Category: Work

Aug 2nd 2002, 17:44 GMT

Well, crap.

A project launch that was scheudled for next week just got pushed back a month, right into the middle of my honeymoon.

All of the design work should be done next week. (In fact it basically is done, I’m just waiting on final content to plug into the pages.) I’m just not going to be here to push the new pages to the live server when they want.

It shouldn’t be too much of a problem. The project manager understands the situation – we just have to figure out who’s going to be able to handle the roll-out while I’m gone.

Jul 24th 2002, 17:54 GMT

I found this [Link] off of Dom’s rant on Megatokyo this morning. Makes for some interesting reading.

I think the categories chosen to put this entry in will make sense if you read it.

Oh yeah – it’s text-only, a blog about a video store clerk’s daily adventures, but may not be sutible for work, or small children.

Edited on Jul 24th 2002, 18:27 by Hooloovoo

Jun 26th 2002, 19:14 GMT

Man, there are days when I wish I could openly bitch about where I work in my blogs. I’d love to share some of the rediculous crap I have the “privelege” of dealing with on a day-to-day basis.

Don’t get me wrong, I like my job- a lot- but there are those days that just get to me. Of course I guess that’d be true just about anywhere.

Guess I just have to wait ’til I get home, then I can rant and rave all I want, and not have to worry about something posted online coming back to bite me in the ass.

-Hool

Edited on Jun 26th 2002, 19:14 by Hooloovoo

Apr 17th 2002, 17:16 GMT

Ever have one of “those” days?

You wake up in the morning, feeling decent. Not great, since your cats/dog/kids/whaterver managed to keep you up too late, or woke you up too early, but decent.

Then things just start to go down-hill.

You’re running a little late getting out of the house, so you decide to skip breakfast, maybe grab something on the way to work. Then you hit traffic. You turn to the local AM traffic station on your radio, and find out that every one of the alternate routes you know is just as FUBARED as the one you’re on.

You resign yourself to the fact that you will be late to work and stick it out.

Then, you get to a toll booth, (In my case a toll both for a bridge,) and realize that you have just enough cash for the fare, but now you are faced with giving up breakfast, or becoming even more late as you try to find an ATM, and then run to a fast-food place. You again decide to skip it and just head into work.

You’re about 40min late, but that’s okay, at least you still have your job, which is better than what many of your co-workers learned when they got in.

Bleh. Today is not going well at all. At least I can still look forward to Red Dwarf Night.

(edited for gramatical errors.)

Edited on Apr 17th 2002, 18:49 by Hooloovoo

Mar 27th 2002, 01:31 GMT

Argh!

Project due to launch today, and one of the people in another group (the LEAD no less) that should be here is “working” from home.

You’d think, knowing that today is the launch for phase one (its been on all of our schedules), he’d be here in case there was a problem. Guess what, there is – a rather simple problem for him to fix, but not remotely.

And don’t even get me started on the lack of testing time for phase two. Gossip may hate it at times, but I am SO glad I can punch… er… find holes in things quickly.

What would happen if I…? I love asking that question. 🙂

I’m not going to be a blue-haired freak for much longer, since I’m pulling it all out in frustration.

Okay, time to stop venting and go see if they’ve fixed the problems I’ve found yet.

-Hool

Mar 23rd 2002, 00:04 GMT

I looks like the virus writers are gearing up for April First.

Today I have received no less than seven virus alerts from our corporate helpdesk. I’m begining to wonder if it’s not all just an elaborate hoax.

In anycase, I’ve updated my virus definitions, and will be running scans on the systems I’m “responsible” for before leaving tonight.

I think I’ll go back to reading Sluggy Freelance now.
-Hool

Feb 26th 2002, 02:48 GMT

CSS is kicking my ass.

My company is fond of “splash” pages with centered content for the websites we create.

I’m trying to find an elegant way to to this using CSS instead of using the old table-within-a-table hack, (It is NOT a technique, damnit,) or resorting to dynamically positionaing the content using a piece of javascript which runs every 20 miliseconds or so, (in case the user changes the size of thier browser window).

So far, I’ve found solutions to center content horizontally, but not verically. This bothers me. I can’t be the only person who has wanted to try this, can I? Actually, I don’t “want” to do this, I just want to find a more elegant way to do something that I’ve been asked to do.

I guess I could always slightly modify the design I’m working on. No one is really going to notice… which in my mind is better than the alternatives.

[Edit]
I want to become CSS savvy – I really do. I have some neat layout ideas I think I can do with CSS. But as I’m playing with things and figuring out the limitations of CSS implementations in the different browsers, nasty things – like deadlines – rear thier ugly heads.

Once again, I have to do another site using tables for layout. Not beacause I really want to, but because I don’t have time to fiddle around and figure out a better way to do it.

I am making progress tho – this new site does use some css posistioning. (And I think it might even pass the w3c validator – except for that damn splash page)

Okay – enough bitching. Deadline looming.

Edited on Feb 27th 2002, 19:16 by Hooloovoo

Feb 1st 2002, 03:59 GMT

Well, I just finished moving about 33GB of data off of 3 machines to an archive server. Tomorrow I get to wipe them in preparation for recycling them. Joy.

Goodbye my little UD-Agent number chrunchers. Oh how I will miss thee.

BTW: people who don’t update thier virus definitions on a regular basis annoy me. ESPECIALLY when I inherit thier machines.

Just a couple of random rants. Mostly so I can have a post active for this month. (Eventhough it’s still January in my backwards little PST end of the world.)

I really should be going home.