Where to begin? Where to end?

• I spent the entire back half of yesterday’s workday adding personal information into the users in our NDS trees. For instance, Corporate has wanted phone numbers to show up in the Groupwise address book since, oh, two years ago. I made that happen yesterday. Yes, I’m a loser.
  
• Today has largely been spent completely rebuilding The Lab, the website that started out as a grand vision and is now something of a sad testament to the fact that I really didn’t know what I was doing three years ago. (One could argue that I still don’t, I suppose.) And yes, I did strip down and recycle the more useful bits of the current greyduck.net code. You can call it laziness, I call it expediency.
  
• The first two of the new Compaq computers (you know, the WinXP beasties we received a month ago?) have been placed. Every last technical hurdle has been cleared, including the Norton AntiVirus upgrade and the wonderful ZENworks Dynamic Local User trick. I can now place these machines with complete impunity. But that project is on hold until…
  
• …I complete the last four PD Streaming servers and ship them to Norfolk, Rochester and Wichita. I have until the end of next week to do so, and the last four will be the most time-consuming as they’re former LMiV machines that are running RedHat 6.1 and need a complete OS reinstallation. Fun, wot?

I’m not neglecting my updating duties. I’m just placing a higher priority on keeping my job. Call me strange…

Update: Here’s the funny part. This journal entry is number 404. Oddly enough, I spent over an hour arguing with IIS and PHP about how to handle 404 errors. The trick is to make sure that the PHP ISAPI handler is set to check for the existence of the document. Otherwise a missing document is presumed to exist (!) and the site visitor sees a bunch of PHP error gibberish. I won’t even go into the trouble I had upgrading to the latest PHP version. Feh.