Robinb's diary

Yep - I made a nickname for myself here at work, 'Boss' and I will explain why.

I was in a meeting with about 55 people from our department. My boss was heading this meeting (and is the most senoir in the room, and probably the whole floor) and as it is a quartly meeting, all the new recuits had to introduce themselves, incuding me.

So my boss said 'lets start with... Robin as I know him'

My reply: 

'Hello, My name is Robin, from the university of Portsmouth doing an intern year, working as David's Boss'  [David being my boss]

Slight error - I just said I was the boss of the most senoir guy in the room, and floor... Everyone went up in hersterics - took 5 minutes to get everyone back to normal! Ment to say 'working as dave's assistant' Well, its one way to break the ice in the meeting, and one way to break the ice of meeting new people. So, walked into the office today, and everyone that was in the morning is now saying 'morning boss'..

Still, you got to laugh!

Robinb

Wow, its that time again... already.. and for me, its going to be hurrendious... Whilst you lot are having fun in tents, flashing your money to clubs to join, making new friends, I will be at work. Coding. Wow, if that does not make someones day, then I don't know what will...

Last year I had a blast with the freshers fair, on the Paintball stand. made some fantastic friends who I will never forget, got people to realise it was a sport as well as recreational, and the atmosphere of it... well, I never been to anything like it with students.

And I am going to miss it. Something I really look forward to, and I have to miss it! Lifes crual in the working world.

In any case, enough about the sad part, now to the boring part of what I am actually doing up at 1am when I have to waky up in 4 hours for work. Well, my TFT decided it would be fun to blow up and flicker anyone who walks past it. So spent a while setting up a new monitor, and installing RealVNC onto all my computers (I have a few in here, and now I am a monitor short, I will need to get the desktop control of all of them. Good thing really, as now instead of running around the place, all I have to do is sit on my bed and shutdown the computers remotly. Make sure they turn off with pings, and presto!). Also going to go into SVN to version all my work. And it ain't just code that I am going to backup :) I have recently learnt it can do all fgiles, therefor I can backup coursework writian parts, version them, and save key parts, without calling them many file names.  Brilliant.

Works still great. The journey is now drilling me. I wake up, and its dark. I get to the underground, and its about to break day. I hit the tube, get to wirk and (thankfully) its light. But, when I get home after, its dark. I don't like it :S But still, I was prepaired. Setting my alarm 15 minutes earlier to make sure I get up. Cannot wait till it snows on the car, thats going to add some time :(

Right. Bed. Going to start that podcast I was talking about (I think) earlier. I have some music files that a great old friend gave to me that I am going to use as backing.  Only problem is, I have not found a great DJ mixer program thats free. Sony's Acid Xpress is ok - not what I need. I require Sourceforge, but it costs $300. If anyone has any great suggestions, then please let me know. I could really use some decent DJ mixing software.

L8R

Robinb