Archive for August, 2008

On the Road Again

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

I went for a drive to one of my favourite hiking spots. It is bitterly cold and i decided not to camp overnight, but went hiking anyway.

It’s so good to get away sometimes, given the stresses of life. Hopefully i’ll have all that sorted out by the end of next week and i can move forward again.

We’re Back! But not all quite right.

Friday, August 29th, 2008

hey, sorry for not posting fo a while. And yes, 7:40am a sign of my new times!

I’ve been under a lot of pressure lately and was ok, until i was told that i had to work offsite coz my preferred place of work was a distraction.

Fuck off.

The project manager basically didn’t like that i had to attend team meetings and an ad hoc meetings. We are a f’ing support team after all.

No they wanted me to work in a foreign environment on a foreign computer. I DID point out that me using a Windows PC would significantly reduce my productivity – i use a Gnome Desktop, and not that it matters between Linux or Solaris, i use OpenSolaris. Given all my testing and dev work is on Solaris 10…..makes sense right?

Unless you’re using Red Hat, then that’s a “don’t get me started” type of argument. And thankfully, as aforementioned, i’m on OpenSolaris. I can’t test zones on Linux, unless i use VMWare and saccrifice RAM and resources, but given i’m 100% Solaris 10….fek…why would i?

So, when will i be back?

When will Project Managers be banned from walking up to my desk?

I think you can deduce the answer. I’m undergoing “counselling”…and will most likely work afternoons until further notice. Project Managers – we shall see.

peter