Down in the dungeons.

Hello again, I am currently sitting in the basement of a well known accounting firms building across the road from the London dungeons and I feel like I’m actually in the dungeons myself. Down here nobody can hear you scream, except for the person that’s sitting next to me that is.

Obviously, as you would expect, at this subterranean level there are no windows so we don’t know whether it’s sunny or raining and when we do eventually surface it feels like we’re breaking free from the dungeons normally used for bad people.

So what amI doing down here, well I’m supposed to be migrating users, their data and applications  from physical Laptop computers onto virtual ones that are hosted in a great big data center somewhere here in London. This is no small task as it involves creating a user specific virtual machine, running through several build options, although most of it is automated, migrating the users data from the physical laptop and then finishing off with some application settings. Each users migration can take up to 4 hours depending on the amount of data to be transferred and although I can do multiple at the same time I will have to do 6 each day. Woe is me!

Supposed to I said as I have been here for 3 days and have yet to do one, but I have been assured that I will be doing some work next week, I can only hope as being kept down here where there is no mobile phone reception is a bit like being left and forgotten.

I do have access to the Internet and email but unfortunately I am not at liberty to willy nilly browse the web and stay in touch. I can also access my social networking sites so I’ll be over on Twitter in a bit.

Well in closing I suppose I should say that next week I will hopefully be in the Docklands area and be able to look out of a windows and at least see the weather whether it’s sunny or not.