Freakcity

Still the prettiest Well. Uneventful day at work, interesting stuff at lunchtime tho, had a lunch seminar (ie everyone gets dragged into a meeting for lunch, where no lunch is served so we all skive off between...

Today was mostly deciphering some odd JSP stuff and an afternoon behind a two way mirror watching people use our prototype. Kinda chilled out, kinda fun – spesh when one of them maximised the window, was then asked if she did that on all websites she used and replied with “I like them big”. We tried...

So I got to thinking, what happens to the happy happy joy joy faggots when they go home at night. The ones that live to be center of attention, the ones that love their voices...

For years I’d been kept happy knowing theirs were double lives, and that when they got home and let the pretense drop, t...

My office 😁 Having escaped the clutches of the Evil Shipping Company, I find myself once more working for a dotcom, and once more working in London. Yay on both points, I think, as this dotcom should manage to...

...and I think I’m coming down with a cold! 😞

Wandered about in the cold for a fair bit of today. Found a computer fair which was selling mobo&chip bargains and almost upgraded to an AthlonXP 3000+ for somewhere close to£150! But thought the better of it and behaved.

Went to Maplins inste...

Server! 😁 ...as my hangover slowly wears off...

Well. New year.*excitement*

Went to Owen’s for NYE, I’m sure the photos will appear soon enough – was a bit different to last year, Owen being a slapper seems...

Got the job! 😁

Out Friday night, which was interesting. Took Gaz to the pub. Well, Gaz’s suggestion was the Black Horse (www.theblackhorsebar.com) – dire doesn’t come close. OK, so it was a quiet night, but...

DJ who has a face for radio, the wit of a 7yr old dragqueen, and the style of an unstylish thing. Making...

(Small).jpg crappy xmas, no job, single, and I get back from the only nice bit of it to find some fucker has tried to nick my bike, failed, and just left it in a mangled mess.

Not impressed 😞

Well, I had the second interview, tho I’m not sure how I did. HR people often scare me as I don’t ever know what to say to them. If I’m talking to a techy they can get an idea of what I want to do and what I can do and my value, but a non technical person might not know what I mean and so...oh, I du...

It’s lovely to be back in Crawley, no really.

Bugger all to do, but nice coffee anyways.

Second interview tomorrow – thinking I reallyreally hope I don’t fuck this up 😡

Need the job. Want the job. It’s all lovely there and fluffy and nice people and stuff.

Lenny enjoys Pizza 😁 Met Niki off the train at about twenty past one I think...traipsed over to Wapping to find the Bass shop all shut. Not to be disheartened, we found a Pizza Express to have lunch in, in cas...

Interview seemed to go well, fingers crossed...They’d been round my website and seemed interested in me as a person too, mentioned that my friends seemed interesting and Rachel said she’d like to meet Nikki, which was a little surreal as I’m meeting Nikki in a bit to do Xmas shopping and stuff...

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What’s the point of the platform indicator at Chafford Hundred? There’s only one platform!

Just spent £200 on new suit, shirt and shoes. Bit more than I meant to, but I have to look my best tomorrow. Well, that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it 😉

Been told that I might not be needed in...

LOL. The job interview confirmation letter got tagged as spam. Marvellous!

Their offices don’t appear to be in Central London, but in Hammersmith, which is a bit of a downer, but I’ll cope...

Bought a steam cuisine M&S thingy for lunch, which I’m about to go cook...I discovered an “email my password” link in helm, so Harry sent me the new password for the circus2iraq site. It’s now all back and lovely and I don’t think there’s anything missing as far as I am aware.

Need urgently to wo...

Worked from home yesterday, but there wasn’t that much to do, so chilled out a bit too. Got a phonecall from the agency saying I have an interview at 9am on Friday. Got a hurried and panicky email from fisheye as the www.circus2iraq.org site is down. It was on the same server as freakcity was, so em...

Oxford Street was a bit busy but the twinkly lil lights were nice... – 16th Dec 2003 062 (Small).jpg Might learn some C# to do bits of Freakcity in. Not sure yet. Thought about writing some software that writes XML f...

Working from home tomorrow. Should get a chance to fix my puncture I hope. Also, should get a chance to work out why on earth my Exchange 2000 server appears dead. Wish someone would hurry up and phone me and tell me when that damn interview is.

Ugh. Busker playing guitar shittily in the tube carri...

Lunch in St James' Park Tennis Club (think that was its name), Weybridge... Big burger and chips. Nice, if a little borgeouise... Was an odd mood over food, our team is made up of both CP and Critical people, so half of us are jobless and half of us aren’t. Talked about Christmas as if nothing was w...

09:19 – On a train. Not sure if I should phone the office and see if there’s anyone around who wants to pick me up from the station, or if I should just walk. No one should have to see Wimbledon this early in the morning.

Not sure if I should negotiate with CP to get out of my month’s notice or n...

Beautiful morning – 16th Dec 2003 005 (Small).jpg A business that makes nothing but money is no kind of business at all – Henry Ford.

Or so says Barclays' new poster campaign.

Hm. What do Barclays make then?

G...

Just been given my notice because it looks like they’re dropping the whole of the critical UK bit of the project and their plans don’t require me next year. Last day on 14th Jan.

Luckily I have an interview for a job...not sure when tho... 😉

Might be able to get out early or something!

*sigh...

The morning sun plus scratched windows 😉 My company website is missing some graphics 😞

Spose I’ll have to do them all again then! *sulk*

Anyways...we’re back on the new server and it all seems to work ...