advice?..

Well I finally made a little progress, no thanks to tec support. It's taken me two weeks, but having tried everything short of turning my computer upside down and trying to run the migration sideways, I've finally made a *small* amount of progress. It got me thinking about how much time I'd wasted this week.. So here are some ways to waste time while still looking busy:

1) When you leave your desk, always walk briskly and carry at least one sheet of office paper or several post it notes.
2) When web browsing make sure you can switch to a work related site (Paradigm help desk in my case) at a moment's notice. This is where tabbed browsing really comes into its own.
3) Occasionally push back from your desk, sigh expansivly and run your hands through your hair. This is most dramatic and noisy if there are no wheels on your chair
4) Hunch intently over your keyboard. You may be risking RSI, but it does have the twin benefits of making you look deeply interested in your work while hiding the poker website you are actually looking at
5) frequently look at your watch and mutter paniced expletives
6) Photocopy everything. Absolutely everything. When you run out of things to photocopy, do it all again. This makes you look productive and also lets you get intimately aquainted with all the tuneful squeeks and rattles of your particular copier. I now speak the language of the geofiz copier, and can distinguish 'last sheet gone through' from 'paper jam' from 20 yards.
7) Pile a blank ream of paper in your intray, cleverly overlain with a page of such hard core intellectuallism that noone will examine it too closely
8) 'Work' through lunch. Even if you are looking at guitars/ running shoes/ ukuleles/ tranmere rovers continued search for a manger/ friend's blogs* online (*replace with personal interests), it makes you look extra dedicated, so when you leap up, look at your watch and shout 'DAMN' at 3.30pm and leave in a hurry, people will assume you are late for a very important meeting rather than sloping off home early,
9) Hire a PA. Not tried this myself, but it's bound to make you look importnant.
10) Update your CV. This makes you seem career focused and on the ball, and has the added benifit of helping you get the %&@# out of the job that is making you go to all this effort to waste time in the first place.