Posted: Sun 30 April, 2006 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: General |
(via Gordon)
I wonder if this tattoo ink is available in the UK? I really like the idea of a tattoo that doesn’t show up except under UV light…
Posted: Sat 29 April, 2006 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Geeky, Travel |
Now this sounds cool – if probably bloody expensive. Being able to download (from anywhere) TV programmes onto my PSP, and then watch them while travelling etc. – definitely a Good Thing to develop.
I’ll be keeping an eye out for this becoming available, you can be sure…
Posted: Fri 28 April, 2006 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Customer Services, Thoughts, Weirdness |
Since getting the XDA phone, apparently I’ve had an O2 offer of “free internet”. Would’ve been nice to know about it, but there we go – that’s life.
Anyway, half an hour ago I got a message saying
We hope you enjoyed the O2 Active free promo. Charging begins from 01 June 2006, but remember it’s only £3 per Mb. For money-saving Bolt Ons, see o2.co.uk.
Then just now I got one saying
We hope you enjoyed the O2 Active free promo. Charging begins from 01 June 2006, but remember it’s only £2.25 per Mb. For money-saving Bolt Ons, see o2.co.uk.
That’s quite a price reduction for half an hour, isn’t it?
Posted: Fri 28 April, 2006 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Cynicism, Thoughts |
I must admit, I really find I have to wonder about someone who plants nailbombs (or replica nailbombs, anyway) in London and then tries to make out it’s “Art”.
I’m sorry, but “It’s Art” doesn’t cut it as an excuse. “I’m sorry, I was being fucking stupid” might do, but “It’s Art” has no chance.
Posted: Thu 27 April, 2006 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Travel, Work-related |
Sorry, not really in the mood for writing much at the moment. I’ve had an argument with Arsehole Boss this morning, where he threw his toys completely out of the pram.
Following that, Arsehole Boss’s directive is that he doesn’t give a shit whether we’re happy in our work, or that we’re doing stuff that will change in two weeks anyway and is thus pointless, or that what we’re doing is repetitive bullshit. So long as we’re doing the things that Arsehole Boss wants us to, no matter how fucking ridiculous and misguided, that’s all that matters.
Inspiration, thoughts, and creativity are now all officially verboten. By order of Il Duce.
Fuck it all, I want to leave.
Posted: Wed 26 April, 2006 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Domestic, Own Business, Thoughts, Work-related |
Well, the interview went OK. I don’t know yet whether I got the job – probably won’t know ’til the end of the week at least – but it all seemed to go smoothly.
Would I take it? Yes, probably. Some of the situation with the current company is rapidly becoming untenable, and it’s becoming known as the land of the migrating goalposts.
If I were the type of person who could just turn off the brain, tug my forelock and say “Yes, OK, I shall write this in the way you want” then I could probably stay. But, as some people may have noticed, that’s not really the way I am. I prefer to have an active brain, and to work on creating new stuff that works.
Yeah, sure, I could knuckle under, let the company go whatever way it will, and not worry about it. I could get the challenge from the new stuff I’m doing for myself, Where’s Good and so on, and that could keep my brain working well. But it’s not me – if I’m going to work somewhere I want to enjoy it.
Strange, but true.
So we’ll just have to see what comes of this interview, and find out that way what the future holds…
Posted: Wed 26 April, 2006 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Photography |
Nuclear Nightmares.
A set of photos from Chernobyl, twenty years on. Incredibly sad, and extremely powerful stuff.