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The last...

April 9, 2008 | No Comments Posted

Where there's a first, there has to be a last. Simple as that. Not that anyone actually read this thing anyway.

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I started work a week or so ago, and I just got my first paycheck there yesterday. Kudos to Progressive Placements limited for sorting out the Tax situation beforehand. At least...I think they did.

Work is proving interesting in a way I hadn't expected. It might be because I seem to gel well with my colleagues. I've actually got a good supervisor who knows what he's doing, and knows how to get the best from those around him. He's sort of the anti-PHB in many ways.

Whod've thought.

There's such a good atmosphere in the place...not like a certain other cubicle farm out in Leixlip, Co. Kildare where the corporate culture is so rigid and imagineered, you'll either end up as another drone, or running riot with a machine gun. In my case probably the second...

Lets hope I still feel the same way in September.

Anyway, you wouldn't believe the amount of work that actually goes into making the lightbulb above your head turn on each time you flick the switch. The grid is vast and infinite...

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I'm actually getting stuff done. I've found my spirit coming back recently...it might show when you see the next thing I'm working on. Keep yous're eyes peeled.

Well, if anybody is actually reading this thing. Thanks for reading so far. So long.
-Dartz

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Politics

April 5, 2008 | No Comments Posted

There's too much of gouing on in the back-end here... that I can't see and it's unsettling. This place is easily going to end up with to many chiefs, and not enough braves. Which while funny, won't exactly be very healthy. I cn't help but feel that the whole lot will end up in a 'nice boat' ending at some stage....

Trying to develope a seperate identity for  EFO and recover the site. Problem is...how in the hell can we have a seperate identity, when both sites share pretty much the exact same administration...

I hate what's going on...I really do. I feel like it's going to blow up in everyones faces.
 

-Dartz 

Work is...okay...

April 1, 2008 | No Comments Posted

So, I'm settling in here, right? Sit down at my own desk, with my own PC, and a restrictive web policy. I work with good people, friendly and willing to answer questions.

Even if the only work I've done so far is sit at my desk and read books, trying to understand what's going on.

Either way, this is beginning to seem like something I can do...

With luck, guts and effort and all that. And they gave me a cool hardhat, hi-viz and work boots. Well moar like loaned actually...Now, if anybody knows anything about fault protection on grid systems, please let me know.

-Dartz

Work tomorrow...

March 30, 2008 | No Comments Posted

Well, it's my first day of work tomorrow on my paid internship. First Day of First job. Fucking hell I hope I don't bollick it up. The lights go out in half of cork if I do..

-Dartz 

Group Work !==Fun.

March 18, 2008 | No Comments Posted

I officially HATE my goddamned mobots group. They come to me this morning, complaining that the code I spent two weeks writing doesn't work... I shrug, and ask them what happened when they tested it. It'd never been run before in it's entirety, so I knew there were glitches.


The robot goes crazy when we try to start it, they said.

How so? I ask. Bit more information would be helpful.
 

Well, it didn't make the first turn right the first time we ran it, the say. Just spinned around. It went wild the second time we ran it, and only got worse each time we tried to fix it.

I get worried...really worried. Fix it, they'd said. These people who know as much about coding as I know about interpersonal relationships...i.e. fuck all. I'm no genius programmer meself, but I got the bloody thing done, and had put a hell of a lot of effort into doing so.

 
 Well, can I see the code then? I say., a quiver of nervousness rising up my throat.


It appears on screen... a grotesque mishmashed sea of random characters, and even randomer randoms. I read it, taking a few seconds to try and make heads or tails of it, sigh a little, then take a deep breath....

WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO!!?? I scream

There was a load of useless stuff, so we deleted it, they answer nonchalantly. A lot of stuff you just repeated.

Repeated?

Yeah, repeated. Like asking for functions and stuff you've already written earlier. We deleted all that excess crap. It's much smaller and faster now.
 

I blink. Did you backup? I ask


Why? the ask in return. This is better. Why bother saving the old version?

The sound I made, was something like a lemming getting squashed. A sort tooth-gritting of Grrrrkkk


How??!! How the fuck is this better? You deleted the MAIN function! I yell. And tha'ts not all I yelled. I point the muppets to the whole readme I'd done up, explaining just *why* I did everything the way I did it, *how* it all works together and how goddamned fucking stupid they were for not reading it before chaging things at random. No wonder it wouldn't make the turns if you deleted the bloody turning function. No wonder it wouldn't read the passenger if you removed thefunction call for that. It shouldn't have even run at all without the main function, but through some unknown sorcery, some 'wizard did it' magick it did. 


Well, you can fix it there easy enough, can't you? they ask, calm as anything.


Yes! I snap, but it'll take a bloody long time to do...


Well, you'd better get working, we'll be in the pub if you need us, they say.


I want them all dead. I want them shot. I want them hung. I want them roasted alive in a Brazen Bull. I want them to suffer for an enternity in  hell for it. I want to stab them in the back with the pencil on the desk. I want to smash the mobot  over their  fucking heads for messing and meddling with things I put so much effort into. I want to rape their fucking mothers and murder their fathers for it.


But I'm too bloody hungover to give a shit and actually *do* anything... I just sigh, and get to work.  Thank fuck for having my own backup, I tell myself. Even if it is out of date by a bit.


I hope the bastard's pints are flat.

My hair is falling out now. University Group work is so much fun

-Dartz