Work and Life
Jun. 12th, 2003 11:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lostcarparkHad my Interum Review this morning. Went better than I expected. We agreed that we'd underestimated the data conversion aspect of the current project, and that it really should have had a dedicated person working just on that. Overall I'm on track for my yearly objectives. I didn't get the grilling I was expecting for too much internet usage - my manager admitted he does it too when he's procrastinating.
Have department night out tonight. It's a chinese theme, with martial art demos, which could be amusing. The invite had instructions for making an Origami Crane, which worked much better once I figured out that the middle column reads upwards. We get a free drink for successfully making it from the invite. After which I promptly forgot where it takes place, and had to find someone else's invite to check...
My friend Pugwash is having computer problems. It's hard drive was badly corrupted. This is distressing for him as he's completing an album deal in Australia, and there's a lot of stuff on it he needs. The "recovery disk" that came with the PC will only restore it to factory settings, which will lose all his data. We don't want that. Tried to do a fresh install of XP, but it said the hard disk was too corrupt to install without formatting. Opened case, removed hard drive, reconfigured as slave, inserted in my PC, spent over an hour running chkdsk. Copied all readable files to my hard drive and burnt to CD. This is why there are multiple computer cases strewn around my bedroom floor.
I'm also helping Robert build a gaming machine. The question is, how do you get extreme gaming performance for not very much money? Built him a nice Athlon 2200+. Got the final piece of the jigsaw, the graphics card, a Radeon 9500 Pro. At €251 (inc VAT), it's the most expensive piece of the machine, but boy does it fly! He was running games and turning up all the graphic detail, and they were looking rather stunning.
Hopefully Angie isn't to pissed off at me for not paying very much attention to her. Sorry.
Anyway, back to work now. Enough of this procrastination!
Have department night out tonight. It's a chinese theme, with martial art demos, which could be amusing. The invite had instructions for making an Origami Crane, which worked much better once I figured out that the middle column reads upwards. We get a free drink for successfully making it from the invite. After which I promptly forgot where it takes place, and had to find someone else's invite to check...
My friend Pugwash is having computer problems. It's hard drive was badly corrupted. This is distressing for him as he's completing an album deal in Australia, and there's a lot of stuff on it he needs. The "recovery disk" that came with the PC will only restore it to factory settings, which will lose all his data. We don't want that. Tried to do a fresh install of XP, but it said the hard disk was too corrupt to install without formatting. Opened case, removed hard drive, reconfigured as slave, inserted in my PC, spent over an hour running chkdsk. Copied all readable files to my hard drive and burnt to CD. This is why there are multiple computer cases strewn around my bedroom floor.
I'm also helping Robert build a gaming machine. The question is, how do you get extreme gaming performance for not very much money? Built him a nice Athlon 2200+. Got the final piece of the jigsaw, the graphics card, a Radeon 9500 Pro. At €251 (inc VAT), it's the most expensive piece of the machine, but boy does it fly! He was running games and turning up all the graphic detail, and they were looking rather stunning.
Hopefully Angie isn't to pissed off at me for not paying very much attention to her. Sorry.
Anyway, back to work now. Enough of this procrastination!
