Grindin’

Today was a Sunday, day on which most professional people rest.

I on the other hand took a trip to the lovely downtown Orlando to do a crack cleanup. What is a crack cleanup you may ask? It is a day of cleaning up after myself and crackheaded ideas about designing, building and running a business. I wish I were perfect and that everything I touched turned to gold and worked every single time, all the time.. but I don’t have that kind of luck.

To tell you the truth, I wouldn’t have it any other way. I get to work with some of the most advanced technology on the market, at just about the grandest scale where getting stuff done takes a lot of creativity and there is no simple cheat sheet or walkthrough. I get to try a lot of cool stuff and then when stuff actually does work I get to document it and hand it off to someone else that can push it across the finish line.

Life is good.

To give you some ideas of what I did with my day:

Process – Documented the process of how KB articles are collected, designed distributed and linked to support request.

Process –  Documented the process of twittering blog posts and NOC alerts. Created a document explaining partners why they should pay attention to our twitter feed (hint: setup SMS alerts if you really want to be on top of everything we do www.twitter.com/ownwebnow)

Code – Ok, I am going to hell for this one. It’s a Shockey Monkey welcome / alerts engine. Think Microsoft Clippy meets Deadbeat brakes.

Podcast – Recorded the preshow for SPAM Show #2, published it online.

Process – Created a process document on how to post-process the show, publish and integrate into the ownwebnow.com web site.

I also tried to shop for flights to the MVP summit but got totally depressed after looking at my schedule and realizing what a global whore I am. I’m spending almost all of the second half of February and all the forseeable future after that on the road. So instead of getting a ticket I went and bought another laptop so I can have a similar setup on the road as I have at home and at the office. Looooser.