The big boys are all here now. Before they arrived men in combat clothing with sniffer dogs did a lap of the building. They came in here (the Internet Lounge) and sniffed around in the plants and stuff. One of them went behind the scenes and knocked the power out to all the laptops. We only noticed as they all starting going to power-save mode. Apart from that everything seems to be running ok.

So far I have spent most of my time telling people who come in with their own laptops how to install the drivers for our printer. Note that I only tell them as I am not allowed to physically touch their PCs. I can only "advise" on how they might do something. The problem with this is that I find it so hard to say no. Yesterday a lady came in who needed to print an "important" document that was on an IBM MicroDrive. She dropped a couple of names and mentioned it was for the Director General CEO of European Operations (or something). I just thought "it's not worth the hassle to say no" and I stuck it in one of the laptops.

Last night I finished my shift at midnight after starting at 9:30am! I'm enjoying it though. We get to move about and do different things which helps the time pass. One things for sure - I am not destined to be an executive. These guys work! They were still in here ordering coffees and working away at midnight as I left to find a bar to sit in and enjoy a beer.

I brought the "codestore" folder with me, hoping I'd find the time to sort it out. It's where I put links and NSFs that I plan on looking at in more depth and seeing what I can use for this site's content. It grows and grows and I rarely get chance to do anything with it. I was hoping I'd get lots of free time in the evenings here to sort it out and to write some long overdue articles. It turns out I barely have a moment to myself...