Makin’ some changes ’round here

Changes…

3M Privacy Filter – Extra Tabs

This is largely for my own reference, but I bought this ungodly expensive 3M Privacy filter for the spare 21.6″ monitor that I own but am using at work, and I noticed that the one-time stick-on tabs that they provision you to help keep the filter properly placed on the monitor are one-time stick-on, and [...]

A longer break than I’d anticipated

Work intervened and has been hard, but I hope for some stability, or at least, as Taoism would have it, moving stability. Some way of knowing my center even though my stance must be flowing.

I think that despite practical worries about job permanency, I am much improved for being older, and I hope, wiser.

Fittingly, the [...]

Back to the Net?

I appear to be back on the net.

I will not guarantee that I’ll stay on, but I think I am on the upswing of this particular effort. I think we reached the no-turning-back point.

Going dark for the day, Sunday

Hey all, just in case, I am going to be on-site and on-call for the whole day Sunday, November 16, 2008, from about 7:15 a.m. to about 8:00 p.m. EDT (worst likely case), assisting my company’s IS department in a major network overhaul.

Pen refills

Totally for my own reference.

Yesterday at our company all-hands meeting, we all got a pretty cool rollerball pen with a Hauser 707sf refill in it.

Upon Googling (gerund!), I found out that Schmidt 888 refills are compatible and that the “International Standard Size” is very likely also compatible.

Links I found for representative refills:

Monteverde Fashion Fun Colors [...]

Attention my librarian friends!

I am having a work issue that involves needing to plan and strategize and implement a large standards/process library for my IT department (at work, natch). The project is long-term, and just starting out, and while I am a member of a team (and thus not solely responsible), I need some guidance vis a vis [...]

Checked in

Got to the hotel after determining I got to the 30th street rail station a bit too late to get to Reading Terminal Market (I jones for the apple dumplings). It’s a flat fee for taxi rides to the airport from Philadelphia, so I got that fee and a receipt for the expense report.

Next: Wait [...]

The universal constant – “It’s broken! Make it go!”

Even computer professionals (who should know better, in my opinion, given that in general they are also in support roles and know how frustrating it can be to have it done to you), cave to the temptation of handing over a broken system to those responsible to it with a very vague wave of the [...]

Lull during testing

My boss is fully committed to all-day meetings this week, my team lead is out on vacation, and we’re full bore, which means I am never getting a break between seeing to my own deliverables through and answering the every-15-minutes (I’m being charitable here) questions from folks who are or who see themselves as my [...]