Oops. (new job, day two)

[da]

I was just cleaning my office phone. One of the buttons links me to the voice-dial directory. I apparently hit that, and the sound of me cleaning the phone sounded sufficiently like a name, and dimly through the earpiece I heard something like, "Do you wish to talk to Kim Chopper?"

Thanks but... not really.

My old office is just as I remember. Except it's missing a filing cabinet. Which could leave me room for a comfy chair, though I think that might be politically tricky since nobody else in CSCF has a comfy chair. *pout* (Murphy bed in file cabinet? Hmmm.)

I have a brand new iMac, with a wide-screen extra monitor (2x1680x1050 desktop yay), and I've got a project to start with, making improvements to the department's DHCP services. Also: I have coworkers! They make geeky jokes and are glad to see me!

It's good to be back.

Challenges on day one: my work calendar (Oracle Calendar) isn't compatible with gmail calendar, iCal.app, or my phone. [ETA: maybe. I can manually import/export .ical files, and maybe there's a way to subscribe to Oracle's data. But probably not.]

My personal task-tracking system isn't compatible with the hacked-up version of RT we use. I have no idea how I should record my work tasks, since our RT isn't exactly compatible with the "Getting Things Done" method of making a new item for everything that will take longer than a few minutes.

Comments

[sulle-stelle.livejournal.com]

DEFINITELY get the comfy chair. Who cares whether other people have one? It IS your office, after all. Why would it be "politically tricky?"

Your job sounds fun! Except for the fact that Oracle Calendar doesn't play nice with, well, anything else. Maybe the world is waiting for you to write the interface?....

(Sometimes I really miss all the geeky stuff I used to do......)

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

I just should. I was thinking it might be sensitive because one of the managers was advocating for a couch in the kitchen and it never happened. Though that was more a space issue.

There's a campus surplus sale next week, and I understand there's a couch for sale. If I could get a two-seat couch in here, for $20 or something, that would be sort of neat.

Oracle Calendar is annoying- but I found OraCal2iCal, which cleverly uses mac's "accessibility extensions" to automatically run the export-to-ical-file feature. So I've got one-way sync.

I've hacked it a bit to save the file to somewhere that's exposed as a webpage, so google calendar will automatically pick up my oracle calendar data. And I think I can run it to update under cron every morning at 6. :)

[sulle-stelle.livejournal.com]

So resourceful! Now THERE'S the Daniel that we all know and love!

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Heh. We will see about that. 1) I'm picky enough about size and shape that I probably won't end up with a couch... 2) google insists my private events should list on my private calendar as "Busy" and I've not taken the time to figure out the best way around that.

And I really ought to be spending that time on, y'know, my project. :)

[sulle-stelle.livejournal.com]

But if you get your calendar working, you will be more productive in the long run. And it would probably be a useful solution for someone else in the department who is getting, say, in iPhone, and will need to sync it with the Oracle thingy. :-)

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'll definitely document what I learn; but google's being stupid about silently failing to read the .ics feed, so I need to do a few tests and post to their help group. Is all.

Also I just got dumped *whump* a fairly substantial project and a deadline. (Yay?)

ps- he insists on using a blotter for his calendar. (Yes really.)

[sulle-stelle.livejournal.com]

I suspect he does that JUST to be contrary.