Relationships

The Gorse Fox has been pondering how life is made up of relationships. There are the primary relationships with the Silver Vixen, Cousteau-cub and Urban-cub. There are secondary relationships with siblings. Beyond that the relationships explode into so many directions. Friends, Colleagues, Techies, Trolls and so forth.

Today GF had to deal with the relationships between himself and some of the team he manages. The last few of the annual appraisals had to be discussed and the outcomes filed. That done GF could, with a satisfied grin sit down and reckon that he had done well for his team this year. Of all his responsibilities in Starfleet, this can be the most time consuming but also the most satisfying.

Finally, GF thought about relationships in terms of information and the way that different items of data come together and can be viewed in different ways.  This led to an evening reading database manuals and the consideration of whether and how he should be adjusting some of his personal tooling to make better use of the technology. GF remembers that back in the early days of the millennium he had started building a data model to describe the way information is linked in his job. A colleague at the time convinced the Gorse Fox that he was wasting his time as Starfleet's labs were already working on something similar. GF can report that a decade on, they have not come up with anything that he would consider suitable. What they have come up with only doespart of the job and is too resource hungry for most laptops. Maybe it's time to for GF to start again.