We recently went through a BIG rebranding effort. Like, huge. And our logos on one of our sites just switched back to the old company names.

FREAKOUT.

Because, of course, we upgraded the content management system this weekend, and clearly everything that goes wrong for the next week will be our fault.

The point of a content management system, for those not familiar, is pretty much an edit once/publish many structure. You have one golden source, versioned even, so you can roll back 7 years that compliance requires, and tell what version was extant at which very second. But you have to respect the system.

Apparently when we rebranded, someone went out and copied over the logos with the new company names, so when those items were "accidentally" republished from the gold source WHICH WAS NEVER UPDATED....we're back in 2012.

Jesus Christ. It's still my team that fucked up, and it's the guy who's home with the flu, but it's not my system. Our upgraded system remains pretty blameless.

And the incompetent developer did clean stuff up my way yesterday after all. I guess one by one deletion of 3010 items seemed...unappealling?

I am still on pins and needles waiting for the official press response to the Situation that came up yesterday, that is NOT MY FAULT even though I'm right in the middle of it. They keep adding language that has actual implications that make me freak out, and I'm kind of sick to my stomach and can't concentrate on my other work.

Good times.

I have been doing super annoying training class scheduling for our staff at the location I work at. Sent initial email with training times of a mandatory class, let me know your top two choices or if you will be out of town. yadda yadda. Most people follow those directions. The people who never respond get a second email - Reminder! This is happening, it is mandatory - these are the remaining time slots available.

Now today - THE DAY OF THE TRAINING, I am emailing people saying - I never heard from you, there are two classes remaining today, which one will you be attending?

The part worse that people just not even responding to emails, though is that about 1/4 of the people who were schedule emailed TODAY to change their time. There is a serious lack of respect for committments and other people's time in this company culture.

So, in the winter Port Townsend pretty much shuts down st 5. It's a very dark & rainy ghost town out there. However, I have discovered a cozy little wine bar and have a glass of zin, so things are looking up.

For evenings, I strongly recommend seeing something at The Rose.

PT does tend to close early in the winter. The co-op as you enter town's pretty good, though, if you need to grab a snack, and again, there's always The Rose.

I had them cancel the group appointments and switched my doctor. I think I want to go home because I'm useless at work .

Today I had a great lighthouse tour (not too much peeling paint! No mildew!) and a really promising meeting, and then a tour of the Wooden Boat Foundation, and I'm taking the rest of the day off. There's lots of shops & cafes here, I shall go wandering.

I'd call accomplishing that a win for the day, Allyson.

I'm with Laura,that counts as a win.

I'm drowning in paper at my desk. Ugh.

I have a quick question -- anyone have a non-erinaceous TED talk that they think is amazing and would be good for students studying how rhetoric works?

I haven't seen her TED talk, but Tavi Gevinson was on Colbert the other night and I thought she was a really articulate teen. Link to her TED - [link]