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Excuses or Not ??
Posted by Bloggylife in work on July 8, 2008
Why do I check my work email from home?
Aside from the fact that I sometimes have this horrid feeling that the email server is down!!
Sometimes you receive emails that need your feedback. So even if after working hours, you reply, giving more time for the other side to process and respond thus you save time from your side whereas in the other scenario you’ll see it first thing in the morning and by the time you reply taking into consideration the time difference and so forth .. all in all more hassle
I love it when I come in the morning and no new emails are there, other than the daily reports of course and also if no missed calls Allaaaah heavens
Don’t get me wrong, sometimes I see emails and IGNORE … deal with it tomorrow, depends on the mood
IT Facts: Messy Desks
Posted by Bloggylife in thoughts, work on July 5, 2008
I saw her looking at my desk as soon as she came in
I’m quick to apologize and make excuses: “Sorry about my messy desk, insha’Allah I’ll get around and clean it up soon … it’s those memos they keep sending, I don’t know where to put them …“
She smiles at me: “Don’t worry all IT people have messy desks“
“Really …“, I didn’t know if that comment should make me happy or sad. I have a messy desk I am to damn lazy to clean up as I go. I receive stuff and I pile them up and say I’ll sort them out later, organize them in a while, file them after this and that. And others, because I can’t find a proper place for them
Once someone said, a messy desk is a sign of work, I couldn’t disagree more, because most of the things I have piled up aren’t related to work, it just documentation laying around, CDs, papers, papers&more papers. All I look at 70% of the time, is my task sheet and most of my work is done using the computer
One of the most beautiful solutions I found about cleaning your office in my old job is to move to a new totally new office and start fresh ;P and it worked like a charm
I have, I believe two major tasks, I want to finalize this week and if I do, cleaning will become the third priority … messy desks don’t get in my way, they don’t bother me and I can work just fine, just need a small space for my writing down and because the mess is mine, I know where all the scattered messy papers lay but that doesn’t change the fact I like to come in the morning and see a tidy organized office desk
IT Pointers
Posted by Bloggylife in work on July 3, 2008
One of the most annoying things that can happen is if an employee calls you with a problem they’re facing with another company and tells you, their IT told them “to talk to your IT”!!!
OK, in some cases the employee can convey the problem properly and we can process to solve it but most times the problem is related to both sides, so we need to get more information in order to solve the problem
We ask the employee what exactly the IT told them, and nothing … I remember once some company blocked FTP so that was clear we told them to tell their IT that whatever they needed to download is hosted on an FTP server and if they want another way they needed to contact us. I think that was clear enough
We tell the employee to provide us with IT contact, or some of them send emails while cc-ing us and yet you have most of the IT ignoring this and preferring to exchange messages through the middle man who is in no way related to IT.
Just a bit of an advice, if you are ever told to contact your IT and you aren’t sure what message to pass, just transfer them to your IT, give them their number, email, anything. less headache and both IT ends can quarrel together to reach a solution 
Scrambled Thoughts
Posted by Bloggylife in thoughts, work on July 2, 2008
I am so glad that one day is left for the weekend, you know the feeling when millions of things are running through your head and you’re not sure what you got done and what’s left, what you forgot and the things you remember everytime you see some resemblance to them. You start one thing before finishing another and some stuff are pending because they’re waiting for others to process … and this goes on and on … just like a queue but incoming is greater than outgoing so overflow occurs!!
I had to leave on time today, so I stopped everything and stood bracing myself away from my ultra-messy desk -yefashel- and tell myself that I needed to leave, knowing that I need sometime to actually organize what needs to be done
While I am doing my pending tasks, comes different calls and emails and people have you done this, that, meeting, reports, never ending … and next week starts with the previous week left overs and what left overs!!!
No matter how early I arrive or how late I leave … things seem to never end … tomorrow insha’Allah I am updating the list I made, tasks to be done, I scratch out one and add two instead!!!
