that the head board kind of only works when you attach it the right way around “DOH!”
16:30: I slide the last draw in and I’m done, Mandy’s just got back from the “fun” day, Jack seems very pleased with the bits and pieces he’s got, especially since most of what he’s got is sweets…
Monday 4th July: (American independence day – good riddance to bad rubbish!!)
It’s all over the papers, and all over the web Steven Gerrard could be leaving Liverpool, his agent has reported to the press, bust ups over him signing a new contract, but I’m my usually cautious, not believing anything one way or another. Chelski, seem to be the favourites, which would be a real gutter, especially since my Step Dad is a massive Chelski fan, I don’t think I could take that much gloating….
Tuesday 5th July: It’s bloody official, he’s released a statement saying it was the hardest decision of his life, (yeah, should I get paid 100,000 a week or 120,000 a week tough call that one !). Ryan is distraught, I just hope Gerrard is satisfied.
11:00: Partick, the scuridy manager, asks me to come out and explain how it’s possible to implement an eunsafe solution ‘in-line’ in our environment, since Basra Pentonville, doesn’t think it can be done. He’s not wrong, the only way we could implement this would be to mirror ports and do it in pass-by mode. Hang on a second, why are we even contemplating a system like this when we already have WebNonsense doing exactly the same job ? I ask this and get the response, that he just wants to look at the reporting capabilities of the product, hmmm that’d be those reporting capabilities that he never uses in WebNonsense then. Never let it be said we do everything twice eh!!!
Wednesday 6th July:
08:50: I’m in late, I’m pissed off, I’m now ranting about Steven Gerrard, frankly to anyone who’ll listen, “money grabber…” etc etc…
12:45: The city to host the 30th Olympiad in 2012, will be….London…I’m made up, 7 years away but it feels like we won the world cup or something.
13:45: Quiet Rob has made my day, apparently it’s all been a big mistake and Stevie G, top player, really nice guy is staying at Liverpool, things can only get better…..
Thursday 7th July:
08:50: The worlds gone mad, there are reports coming in of four massive explosions in London, the bastards have targeted 3 tube trains and a London bus, Christ if they wanted the Olympics that badly, then perhaps we should have let them have it…I’m annoyed, mostly because of the senseless loss of life and injury, but also because I now know what my TV is going to be for the next month, endless, documentaries and extended news programmes, how it happened, why it happened, what happened, eye witness accounts, no eye witness accounts and so on and so on and so on, I can’t bloody wait.
09:30: We were a bit worried about Corvette since she’s supposed to be training in London today. My suspicious mind is working overtime, she’s training hmmm…before she went to London no bombs, after, bombs, mmmmm….
Hi all, it’s been over a week since my last entry. I’d like to say I’ve been really busy, but as we all know that’d be a complete lie…I am on a mission or a quest though to discover what and where the centre, of excellence is....It would seem that the Centre is distributed, across northern Europe and no one can tell me what's excellent about it...
Just to finish off….
Monday 27th June:
15:00: Bill Zunpronoucable, has called me into his office for a “5 minute” chat, admittedly at my request. I quickly discover that a “5 minute” chat actually means a 1 ½ hour chat, cuh stupid me eh.
The content of that chat centres around the fact that the department as a whole has suffered three restructures in past year, evidence for me that it’s not just the Centre of Excellence section, who’s title has little to do with what they do.
According to Bill though, he’s not the boss, I’m not the boss of anyone and no one is my boss, we’re all the same and we all bring different skills to the party. I don’t remember there being a party, or bringing any skills to it. I look at him incredulously and comment, “I’m sure you honestly believe that” (one too many management training courses imho) “but Bill the people out there aren’t daft, if you’re the same as us then why would you attract a salary many times that of mine ?”. Apparently the answer is simple, it’s not all about money and I’ll probably find that given exchange rates my salary and his are probably similar ( I DON’T FINK SO!)
17:00: I’ve escaped from the Bullsh%t and make it home.
