My bright spot
Aug. 11th, 2007 05:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisSo I have a bunch of people I'm working with on this Project From Hell. They are all pretty much pissing me off for a variety of different reasons but my proof reader - Shannon? She's my shining star. Usually, I'm annoyed by the proofer. Here you get the page all fixed up and pretty and good to go and the proofer has a bascillion little nits that no one gives a shit about... But, this proofer is so efficient and so fast and so responsive an so willing that I can't do anything but love her to bits.
I gave her a horrible project. A huge spreadsheet - 135 rows, 40 someodd columns of mainly text - paragraphs. I told her it would be great if I could have it done by Monday afternoon. She sent it today!!! And that enabled me to check off 135 pages as PROOFed!!!! Already. Plus, it makes it much easier because now the dev guy can go ahead and work with the spreadsheet like he needs to instead of working it and then my having to consolidate his changes on Monday.
When she sent to the spreadsheet back she said she was up for more but would be in class all day Sunday? After that, she had tons of open time. Whew. And Yeah. At least I know the nits will be gotten.
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Mozy back up isn't working out - it's operational model is different than Carbonite's. There is a lot I don't like about Carbonite, but I think I'm going to go back. I have asked Mozy if - since I cannot get a refund - I can turn over my subscription to a friend. If they say yes, I'll post here.
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Boy, my brain is just scrambled. But still better than this time last night! I think I'll go find something for dinner.
I gave her a horrible project. A huge spreadsheet - 135 rows, 40 someodd columns of mainly text - paragraphs. I told her it would be great if I could have it done by Monday afternoon. She sent it today!!! And that enabled me to check off 135 pages as PROOFed!!!! Already. Plus, it makes it much easier because now the dev guy can go ahead and work with the spreadsheet like he needs to instead of working it and then my having to consolidate his changes on Monday.
When she sent to the spreadsheet back she said she was up for more but would be in class all day Sunday? After that, she had tons of open time. Whew. And Yeah. At least I know the nits will be gotten.
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Mozy back up isn't working out - it's operational model is different than Carbonite's. There is a lot I don't like about Carbonite, but I think I'm going to go back. I have asked Mozy if - since I cannot get a refund - I can turn over my subscription to a friend. If they say yes, I'll post here.
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Boy, my brain is just scrambled. But still better than this time last night! I think I'll go find something for dinner.
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Date: 2007-08-12 01:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-12 03:31 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-12 04:13 am (UTC)Carbonite runs constantly in the background just copying away as it goes. Once you get everything backed up, incremental backups are done practically in stealth. You never ever have to do another thing. And it's way faster.
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Date: 2007-08-13 05:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-13 08:05 pm (UTC)I am the tail of the dog. The programmer provides code, the designer provides graphics, the user interface person sends me page layout and desired function, the editor sends me words (the proofer fixes those words) and then I make put it all together and publish it out live to the world.
I'm what they call a producer.
Here's a couple of my recent productions:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/ccs/
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/technologies/manageability/default.mspx
Most of the time, I'm just making small changes to this page or that page but sometimes there are whole (let's make a new site) projects like this one that just eat you alive.
I work for a guy who contracts with Microsoft to do web stuff. It is really a great job. Even when I am stressed to the gills.