Monday, February 25, 2008

Work Week begins.

On a Monday morning which I so hate. A thought that has certainly persisted from school is one of getting rid of Mondays . The last few weeks have been hectic, we've been struggling with a particularly onerous bug report that hasn't yet been fixed and is leaving me with some incredible questions. The other thing has been some of the feedback coming out of MWC for my employer (Azingo) and the phone we are building - its been quite impressive to see the feedback . I haven't been that greatly involved with the phone but some of the performance work my team did last year on this is finally paying off. Also some of the other stuff that I did which is still under wraps would be good to see later this year. I shall be leaving this place soon and its been a pretty poignant journey from a wide eyed fresher to a roly poly experienced engineer in the industry today. Lots of good friends made for life, lots of happy moments - quite a few disappointing moments . Teams set up and dispersed and then finally as one of the first members of the tools tribe, slightly nostalgic about leaving the place . Lots of people talk about Android, Azingo and all the linux phones coming out - It would be very interesting to see how this whole thing plays out. I shall be watching from the sidelines popcorn in hand. !

Friday, February 15, 2008

Work @ 7:30 a.m.

There is an eerie silence as you walk past all the quiet monitors , some of them blinking away others maintained silently. The office assistance staff has only a skeletal crew of 1 chap filling up the water and you wonder if it is the same place that is usually a beehive of activity. There is the sound of utter silence possibly broken only by the noise as one types out this blog entry and the whine of my workstation as it continues chewing on a CPU intensive task that we compiler writers love to burden our machines with.

It is quiet and peaceful and one is so much more productive and not distracted by all the noise that starts creeping in with the influx of people. This really is an odd time for me to get into work though one hsa done this on a regular basis nearly 7 long years - getting in early and leaving by 6 p.m.