Tag: work
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A Surprise Christmas Gift
A surprise package arrives outside Dan's office door. What's inside? A whole heap of goodness, that's what.
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QR Codes of the Bodleian
For the Bodleian Libraries' latest exhibition, Treasures of the Bodleian, Dan's produced some unusual QR codes to sit alongside the exhibits.
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Time
Some people are goldfish, and some people are midgets. Dan's a goldfish. What are you?
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Work Calendar [NSFW?]
Dan is momentarily alarmed by an abstract art piece - supposedly inspired by a flower - that appears in his office's calendar. Might be NSFW?
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First Class Film
Dan watches X-Men: First Class, and spots his office in the background during a part of the film. No; not the part with the battle between the jetfighter and the levitating submarine.
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Fonts of the Ancients
Dan adds UTF-8 support to the CMS that powers the Bodleian Libraries' websites, and ponders how he'd justify the scope of Unicode to a (hypothetical) time-traveling scribe from ancient Egypt.
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My New Pet Hate, part II
Dan shares a screenshot of a screenshot within a screenshot.
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A Small World Conspiracy
Dan is contacted by somebody he met many years ago in a chance meeting, which quickly goes on to lead to an even more bizarre coincidence...
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The Final Hours
It's Dan's final day working for SmartData: on Monday, he starts his new job at the Bodleian Library. As I'm sure you might have guessed, he has a nice, relaxing weekend planned between the two...
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On This Day in 2002 (New Job!)
Dan looks back to 2002, when he began working for SmartData. Now, nine years on, he's planning to move on to his next job, with the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford!
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The Week of Balls
Dan says the word "balls" a lot, statistically speaking, as he deals with a broken boiler (at home) and a disfunctional server (at work).
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Hectic (so let's look at Paul, instead of writing a proper blog post)
Between SmartData work, Three Rings work, freelance work, strange new bits of voluntary work, and the rapidly-looming wedding between Ruth & JTA (along with handling all of the crises that come with that, like the two mentioned on the wedding blog and the threat of rail strike action on the weekend of the event, which …
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Roman Typesetters
When ancient Roman typesetters or web designers were showcasing a design, and didn't want the content of the (dummy) text on their mock-ups to distract the client... what did they use for their lorem ipsum text?
These are the kinds of things that bother me most when I'm doing typographic layout. That, and Internet Explorer's consistently … -
Right Feature, Wrong Project
Since I've been working from home, things with my "day job" at SmartData have ticked along pretty much the same as they ever did before. But once in a while, something goes wrong. Like this.
I checked my instant messenger, and saw a bit of text from my boss, Simon:
also, have you implemenmted a … -
There Is Such A Thing As Working Too Hard
And while I've failed at hitting it, having scooped up my laptop and gone down to the beach only to have to turn around and come back when the sun disappeared behind thick, dark clouds, Ruth seems to have grasped the concept quite well. She's reading papers in anticipation of her final ever exam tomorrow, …