One Man's Notes

At the theatre with @revstan. Shakespeare, daaaahlings…


Today’s view from #hotdesking - gritty and #urban


Office afternoon #officelife


Lunch


Twilight comes


Lighted


Desk #officelife


New dawn?


Trees, Stark


Maybe spring is on its way…


Roll on, spring


Stand


Nightfall


Typepad gets new boss, says SAY

Introducing Jeff Reine, Our New GM of TypePad

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

JHeadshot1Today we are pleased to announce the latest addition to the SAY Media team: Jeff Reine, General Manager of TypePad.

As GM of TypePad, Jeff is responsible for guiding the business and product strategy of the TypePad platform. His first priorities include bringing to market the next generation of the TypePad application and furthering investment in its fundamental capabilities to optimize the user experience of the valued TypePad community.

 

via blog.saymedia.com

 

 

 

Rather glad to hear this. I was getting a touch skittish about the future of Typepad, after the once-busy Everything Typepad blog went quiet last November…


Mum unplugs teens for 6 months. Strangely, isn't murdered...

But she encourages families to unplug periodically. "One way to do it is just to have that one screen-free day a week. Not as a punishment — not by saying, 'I've had enough!' — but by instituting it as a special thing," she said. "There isn't a kid on the planet who wouldn't really rather be playing a board game than sitting at the computer."

via news.yahoo.com

Great quote. Sadly, it's almost certainly complete nonsense...


Ruins of Exeter

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I'm back in scanning mode, this time working through some negatives from 2000. These are from the very first weekend away I took with Lorna, and I was on the verge of discarding them as a bit rubbish, when I thought that they might look quite good in black & white. And they do, don't they?

This catches the mood of the weekend a bit better, though:

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I can't believe it was over a decade ago…


Snowball


Jetlag...

via dailybooth.com

…is kicking my ass. And it's beginning to show…


Red Eyed and Removed

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Today is proving to be a struggle.

It's now about 25 hours since I had any significant amount of sleep. I took the red-eye back from Florida last night, and I'm aiming for at least another 9 hours awake before I finally keel over.  Oh, yes, and I'm in the office - estatesgazette.com's office in Procter Street, to be exact. I'm testing my wife's anti-jet lag theory, that see you doing as much of a working day as you can before retiring to bed. 

It was all neatly planned, you see. My desk in one of RBI's London offices was prepared, with my laptop left, pre-Christmas, securely locked in my under-desk pedestal. The journey from Heathrow to Holborn was smmooth and easy, and I walked into Procter Street before 9am.

And then I was stopped on my way to my desk by someone aking me if he could help me. "Just going to my desk," he said, gesturing in the direction of my long established desk at EG. "That's not your desk," he replied, a puzzled expression on his face. And, to my horror, I saw that my desk and those around it were now set up for developers. My desk was, indeed, gone. And with it, my laptop. 

5353805337_0fe868fd58_z 20 minutes of frantic hunting and pestering allowed my to find most of the stuff that was lost. I found my books on and in one guy's desk. The docking station and power cable for laptop turned up with the IS team. And, finally, the pedestal was found under a random other desk - the laptop safe within.  

The monitor and monitor stand are still AWOL, but I'm not going to stress about those too much. The nature of my work at EG is shifting, and I think that truly hotdesking - just grabbing a free desk when I can - should make that both easier and more productive. 

I've just spent a useful half hour clearing our the junk I'd accumulated up here over the last coupld of years, sending some of it down to my "main" office in Sutton, and the rest to recycling. 

And I'm just hoping that I don't regret the decisions I've made when I'm no longer sleep-deprived….


Back at work


Dressed up for my last dinner of my holiday


PsychoBunny


Beytiful Twilight


Palms


What's your top New Year's resolution this year?

Actually, I have only one New Year's resolution this year - to give myself a new resolution each month, and then blog about progress. Expect some more blogging on that shortly…

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