General Information Dump

I can rely on the Office Gossip to tell me what I probably need to know, especially when I lack confidence in Anarchist Prime to remember to pass on the relevant pieces of information. We're shuffling offices again, and this time, I'm included.

I shall be sharing an office, at least temporarily, with the server. This is fine by me. The server will have a new home, and the Office Gossip was kind enough to do a show and tell for me, explaining how it will all go.

My main source of stress last night involved the server, and a serious lack of information. I'd heard a rumour about my moving, and had overheard something which may (or, as it turns out, may not) have included moving the server. As I have an administrative password for the system (and am possibly the only person within the company who has bothered to remember same), I feel a bit...proprietorial about the server. Another factor is that our IT contractor and I had an informal chat about risk management and the server, and I know exactly how dreadful it would be if the server went down. (For us, it's the second worst thing that could happen to the company, barring fire or flood related destruction. There are almost certainly better IT people out there whose abilities could reduce the risk from major to moderate, but he's the one we've got.)

I shall have to have a chat with our IT person about getting some switches or something to give me some more elbow room in there, but that shouldn't be a problem. As long as I don't have to share the office with that bloody Xerox, I'll be happy enough.

The Office Gossip was able to tell me a couple of other things (apart from letting slip the news about my moving offices) too. Such as how Anarchist Prime's opposite number in production is working in Brisbane for 6 months before moving to Canberra, and how the new QA manager is starting at the end of this month.

So now I know.

Happy now.