DWT Days

Posted: Sat 4 February, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: Own Business, Thoughts, Work-related | 2 Comments »

With the way this week has been, I’ve come to a grand policy decision…

If I ever do have my own company again, and if I employ people within it, then I intend to have a policy of having something like five days per year for each employee that are simply called DWT Days. DWT stands for “Don’t Want To”. Say it in a childish and petulant way, and you’ll get the idea. It’s for days where you just don’t want to. Dont Want To get up, Don’t Want To go to work, Don’t Want To deal with people, all that kind of thing.

The only perceptible problem I can come up with for it is that on weeks like this one, five DWT days just simply isn’t enough…

Anti-Spam

Posted: Fri 3 February, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: D4D™ | 5 Comments »

Having just gone through my list of comments marked as spam by SK2, it looks like it’s beginning to get a bit over-zealous. So I’ve taken out about five (admittedly, five from the 430 on the list) and restored them to their proper positions. I’ll keep an eye on this over the next few weeks, I think.

Who knows, it might even be time to upgrade to WP2.0. It’s just not a concept that fills me with glee right now.

In the meantime, sorry Pix, Rob, Tom, and the others whose comments had disappeared.

Voiceovers – a solution?

Posted: Fri 3 February, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: Customer Services, Thoughts | 1 Comment »

Having been getting annoyed by voiceovers, summaries, and all sorts of other “dumbing down” guff recently, I think I’ve just come up with the solution. (OK, it’d take some approval from the TV people, but all the same it’s a bit of a knockout idea

Channels. Soundtrack channels, like on a DVD. You could have the normal soundtrack channel, voiceover and all, as the default, but you could then change the soundtrack channel if you wanted, similar to the “director’s commentary” on DVD, so that all you got was the actual programme, no voiceovers.

Hell, I’d subscribe to an option like that, if it could be made into a generic ( i.e. multi-channel) consideration. Mind you, I’d also be willing to do the same for advert-free viewing, but that’s something else, and probably technically harder to do.

Personalisation

Posted: Fri 3 February, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: Customer Services, Cynicism, Thoughts | Leave a comment »

Sometimes I find it quite amusing to get supposedly “personalised” emails from companys. For example, on occasion I know I’ll never use a site again, but if I have to register in order to make an order, I’ll use a made-up name, and/or email address, just to see whether anyone ever checks these things. Then you can end up with an email to “tosspot@{domain}.com”, and the title in the email reads to “Mr FuckOff YouBastards”, or somesuch. But that’s something for another post…

Today’s example came from Ticketmaster, who have decided that because I’ve bought tickets in the past for Faithless, Henry Rollins, Chris Rea and the V Festival 2006, I might like – are you ready? – Robin Gibb at Blenheim Palace. Yeah, that’s so similar to all my other preferences…

CEOs and the like

Posted: Thu 2 February, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: Thoughts, Work-related | Leave a comment »

Work’s been interesting today. Over the last few months two of the founders have been at each other’s throats for various reasons, and it’s all come to a head. So one leaves tomorrow, which we already knew was happening, and the other, the company’s CEO told us this morning that he was leaving today. Which is, to say the least, quite a development.

We already had a new guy coming in as Chairman of the company, but he’s now also taking the role of CEO. I think it’ll be good for the business, but all the same it was quite a surprising development first thing this morning!

What occurred to me later is that now all three of the people who interviewed me for this job have now left. In fact, I’m probably about the fourth or fifth longest-running member of the team now. Which is kind of scary, seeing as I’ve only been here since July…

Sexy?

Posted: Thu 2 February, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: Cynicism, Thoughts | Leave a comment »

Nice to see that a lot of people have no taste whatsoever.

Voiceovers

Posted: Thu 2 February, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: Thoughts | 3 Comments »

I know I’ve written about this before – particularly in a post about Dragon’s Den – but recently Masterchef (Sorry, “Masterchef Goes Large”) has succumbed to the plague of the voiceover.

I still don’t know why we have to have them in these programmes – the entire thing’s only 30 minutes long, and we seriously don’t need to be reminded of what the judges have said when they’ve only just bloody well said it. I’ve been blessed with a short-term memory for these things, so please, let me use it. The programme isn’t watched by goldfish – well, maybe it is, but you get my point – and we don’t need these summarys and precis (precii, precisses?) every 30 seconds.

Now, what was I talking about?

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