Once I was unemployed. I had lots of time and to start with a bit of money. This is a good state to find yourself in. There is plenty of time to read, to travel, and to indulge ones passion for all things silver screen ( Read more... )

How do you know when a client has more money then sense? When they ask you to spec them a terabyte of space for their i-tunes. For those of you who aren’t computer literate… a terabyte is a thousand gigabytes which is a thousand megabytes which is a thousand kilobytes. In other words a lot of space. Of course I’m all up for that as this means ( Read more... )

I don't drink tea but this is enought make me start.

I need to think of a domain name as I have some web space. And I can't get elvisthebear out of mind. I think I need help on this.

I have never worked for a company that has asked ( Read more... )

My suitcase is dusty. Not really surprising. For a short period of time I did a lot of travelling. I got a real taste for it. And then life got in the way. Sure there was the holiday to Barcelona a year or two back but that was a blip ( Read more... )

Were the Daleks going to be in the new Dr Who. Yes, then no, yes again, maybe and finally yes. Mind you it all depended on what you were reading at the time. But it was a fact that talks between the BBC and Terry Nation’s Estate had fallen apart. The Estate was very keen that they had there say in what can and can’t be done with the Daleks. ( Read more... )

Of course the new job is not the only new job in my life. My skills are such that I will be being used as one of these:


( Read more... )

I have been working for a just over a week now. And by god I’m sleeping well. The whole time I was unemployed my sleep pattern was all over the place. Sometimes waking early, sometimes waking late but either way never a good solid nights sleep. But now, when I put my head down, after thirty minutes or so I’m out for the count. Mind you I still ( Read more... )

Two weeks ago I get a phone call from a company that would like to interview me for a role they are trying to fill. The details and address of the company will be in an email I could expect shortly. The email never turned up and by then I had forgotten the name of the company, mind like a sieve you know ( Read more... )