Kinda limited here

So what do you do when your job is researching internet technologies and your corporate network is having problems? Well maybe it's not the network it could be a router nearby that's gone off the deep end. It is rather hard to work on things when I have no ability to access them through the internet, which is where everything lives. Both the good and bad of cloud computing I guess.

While the major of places we needed to go were down for only about 40 minutes I unfortunately am unable to even pretend to work because I have almost nothing on my actual physical machine. My personal overseer sit directly behind me so things get kinda weird when I'm just sitting around killing time.

So, what's a good sport to do when you cannot/don't want to do work? Office gossip is nice, some is actually useful, learning about new hires etc. Other parts not, like where we're drinking this weekend. Ah well, feel better now cause of the venting.

App Engine Why Won't You Work?

Ok so dude, honestly, I'm a developer. No big deal there. Working on Google App Engine which is a nice service. 1.3 million requests per day free, yeah you can't be that price point. Been trying to send documents I get from a web service into Google Docs. The shit is not working. Why? Not because of anything I'm doing, the method just isn't allowed. App Engine doesn't allow you to reference local files to upload. So, they why not create a new file inside the 'src/'? Well that's not allowed either. I could possibly just have a blank doc and populate it with the data every time someone wants to move a doc, it could work but that's a butt ugly way of doing things. Still might try it though.

I understand that all these methods are not allowed because it's a good way to prevent virus and for the amount I'm paying, free, I shouldn't be complaining. But seriously, I've been explaining things for a while to other people and they keep giving me the same suggestions, which just ARE NOT ALLOWED!