End of Day: 15th January

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My, we've all been busy. As usual. It's felt like a productive busy though for me.  It's certainly good to be able to give you a very positive update about the ADSL2+ trials we've been running. And, if you want to volunteer to trial the service yourself, you can now find out more. Read about how to take part and what you might expect in our ADSL2+ trial blog. Let's see what the other folks have been beavering away at today shall we?     Since we don't get to hear from them that often (I'm only joking), let's first let's see what Networks have been up to shall we?  Here's Russ: The elite team that resides in networks were up to the following: Aaron: Working various ticket pools. Simon (pvs-teflon01): Been busy doing the other half of Russ's job today, also new alpha platform and BV mail migration Russ: Worked problems set up monitoring of cronhost printing- doing FULL jobs and being generally awesome. Josh: Bugfixing and testing on the bv mail migration project - Josh loves email ! Lee: Data centre business case rework mainly Ben: Maildb changes in preparation for BV mail migration. GR evac meeting, put new dns scripts live to take maildb changes into account and looked at moving BV MX records to Ironport.Researched AuthDNS lift & shift Michael: GR Evac planning and SSL cert testing Richard: Fixing customer FTP issues, updating documentation, investigating potential IWF filtering problems and fixing internal tools. Duncan: alpha platform mostly, also worked on the GR evac plan John: Managery things (aka - nothing!) Geoff: working on new mail platform, with BV authentication Sarah: Problems and Call Manager platform Mike: Did various levels of nothingness drank tea and sat with Simon to book their hair and nails. This took a while as they didn't have 'grey away' for Si and the right shade of ginger for Gricey Well that's all for now!  Tune in next week - when we find out how Simon and Grice got on.   And if you understood half of that then you should apply to Plusnet careers for a job in Networks.  Let's try Jen in HR.  She's grounded and doesn't talk in acronyms: Okay, I'm bucking the trend here as I usually only do this on a Friday. We're a small team you see and it gets a bit much trying to post every day. Anyway, here we are by special request. Today Barbara and I have mainly been working on collating the data for the Employee Opinion Survey results and we've also been compiling staff details. Barbs has been checking who has got staff broadband accounts and I've also been working on transport and accommodation bookings. As well as doling out free SWFC tickets to a handful of lucky people. Gemma has been busy in meetings for a lot of the day, including a visit from one of the agencies from our PSL. Amanda has been working from home on MDLP items and Performance Reviews amongst other things. We always know when Amanda is working from home because she's like a woman on a mission and troops through things so we have to try to keep pace. That's about all off the top of my head.  Someone else's turn tomorrow now! I think it must be Barbs' turn.   Oh well I got that wrong didn't I?  Comms now. And Matt, try not to mention tea.. Comms EOD. Better make this a goody, we've been slacking recently. (too right - Ed) Mand has as ever been on top of problems, she's also had her one-to-one today which seems to have gone quite well, so that's nice. Mand's word of the day has been 'bee-hatch'. Not sure why. James has been resident in a number of forums, he's also written several Best Practice articles on the internal wiki. James's word of the day today has been 'I'mcooooooooooooold'. Chris has also had a couple of meetings, and has presented us with an interesting dichotomy - he's apparently been busy all day but also states that he hasn't achieved anything. I bet he has. Chris's word of the day (indeed for every day since we returned from the Christmas hols) has been 'fish'. Again, I'm not sure why. Bob has been a mystery. He's persisting in his cheery manner that is quite frankly putting the wind up the rest of us, even after meetings and being assigned a number of tasks regarding future developments for the business. Bob's word of the day has been 'Raw!'. Finally, I went on the KFC mission and returned not only with KFC, but also the branch phone number and a promise of some 'deals' being sorted as we've been in a few times now. I've also been working on some adsl2+ related comms and some training stuff. My word of the day has been 'damnyouwindowswhyareyourunningsoslowly!' - it turns out it was because it was downloading and installing updates. Woohoo. Random link? I'll be playing head over heels all night. Awesome. Cheers all, see you soon.   Ah KFC. It's either or isn't it?  Anyway, dearest reader, that wraps it up for today. I do hope your day has been as productive as ours and until tomorrow we'll say TTFN.   Peter