Posts Tagged ‘job’

Working for the BBC

It looks like the fortune has turned to me and I’ve got a job at BBC World Service Future Media. Doing Unix systems only, no MS. So far, I love it!

Down with Atticmedia

It was amazing 4 years of my professional life, working with Atticmedia. I had inspiring colleagues and great managers, they have became my great friends.  However since the takeover by BDP and new way of management, the company was on a way down.

A-Bike for a new office

Over the last 2 weeks we were moving our offices to Aldwych. Atticmedia has moved from Islington and BDP moved from London Bridge. This move has changed my commute route. Now I have to travel to the centre of London. On the Tube or bus this will be unpleasant. Recently, Boris ( the Mayor ) [...]

Work keeps me busy

As you have noticed I had a long drop in posts… work keeps me so busy that I have no desire to do anything else. Last 2-3 week were particularly intense, I was implementing company wide VoIP based on Asterisk and Linksys phones.  Still stuff left to polish… Now BT thinks I’m a telcoms engineer

Counting days

I’m tired, over worked. I’m counting days to my flight back to UK.

Half of the tour

It’s the half of my tour in India. I am working about 10-12h a day including Saturdays. It’s hard to get anything done when getting parts or solutions from suppliers takes at least a week. Biggest challenge for our business is actually the quality of Internet networks in India and international connections. We have outage [...]

Half around the world

So, I’m a bit busy now. I am developing bigger team to support IT services for Atticmedia and the whole BDP Media Group. Current location, India. The Atticmedia India is big enough to have their own IT staff. I am responsible for training of the staff and in the mean time, of my stay here, [...]

Researching

Virtualization Due to server hardware refresh coming at work, I am investigating routes which we can take, one of the new ones is going virtual. It has couple of advantages like High Availability, and Fail Over which are very important these days ( users complain if their services are not available 100% ) So far [...]

A week in one day

I am still running, do not know why. Tuesday, Wednesday and today, Thursday, are like one day, I don’t feel any nights in between. Tuesday, ah IT and Script Kiddies joint team drinks. Got beaten in table soccer, and pool, I am crap when it comes to pub games. But I was good table football [...]

Some System Upgrade

Have been asked to upgrade some Computer System. 2 HP desktops, and One HP server is on order, should be with me on Friday. Server will get a Linux and Oracle 10g Database I hope that I’ll finish before going back to London.