Some fifteen salespersons will be translocated this afternoon starting at 2:00pm. Guess who gets to hook up all the computers, monitors, keyboards, mice and speakers?
I’m probably going to be at this well into the evening, unless some miracle occurs and I get a lot of well-coordinated help. Oh well. I didn’t have any plans for the evening anyway, other than watching the new episode of Farscape.
Mmmmmmm, Farscape.
Okay, so I’ve stopped using the dropcaps. I realized (belatedly) that they’re going to wreak havoc with the redesign that’s coming just as soon as I get some free time to monkey with the code. It’s going to be fun, it’s going to look great, but it’s not going to like having big ugly dropcaps all over the place. Ah well. It sure makes starting one of these entries a helluva lot easier not to have to type “span class = dropcap” and so on.
Via DiabloII.net of all places I found a link to this explanation of why Google is such a wonderful and successful search engine.
I take exception to the “slow-moving waterfowl” reference, though.
Via the weblog wannabe comes a link to the classic article entitled How to be a ‘web’ ‘designer’. If you’re not into web design, you might not find it very funny. You’ve been warned.
Just to prove that the universe really is a perverse and insane place, today was even more frantic than yesterday for me. I got up bright and early for the Department Head meeting, which went well. Afterward I fixed a couple of small problems, then went to the office of the KGON/KKSN-FM Program Director to replace the power supply in his computer.
Little did we know that this would be only the beginning of the fun for Mr. Harlow and I. Upon rebooting, we found that he couldn’t get onto the network. Replacing wires and fiddling with jacks didn’t help. Taking out the network card and re-seating it after blowing away the dust seemed to, but then the video settings went haywire.
After some more fiddling around, I decided that the better part of valor was going to be a full replacement of his computer. I proceeded to prep the last of our Dell Optiplex GX1 refurbs, which performed beautifully like all of the others we have of that line. There was one catch, however. Arbitrends won’t install on a too-recent combination of Windows 98 and Internet Explorer. Great.
So with radio trends coming out tomorrow, Mr. Harlow’s computer and mine are both waiting on a CD-ROM overnighted from Arbitron to be able to download and manipulate the trend data. No stress, folks, it’s only the most important metric radio stations are measured by.
In other news, a printer cable came unplugged; the call screeners needed burping; a color print job wouldn’t print; file permissions on the network needed massaging; RCS software needed upgrading; another power supply and CPU fan need replacing later this evening; the Rosey studio computer was misbehaving for a few minutes. Just another fun-filled day on the job! I love this place.
Dinner for me, tonight, consisted of a can of Chef Boyardee ravioli. I used to love this stuff, but tonight required serious willpower. As I was in #KNRK at the time, I started making jokes about the cuisine at Casa Kerezman. Jokes like…
This is how I kill time… and my taste buds, apparently.
