World Cup and 3D

Watched Spain Vs Germany Semifinals in 3D! It was quite an experience since it's the first time I watched a live match from this perspective. It's nice, but I still think the 3D technology still isn't ripe enough for prolonged usage. Then again, 90 min is probably still good for current technology. It's probably the first time when I felt that even the ads look interesting. That does really provide an interesting perspective of ads which normally take on the note of channel switching.

Another interesting issue is the 1-2 sec delay between 3D and 2D live streams. It's perfectly fine if you're in a room that only streams either of these channels. But in a big gathering where both of these streams are available, you tend to have this expected result when you're in the 3D group which lags behind 2D. This kinda spoils the fun since you probably already know whether a goal is imminent based on the response of the 2D group. If you hear a goal outcry from the other group, you probably can expect a goal coming up. On that note, it's also interesting to watch the expressions of the 2 groups, where the slower group prominently lag the other by 2 sec.

Work
It has been a really crazy 3 months since I returned to work in April. Development work usually starts only after office hours, which is definitely unreasonable. Oh well, as a person responsible of my own projects, what has to be done, needs to be done. It's definitely a 2 man job cast upon a single person. Fortunately, such crazy schedule is finally expected to end shortly after National Day. Boss finally brought in another guy to help out. Hopefully that will ease the situation to reasonable standards, so that I can resume my usual activities after work, which has inevitably halted due to the heavy workload. Alrighty, just another couple months to endure.

On a similar note in work, it does irritate me big time when it takes me more than 10 hours to create a tool to do a particular job that is technically not directly related to current job, and then have the operations person deploying it being too lazy to spend just 10 min understanding the required configurations and making sure it's right. Really, don't come complaining about the tool when time (as in time after office hours) was spent trying to make your life easier, and you still expect the configurations are automatically filled in correctly for you.

Also, did I not mention that this same guy was the person who established a certain process, did not follow it and then feel irritated that the changes didn't work correctly? If the process expects steps A to D, and he didn't do step C because of various reasons not to, of course D will not work correctly, since it's dependent on C! Yes, that took me an additional 2 hrs of my valuable work time trying to fix the mess he created. It also doesn't help that he doesn't read the release notes I painfully put together to make sure things are clear for smooth deployment. Really, if the intended audience doesn't really read it, then why should I spend time trying to make sure it's crystal clear?

Oh yes, and I'm seriously impressed with his attention span, which is comparable of maybe a 5 yr old despite the fact that he's more than 10 years older than I am. I was trying to go through the deployment work with him, and he could suddenly switch to looking at emails, IM with someone else or look at other websites in the middle of it! WTH?!?! Yes, and I was stupidly standing right beside him all along as he IM with his friends or look at the stuff he's trying to purchase on Ebay.

heh~ 2 paragraphs of events, and 4 paragraphs of complaints. Best. Hopefully after August things will be better. But one thing I know for sure (err, ok, likely), all this would probably end 1 yr from now. :)