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Wednesday, April 18
Take me to the river
In two short weeks, I will lose my desk. In fairness, I'll be given a new desk. That desk, however, will not be on the corner of the 21st floor, overlooking the Hudson River and the northern reaches of Battery Park. I am going to miss my comfortable little corner, which was simply a bounty of luck. I am going to take a bit of time each day to make sure to enjoy the view, while I still have it. It seems the traders, who are on this floor, but the other side, covet our location. Maybe there's other reasons for the move. Who can ever be sure? But the firm is spending a lot of money to move the trading desks, which have more technology, wires and monitors tethered to them than you would see at an air traffic control center. I suppose these are the guys that help earn the money that pays for my job, so I can hardly begrudge them. Okay, maybe I can begrudge them a little. A gentle reminder, I suppose, to enjoy things while I've got them. The move may effect my nosuch posts. Once I'm no longer hidden in the corner, I may find it difficult to surreptitiously visit Blogger to scrawl out the day's ravings... Corporate bastards! '; } else { if(stristr($filename,"archive")) { $dir=$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']; $template='_01_archive.html'; $tail=strlen($template); $thisArchive=$filename; //$files=scandir($dir); $dh = opendir($dir); while (false !== ($filename = readdir($dh))) { $files[] = $filename; } sort($files); $earlyarch=""; $laterarch=""; $prevarch=""; $next=0; foreach($files as $file) { if (substr($file,-$tail)==$template) { if ($next==1) { $laterarch=$file; $earlyarch=$prevarch; $next=0; } if ($file==$thisArchive) { $next=1; } else { $prevarch=$file; $earlyarch=$prevarch; } } } $link=''; $divider=''; if(file_exists($earlyarch)) { $link='< Earlier Archive'; $divider=" | "; } if(file_exists($laterarch)) { $link=$link.$divider.'Later Archive >'; } $link=$link.' '; } } echo($link); ?> |