Journal archive: March 2006

Night shifts

Posted 2006-03-16 (木) 午前10:53 by terra

Switching between working regular hours and night shifts can be debilitating for the uninitiated. It messes up one’s biological clock, and the feeling is somewhat like a persisting jetlag.

I may be accustomed to keeping late nights in the comforts of home after a full day’s work but the feeling is quite different from this weekly or biweekly switching pattern. At work the nervous tension lingers and drains; recoving in the day just doesn’t do it, unless I am able to pretend that day is night. I know of people who can maintain this sort of lifestyle but I just haven’t gotten the hang of it.

Subjects: Work 仕事

Mood: Discoveries & Relevations

Tags: sleep

Move to Drupal: 80% complete!

Posted 2006-03-06 (月) 午後11:41 by terra

An update! after, what, 8 months of procrastination? It’s been so long since I last posted a blog entry that I’ve nearly forgotten how to write. This site has finally been Drupalised — after playing 睨めっこ with my trusty (but bulky) DELL trinitron over the past week, after work and over the weekend. The catalyst for this decision was the wonderful relevation that Drupal 4.7 beta now supports unicode MySQL properly. This means that my Japanese and Chinese words no longer look rubbish in phpmyadmin. How nice is that? Over the next few weeks, you will see more embellishments to this web space, and more importantly, updates (I hope!) to this blog. I can’t wait for Drupal 4.7 to be final which would mean more cool modules. I’m such a sucker for the taxonomies in Drupal. I’ve always been obsessed about cataloging things — as seen from my old Mythology webbie and my Led Zep bootleg collection — which makes Drupal my blogger’s ambrosia. :-P