not dead… I really am not dead, despite what you may think. In fact, I’m very much here. Still working on my play, still working on my stuff… just forgetting to update here very often.
Just been handed a copy of IT Week by my boss.
I guess that’s an excuse to read it for a bit.

The Fear. Well, today I feel a whole lot more relaxed about things here, and it looks like we will be getting around 2 grand from all of this, which will nicely pay off my credit card.
Today will be quickly finishing off this Org Tracker work for Davie, followed by much work on NHSIAcal – my wonderful calendar thing that will revolutionise the way we work with calendars or something. Discussions with Howard about the favelet are still going on, looking to expand on it. Apparently I’ll maybe even get to write something in Computing or Computer Weekly about it… so, maybe I could be famous again.
I’ve been listening to ‘This is Hardcore’ at work for the past week, because Catatonia was bugging Rob.

That’s how my favelet for querying our internal library was described today. Amazingly this comment actually seemed to make my day feel a bit better, especially considering how crap it’d felt since this morning.
However, time will tell.

It gets better. It looks like it might be far far less than 2 grand now. It might be as low as 600 quid.

As of about 4pm yesterday, tornado went live internally. Anyone with a connection to NHSnet should have no problems accessing it – the next step is the World Wide Web implementation. That’ll be a lot of fun, hopefully our poor server can take it.
The more I use Safari the more I find other browsers, even Moz, annoying…

It has tabbed browsing, i can’t wait to get to play with it.

Jim is moaning about me and my lacking of updates. the bastard.

Today is my first day in the office since Tuesday morning, no major problems, and a bit of positive news on the blogging front. It’s good that we have someone like Ben on our side. As a result of the IAMC, I now have a (better) understanding of how things I do really affect the NHS as a whole. Hopefully I’ll go again next year, circumstances permitting. A few interesting conversations to come from the IAMC evening part-y, including a chance to present my licensing free solutions to the board, which could be a great great thing if it happens.
Sadly, I also learned today that we’re getting the MS CMS, which really didn’t strike me as the best tool for the job, but it’s Microsoft, so it must be good right?
Issues like Accessibility, Price, Standards Compliance don’t seem to matter anymore. One thing that came out of the IAMC is I’ve changed my opinion, I used to think that managers and management were bad, now I think that effective management and proactive managers, can actually aid software development, then I realised that these kind of people do already exist, in Beth, who fights my corner and generally fends off bad things.
“tornado” goes live next week, if you’re already on NHSNet, you already have access 🙂
In the other world, Microsoft have bought the Virtual PC software from Connectix, and they’re now working at the Mac Business Unit – I should feel lucky that I still can run x86 Linux on PowerPC.
Apple also pushed out Mac OS X 10.2.4 update via Software Update, a 41Mb download – thank heavens for broadband. No problems at all, unlike the nightmare I had with 10.2.3.

Today is the big blogging meeting at work – i have an awful lot of stuff to suggest. i just hope it goes okay.

Tornado testing is going well… i’m working on a bunch of bits and pieces to tidy up some loose ends.