There are no stupid questions, only stupid people

[j4]

My bosses are both away, one until Thursday, the other until next Thursday; basically this means I'm left holding the fort (or rather, the baby). So far today and yesterday I have had:

• Two requests to do some work that boss #2 said she'd do two weeks ago.
• A request to update a colour image with the attached document (a Word file).
• A request to do, by Friday, a major revision of an area of the site which I've never seen before ...
• ... and which is on a server that we don't even own.
• Two requests to "just change a couple of words" in PDF documents.
• About 15 requests to make edits which, to paraphrase the sense of urgency conveyed, need to go live by yesterday if not sooner otherwise the University will explode and EVERYONE WILL DIE.
• One request from our Press department as to why a demo page in somebody's personal webspace on an internal server behind the university firewall can't be seen by people browsing from outside the university ...
• ... for example, by the hundreds of people to whom the URL for said page has just been emailed.

*headdesk*

Comments

[j4.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's okay. As I believe I've said before, when all you have is a head, everything looks like a brick wall... We should all communicate with each other by banging our heads against the walls in Morse, or something.

Actually, more seriously, it's completely mental that the various departments' and divisions' webmastererers all sit there in their own little boxes reinventing the same wheels in total isolation and then whinging about inconsistencies between the sites. But I'm losing hope that that's ever going to change, even if there are strong rumours that they're planning to merge the UAS web team with the cam.ac.uk web team, not that I told you that, no, move along, nothing to see here.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

As I believe I've said before, when all you have is a head, everything looks like a brick wall...

I like that; may I use it elsewhere ? I have been known to mutter "when all you have is a hammer, everything begins to look like a screw" or indeed "... like a kitten" but I prefer yours.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Feel free! As far as I'm concerned once I've put something on the internet it's de facto in the public domain. (I think somebody on bofh.net may have already snarfed it for a sig, actually.)

(Questions of text-propagation remind me, actually, that I wanted to ask your permission to show something you wrote for me to somebody else. Um, I should probably take this to email, shouldn't I...)

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

OK, will be expecting one at the usual address [ hotmail is nearly full, but there's still about 100K left on it; anything bigger than that, interesting pictures or anything, send to rysmiel@gmail. ]