Loop Invariant

I'm back at work after my brief exam induced sojourn, and after a hectic Thursday and Friday that ran into a reasonably large weekend, I've hit a wall of boredom on Monday morning. Which isn't too bad I guess, my pay isn't magically linked to any form of exertion, well anymore than is necessary to avoid the ole chop. Although as a contractor that is slightly more exertion than your less well paid but more secure full time employees. Still all in all I find my state of mind is improved by some action, not necessarily working Saturday and Sunday action, but this is killing me. As an example straight out of office space, the high point of my day so far has been helping a colleague find a missing "Unregulated Asset Evaluation Model" in a database. Wooh! On the positive side in my new Department at least they don't have the same preoccupation with working for no reason, So I can just sit here typing this, where as in my old department I would be doing something depressingly useless, and obviously unnecessary, pointless busywork in another word.

On Another note as I sit here, refreshing Slashdot in the vain hope of a new story on whether or not at some vague point in the future one might be able to put Linux on the new x-box, I've found this gem off crikey apparently Lauchy Murdoch at the one.tel hearings said the phrase 'I can't recall' 205 times, that truly is a Herculean effort worthy of Cheech or Chong. At least he got one thing right, something that my current job in electronic litigation support has taught me well, If your going to do something dodgy, for god's sake don't write it down! That goes for file notes, note pads even post-it notes but especially email. You have no idea how long this stuff hangs around, but at least 7 years for business emails, and it's going to look really bad in court one day trust me. Oh and that also goes for bad jokes chain letters and porn via email.

To add to my boring day, my only co-worker my age today is a raving nut bag. Ian my regular partner in crime at work is on holiday at the moment, which on the plus side means I get to do more interesting techy stuff, but the down side is that instead of an offsider that can talk geek with the best of them I have a different species of geek, well more like a nerd. For a start she is a final year law student, and I don't know why lawyers get cool TV shows and Tech geeks don't, cause in my experience lawyers are nerdier than most programmers by a large strech, don't believe me? Come to Friday night drinks one night. Back to the person in question. She has a few strange habits, on of which is that she makes notes on files in mandarin.... she is Caucasian.... no one else is familiar with mandarin here.... The only Chinese I know is Cantonese I have picked up from Jackie Chan films... so far I've only got the facial expressions but I am working on it.

Anyway I'm back off to check Slashdot, and see what else is happening in the world.