Three days ago I heard that there’ll be a new Toronto office, quite costly, with the assumption that all the folks from the area (i.e. David, Norman, Bruce, Karl, Briyesh, Ralph, Jevgenij) would be working there. This means switching from 24hr support to 9-to-5 working hours, plus commute (for Karl, about 90 minutes one way). The idea is, obviously, to create a cubicle farm where anyone’s use of company time can be controlled. Sure, if control is the goal and not serving the customers and achieving results. This also means that the Torontians stop using their home boxes and work only from the boxes at work, so they’re incommunicado off hours.
In other news, the freshly finished, just deployed yesterday, C# version of the portal, on which Kees worked since his first day, is to be scrapped and the whole portal done from scratch, as Suez communicated to some of the portal team today. Huh?
And the material from the, ahem, farewell concert of Korni grupa in the latest lineup started arriving.... Of the old gang, there was Boček, plays as if he practiced until yesterday all of his old tricks, just like new. Bata Kovač, as a guest. On some of the accompanying videos to the concert (which was on 31st of january) he recounted how he came to a rehearsal and said „nice thing that you're playing, who wrote it? They told me that I did... well, didn't recognize it“. He was more of a guest of honor, played perhaps five minutes on a grand piano, that much was heard. The singers paraded, one after another, there were Cukić, Gale, Šandorov and a few more, and the „One woman“ was sung by Dado Topić himself, also somewhat absent and who knows on what, equally old just more worn out than Bata, but he sang it honestly and quite well. Too bad that a proper recording (as of 2025, when i write this paragraph), taken off the mixer, never appeared. What we have was someone's handheld camera.
22-X-2019 - 9-X-2025