Yesterday, whilst using the company intranet to do my (temporary, sob-sob) job, I noticed several places where the company logo for TriMet appeared. Little TriMet roses appeared on tab screen headings. They appeared in one of my Favorites files--but only next to links to internal documents and intranet pages. Strange, eh!
My first concern was that there was an ethics violation--unintended, of course. (One of my favorite things this company does better than any I've ever worked for is ETHICS.) I emailed the one person I knew could direct me to the right people. She also is the hiring manager for the job I want, but we didn't e-talk about that.
So, after raising a red flag, I decided to do what little I have access to do: I cleared my browser cache. That restored the proper icons, but I'm NOT satisfied. How did that happen? I wonder if there's a naming convention collision. I can't find out until I get access to the deep, inner workings of SharePoint, however. Which brings me, finally, to today's Notifiblog topic: solving mysteries.
My Mum and Grandmother used to read mystery novels by the armloads. (Mum still reads; Grandmother, not so much.) This just learned: they actually preferred the detective fiction subgenre.
Agatha Christie's Miss Marple was a staple. Dame Margaret Rutherford portrayed Miss Marple on film during the 1960s.
Children do like to imitate the adults in their lives. I thought I was really grow-up when I began reading all the Encyclopdia Brown books I could find at our local Library.
One of the most fun series I read (at Mum's recommendation) were the Judge Dee stories by Robert van Gulik. Van Gulik was a sinophile who wrote his own stories based on a real Chinese detective novel he translated. The judge in the detective novel was, in turn, based on a real Chinese magistrate, Dí Rénjié.
Let's solve some mysteries today!
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