Meltdown

Posted: Fri 25 April, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Domestic, Geeky, Music | Leave a comment »

When it was announced that Massive Attack would be the curators of this year’s Meltdown Festival at London’s South Bank Centre, I knew it’d be interesting.

And indeed it was – if I lived closer to London, there were three or four things I’d have liked to go and see. As it is, though, the big thing was that Massive Attack themselves would be doing two shows – one at the start of the festival, and one at the end. (as well as a remixing of the Blade Runner soundtrack with live orchestra, which I would’ve loved to see)

Tickets went on sale at 9am today – at which time I was, as mentioned below, in an interview. I doubt I could’ve got away with saying “Oh, can I start it a bit late, so I can try and get tickets for a concert“, so instead I just had to hope that all would be well.

As it turned out, I’ve been lucky – a ticket to the show at the end of the Festival is now mine! The start-up show is already sold out, but the finale should be a pretty good one too, so I’m happy.

Interviewing

Posted: Fri 25 April, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Work-related | Leave a comment »

To start off my day today, I’m in an hour-long interview for a role that would be pretty cool if I got it.

The first 10-15 minutes of the interview will be a presentation about who I am, and what I do. (and why, I suspect) Along with examples of work done, and all that malarkey. Having done far more than my fair share of interviews where this is just a basic question (rather than a presentation) I’ve not really done much planning of the presentation, and will instead wing it a little bit – I always figure it’s far better to be looking at the people involved, rather than reading (even intermittently) from cue-cards and the like.

We’ll just have to see how it goes. I’m vaguely confident, but suspect that there will be other people far more qualified for the job than I am. Still, I’ll give it my best shot.

I’ll probably write something about it after the fact, most likely over the weekend.

Braille

Posted: Fri 25 April, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Customer Services, Weirdness | 1 Comment »

The other day, I was in a local Sainsbury’s and noticed that the door to the toilets had braille for the toilet signs as well as the normal signography. (I know that’s not the right word, but I just can’t think of what the right word is)

However, the signs were screen-printed onto the door, and thus the braille wasn’t actually raised off the surface of the door at all.

Seen the problem yet? Yeah, me too.

When I pointed it out to the store manager (Yes, I asked to see him) his reaction was

“Oh, well no-one else has complained…”