December 2006 Archives

So I'm at the airport. Left lots of time to get here so checked in 3 hours before my flight, and now they say our plane is not airworthy. So they're getting a new one from the hangar that came in from RIo yesterday. If it is clean then we will leave half an hour late, if not then add another half an hour to tidy it up (so they don't always clean them when they come in? seems odd). I'm not hopeful, it's after an hour delay when they start saying that we've lost our slot and it'll be another hour, etc.

I seem to have missed a few days here, but really not a lot happened. The work has been slowly progressing - 2 steps forward, 1 step back - and is not that interesting. Which leaves the evenings, which as before are, get some food, read a little, go to bed early.

Well today we finally started looking at real integration issues. It doesn't do what it's meant to, it crashes and it's far too slow. So there's a bit of work to do. The delay means that I've been asked to stay a few more days though and work over the weekend. I've agreed, 'cos clearly I'm needed. Also I've been told not to bother coming back into work before Christmas when I get back.

Which is nice.

Finally some real work, today. i.e. sitting round making helpful suggestions whilst someone else tries to get your code running. We;'e getting there, but tomorrow we should be where we expected to be on Monday.

Another day, and they're starting to blur already. We're getting close to the point where I might have to do some real work.

So first day of work. Up at 6:30am, a pretty good breakfast buffet (including an omelette station) and then the shuttle to SA along with a bunch of Indian subcontractors.

Well I'm off on business again, so time to blog again. I have a feeling that this time it might actually involve some late nights as there's a deadline involved - so I might not get to do this every night.