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.

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[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.