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Diseased Marketing

My absurdly hardworking chum Alex de Campi has just been rather badly shafted my a marketing agency. You can read the full story of how Moodia shafted a bunch of hard working people for yourself.
I personally find this particularly disgusting, because Alex, being the terribly conscientious person that she is, is determined to pay [...]


A History Of Language

I haven’t forgotten my intent to talk about more about the realities of my job.
Given what I was talking about last time, the general hell that is going live, I thought I’d tell a quick egg-on-my-face story by way of a place holder.
Some years ago, I was the junior developer at the then start-up ipoints. [...]


Going Live!

We had a site going live at work today.
This is always fun. It’s sort of like pouring boiling water down an ant hole, even after you’ve been treating the area with ant powder for weeks. You thought you’d caught all the bugs in the previous week, but suddenly, here are hundreds more, and [...]


Daily Grind

I’ve been reading “Blood Sweat and Tea”, the book edition of the Random Acts of Reality blog this week. Now, my job is neither as interesting or as useful as Mr Reynolds. In fact, my chief contribution to society in the event of a zombie apocalypse would perhaps be to lure a few [...]


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