Tag Archives: office life

It’s nice to be thought about

Posted on August 6, 2008 by Nev

Let me clarify that. It’s nice to be thought of, most of the time. It depends on what the thoughts are I guess. For example, if someone is thinking of a way that they could annoy me from afar then … Continue reading →

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It’s good to be back

Posted on August 4, 2008 by Nev

I enjoy working with like-minded people: the kind of petty pedant1 that immediately spots the flaws in statements like “only five people died during the construction of the Empire State Building” or spends time debating whether replay television channels should … Continue reading →

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Back to normality

Posted on July 27, 2008 by Nev

It’s Sunday night and I have the mother of all Monday fears. It’ll be my first day back in the office tomorrow after taking three months off. Thanks to keeping this blog updated on my travels, my typing isn’t too … Continue reading →

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Going dark

Posted on July 12, 2008 by Nev

Now I’m back home I’m going to take a couple of weeks to get used to the idea of actually working again. I can kind of still type thanks to keeping this blog but coding may be something else entirely. … Continue reading →

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Downtime

Posted on December 20, 2007 by Nev

Both for me and my blog. Apologies for hosing things good-and-proper last night while trying to watch 21 Grams on FilmFour and not really concentrating when attempting to change to an SVN based WordPress update system. Some command-line database poking … Continue reading →

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Two words

Posted on November 5, 2007 by Nev

For a change the second one isn’t “off”. I was speaking to my colleague in Tokyo last week and realised that while “[Good] morning” was accurate for me it wasn’t for him. Likewise,  “[Good] afternoon” wasn’t the correct salutation either.  … Continue reading →

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The Rat Race

Posted on November 8, 2006 by Nev

“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat” Lily Tomlin So my work colleague has entered a team into the Edinburgh Rat Race. All well and good I though until I remember … Continue reading →

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