Category: Work

At Least It’s Exercise

When I first started working here, our office was in the same building as a fairly decent food court and right next to a couple other good ones. When we moved away, I could still get to those food courts through the +15 walkway system, I just had to go through about 9 buildings to get to it. After the next move, it was 15 buildings. And now it’s 18 buildings, and backtracks a couple blocks since not all buildings are directly connected.

Ah, the things we do to avoid going outside…

Excitement

Just before lunchtime, the fire alarm went off in our office building, so we dutifully filed out outside. It may all be downhill, but walking down 17 flights of stairs still leaves my legs feeling like jelly. Since it was so close to lunch though, I just went off to a nearby food court instead of fighting for the elevators back up.

And then about 10 minutes ago, the alarm went off again. Wheee. No excuse to avoid the elevators this time.

And then while on the way back up in the elevator, the alarm went off again. But this time it was only on for a few seconds, so everyone just ignored it…

Lockdown

The work/coding-related entries are now locked and discontinued. Sorry to all you searchers who were looking for some of the technical stuff in there.

If I have time, I may go back and edit out the work context from some of the more useful entries.

Not You Again

InstallShield rears its ugly head once again. There’s a new version of one of our products, so of course I have to go back and update all the version numbers, filenames, etc…

That’s easy enough, except that when I went to save all the changes and export them back to text files for source control, I got the dreaded “87: Error in exporting tables” message. I had run into this error on Server 2003, but everything had been fine when I did changes under XP. Except that apparently XP SP2 broke InstallShield 8. Sigh…

Fortunately there’s a workaround using a tool called ORCA from Microsoft. All I had to do was load the InstallShield project in ORCA, delete a table that’s causing the problem, and resave the project. Except that when I tried to select the table, ORCA crashed…

AAAAAAUGGGHHH.