Tuesday 28th June:
10:00: The grand wizard has invited me to a meeting. Excellent, I didn’t have much else on so a meeting is quite something. Apparently the company BobbySands Technology are coming in to talk to us about something. He can’t give me anymore than that because he’s forgotten why they were coming, so I do a quick web look up on their company and discover they do data warehousing management software and other really good stuff. Really good that is if you have a data warehouse and it needs managing, which….we don’t.10:20: One of the quickest meetings in history are over, they asked us if we had a data warehouse and if it needed managing and when the wizard said “err no”…they kind of left fairly hurriedly…
Friday 1st July:
10:00: Doctors today to talk about my ankle which seems to be giving more and more grief, I simply can’t run on it which makes the Monday night game of 5,6,7,8,25 a side tricky.
11:00: Back at work, I was literally in there for about 10 minutes. I told the Doctor, my problems he said “oh” and then referred me to the hospital, cracking !
Saturday 2nd July:
It’s the bleedin’ weekend, it’s also Jack’s school “fun” day, and I have his new bed to make. We bought it from Argosments so I know it’s a. going to be a flat pack though looking at the size of the box in the hallway I’m not so sure, and b. I know it’s going to be a pain.
11:00: I begin unpacking the box…My god there are so many bits to this. Having arranged all the bits in Jack’s room and arranged him in a corner still playing his computer game, I can begin. First things first I unpack the instructions…”Tools required: 1 x Allen Key (that doesn’t actually fit any of the screws) – Supplied, Hammer (not supplied), Bradel – not supplied”, Bradel ?? I don’t know anyone who still has one of those, I’m intrigued as to why. I break open my cordless drill which will now double as a bradel !
12:30: Lunch
13:30: Recommencement of construction….
14:30: I’m in full swing, when I hear Mandy talking to someone…It’s her Mum who’s coming to the “fun” day, apparently though I’m not, pretending to be a bit upset at the prospect of having to carry on making Jack’s bed I trudge off back upstairs….
15:30: Nearly completed the bed from hell, then I discover that the head board kind of only works when you attach it the right way around “DOH!”
16:30: I slide the last draw in and I’m done, Mandy’s just got back from the “fun” day, Jack seems very pleased with the bits and pieces he’s got, especially since most of what he’s got is sweets…
Monday 4th July: (American independence day – good riddance to bad rubbish!!)
It’s all over the papers, and all over the web Steven Gerrard could be leaving Liverpool, his agent has reported to the press, bust ups over him signing a new contract, but I’m my usually cautious, not believing anything one way or another. Chelski, seem to be the favourites, which would be a real gutter, especially since my Step Dad is a massive Chelski fan, I don’t think I could take that much gloating….
Tuesday 5th July: It’s bloody official, he’s released a statement saying it was the hardest decision of his life, (yeah, should I get paid 100,000 a week or 120,000 a week tough call that one !). Ryan is distraught, I just hope Gerrard is satisfied.
11:00: Partick, the scuridy manager, asks me to come out and explain how it’s possible to implement an eunsafe solution ‘in-line’ in our environment, since Basra Pentonville, doesn’t think it can be done. He’s not wrong, the only way we could implement this would be to mirror ports and do it in pass-by mode. Hang on a second, why are we even contemplating a system like this when we already have WebNonsense doing exactly the same job ? I ask this and get the response, that he just wants to look at the reporting capabilities of the product, hmmm that’d be those reporting capabilities that he never uses in WebNonsense then. Never let it be said we do everything twice eh!!!
Wednesday 6th July:
08:50: I’m in late, I’m pissed off, I’m now ranting about Steven Gerrard, frankly to anyone who’ll listen, “money grabber…” etc etc…
12:45: The city to host the 30th Olympiad in 2012, will be….London…I’m made up, 7 years away but it feels like we won the world cup or something.
13:45: Quiet Rob has made my day, apparently it’s all been a big mistake and Stevie G, top player, really nice guy is staying at Liverpool, things can only get better…..
Thursday 7th July:
08:50: The worlds gone mad, there are reports coming in of four massive explosions in London, the bastards have targeted 3 tube trains and a London bus, Christ if they wanted the Olympics that badly, then perhaps we should have let them have it…I’m annoyed, mostly because of the senseless loss of life and injury, but also because I now know what my TV is going to be for the next month, endless, documentaries and extended news programmes, how it happened, why it happened, what happened, eye witness accounts, no eye witness accounts and so on and so on and so on, I can’t bloody wait.
09:30: We were a bit worried about Corvette since she’s supposed to be training in London today. My suspicious mind is working overtime, she’s training hmmm…before she went to London no bombs, after, bombs, mmmmm….
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