Saturday, March 11, 2006

The joys of the internet

Wow, its only been 2 days and I'm already doing another entry, who would have thought it possible!

What a weekend, my DBA at work leaves, no new one hired yet but plenty of interviews this week. Still no Weblogic expert hired, but a few in this week for interviews. Still not found another Linux guy, but more interviews this week as well. So JP is a hectic and disorganised as ever!


Finally got sat down with Gerry to discuss MyLittleWebServer Ltd services and future, should prove... fruitful! Lets see how the next few weeks pan out and maybe we will see the birth of a new Eurpoean hosting/services powerhouse... or myabe just some beer tokens!

After 8 weeks of planning we finally got to meet Shirley and Chentil in Southall at the Roxy for some authentic Indian food, very nice. It was a bit too spicy for Naomi, so she ended up with Yoghurt and rice soup instead of curry!!!!

Thursday, March 9, 2006

So much for good intentions!

Well after my last(and first!) post I guess I'm a bit lame... as theres been a month or so since that post. Oh well! Thats what you get for being a home owner and Operations Manager for an international business.

I spent most of last week drowning in sawdust and paint, while I replaced some rotten floorboards in the kitchen, replaced the cushion floor and then helped Naomi paint the kitchen a nice shade of blue. I finally managed to get the washer to not sound like a 767 taking off down the road at Heathrow, success!!!!

This weeks been spent going from one disaster to another at work and having absolutely no success in hiring a new DBA for my team, our current one leaves tomorrow which leaves us a bit exposed, but I did just book 15 or so interviews for next week, so surely I can find one good one...

I've also spent the week harrassing the council(who own the lease on our building) nd trying to get some value for my extortionate service charge, not doing bad so far, at least 4 problems have been sorted, now I just need to get some money out of them, should be an interesting phone call tomorrow.

Enough of my dull, boring chatter for one day, I'm off to listen to a bit more Aerosmith and to relax before bed at 11pm. Hopefully it'll be less than a month until my next post.