It was a day. Truly it was - a day. Work went pretty well, except for things not working. But that's why they keep paying us. We keep trying to make it all work. Anyway, still trying to figure why some stuff is working and some isn't, and then later trying to get good information on what needs to be supported for when.
Very confusing - but luckily Doug was there to help. Well, commiserate anyway. Maybe he didn't help us so much as we irritated him. Or I irritated him... Hopefully it was irritation over the confusing screens, which he heroically tried to describe even though they were confusing and obsolete. Another excellent reason to burn PowerPoint... The report by NASA on the space shuttle Columbia accident pointed to PowerPoint as one of the reasons for the failure. The culture at NASA used to be that the engineers would produce a thick, detailed report on any issues that came up. That changed so that they give PowerPoint presos instead. The problem with these slides is that information is either crammed in (and ignored) or left out because of the format. This lead to the decision-makers not having the right info. Hence the fun of mocking non-life-threatening PowerPoint and thus this segue.
After escaping that, had a good chat with Kevin. Need to do that more often - I've always seemed to have good little work-chats with him. I need to setup something so that I'm sure I'm not taking him away from other tasks. That's why this blog-thang is here - external memory. Guess I will have to remember to read my own blog more often though.
Then off to let people remove my blood. Some of my blood. Found out that CBS (Canadian Blood Services) is trying to get 3000 more units of whole blood from the London office this year. That's a very large amount, considering a single person can only donate every 56 days (8 weeks). The nurse who mentioned it said her first reaction was that the increase seemed large, until they reminded her that a single car crash victim can use 47 units. And that was about the amount they would collect today. So give blood - just don't drive to fast on the way there.
Yes there are other postings I will get to eventually. The ideas are festering, er, written down so I don't lose them. And no they aren't my NFL predictions. And now off to bed to prepare for more hockey tomorrow morning
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Edward Tufte would be rolling in his grave, were he dead.
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