Still, spare a thought for my colleague Chris who yesterday had to visit a data centre in Shanghai with Harry Hua (Deputy Director for IT at Ningbo). He left shortly after 6 am and didn't return to the hotel until 11 pm. And that included travelling on the bullet train. Shanghai is a big place (but then I suppose it would have to be to accommodate 34 million people) and it can take several hours to travel from one side of this enormous city to the other. Missing the return train and then having to wait for one that wasn't fully booked already (standing is booked as well as seated) didn't help I guess.
Tomorrow is technically go live day although the migration won't practically take effect until the beginning of Friday because we won't migrate the email until 3.00. Also, it's an important day of entrance exams and most staff will be assisting with that.
The past three days have consisted largely of training the IT Services and Library Services staff who will be using Supportworks, which has been hard work but fun. As last year, it was recorded and I'm just thankful that YouTube (along with Google, Facebook, Twitter and others) isn't available in China.
It's still raining and remains warm and muggy but I've resisted the temptation to take the hotel-supplied pink brolly in to work with me. I'm just getting wet instead.
So, little to report I'm afraid and the Citrix connection (I can't access Blogger directly because it's the work of the Devil aka Google) keeps dropping out, which is doing my head in so I'll leave you with a few pics of the campus, which is a green oasis amidst the surrounding development (some of which is being undertaken by the university). This includes Canteen No. 1 (and my returned and packaged laundry!). Also, I've just had my nightly supply of cake, milk juice and apples x 2 delivered. I notice they've stopped delivering the Chinese language newspaper.
Glad to see I won't have all 28 shirts to wash next week! :)
ReplyDeleteBloody hell, sounds like a lot of pressure. doesn't help if the internet's unreliable. So why are your clothes in sealed plastic bags? Evidence? Did you finally flip out and committed some crime, use a proxy to get iplayer or facebook? Or maybe you're rejection of the pink brolly was simply too subversive?
ReplyDeleteBut Jon's saving 28 pairs of underpants for you Rach, judging by the evidence in those plastic bags.
ReplyDeleteBetter remind you that it's the ugly one who posted the last comment. Wouldn't like you to be slandering Marjan in her absence.
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