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Meeting!
Back in the day (exactly 10 years ago this month), meetings between Russian and US experts were the order of the day. They were organized under the rubric of a "Technical Interchange Meeting" and involved everyone and their pet parakeet. I recall almost 90 interpreters were flown into town for the event, some of whom we had never heard of, and some of whom were subcontracted to some of our contractors ("our" as in: when I worked as a full-time employee for what is now my best client).
Meetings are not as monolithic these days. They occur when the occasion calls for it, and apparently, one such occasion has occurred, and I'll be supporting the tail end of one such meeting tomorrow.
(The assignment had originally begun as an assignment to do another sim, and changed over the course of about 20 minutes into meeting support. For a moment, there, I was concerned that I had received someone else's work order!)
Anyway, the meeting will be a welcome change of pace.
* * * Using wireless with Ubuntu is not so easy if one implements encryption using WPA. I spent about 30 minutes getting grounded in what I need to know, and then I was too lazy to haul out my VAIO's charger, and went back to my office to use wireless under XP. Supposedly, if I give up on the wireless encryption, connecting the Linux side of my laptop isn't that hard. However, given my neighbor's propensity to leave his network exposed, for some reason I feel obligated to keep mine secured.
Hmmm. An interesting artifact of having booted my system into Ubuntu and back into XP is that my system clock now reflects UTC time and not that of the Central time zone.
Fixed.
Galina is using our new capability to browse various real-estate web sites.
Cheers...
Meetings are not as monolithic these days. They occur when the occasion calls for it, and apparently, one such occasion has occurred, and I'll be supporting the tail end of one such meeting tomorrow.
(The assignment had originally begun as an assignment to do another sim, and changed over the course of about 20 minutes into meeting support. For a moment, there, I was concerned that I had received someone else's work order!)
Anyway, the meeting will be a welcome change of pace.
Hmmm. An interesting artifact of having booted my system into Ubuntu and back into XP is that my system clock now reflects UTC time and not that of the Central time zone.
Fixed.
Galina is using our new capability to browse various real-estate web sites.
Cheers...