6 music. in all the coverage, and my gosh isn’t everyone in a tizz about it, i found this website, devoted to showing indigestible screeds of information in pretty ways: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/ i like. i have also divined from the datasheet behind it (you know me. like to get the bonnet up) that the BBC spends over twice as [...]
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so farewell then
Posted in kids, work work on March 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
cc myboss
Posted in work work on February 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
girl in my team has most annoying habit of cc-ing not just me but my boss too on every single thing she does. she’s gonna be 10 mins late, we all get a heads up. she writes a to do list, we all get copies. she talks to someone in another team, we get a newsflash. [...]
dwarves with iphones
Posted in work work on January 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
ipad mania whirled into the office this week. perfect storm of affluent male dominated workforce with high geek boy quotient plus inevitable frenzy about what it all means for media consumption made this inevitable. caught up in the tragic feeding frenzy my boss decided we simply had to do some research on the matter. i know. how [...]
the persuasionists
Posted in work work on January 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
was chatting last week at work about why there had never been a decent tv satire on marketing / advertising (occasioned by the astonishing awfulness of the persuasionists). seems pretty obvious that it’s because the whole shebang is so inherently ridiculous as to be completely beyond satire. i didn’t actually say this of course – doesn’t do to go [...]
get thee to a nunnery
Posted in work work on January 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
have just written most stultifying of stultifyingness newsletter for work. the contents aren’t really down to me – i have to fluff whatever we have to hand / whatever the board feel we need to promote – and this month has had a particular whiff of the turd polish about it among the jewels i have [...]
happy new year
Posted in work work on January 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
gosh. thanks to a pretty pants holiday i’m back in office on first working day of new year. usually have booked a few extra days off not wanting the fun to end. or feeling in such a mess from the fun that i need resuscitation time before inflicting myself on my colleagues. anyway. its weird. turns [...]
out of office japes
Posted in work work on December 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
work winding down nicely. the volume of out of office autoreplies has gone through the roof and i must say i’m impressed by the increasing numbers of people who’ve put fantastically irritating little pieces of whimsy on theirs. apparently it’s not enough these days to say you’re off to the family / maldives / val d’sere and will not respond til [...]
delusions
Posted in work work on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
did review with member of team today. she recently did some analysis for one of the directors and so now claims she’s “working at director level”. she would like to be given pay rise in accordance with new found seniority. gosh. felt v mean but had to point out that working for them not quite [...]
chav tatstica
Posted in work work on November 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
spent my day editing down a pan-euro enormo presentation today. bit of a stultifying research exercise looking at recession trends across various countries. was all terribly dull til i began to see a pattern. all sorts of countries are showing shifts towards home cooking, growing own veg, getting arts & crafts-y with making presents, and [...]
power to the people
Posted in nostalgia, work work on November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
had meeting with our strategic planning director today. he’s started a new crusade that will no doubt revolutionise the world as we know it. we’re not going to refer to people as consumers any more. the reasoning is that calling them (us?) that reduces them to units of consumption rather than actual beings with thoughts, [...]
