In keeping with yesterday’s oven theme, I found out (rather embarrassingly) that the official name for my laptop is “TunaMelt.” I was at a friend’s house last night, trying to connect to Wi-Fi, but he’s got the router set to manually grant each user permission to access the network. In other words, they have to detect your computer and add you as a user – it helps to keep the bad guys out.
When Dan asked me, “are you TunaMelt?,” I was indignant and immediately responded, “Of course not! Why would I be TunaMelt?” Why would he even say such a thing?
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We resumed my training today, spending a little bit of time learning about the database (where we store all of our important information), how to work the phones and a few things about our marketing department – which basically consists of |me|.
Here’s what I learned about our database: I think that, technically, the database is our server, but I could be wrong… either way, we call this mega-machine “applecrisp.” I’m not really quite sure why, but just about everything in our office is named according to the ‘Can It Be Found in an Oven?’ Scale. I heard a rumor that, when Bruce first got started consulting (back in the college years), he built his first network server in an abandoned oven. Whether there’s any truth to that story or not… hmmm? I guess we’ll just have to ask the source.
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After a good amount of face time with Bruce – asking as many questions as I could think of (in a way that didn’t say “I have no idea what Search Engine Optimization is…”) and a big handful of google searches, I felt pretty confident that I would actually be of some use at the Workshop we put on with Comerica Bank this morning.
So, here it is! Your first blog to read, my first week at Dynamic Edge and perhaps the first ever exposé into the minds of the SuperTech by a very non html-writing, computer-wiring, software programming person.
I thought Monday would be a day to get my toes wet. No. After eight+ hours of interviews and countless email correspondences, I really should have known better. From my limited standpoint, I can say this one thing: If nothing else, these guys are thorough… very thorough.
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