Bad week

It all started yesterday when I missed my morning train to work. Eventually I made it to work around 10.30 knowing that I will have to take a long lunch so I can go sort out some of the bank stuff. When I got to the bank, I spend an hour waiting in the queue just to get an EFTPOS card made for me. So that was most of the day gone. I knew I only really had to do one thing at work - fix a bug in one of the applications and release the update. Easy right? Sure it is as long as you dont do it in a rush. I've managed to fix the bug, test it and release the update. All the clients picked up the update automatically. I thought my day was done. HA! 10 minutes later calls were starting to get through about the app not working, basically crashing on start. It was weird because I've also installed the update and so did lots of other people in out company. It worked fine for them but not for people outside the company. After talking to one of the clients for a good half an hour and getting them to install and re-install the app I basically gave up making up some excuses on why its not working. As soon as I hung up the phone I had the stangest feeling that I knew what was causing the problem. It was such a newbie mistake - I've managed to release a development version of the application instead of the live one. The only difference between the two is that the live connects to the server via a remoting object (like a web service) and the development version connects directly to the server. But the server is not directly accessible from outside the company LAN, hense only the people outside noticed any difference. So I thought - Easy, I'll just release another update with the right configuration file so it connects where its supposed to. What I forgot is that the people affected cant run their applications to get that update.... I only realised that around 11pm that night. Sigh.

Today was a case of deja vu. I sleep in too long (ok thats not that bad) and missed the early train again. Finally released the update to the clients. It was time to do some more development. Unfortunatly my workstation didn't agree. SQL Enterprise Manager refused to start up. It looks like i will spend the whole day today trying to fix that and in the worst case - backing up all the files so I can re-image the workstation.

All I know is that I will look both ways before crossing roads today, if this week keeps following this trend I will most likely end up in the hospital by friday - or worse.

"Television - Teacher, Mother... Secret lover" [Homer Simpson]

Finally after a month of waiting my TV is finally here. Now my life is complete. It got delivered to my work just after lunch - no work has been done since.

In other news:
Apartment now has an internet connection so there is lots of new movies and episodes waiting to be watched.
I tried 2 new sports in the past week - bowling and squash. Bowling was awesome. I was told the speed of the ball wasnt very important but i tried a couple of really fast ones to see what happens. Some of them went over 30km/h
Squash is fun too, already got myself a racket and a club membership. Impulse buying is great.

First Post

OK, I've decided to make a genuine attempt at starting up a blog, so this is officially my first post. I’ll try to keep it short.

This is something new for me – my own little piece of the web. The priority for the next few days is to post some pictures from stuff that happened before this date (to make an illusion that my life didn’t just begin today). The next thing will be to play with the layout of the site, it’s a bit messy right now. The last, and probably the hardest goal would be to do regular posts to keep the site alive.

On a different note, things I’m looking forward to in the next few days:

• Finally getting internet hooked up in the new flat, its been 2 weeks without the net and I don’t think I can handle another one.


• My brand spanking new shiny 42” Plasma is coming next week – movie night every night

That’s all for now folks, time to go grab another coke to keep me going through the rest of the day.

2HOT2 HANDLE

This must be the main reason I went to this show. Ferrari Enzo


Well, ok there might have been another reason...


Wow, amazing, absolutely everything on this car was custom painted


Another great paintjob. ...And those girls are back, its almost as I've been following them :)


I'd love to try parallel park this thing


The drags are about to start


This guy definetly had enough sponsors


Toyota Racing Series car, this is as close to F1 as New Zealand will ever get


Europe: 1, USA: 0


I always loved bikes, too bad I'm 192cm and have to be folded in half to ever fit onto one of these


Rocket car. I knew it was going to be loud but I had no idea just how loud. Car alarms were going off hundreds of meters away, you could feel the shockwaves in the air and in the concrete. I took my eye of it for a sec, the next time I saw it it was half way to the finish line.

Vodafone X-Air

Crazzzyyy...


Dunno why but I just like this picture


Those guys were pretty lucky not to hit each other


And, of course, the main attraction - the bikini competition. This is where I really wish I had one of those 400mm Canon Lenses