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How to get your best projects at work cancelled
23 November 2006
Read morePretty much the worst thing that can happen to any geek is for a project they are working on to be cancelled. If its something they have already put a lot of work into and believe in, then it isn’t surprising that it hurts them. I think most of …
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Coffee Politics
08 November 2006
Read moreThere are some coffee politics happening in my office right now1. I’m not going to write about that though, at least until it blows over. I thought I’d share a couple of previous coffee politics experiences though.
Spare-hand Drink
At one workplace where I had a temporary …
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Work Hygiene
07 November 2006
Read moreSomeone in my office moved desks today (someone left last week so there’s a little reshuffle going on as every takes another step along the hardware/seating improvement path). She1 took one look at her new seat last week and came in today with J-cloth and cleaning fluid …
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My Brush With RSI
02 September 2006
Read moreRSI (Repetitive Strain Injury) is the bogeyman of software developers’ worst nightmares. I think everyone knows someone, or of someone, who was once a great programmer and is now a primary teacher, porter or some such, and all because of this RSI thing. So here’s my experience, because it …
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A Tale of Two Jobs
01 September 2006
Read moreWell, not an actual tale, exactly, but some general anecdotes.
Since moving “oop north” (to Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK), my partner and I have job-hunted once each. Once for me when I relocated up here, and once for him just at the moment as the fixed-term contract that brought him …
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About Blogging About Work
01 August 2006
Read moreUntil now, I’ve avoided blogging about work in pretty much any way. I’ve written about technical stuff that have come up at work but I haven’t written about much beyond that sphere, and even that is only so that I don’t have to hunt for the …
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