Monday September 20, 2004 SunRays at Home.....Another AWESOME invention for home workers!
From my previous blog, you know that I just activated my AccessLine and I thought that was the cat's meow but that was before I was introduced to new home-based SunRay150.Before I received my new SunRay, I was working at home on a company supplied laptop loaded with VPN5000 and Go-Global. That worked fine until we were asked to upgrade to VPN3000 and wouldn't you know it, it wouldn't install on my rather old laptop and so I had to move over to a combination of using my personal Macintosh with VPN3000 to read my email and using the laptop with it's original configuration to view my calendar and download StarOffice files for modifications.
When I received my SunRay last week, it was a whole new world and a whole new working from home experience! As far as I'm concerned, once Sun is back on top of the world, all of Sun's at home workers NEED to be given a SunRay for their at-home work days! I no longer have to read email on my Mac and I don't have to keep my laptop up and running at the same time to access and modify StarOffice files. Everything that I use in my office is so very accessible on my new SunRay...of course, the only negative that I can see right now is that I can't print documents but according to the Development folks for the SunRay, they are working on that right now. YIPPEEE!!
So, if you ever run into someone in a back alley in a dark trenchcoat and they whisper to you "Pssst, wanna get an Accessline and Sunray?" take them up on it! If they are offering anything else, run!!! ( Sep 20 2004, 10:00:23 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [6]
Monday September 13, 2004 Access Line - shoulda got this way earlier!
I just converted my old boring office extension to a new Access Line and all I can say is "why the heck did I not get this earlier?" I work from home one day a week, usually on Mondays, and it is totally AWESOME to be able to set my Access Line so it can finds me via my home office, my MPK17 office, or via my cell phone (if I want it to find me there). And if for some reason, a caller has to leave me a VM, I get notified on my pager and via email that I have a waiting VM. Love, love, love this Access line technology!As far as I'm concerned, everyone at Sun should have the opportunity to get an Access Line as a replacement for their office extensions and VM. ( Sep 13 2004, 03:27:55 PM PDT ) Permalink
Wednesday September 08, 2004 My Jury Duty Experience...
Just got back from being called in for Jury Duty in Alameda County in California (for those readers who are not in the US). Like most human beings, I dread the possibility of being on an actual jury even though I've served as Juror #1 on a civil case back a few years ago...we actually got to a verdict and everything then.In this case, I was close but oh so far....I had been called in to serve for Jury Duty back in March/April but given that I had just lost my grandfather, I signed up for a deferral to September and wouldn't you know it...my summons was for Sept 1st. So, considering myself a person who should do their civic duty, in spite of the fact that it is DARNED inconvenient, I went to the courthouse last Wednesday. I got called into a courtroom and along with at least a hundred civically minded individuals, we were sworn in as potential jurors for a criminal case.
Now to watch justice in action - two attorneys, one defendent with a boat load of charges against him, one judge and all of us just praying to be excused for one reason or another. Some of course tried the "fry 'em all" card, others tried the "I have such and such disorder that would prevent me from serving but with no doctor's letters with them to prove that particular disorder"...hmmmm, makes you wonder on those ones. Others had legitimate hardships and the judge and the attorneys excused them as they should have. I just waited and waited and waited...I heard the same questions asked over and over and over again by the attorneys to each of the individuals who were called up from the pool of potentials. I thought I was home free on Wednesday afternoon given that Alameda County has the "one day or one trial" rule in place and one day was over....not that fast, given that I had been sworn in as a potential juror, I was now working on the "one trial" timeline....drats!
Yesterday, I finally got out of the audience and closer to the actual juror box. I got the same type of questions from the judge and the attorneys I had heard over and over again and I answered them truthfully (it was my truth, mind you, others may have answered them in other ways). Today, I actually made it into the juror box (#7) and I thought, oh no, I'm sunk now....but luck was on my side and while the attorneys didn't dismiss anyone for cause from the group that I was a member of, the first chance that the defense attorney had to use one of his preemptory challenges on me, I was outta there...I was kind of bummed but relieved at the same time in that it would have been an interesting trial but it would have lasted three weeks (minimum). Of course, in Alameda County, there's always next year.... ( Sep 08 2004, 03:01:20 PM PDT ) Permalink Comments [3]