I’ll try to finalize most things tomorrow .. hopefully .. insha’Allah … God Willing
Embarrassment
Posted by Bloggylife in work on June 23, 2008
Me& embarrassment, hehehe, I love to do it on stage
We have a problem and I admit it, I didn’t fully investigate it because I assumed it was their side
They have this girl, I like working with her, talking to her and she is smart masha’Allah and loooooooooooool at the email she sent … fashelatna!!!
It is funny how I’m laughing, I LIKE her a lot, it’s weird how much more I admired her … just a reminder that next time I should do my job before sending crappy stuff ;p
Now I am thinking about what to write her back … once I do the job of course … ‘GO GIRL’ comes to mind ;p
Is this a normal feeling?? Work is so much challenging like this ;D
Car Wash
Posted by Bloggylife in personal, work on May 23, 2008
After a couple of days on my new job, this cleaning guy comes and asks if I wanted my car washed so on the spot I said OK without actually thinking about it.
Few days past and he didn’t wash my car and then it hit me, maybe I should pay him, this service isn’t free, how would I know, I thought it was part of his job, clean the premises and employees cars
A couple of weeks passed and at home we already have a guy doing our garden and cleaning the cars -once in a full moon-, so when I see the guy at work, I tell him ‘did you clean my car’, he said ‘No’, so I tell him not to do it then.
The next day as I left work, I see my car kinda shiny, most probably my imagination, the day after, my tires still have soap on them and the day after somebody pulled out my window wipers
At the end of the week I see him and ask him ‘Did you clean my car, I told you not to’, he said ‘you say my cleaning isn’t good’
عاد اهني كسر خاطري
I offended his pride, I told him, it is not about your cleaning, it’s just we have someone cleaning our cars at home and I won’t be needing your services and I left it at that after giving him money in return for his cleaning
He didn’t clean my car, until weeks after and I saw him cleaning the car beside mine and mine is clean too, so I told him did you clean my car ?? He said yes it was dirty, I’m like I told you not to clean it!!!
And every now and then I sometimes see him existing the parking quickly and my car clean
I mean what is this, غصب, does he want to forcefully change my mind, this week as I left work late and doing my zombie walk to the car, I notice my sparkly car and I think, he did it again, and I look around to spot him, but of course it’s late he went home and I think to myself, maybe this is GOD’s way to say thank you and job well done … maybe … ;D
Pleasant Feeling
Posted by Bloggylife in personal, thoughts, work on May 20, 2008
How to best describe the situation
Imagine you are outside, close your eyes if necessary ;P, in your car waiting, and suddenly you need to go to the bathroom, you tell yourself: you can hold it … in less than an hour you’ll be home and you’ll do your business then … time passes so slowly and you get more desperate …
Finally you are heading home, you are so ready to go so desperate you can’t even hear soft music because it is calling you to let go … you hold it … think home home … open your jeans buttons … relax breathe … faster faster … damn those car bumps … eeeeee …. Parked got out of the car … stand still … breathe in … concentrate … and ran up to the bathroom ….
Ahhhhhh … after holding it in for over an hour …. the tingly feeling the runs up and down your spine as you let yourself go … at last … the shivers … the smile … the world becomes colourful again and you can see clearly …. You sit a while longer … think of the future ;P …. The most pleasant feeling … RELAXATION …
All combined … the emotions .. this is the closest thing I can imagine feeling right now .. I finally submitted my network documentation 
hehehehe, I love to bring misery to myself, why did I start documenting the damn thing, because each company needs to have one!!! Kidding myself. Qedee3a, I never wish that stupid hectic headache for anyone, NO, I think I can
My Day
Posted by Bloggylife in family, technology, troubleshooting, work on April 28, 2008
I got some searching to do and a report to write, so for change of scenery and some quiet time I went to a coffee shop to search and took my bro’s laptop and guess what it didn’t boot, it is official the HDD DIED!!! I think the poor thing spiralled itself to self destruction, last time I went to my bro’s room, I saw the laptop on the floor and I always tell him it is a laptop when you are done turn it off, hibernate the poor thing, standby, I literally smelled something burning from within, I opened it took it out and put it back in, yes it’s not hardwired to the motherboard ;P, so a trip to Hawally is a must and I might get him one of those cooling docking stations to give the poor thing a chance. The HDD started giving problems a while back so I took off my data ;P which isn’t much, anyways my bro doesn’t have anything on it, he just uses it for chatting, movies, web browsing, the usual. The good thing is that I get to pop it open later on because it is already dead, I have my cool tool set on standby.
