With Huge (now head of department) gone upstairs and Anthony off in the Deanary so it's is really quite. I've taken to playing music without headphones on Fridays ( not wanting standards to slip to much or the meeting room to be effected).
There was a fire alarm yesterday and I was thinking of inviting the evacuees from the department for a coffee. One interesting discussion come up.
Basically it appears that people have decided that the building is a library and we should treat it like such. My opinion is that we should teat the place like an office - conversation is permitted even encouraged and you can retreat to a meeting micro-room if things get too disturbing. I was told in no uncertain terms that "the micro-rooms are too stuffy to work in". One problem with the building as library thesis ( which is the only other office plan academics have experienced) is what happens when someone phones up? How does a phone call work in the context of the vow of silence.
I even logged into second life and there is no one there either ( on the OU world).
I can see why most people work from home.
I'm working on the iPhone experiment - I have some nice ideas about how to test it out. I'm thinking of releasing the game on the Itunes store and getting the data emailed back. I guess this must have been done before but I wonder what the search words would be.
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