All entries for October 2004

Has anyone seen my umbrella?

Howdy!

A few things to blog tonight:

Mr Wonxin has lost his umbrella. Left it here earlier in the day and its now nowhere to be seen – if anybody sees it then give him a tinkle on onlylwx@hotmail.com – Cheers big ears.

Mr Gingagagla Woo (please check latter spelling) wonders is after somewhere to hold a teaching event to about 18 people, all must have access to a computer. Sophia pointed out that the IT block has training rooms which is perhaps the best option. Only thing I thought and which I told him I'd ask about is reserving the nest of computers at the top of the stairs. He needs them for 2 hours in a couple of weeks. Told him we'd get back to him asap. His details are: Mr Guanglun Wu – g.wu@warwick.ac.uk

Shelved some books with Jon, pointed a chap in the direction of AV services (albeit with Jon's assistance) and generally offered a helping hand to those in need.

Just asked a group of lads upstairs if they'd be a little more respectful of their fellow students or else I'd give em a kick in the shin. They were proper sound after that.

Checked the lights and now off for a nice cup of tea.

: 22 Oct 2004 22:04 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Lunchtime in The GRID

Well it's been a fairly quiet shift. We had another load of books in so I shelved 2 trolleys worth of them (mostly heavy economics and management ones :-() which took about an hour.

Other than that there really isn't much to report. The network is running AMAZINGLY slow on XPSTAFF0471 but I'm not sure why as everywhere else seems to be ok!? A reboot would probably make it feel better.

It looks like there might be a clever board pen missing from one of the boards upstairs which i've just noticed – well there were two missing but I found an extra one on another board. So currently one blue pen has gone walkies.

There are lots of people in eating their sandwhiches and one nice person even came up and asked if he was allowed to eat – I told him it was fine to eat his sandwhiches and crisps :-)

: 06 Oct 2004 13:24 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Biscuits for Tea

heyhey,

just a quickie today cos not a lot happened, if anything really.

thought a group of people were gonna have a real slanging match but then they didnt so all was well.

peace out

(oh yeah-please check out my other entry below (not the silly badge one), ta)

: 05 Oct 2004 22:29 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

The gates…

For some reason the middle gate decided it wasn't going to let anyone through this afternoon… perhaps it had just had enough. Maybe it will wake up later…

Stacked some books, unjammed the photocopier downstairs a few times – it doesn't like having too much paper in the trays.

Very peaceful overall and people seem happy with the services in the grid.

Quite a few requests for printers though that shouldn't be a problem soon…

: 04 Oct 2004 13:48 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Phonics

We discovered today that you can't play CD-ROMs/dvds through the PCs because there is currently no audio feed through to the plasma screens. This should be rectified shortly. In the mean time we're putting people into the presentation rooms. We discovered that in one of the presentation rooms you didn't get audio from the PC1 but we did from Laptop input. A quick switch of the buttons and all seemed fine and the PGCE students were able to continue their studies of phonics!

If we do put people into the presentation rooms we need to log it in the diary so their use can be monitored :-)

: 04 Oct 2004 13:09 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

End of the Day

Well the day panned out pretty much as expected and as it draws to a close, all the lights have been turned on for the last time and the doors have been locked. i even put away my first book which was nice.

A general tidy up was in order but as it's only half 6 now, we'll be leaving a fair amount of people here, say 9 downstairs and the same upstairs. nobody looks like moving for a while. does this seem consitant with weekdays so far? probably i think.

On the whole though, having not had any weekday shift, only evening shifts when the only time ur called into action is when someone comes up to ask a question, its a good thing we are here because otherwise their query would go unanswered. we are a kind of super hero.

Ant

: 03 Oct 2004 18:40 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

will u still blogg me tooomo–ha–rrow?

it's sunday and a day of rest.

this certainly seems to be apparent in the grid today but, its been said a million times before and im going to say it one more time just for fun, im sure things will pick up.

ive nearly been here an hour so far and there have been two incidents i should tell u about before i start rambling about anything that might pop into my head.

a guy set off the bleeper thing earlier on his way out, giles leaped into action to find the guy had a library book in his bag. the only wierd thing was that without his bag, containing the library book, he still set the securirty dooda off. is he some new service offered by the library u can check out for a week and then return for someone else to have a go? who knows…

the second thing is slightly more important. a dude came up to us and asked us if the online booking of the presentation rooms worked. suggesting that it hadnt before for him, we watched him as he did it infront of us and all seemed fine but then he didnt have much time to check his email. so….we wrote down his details just incase. whoevers on tomorrow should ask him if he got the email or not to confirm the booking…

here are his details incase something happens to his email and the piece of paper we have infront of us.

0450925
Karl Naim
6–8 on monday (sorry, we think the maximum time is one hour not two now right?)

thats it for now,

ANT (oh yeah, it'd be nice if i could get to sign in and add entries soon. and then i can get my badge too….sniff)

: 03 Oct 2004 16:50 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

in recent entries

Hey just checked this on my way out and wanted to quickly say:
The "so damn quiet" blog is listed in recent entries which isnt the best advertisement for the grid :)..

when posting blogs make sure you tick the no box two under the "title of entry"..

if you forget you can also go back and edit the blog entry and tick it (only the author can do that)

: 02 Oct 2004 22:51 |  Comments (2) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

So. Damn. Quiet…

It has just gone 5pm on Saturday and so far I haven't had to do anything today. Nothing! Zilch, niente (sp?), nada. I'm not denying that this is a cushy deal, but as Sophia told me earlier, there are only so many interesting internet sites you can look at before running out of ideas…

Hopefully in the next 2 hours someone will leave a book lying around.
Oh, wait… someone's having problems with the gate… okay, they're in.

[Addendum]: 90 minutes later, I have answered only one query and helped one person get in through the gate during my entire shift. Surely this must be some kind of record for inactivity – do I win a prize?!

Anyway, I had to be told this by Jon so for anyone who doesn't know yet, the link for Room Bookings is located at the following address: www2.warwick.ac.uk/study/grid.

...And I'm done.

: 02 Oct 2004 17:10 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem