Just started working for a new company again, my 5th now. While I did enjoy consulting, it was probably time to move on. Current work is still very similar to what I was previously doing–talk with people, find out what is needed and provide a solution. Couple of people have suggested that the PM title we hold is inaccurate, we’re more of ‘meeting’ specialists as we spend over half the day in meetings. Sheesh.
I’ve let go of one of the sites I was managing before I took on this new job. I was actually brooding on whether to make a full site redesign as it was looking dated, hopefully the new admin will take care of that. Scratch that last idea, I just checked and based on what has been updated, things do not look that promising. When work stabilizes, I might just volunteer again, I just prefer not to commit to something I would not be able to do.
Still getting used to Windows 7—eye candy indeed. With this monster of a PC, Photoshop does instant changes, but there’s nothing much to edit. I have long given up on scanning, translating, and editing manga. It was a great way to learn PS, but it eats up too much time. Been a while since work officially sponsored my copy of PS. Those were fun days.
Boss: Can you edit this so that the kiosk is orange. (Original picture is slightly tilted, taken against the light, and the column-like kiosk is of a blue gradient.)
Me: Sure (whispers to self: what choice do I have, can’t very well tell my boss’s boss to take better quality pictures.)
Another one:
Boss: Can you take out the guy who is seated in front of this crowd … and make it look like nothing was missing?
Me: Sure! 4 hours later… Finally done!
On another note, I miss writing and emails do not count.
ETA: Already have it!
I’ve built a new PC again. After 4 years of being on a laptop, I’ll be back on a desktop.
This was my planned build. (This post was drafted back in March!)
| MB: |
MSI H55M-E33 H55 |
| CPU: |
i3 530 2.93 Ghz |
| RAM: |
2 GB Kingston |
| VC: |
Inno3d 9800GT 1gb/256bit ddr3 |
| CASE: |
Themaltake v3 |
| HDD: |
1 TB Seagate SATA 32mb |
| PSU: |
OCZ 600W ModXStream Pro Power Supply |
| Monitor: |
Samsung P2370g |
| DVD Burner: | Samsung (SH-S223) 22X |
This is what I ended up with.
| MB: |
EVGA |
| CPU: |
i5 750 2.66 Ghz (Yes, it’s a quad) |
| RAM: |
4 GB Team Elite |
| VC: |
ATI 5770 1GB |
| CASE: |
Coolermaster 690 Pure Black |
| HDD: |
1 TB Seagate SATA 32mb |
| PSU: |
OCZ 700W ModXStream Pro Power Supply |
| Monitor: |
Samsung P2270g (one inch smaller) |
| DVD Burner: | Samsung (SH-S223) 22X |
WoW is running indeed!
After more than a year of this blog going on hiatus, I should start it up again.
Why did I stop in the first place? To concentrate on finishing school. Now, been there, done that. Yey!
Here begins another chapter. =)
I know I’ve been putting off reformatting both my work laptop and my home laptop, but it seems that my home laptop is giving me warnings. Last night, it refused to read my archive DVDs and even plain old CDs. I was looking for a copy of Star Trek Voyager’s last episode. I knew I had one on DVD, it was just under a big stack of other videos. After a few minutes of sorting through the stack that was labeled as TV series (I really should make more specific labels), I found it.
Tried to play it on my home laptop, after it finished burning off some more stuff, but it wouldn’t. Tried a random DVD and still it wouldn’t! Nearly fainted at the idea of replacing my DVD drive. A replacement was not listed in the budget since I’m saving up for a new HDD. Yikes. While I was sorting through options, I restarted my home laptop. Lo and behold, the drive worked again.
Dunno if it was a windows glitch or anything like that, but it at least it worked again. It was scarier than any movie I’ve ever seen.
Supposed to be working from home today, but working at a coffee shop. Productivity is slightly higher here only because there are a few neighbors up with their hammers doing renovation work.Most of the coffee shops here now have a disclaimer on their counters relating to the Melamine news. Even with a minimum purchase to get internet access, this shop still has around 4-5 people online at a time. Interesting combination. Considering the economy and the scary milk news.
After working for non-stop for a while, decided to take a break and update a few posts on various sites I maintain. Note that maintain here means that content doesn’t come from me, but from a pool of writers and update means sanitize, arrange and reformat the content so that it looks and sounds good enough to be posted. Some of the content still isn’t fit to be posted, I’ll get back to them on another break.
Good thing I’m almost done with the school requirements for this semester, just a few more days and we get to the semestral break. Yey!
Work-side, I’ve been tinkering with a few opensource software like PhpBB. It’s been a while since I touched a forum and administered one. Now, I have to build one from the ground up with several mods. I’m planning to integrate PhpBB with a few Google Apps. Maybe I’ll post a how-to here once I’m done.
I’m also tinkering with Word a lot these days to shorten the time I use to format things for the office. Formatting has been speedier with the templating engine we use, but when the content comes from different sources, sanitation becomes quite a task.
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