Category: work

Lunch Club

The first rule of Lunch Club is you do not talk about Lunch Club The second rule of Lunch Club is you do not talk about Lunch Club Third rule: If someone says "nachos!", orders a garlic bread, or eats with their fingers, the lunch is over Fourth rule: Only one plate to a person […]

Overheard at Develop 2007, Brighton

Got back from Develop at Brighton at the weekend. Got some choice quotes from the couple of days I was there. "Do you do a fish butty?" (asked in the fish and chip shop next to the Hilton Metropole) "This is fucking awful!" (said by an unknown woman to Peter Molyneux outside the Hilton) "I'm […]

A Second Day

Today, I start my new job working as a Distributed NOC Engineer for Linden Lab , developers of Second Life . This is the crest of a hill I've been climbing since early March, when I was made redundant from my last job: I spent a few minutes converting my rich text CV to plain […]

Pah!

Atkins named in the UK�s Top 10 Best Big employers — pah! Group HR director Alun Griffiths says: �This is great news and reflects the effort and investment we have made in recent years to make Atkins a terrific place to work. As well as providing first class career opportunities, we support the training and […]

Here, There, and Back Again

Quick entry before I head off to work. Yeah, to work, I'm no longer working from home. Most people who know me know this already, but I left SmoothWall Ltd. last month to work in sysadmin at Lumison , formerly edNET, an Edinburgh-based ISP. As my post to the SmoothWall community says, it was just […]