Tag: job
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Bovini: A Week Well-Spent
It's been a busy week. I've spent a lot of my time at the office, trying to get the replication model for Bovini working - causing much stress as it failed time and time again. For those of you without a grounding in computer science theory, replication is the art of making data be identical …
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Timewasting
Look what I found while I was wasting time on the 'net this morning.
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Eventful
Been excessively busy this last week: lots and lots of work. Pulled a 16-and-a-half hour work day on Wednesday, fixing the entire network where my co-workers were unable to. It's a lot nicer now. In other news, I won an eBay auction for a copy of the 1974 edition of Parker Games "Careers" board game, …
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Progress!
Working late. I've got Club 977 (best 80's cheese on the 'net!) playing as loud as this computer goes, slamming out code at a rate more productive than I've been all week. Finally got past a bug that'd been troubling me for days. Phew! Just in time for a meeting tomorrow!
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Stress
Things that are causing me excess stress and reduced sleep:
WORK
I'm writing program features that have been paid for, but may never be used.
I can't keep a pcAnywhere connection to the client open for more than a few minutes.
I've been abandoned to sort out the database replication by myself.
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Grindstone
Claire called me up at work to taunt me about the fact that I'm working late. Well; okay, she didn't, but she night as well have, because I'm still at the office, slogging away at a chunk of Bovini for a deadline tomorrow, not making much progress, and I only spoke to the client earlier …
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New Site Preps For Launch
The new version of AvAngel.com is under full developmental swing... and within a week or two it'll be uploaded. Of course, you know what we're like for deadlines, so don't hold your breath - but if you don't believe us, catch Dan online (e-mail him for his ICQ number) and he'll show you what he's …