EOD 22nd June
Hello readers! A bit of a late one this, had a bit of a password mishap meaning that I couldn't get to our internal forums (I'm posting this from home) but Tommo has saved the day by emailing me the EOD submissions - woo hoo! So on with the (late) show... Here's Mand with todays Comms update - what day is it again Mand?
I don't know why I always end up doing the EOD on Mondays, cos I'm not keen on the Mondayness of it all and they tend to be short and not very cheery. But anyway, on with the show. Chris did some forum work and he and Matt continued work on the sekrit projekt. It's shaping up very well, and we'll hopefully be able to fill you in very soon. Bob has been testing some hardware, and reviewing some customer mails, as well as some forum work. I've been experiencing the joys of Excel, and my day has been taken up with some data analysis, and fixing of broken/missing components. James skived after moving house this weekend. All in all a not very exciting Monday. Mention to Tommo's latest blog, where we broke the record for iPlayer usage last night - We don't think it's the real Stig either. Have a good one.
Moving swiftly on, it's Nick from the Web Team...
Now don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of warm weather, but it's muggy, sticky days like this when I'm glad of our office's cool air con. The temperature’s nicely chilled. Just like the Web Team guys have been... ...that was until Gary’s shocking admission earlier that he apparently models himself on the character 'Cole Trickle' (Tom Cruise) from the 1990 racing film Days of Thunder!! Wow. Quite a thing to spill out. Actually, the rest of us can see the similarity. (I'm not chuckling as I type this, honestly GaryAnyway, onto what we've all been busy with today... Gary (or simply 'Trickle' as he'll now be known) has been doing some design work on new pages, reviewing James' code, preparing for the next seasons racing, and "dropping the hammer". I think this Days of Thunder/Gary thing has got some mileage (no pun intended). Phil says he's "been mercilessly teasing Trickle" about his racing idol. Phil's also been 'coding it up' with plenty of code reviews and writing code too. He's lived and breathed the stuff today. And drunk Diet Coke, as always. Bless. Jonny and Duffy have been doing the meeting 'hokey cokey' so we've not seen a great deal of them of any length of time today. On to Mark..."I've been working on project updates; tweaking and changing bits and pieces, here and there. I've received feedback from Nick, whose trusty word scalpel is always ready to trim flabby words. I've copiously drunk tea and eaten one biscuit. Typical Monday" And lastly myself, (I don't really have a word scalpel, honestly). I've had a couple of meetings, two biscuits with my tea, been working with Marketing on some nice new pages, plus I've also been helping James with some rollouts and general bug fixing. All in all a humid and humourous Monday. Toodle pip people!
I haven't seen Days of Thunder for many a year, but I remember it being a poor mans version of Top Gun with cars instead of planes.. Am I correct? Finally here's Neil from Networks
Contrary to what others think I don't think the weather is anything near humid. It's not even that warm... just dull and miserable up North today (if you want humid I recommend Atlanta, GA). Anyway the weather aside, the heat is on as always in Networks as we battle against evil spammers and ensure our mail platform does not suffer. There has been the working of regular problems and escalated customer tickets. Aside from that the data centre move project which is ongoing continues to be a main focus with lots of people working on this. Here is hoping for some sun tomorrow!
And that's a wrap, see you soon!