People at work need to chill

Well probably one of them need to but he is stressing everyone out. If you try to understand the issues rather than concentrating only on the metrics (because your ar$e is on the line) you may live longer...

Oink Oink flu central

2 weeks ago someone I worked with in Dusseldorf had contact with another person in the office who had swine flu. Today I found out that there was another swine flu outbreak at the client office on Tuesday and they sent a bunch of people home! I should get like danger pay or something. Hopefully I will be fine.

Slow Week

Relatively slow week this week. On Tuesday I had a It's Only F'ing Tuesday (OFT) moment at around 11am. But who knows maybe next Tuesday I won't be working! They are waiting for the client and are having a meeting on Monday, which is stupid because I wouldn't know if I have to go to work on Tuesday until then. It also mean I cannot book my flight to HK to get my visa done.

When CASE matters

With a programming background I understand that sometimes things are case sensitive and it matters. What I came across today was really beyond me. We had to install a third party tool and the process involves setting an environment variable in Windows. Simple enough we set one up and since we did so successfully in the past the client decided to start it off before I got there. It took pretty much the entire morning and a few emails to support for them to tell us that we had specified our path in UPPER case (eg. D:\DUMB\PATH) and it has to be in lower case (eg. D:\dumb\path). That was the cause of the error we saw when the code decided to turn the path into D:\D:\DUMB\PATH\.. when it saw our specified path in UPPER case. WTF?!?!?! Why would you hard code things like that? Mind you the path name cannot be changed and it has to be a certain name otherwise it will just not work.

Flying here and there

Going to be traveling for work again. Flying out Tuesday night to Malmo, Sweden via Copenhagen and returning on Thursday night. Going to be doing that for the rest of the month. All because the client will be moving to Dusseldorf soon and cannot be bothered building up their support team in Sweden which makes total sense but a bit annoying for me.

Personally, will be going back to Paris this weekend. Can't wait to get some decent food! Hope the weather is nice too! Other than that, next month there is Prague and Oslo planned which will be cool.