Later in the afternoon I did some shopping while mia_mcdavid took a nap. I then made one of the changes to the post drill that I had thought of last night. Then a shower, and off to work. Fortunately, that just meant a trip to the basement, where, with a cable modem and VPN, it is almost like going downtown.
Yesterday at work I downloaded a 96MB file from a vendor web site in Texas to my workstation on the 19th floor of our building. It took about 5 minutes. Today I tried to copy it from my workstation to a server in the Data Center, in the basement. The first time I tried a windows copy. It timed out after about 20 minutes. My second try used FTP, which allowed me to monitor the progress. I killed the process after about two hours, after calculating that it would not finish until over 42 hours had elapsed. I then logged on to the server, connected to the vendor site again from there, and downloaded the file directly to the server. It took about 5 minutes this time as well. Silly cartograhical and mathematical musings
I was doing a database task for someone in another department, and I had to ask him a question. I have known him for years, but did not recall his phone number. I found it in the official online phone book, with the title:
Jedi Knight Programmer
(He really is very good).
From our Building Operations Manager:
Property Services is in the process of investigating a water leak in the A-Tower. In order to investigate this further, all water in A-Tower has been shut off, which includes the restrooms. We apologize for the incontinence, please use the restrooms in C-Tower until further notice.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 