The Hitchhiker's Guide

Standing there alone
The ship is waiting
All systems are go
"Are you sure?"
Control is not convinced
But the computer
Has the evidence
No need to abort
The countdown starts
Watching in a trance
The crew is certain
Nothing left to chance
All is working
Trying to relax
Up in the capsule
"Send me up a drink"
Jokes Major Tom
The count goes on

4, 3, 2, 1...
Earth below us
Drifting, falling
Floating weightless
Calling, calling home

Waiting for the message to go out, then I've got some fast fingers work to do to bring the sites live. It's almost here. New hint for this week will be posted later today but we're truely going live. Woo hoo!

I have one thing to say to anyone who isn't as experienced with web design and programming as they would like to be...

Perl, Javascript, PHP, MySQL, all fabulous tools to get your website to do what you want. However, over the past few weeks I have been taking on a "learn as you go" approach to web design and programming. Learning as you go has it's plusses and minuses, but one fallback to what I was trying to do was the fact that not concentrating on one thing specifically, and trying to figure out bits and pieces of each of these things, was really screwing with me. Now that the site is getting up (with only one known existing technical difficulty, freakin MySql database), I can actually go back and focus and probably will have to re-learn some basics of each of these devices.

In other news, I've discovered something about big Cisco 7500 routers. They don't bounce very well, and are too heavy to try and catch. Unless you're someone buff like Vin Diesel I wouldn't suggest trying to unrack these babies by yourself. Luckily, nothing needing workman's comp (did I say luckily, I meant DAMN!). If we had more people around here, things would be easier, but I have one of my staff memebers here, all others are out, and Tier 2 is sparse today as well. I can hardly get the other groups to help with phone coverage, let along equiptment moving. And my words to Ken W.... "You want it WHEN?" If I'm the sole responsible packer for this stuff, he's gonna be waiting a while still. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm a strong, tought thing for a girl, but far from able to catch a falling Cisco (or bench press a cow with my legs :) ) so if noone helps me I guess it'll just be slow going.

One of the downfalls of being a manager is that it is so less viable to "cute and helpless" your way into having someone do work for you. ;)

It still works, you just have to be sly about it.




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