Disaster Diary

I thought I would detail what happens in a day. You know, a running diary. But some of the day ran away. Any how, here goes:

7:15 Alarm #1 rings, check mail, twitter and Guardian to find what's been going on in the world - nothing, mostly.
7:30 Alarm #2 rings. Get out of bed.
8:00 Breakfast, where the room is getting noticeably more full.
8:25 Walk to the bus top whilst Colleague tells me of the CNN report on terrorists, gunships and helicopters.
8:30 Bus arrives
8:50 Go past the Olympic Rings for the fist time. There's been something nagging me about the rings and I worked out what it is. They're written country/land on the side so Blue is Europe, Red America and Green is Australia. Yellow is Asia and Black Africa. Only trouble is, the IOC stopped this association back in the 50s when it was pointed out that this isn't what the colours mean [go look it up, it's interesting] and it could be considered a mite racist. But hey, Russia - stuck in the 50s... 1850s
8:55 Go past the Rings in the other direction...
9:05 Security. And today's special - apart from the shoes, which they no longer care about - is that you're only allowed 5 medicines in your one medicine bag. And I have six, I have to throw one away. I kid you not, I couldn't make it up...
9:15 Office
9:20 Coffee
9:25 Code reviews.

And so the day descends into a blur as we do reviews and testing and generally larkery until there's an all-hands to discuss stuff.

12:30 Lunch

3:00 All-hands. Apparently that CNN report has really shocked folk back in the USA so the meeting is to make sure we're all OK with the safety plans. And to tell us that most of the stories are, well, made up. Even NBC news has gotten in on the act of stretching the truth, and they're here. So the gunships only have one helicopter on them, and NBC has more folks on the ground [along with FSB and NSA] so we're safer here than there. At the end of the meeting I tell folk to watch UK news, cos there's none of this on there...

3:30 Customer-man agrees the office may be a mite cold and gets a chippy to remove the aircon. The room warms up. To corpsey warm.

6:30 Dinner

8:00 Download the new code and try it. Audio only works on one channel, so that's not so good...

8:30 Customer-man phones and asks if we can support two channel maps. They want more channels in the IBC but only six in the client area. I say we designed it to do that, so we just need the channel maps and we're good. He is impressed. The official request comes in later.

10:30 time to get the 10:40 bus home, assuming it's running.