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kirkcudbright1) As of last Tuesday, I'm no longer working for a manager in Alameda, California; I've officially transferred back to working for Cris Shuldiner, a friend from college and former housemate, whose office is about 15' from mine. Of course, on the actual day, Jan (my now-ex-manager) was on vacation, Cris was in Alameda at a managers' meeting, and I was up at the University of New Hamptshire.
2) After a year and a half of working for Alameda, preceded by a year and a half of being on loan to Alameda, I'm being loaned out to Calgary, Alberta. The reason I transferred back to Nashua was not because I love device management, but because I hate remote collaboration. It's important to me to be proximate to my cow-orkers, even more than to proximate to my management.
2.5) But here I am in Calgary for the remainder of the week. At least I gave myself a free Saturday; I'm going to go horse-back riding in the Rockies.
2.7) I get all my news from NPR and the BBC, so I like to think I'm pretty well informed about what's going on in the world. Imagine my surprise to find out that Canada is having a national election on Monday. I haven't heard a breath of it on the radio, and it's been strangely absent from the BBC's world news website. Guess I'm going to have to start following the CBC.
3) Gonna resume posting about my UK bike trip, though at this point it pales next to Johanna's Croatian photo-essay.
2) After a year and a half of working for Alameda, preceded by a year and a half of being on loan to Alameda, I'm being loaned out to Calgary, Alberta. The reason I transferred back to Nashua was not because I love device management, but because I hate remote collaboration. It's important to me to be proximate to my cow-orkers, even more than to proximate to my management.
2.5) But here I am in Calgary for the remainder of the week. At least I gave myself a free Saturday; I'm going to go horse-back riding in the Rockies.
2.7) I get all my news from NPR and the BBC, so I like to think I'm pretty well informed about what's going on in the world. Imagine my surprise to find out that Canada is having a national election on Monday. I haven't heard a breath of it on the radio, and it's been strangely absent from the BBC's world news website. Guess I'm going to have to start following the CBC.
3) Gonna resume posting about my UK bike trip, though at this point it pales next to Johanna's Croatian photo-essay.
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Date: 2004-06-23 06:52 am (UTC)One of the problems with remote collaboration is that your co-workers are too far away to bop on their heads if they make a mistake.
Guess I'm going to have to start following the CBC.
You can listen to CBC Radio (http://radio.cbc.ca) on the Internet. I really like their Radio One news show: As It Happens (http://www.cbc.ca/aih/) (on weekdays at 6:30pm, EST). AIH is a bit different from standard radio news shows. Instead of just reporting on the news with a few sound bites, they interview people involved with the news items. Some of the the Classic Clips (http://www.cbc.ca/aih/classics.html) are worth listening (especially the one about the frozen chicken).
Nightly from 1am-6am CBC Radio One carries news programs from Holland, Germany, Australia, and other countries.
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Date: 2004-06-23 08:24 am (UTC)aw, thanks :)
i wanna see what you've been up to though!