prince

this week has been ok, but i have to work tomorrow evening as we are moving a whole bunch of servers for one the trading teams, to a new datacenter and its going to take till the early hours of sunday. the plan is for everyone to finish by about 2am, but there are always some issues and if i get out there before 3am i will be very happy.

also seeing as its one of the main trading divisions of the bank you would have thought they would be really professional and strict about stuff, but they don't seem to be. they sound like a bunch of cowboys. one of their main guys is a bit of a laughing stock and he was in another department but applied to join our team and was interviewed for it internally but he was not transferred and they turned him down. bizarrely he joined one of the trading teams and everyone was stunned to hear that he has just recntly had his contract extended for another year. it turns out he is good friends with the manager who runs the trading team. another case of the old boys network coming to the fore. there is far too much of it going on at this bank. am sure its like this everywhere and maybe i just wasn't aware of it, but it does feel like too much of it goes on at this place. whenever this guys name is mentioned with regards to issues people roll their eyes and i can sense nobody rates him. lets hope he doesn't become famous outside the bank as he seems to be amongst people in the bank.

another of the guys in the unix team has left. thats the 3rd guy in 3 weeks. i think they were working on some projects for the past year that are coming to an end. its similar to the windows team and i really can't see why they would want to keep a few of us and extend our contracts after we complete the project i am working on, which should be done in a couple of months. i had already planned to leave but i get the feeling that some of the other guys are getting worried about renewals. worried that they might not get renewed unlike me who is worrying that i might get renewed. we shall see how it goes.

today i have mostly been listening to genius that is prince. he is very protective of his music and this video might not last for more than a few days as he doesn't like his videos being on youtube and with out his authorisation. enjoy it while you can.