Large information rich systems

In my new job I’m currently learning to use a large information-rich business-critical system.

The known software bugs are not documented, I’m learning about them through other people and as I run into them. I could cry. It would be a lot easier if they ever do decide to fix them if they were already documented.

The system could also be made a lot more user friendly. Some of the theories of usability has obviously never reached its stately mass.

Some things can only be done in one way because the system talks to other companys software. But honestly I’d study and document it for free if I was let, so that they can fix that problem.

Its frustrating looking at it, I was trainined in updating legacy systems in college and I do understand why these systems don’t get updated till they have to be (cost, their are critical, it works somewhat so why fix it) but I am damn tempted to write the business case for why they should at least document it and rewrite parts of it to make it easier to update.

Maybe somewhere it is documented and somewhere they are doing this, but dear gods tell me so I can stop dispairing over it.

Sunday morning

The bells, the bells!

One of the churchs near my house has bell ringing every sunday morning. My windows is open so I can listen to them as I type. Very Cool.

Vista support training

We were trained in vista support today. I have home premium on my home machine so I’m already comforable with it. Still the structured course was good. I would have liked to have done more practical exercises thought.

Tired

New job is tiring. Very long hours, with not enough work being done to really make it worth it.

Then I go home and have my own pc housekeeping to do. 

Right now I’m removing the nortan trial (done), running a backup (doing) letting windows update do its thing (it failed once). Then I have to check is AVG and windows firewall are doing their security jobs.

Blah, later I get to try Wow again though.