Special Report : The carpet is in ...

Slowly but surely the 7th floor of the Pioneer Tower is changing into a real office-space. Yesterday (Friday) they started on the carpet.



Other changes ? The UPS is in, the leased line, voice and ISDN lines are connected, ... Last Wednesday the first three sysadmins already started, on Monday we are expecting 20+ developers, Team Managers.

As the Chinese curse goes : "May you live in Interesting Times" !

Spaghetti or Monster or ... even worse !

While ignoring the danger, our onsite reporter took the following picture of something trying to escape the computerroom ...



I'm glad to report that our reporter survived the encounter !

Lights are on ...

Yes indeed, the lights are on on the 7th floor of the Pioneer Tower !

Bad translations

In the feverish rush to get the office ready in time, a lot of things are happening (at the same time). It is also the ideal time to learn some basic things about infrastructure.

For example, when someone says - "The network is lying here", this is what they mean :



Another example, when someone says - "Pulling the network", they mean this :



And yes, those are our actual networkcables !

Lost Forever

There is visible progress in several areas of our office floor. Here's a view of the mandatory false floor in the computerroom :



After this picture the floor was closed up. Somebody is going to miss that packet of crisps !

Makeshift Office

Very hard to explain to people how we work these days, so I made a picture of our makeshift office (and future training room) :



This is it. This is were four (and soon six) people work. We also :
- Conduct meetings here
- Interview future employees here
- Test future employees here
- ...

Every morning it gets more or less cleaned, but as you can see the dust from the construction site (of which this is a little corner) creeps back in during the day.

Promises Promises ... and Casa Colruyt

Only three days ago I promised more frequent updates. Naturally that was the moment to move from our hotel to the appartments which are so brandnew that they didn't even have internet yet ...

In the mean time they do (I've just installed the Wireless, my first actual installation in India, yay !), the furniture is trickling in (slowly) and we are searching for a name. Casa Colruyt was the best we could come up with so far. All suggestions are however still welcome.

No pictures yet of Casa Colruyt. But I did manage to make some of the work-in-progress on the office (Pioneer Tower) :



At last count I counted about 30+ people working on our office !

New arrivals

On Friday the first of June Colruyt India went from three active members to four-and-a-half active members ... the half being me since I only arrived at 1h30 am the same morning (after travelling for most of Thursday). Yogi also rejoined us.

In the mean time the cobwebs in my head have cleared (a bit) so you can expect more frequent updates (and pictures) in the coming days, weeks, ...