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Today marks one month and two days since I started with HP (last September 1). Just one more month, and I'll have been employed longer than at my previous two jobs!

Here are my accompishments and personal highlights for my first month:

• Nearly finished memorizing all the names and faces of the team
• Officially a Nescafé coffee machine addict
  
• Starred and made a fool out of myself in our new-hire presentation
• Finished the required online training, in record time!
• Won a 100-peso Starbucks gift certificate from an icebreaker contest during an HP training session
  
• Increased my knowledge of Windows Sharepoint Services (WSS) and IIS a thousandfold by doing some sys-ad work and development using the WSS SDK
• Hacked out a method to enable the fingerprint reader on my nc6320 (bypassing the Novell login) and gained a noticeable increase in coolness level for making it work
  
• Now 50 percent less clueless with HP acronyms!
  
• Currently acting as SPOC (Single Point of Contact), room reserver, meeting organizer, and de facto leader for the September new-hire group for our offsite presentation
• Currently communicating with a British HP project manager and slowly learning to understand the British accent
  

Not bad. I had expected to accomplish more in my first month at HP, but like Simon told me "Be careful what you wish for." Well, it's definitely been more interesting and productive here than the first month at my last job (unless not getting paid and working in a "war room" counts as "interesting").

Labels: HP, work