Work, work, work

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Another very bitty day today! The one thing I had to do today, which I managed to start this morning, I never got chance to finish it! I’ve lurched from one thing to another all day long. Production problems, “Can you just do this?”, “Don’t forget to ring that guy from…”, “I know you’re busy but…”, “I need you to drop everything and write something to…” (this one from the big boss), “Can you stay late?”, and “Can you come in early in the morning?” Phew! And all this on top of the fact that the one thing I set out to do is not the thing I’m down on the plan to be doing anyway! I think I must have hit about 6 levels of interruption today (interrupted to do X which was interrupted to do X which was interrupted to do…).

And I love it! I really do.

And there’s not really anyone else who can do it. At least not as quickly, or get down to the root of a problem as quickly, or figure out the right fix, or… I’m not an arrogant person, but I have at least a decade more experience than the rest of the people on my team. I’m good at what I do.

So much so that I’m going to ask about redefining my role in the team tomorrow. We’ll see how well that goes down. But that’s after I’m in early to work some more on this production problem. And that’s after I’m just going to look at a couple of things tonight!

Broadband trouble again

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I’ve had broadband trouble again today. It was fine last night. But this morning I couldn’t check my mail. It was the same with Pinga in the kitchen. But whenever Jan used the internet today she had no problem. I did reboot the firewall on the way out to work this morning. Maybe that fixed it. Although, looking at the logs on the firewall, it had trouble as it was booting. Maybe it got better later. The funny thing is that the cable modem box shows two steady green lights, which means everything is ok. Strange. I’m beginning to think it may be hardware problems on the firewall itself. Igloo is a very old machine. Or rather some very old bits from some very old machines. Apart from the internal network card which is brand new.

Two great articles on MP3 downloading

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I just read two great articles from household name artists on the issues involved in MP 3 downloading and the reaction of the music industry.
The first from Courtney Love in which she explains how the record industry and particularly the labels really do not work for the artists.
The second article from Janis Ian with a slightly different slant on the issues but with the same conclusions.
Both articles are quite long but well worth reading.

Internet Explorer Wierdness

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I’ve just discovered that Internet explorer is rendering my header, with my little StorTrooper underneath the header block. That’s underneath in the z-order!
All you can see are his little feet peeping out! 🙁 Of course, in Mozilla it’s fine.
My CSS is not that hot but I’ll have to look into it.

Update: Here’s the little fella for all you Internet Explorer viewers
Mike's StorTrooper

Jackie

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I found out today, that Jackie, my daughter-in-law, read through pretty much the whole of my journal on Friday. She especially wanted me to mention her more!
So this ones for you Jackie! 😀
Jackie Jackie 'n' Bekki
Jackie 'n' Paula