I am dutifully buried under a workload or DOOM. I have to make an effort or everything will fall into pieces. Hence, I am taking a self-imposed break until next week. Will be back as soon as the horison clears. I will be checking LJ but probably won't have any time for commenting. I am sure I'll get it all conquered and I do love my job so ( Read more... )

1. It has been a while since the work was as busy as now. I am doing about 20 systems at once. I work as a database programmer in one of the UK Universities, looking after University's bigger systems (they are mostly made by other companies) and writing some smaller ones. I love the job , I always have, I am one of these lucky people who "find the ( Read more... )

Having successfully once again conquered Google Calendar Application Programming Interface by fixing the problems we had with our Uni's student timetables uploads into the Google Calendar I am feeling quite good. But I am also very tired and brain-dead now so I am celebrating by watching all the episodes of the "True Blood" season 2 in one go. My ( Read more... )

GRRRRRRR! Google released an upgrade to the Calendar Application Programming Interface on Wednesday 16.09.2009 which affected quite negatively some things in our uploads of student timetables into their Google calendars. It is also my fault because I should have incorporated certain checks from the very beginning but as sometimes it happens, I didn ( Read more... )

We have survived the launch of the Project. It all went very very smooth. Too smooth. :D I feel relieved but at the same time .. strange ( Read more... )

I have been doing too much working from home lately, as in not having enough time for TV and LJ. :D This doesn't seem to be right and needs to be rectified! I am in the middle of user testing on a big project and to be honest the end is not nigh. But I am sure we will get through, we just need to keep digging.

I didn't have enough time to watch ( Russia/Spain properly )

Oh, I completely forgotten about this one - it has been two years since I joined LJ! I was reminded about it by ginger001's post (my mind works in strange ways) who joined LJ almost at the same time and who is my oldest LJ friend. I raise a glass of virtual champagne to say huge "thank you" to all you ladies and gentleman on my friends list who been kind, ( Read more... )