Over the next month or two, work is rolling out a new time clock system.

Currently, workers swipe in to a timeclock with cards, go to their stations, and log in to the computer system to work on whatever project they're assigned to. I keep track of attendance, late arrivals and early departures, and person-hours worked per project. There are a few other frills, but that's my basic job description.

Guess what the new system is going to keep track of automatically?

Saturday morning at work was hair-raising. Seems the air conditioning in the server room went down overnight. When people started coming in, it was 95F in there!

Much running around the building looking for fans ensued, to try and get the room cooled down to livable for the machines. Meanwhile, all the phone goons (call center, surveys) start coming in and logging on.

So something went wrong with my system and I called tech support after much whining, bitching, and complaining on my own time. I started out by explaining to the guy the situation.

It's now 14 days into NaNoWriMo 2003 (for those of you who don't know what that is, it's "National Novel Writing Month" http://www.nanowrimo.org).

I'm currently at 20,409 words out of the required 50,000 for the month, which is more words on the same story than I have written in over 5 years. So obviously this thing is good for something. ;>

Networking and connectivity class. Professor's asking about ways that people can cause a Denial of Service condition.

The usual answer (generate a lot of traffic) is given.

He asks the class for any more responses. There is the usual silence; the class is good at spitting back canned responses, but only a few of us are good at creative thinking.

"Post a link on Slashdot?" I grin.

I'm such a smartass.

Another bitch today.

I have had it with the Pagan community in Phx. I have never seen/heard more bitchiness and complaints in any one group of people than I have in this supposedly religious community. This is a problem I have noticed before, but like a fool, I keep expecting it to improve. Not only do these people bitch and complain all the time about everything, they seem to enjoy 'witch wars' and gossiping about each other. They constantly complain about nothing going on in the city

I think writing books can be more of a detriment to beginning writers than a help in some cases.

So many genre writing books focus on minutely detailing a world but don't focus enough on the mechanics of writing a story, no matter what setting it is taking place in.

If I like this, I may use it on my site.

So I have my DBA class, and we're installing Oracle 9i on Windows. (2000Pro, IIRC.)

They say that for every labfull of students installing something, a few will zoom through with no problems, most will do all right, and a very few will crash and burn.

Guess whose turn it was?

I rarely comment here, because I'm shy, but it makes me feel good when I do post, and I get modded up. +2, Funny. Very validating to note that at least two other people found my comment amusing.

WD-40 should be avoided in the groinal area, really...

Agreed to help person with website. Said person was the wife of one of my roommate/sister's co-worker/friends.

Website was business website: roommate/sister was planning on going into business as an attachment of her friend's wife.

Warning #1: business/pleasure. Especially with new friends.

Warning #2: Save the Drama fo' yo' Momma.

Happily for me, my e-mail address evidently sent out a buttload of spam Friday. The bouncebacks are trailing down. I am annoyed, as I obviously didn't send it.

Went to the website so advertised, and informed them that one of their little goons had illegally forged my address as the "from" address on a batch of spam, and would they please see that this would not happen again.

Whee!

Found that I can enter programmingtrance very very fast while coding SQL.