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Thiazolidinediones
Sep. 7th, 2005 09:59 am |
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In my first year of university, there was quite a colossal in-joke surrounding this image (mostly perpetuated by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
raphx and latched on to by myself). I'm not sure what's quite so appealing about it, but there's something I find inherently funny in the simplicity of two disjunct pieces of clipart stuck crudely together.
Today I was looking round the Virtual Campus again, and I discovered that I'd been using it as my profile picture since testing the system a few weeks ago. Taking it down may be the best option (even though it may be quite an accurate assessment of many of our users) but there doesn't seem to be a way to do that at the moment. Still, a small inconvenience.
During my time at the RGU I've managed to avoid most of the data entry tasks that I was warned about before I started. My first task (after a week of nothing much) was to input staff accounts on the system for the whole university. After finishing this several weeks sooner than was expected, I was given odd jobs to do in the code and testing, and eventually put in charge of the external testers for the site. However, my luck has run out, and my last week of work is now composed of shovelling a whole lot of weblinks from the old site to the new one.
I wouldn't mind, but the system isn't really designed for mass movement like this. I should really ask for direct access to the databases because that would get things done a whole lot quicker, but the people in charge are away and the developers have enough to do already what with all the schools complaining about the changes that we've made.
The main difficulty with the task (but also what makes it interesting) is the way that for the new system, all weblinks must have a title along with their URL and description. This title can be no more than 50 characters, and selecting fifty characters out of the description is rather difficult because some of them are more like five hundred. Added to this is the fact that they're for Pharmacy and are composed of a whole lot of incomprehensible medical terms, so I really have no idea about what's important in them. Creative shortening of the descriptions is necessary to accurately summarise the content - for example, "Guidelines on the use of zaleplon, zolpidem and zopiclone for the short-term management of insomnia" might become "Sleepy drugs that begin with Z", and "ABC of complementary medicine: The benefits of acupuncture as an alternative medical procedure" can be shortened to "Sticking pins in people". Well, I don't quite have that much freedom, but it does lend some illusion of thinking to what would otherwise be a very monotonous task.
I had a dream last night that I had a Mini which could fold up to the size of a USB drive. Perfect for saving on parking spaces. I was rather annoyed when the alarm woke me up.
raphx and latched on to by myself). I'm not sure what's quite so appealing about it, but there's something I find inherently funny in the simplicity of two disjunct pieces of clipart stuck crudely together.Today I was looking round the Virtual Campus again, and I discovered that I'd been using it as my profile picture since testing the system a few weeks ago. Taking it down may be the best option (even though it may be quite an accurate assessment of many of our users) but there doesn't seem to be a way to do that at the moment. Still, a small inconvenience.
During my time at the RGU I've managed to avoid most of the data entry tasks that I was warned about before I started. My first task (after a week of nothing much) was to input staff accounts on the system for the whole university. After finishing this several weeks sooner than was expected, I was given odd jobs to do in the code and testing, and eventually put in charge of the external testers for the site. However, my luck has run out, and my last week of work is now composed of shovelling a whole lot of weblinks from the old site to the new one.
I wouldn't mind, but the system isn't really designed for mass movement like this. I should really ask for direct access to the databases because that would get things done a whole lot quicker, but the people in charge are away and the developers have enough to do already what with all the schools complaining about the changes that we've made.
The main difficulty with the task (but also what makes it interesting) is the way that for the new system, all weblinks must have a title along with their URL and description. This title can be no more than 50 characters, and selecting fifty characters out of the description is rather difficult because some of them are more like five hundred. Added to this is the fact that they're for Pharmacy and are composed of a whole lot of incomprehensible medical terms, so I really have no idea about what's important in them. Creative shortening of the descriptions is necessary to accurately summarise the content - for example, "Guidelines on the use of zaleplon, zolpidem and zopiclone for the short-term management of insomnia" might become "Sleepy drugs that begin with Z", and "ABC of complementary medicine: The benefits of acupuncture as an alternative medical procedure" can be shortened to "Sticking pins in people". Well, I don't quite have that much freedom, but it does lend some illusion of thinking to what would otherwise be a very monotonous task.
I had a dream last night that I had a Mini which could fold up to the size of a USB drive. Perfect for saving on parking spaces. I was rather annoyed when the alarm woke me up.
