This journal underwent the dreaded Friends-Only change sometime early in 2006. One of the reasons I wanted to start writing this was to have a public forum in which I could document my life. Not because I feel like my life is important enough for the general public to care about it, you understand. No, it was because I've tried writing private ( Read more... )

( Faintly nonsensical musings about the permanency of our words )

In a fit of online boredom, I've finally resurrected my website. Now in it's 3rd (and most polished looking, for better or worse) incarnation, this'un features the return of the fabled badgers from way back in the days of "Masked Flamingo's Funky Pink Nest" and some of the content from my old "Chessboard" site. There are still a few bits and pieces ( Read more... )

Howdo ( Read more... )

I couldn't wait for the paperwork to come through. Today I had "the talk" with my managers, who mostly seemed pretty upbeat and pleased for me - even a little surprised I'd generated so much interest from other companies. With good reason - Although I've done work I'm proud of, Evil Amateurish never stretched me to my full potential. Never. Not ( Read more... )

So I won't bore you with stories of all of the interviews I've done. Suffice to say it's been a very busy few weeks of wearing shirts and pretending to be slightly better at my job than I really am. I spoke to 5 companies in all, 4 of which whom made me offers. The guys who didn't offer annoyed me a bit, because they had the job I really wanted, in ( Read more... )

"Life must be lived forwards, but can only be understood looking back ( Read more... )

Yup, after many moons of arguing that blogging was a deeply self-indulgent habit, I have finally decided to self-indulge. Mostly the only blogs I see are written by teenage goths who believe that the rest of the world actually cares about their angst, or by geeks who believe they have some truly profound things to tell us all. I will readily admit ( Read more... )