Day 48

Had meetings for most of the day today.  Our account manager and customer service manager from Volvo IT were in Landskrona for our monthly ‘Operational Review’ meeting.  It’s an opportunity to review things like disk space, cpu usage, memory usage, page file sizes, up times etc. for all the servers hosted with them, any pending/outstanding requests and any incidents that occurred during the previous month.  It’s also a chance to go over any other things that have come up during that time.  The whole process takes a couple of hours but it’s not too bad.

We also had the first steering committee meeting for the Trioving, Norway data centre migration.  This will be one of the largest migrations so far, about 70 servers altogether – although the actual number of new servers at Volvo IT will be a bit less than that as some will be consolidated etc.  The plan was to have the migration finished by end June, but staffing shortages in Norway will most likely push that out until after the summer break.

I went into Helsingborg with Johan and his friend Carl after work.  We grabbed a quick bite to eat at Max (the hamburger joint) then went to see Alice in Wonderland 3D.  I was surprised when they said it was the first 3D movie they’d seen.  The movie itself wasn’t terrible – I’m not really a huge Tim Burton fan – but it wasn’t the best movie I’ve seen.  The 3D was similar to that used in Avatar.  More of a background effect than the focus of the film, which works well and seems to be the growing trend.  They had previews for the new Toy Story movie and a dance flick called StreetDance (think Step Up) that were also in 3D and both looked cool.

This may be my last post for a while - tomorrow I leave for France. 

In fact, this time tomorrow I will have been on a bus for about 8 hours and will still have at least another 12 hours to go.  From what I understand the bus will be full too, so pretty sure I won’t have an empty seat next to me.  Let’s just say it’s not going to be the best part of my holiday…

Jens tells me that they should have free wifi at the place I’m staying, so hopefully I’ll be able to put up some pictures and continue these posts.  If not, the next time you’ll hear from me will be Sunday 28th of March.  Until then, au revoir!