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Miscellaneous Post
Feb. 24th, 2004 11:54 pmSo I haven't posted in a while now, largely because I didn't for a few days, and then kept thinking "oh, damn, I'd have to play catch-up, and what would I say?"
So very little catch-up at all. Suffice it to say, I am temping (assisting with a transition from one bad database to another) in the extreme reaches of NE Philadelphia, about two blocks from not being in Philadelphia anymore. The job is boring since the staff doesn't know how to treat a temp -- they don't understand that they can't just give me fifteen minutes of work and then go off for three hour meetings; I can only do what they tell me to do. Also, they are the worst typists I have ever met and don't understand the databases they're using.
The new, theoretically-sexy database is a Datastream db -- meaning it's hosted on Datastream servers and gets slower as the Java cache fills up. It often runs about twenty keystrokes behind me, and sometimes as much as a hundred. Pain in the right royal. Also, the DB is designed so that some functions cannot be completed without using the mouse, and uses the function keys as primary, well, function keys, apparently as part of a secret agenda to keep you from getting a hundred keystrokes ahead of the database so you won't notice how slow it is.
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Oh, and I am thrilled with SF and Gavin Newsom right now. (Newsom's response to AHnold telling him to shut down the same-sex marriage licensing -- that Ahnold should come down and see the happiness that is SF City Hall because it's "an extraordinary, exhilarating experience, which I think can change hearts and minds.'' -- is nearly as cute as gay penguins. Nearly.) Certainly it's not "real" at this point, but most of the struggle for gay rights has been bitter and unpleasant and involved people dying, and this is just such a celebration of love and commitment and happiness that it makes me all sniffly.
And probably I had other things to say, but now it's late, so I'll have to think of them later.
So very little catch-up at all. Suffice it to say, I am temping (assisting with a transition from one bad database to another) in the extreme reaches of NE Philadelphia, about two blocks from not being in Philadelphia anymore. The job is boring since the staff doesn't know how to treat a temp -- they don't understand that they can't just give me fifteen minutes of work and then go off for three hour meetings; I can only do what they tell me to do. Also, they are the worst typists I have ever met and don't understand the databases they're using.
The new, theoretically-sexy database is a Datastream db -- meaning it's hosted on Datastream servers and gets slower as the Java cache fills up. It often runs about twenty keystrokes behind me, and sometimes as much as a hundred. Pain in the right royal. Also, the DB is designed so that some functions cannot be completed without using the mouse, and uses the function keys as primary, well, function keys, apparently as part of a secret agenda to keep you from getting a hundred keystrokes ahead of the database so you won't notice how slow it is.
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Oh, and I am thrilled with SF and Gavin Newsom right now. (Newsom's response to AHnold telling him to shut down the same-sex marriage licensing -- that Ahnold should come down and see the happiness that is SF City Hall because it's "an extraordinary, exhilarating experience, which I think can change hearts and minds.'' -- is nearly as cute as gay penguins. Nearly.) Certainly it's not "real" at this point, but most of the struggle for gay rights has been bitter and unpleasant and involved people dying, and this is just such a celebration of love and commitment and happiness that it makes me all sniffly.
And probably I had other things to say, but now it's late, so I'll have to think of them later.
