Archive for the 'work' Category

Life as a data/GIS officer

Friday, April 6th, 2007

I must say that the longer I stay in this organisation, the more that I am loving it. I have started working in the P & I team a week ago in another division, another building. Currently, I am assigned to work on an asset management improvement project, which involves reorganising water assets […]

No longer in GIS…

Saturday, March 31st, 2007

I left the GIS team at work on Wednesday and started working in the operations division, in the P & I team doing database work. It’s data analysis again with long long records of data that I need to shift, clean and convert. The good thing though, is that I am re-learning MS […]

Mistakes

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Today was a tuff day. My supervisor and I have discovered dozens of mistakes in my work, some of them were quite major. Features that were meant to be deleted weren’t modified properly beforehand and some features that should have been abandoned were deleted. My supervisor wasn’t very pleased with how I […]

Not well…

Monday, February 19th, 2007

I don’t know what is wrong with me today, but I haven’t been feeling too well today. Usually, I have a reasonable productivity fixing 40 data records per hour, but today it sharply fell to only 10 per hour. I was alright for the first two hours this morning and felt very ill […]

Geological street names

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

While I was working today, I came across three street names which sounded funny. They are all based on rocks and minerals:
Quartz Street
Granite Street and
Basalt Street
Damn. I wanted to see more. I wonder if there are any street names named after Feldspar, Muscovite, Biotite and Rhyodacite or even Peroskovite??