There is something nasty going on with our network, I can’t point my finger at it. It is driving me crazy. I just discovered a software that comes with Microsoft exchange, Sybari, it is a content-management, antivirus, and e-mail security solution, where mostly you need to purchase a license. Supposedly there is a worm with its own SMTP engine fooling around and I can’t catch the source yet. And oh boy do I hate McAfee, who the fuck developed their management interface, so I suspect a machine and I want to force a scan or get the latest scan statistics, couldn’t figure it out. OK, the open ports a stupid ‘how to’ to answer my questions, a thing that can be done in minutes is taking hours!!! Good thing we are upgrading, starting from scratch, what we are currently deploying is a lousy excuse of an antivirus application, the poor technician is going to have a hell of a time with me standing over their head.
Sometimes you come across the right thing when you most need it …
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.
Henry Ford
Three Year Anniversary
Posted by Bloggylife in personal, work on April 24, 2008
It has been three years today since I joined the working task force. Well I can say for sure that, DAMN sure time flies by so quickly. I always ask myself what I have expected the outcome to be, I can’t be sure what the response to that is except that I always imagined being happy, well at least most of the time, doing my job. I didn’t want to be one of those who always complained about what I do and not have fun doing it, learn something, or have something to look forward to. One thing for certain it is not as easy as it seems.
Once I read about who has the best job and they were absolutely thrilled about it and that they have the best job in the world! I was like, damn they make it sound so easy. What amazes me the most are the ones who think they have the best where in today’s standard isn’t, in term of working hours, pay check, benefits, etc. those to me have found their pot of gold.
I guess what I miss the most is having a mentor, like someone to guide me teach me the ways, but here especially in Kuwait is hard to find. But I have the WWW, though it takes a lot of time to learn one thing and as soon as I get my head around one thing something else pops and here continues the never endless cycle. My problem, is that I don’t focus, I want to be everywhere.
What I wish for is to get to work in Japan because I am amazed by their work ethics and dedication or China where basically all the hacking and copy like techs are originated. It’ll be weird first, because I believe they’ll be so smart and have to tolerate me but I’ll get used to it and then I’ll learn their language, ohhhh, I would love that and maybe learn a few martial art moves that’ll come in handy especially when conveying a message say for example to drivers here
It is has been a peaceful week with people accidentally removing our jumpers from our lines, never mind, I wish next week to pass quickly because there are some decision factors regarding my career that I want to happen quickly and end on a happy note or what is best for me.
Careful Typing
Posted by Bloggylife in thoughts, work on April 10, 2008
Even the most proficient fastest typist will hesitate when operating in critical situations. As if, internally we issue ourselves multiple “are you sure?” pop out window before actually pressing that enter button to commit a command.
Especially on a command based system, where the minimal error can do a total different thing then you intentionally wanted even if through the graphical user interface, confusion can happen.
“Hell NOOO, what did I do, did you see what I chose from the drop down menu, I chose the right one … right .. OMG the page is gone”
“It’s just refreshing!!!!”
“Oh”
When you don’t mean it and you start a process that takes hours to complete and is eating up all the resources and the damn thing won’t die … kill it kill it ;P
I’d be extra cautious depending on the system and what does it affect. Is it the firewall, router, switch, AP, backup server -scared of that one-, etc. Especially if there is no “ctrl+z” ;P no undo to go back to the initial configuration.
But once I know my way around, I get a bit courageous and that creates a whole other problem ;P
Happy typing
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