Man, now that I've "come back" (like everyone else), I've been trying to keep up with the activity feed, but I really can't keep up. I miss a day, and I can't possibly catch up on the conversations.

In 64D news, us developers have decided to take a big step that should shave about 4 or 5 years off of v3's development. =)

I'm trying to get acquanted with the files in v2 again, to figure out what files we don't need anymore, and it's kind of scary.

I don't know what half the files do, and when I read them, they do incredibly obscure stuff. There's one file that simply resets a certain user's password to a random password every time it's loaded. It's bizare.

And some of these files are a little hard to read, so I load the files in my browser to see what they look like…

After seeing the file that resets someone's password, I'm a little scared to do this. XD

In boring work news, I work in IT for a shipping company called Canpar Transport.

We were recently awarded a contract to do all of the shipping for the government of Ontario.

I don't feel like writing out the full story and all the problems this is causing, but we're a very small IT group - already severely understaffed.

Come September 1st, we're going to have TWELVE THOUSAND more accounts to support (there's about 10 of us in IT in total), and of those twelve thousand, there's at least two different people doing the shipping, which doubles the 12k people we have to support.

We also provide shipping systems to major accounts (computer, scale, thermal printers, etc), so there's 160 locations with who-knows-how-many systems actually being installed in them. (The most we've seen at one location is 7 systems). The government is horribly bureaucratic, so it's next to impossible to schedule our techs to go in there to setup the system, much less find out how many systems to bring, who they need to train, etc.

All these systems "need" to be in by Sept 1st, but the government offices sure aren't helping us. We have 5 people setting up these systems, and we were given two weeks to do it (the 1st week is almost over, and thanks to government office stonewalling, we don't have nearly half installed), and next week we'll be down to 4 people.

But the government has acknowledged that it's they're fault it's taking so long, so whatever. It's only tax payer money they'll be blowing on Purolator shipping rates that are skyrocketing in September. (Puro was weird. They had the contract with the Gov for 30 years, and then we win the contact and within a month Puro goes scorched-earth and tells the government "you're not getting a disocunt come Sept 1st - your rates are going up 70%, and we'll be pulling out as many of our systems as we can so you can't ship". It's insane on puro's part)

Aaaanyway, I'm having fun with this v3 sutff, so I'm gonna get back to that.

Edit: Funny story. I was incredibly late for work (1.5 hours - long story), and my boss wasn't in. Someone had gotten him a coffee, but he went to a meeting first thing in the morning, and wasn't getting back until around noon.

Someone from another department who didn't know he was out, brought him a coffee, and left it on his desk.

I took the coffee. =D

It's ilke I'm just begging to be fired, haha.

btw, being late for work isn't my style.

Teasing my boss, and stealing his coffee is my style.