Posted: Tue 11 August, 2009 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Creativity, Own Business, Travel, Web Development, Work-related |
Checking out some information about the location I’m going to be based in over the next month or so (from a week on Monday) I had a look at the dreaded Tesco website to see what stores are close to the places I’ll be working/staying. (And in this case, the answer is pretty much “fuck all”) I’ve also looked at the locations for other supermarket-type places, and will obviously wander around the area a bit too, see what’s around that isn’t easily web-findable.
Anyway, while looking at the map on the Tesco site, I noticed this…
I think they haven't checked the work on placenames
Yep, there’s notation for “Waterloo Strain Station”…
NOTE : You can find the same thing by typing “SE1” into the store locator.
Posted: Wed 15 July, 2009 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Domestic, Own Business, Travel, Work-related |
So, yesterday’s drive to Brighton and back went fine. There were a couple of ropy sections of the M25, as usual, but other than that it went well.
It took me three hours dead to get down there, and then another half hour just to find somewhere to park. How is it that the manufacturers of sat-navs still can’t add the facility to find the nearest car-park to your destination?
Still, the interview went OK – should find out today, all things being well.
And today I’ve got a meeting at home with a new website client, and then back on the road, down to London and the O2 to see Nine Inch Nails and Jane’s Addiction there, which I’m really looking forward to.
Posted: Tue 14 July, 2009 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Driving, Own Business, Travel, Work-related |
Today’s another day with a big drive involved – this time it’s for a contract down in Brighton, of all places.
So it means a trip of roughly 160 miles each way on this occasion – all told, it’ll be about seven hours driving, and that’s assuming that traffic doesn’t turn to shit at some point in that drive. Which, in the case of the M25 is quite an assumption, needless to say.
If I get the job, it’s a bit of an easier drive, because I’ll be going down on the Monday and coming back on the Friday, rather than doing the entire thrash in one day.
All the same, it means there won’t be any other updates here today. Them’s the breaks.
Posted: Tue 7 July, 2009 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Driving, Own Business, Travel, Web Development, Work-related |
Today, I’m working in the office of a new client down in London. Thankfully, once this day’s done, I’ll be able to primarily work from home, which means I won’t have to do the drive down to London on a daily basis or anything.
It should be a good day, though – there’s a lot to be done for this project all told, but I’m glad it won’t involve shedloads of commuting.
Mind you, next Tuesday I’ve also got to drive down to Brighton for a meeting with another potential new client. Madness – although it should be fun, even if I’ll be coming back looking like a stunned primate.
Posted: Tue 30 June, 2009 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: @Media2009, Geeky, Getting Organised, Memory, Own Business, Work-related |
There are times where I’m a real spanner – and it looks like last week was one of those times.
You see, ages back I booked myself for the @Media conference in London. And then forgot about it completely.
And it turns out it was last week – the Thursday and Friday, to be precise. Which means that last week would’ve been made infinitely more complex than it was, what with the Cambridge interview and the entire travelling to see AC/DC – but it’s still a bummer.
It’s weird too, in that I haven’t heard anything about it this year – nothing I’ve noticed on Twitter or Facebook, and none of the developers and techies I know having gone to it. Compared to a couple of years ago, when I knew loads of people who went, that just seems pretty odd.
It’s a pain to have paid for the ticket and not gone – but well, my company had paid for the ticket rather than me personally (it’s a semantic point in many ways, I know) so it could be worse.
Posted: Sat 20 June, 2009 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Animals, Domestic, Driving, Own Business, Work-related |
Yesterday I was out all day – I left at 8.30, and came back at 6.30pm, so out for ten hours, of which about six were spent driving.
All told, it involved travelling down to London to see a new potential client, then across to Windsor to pick up some bits from Hound’s vet, a quick stop-off in Slough, and then back round the M25 to get home.
In my normal style, the M25 was utterly rigid – it was bad enough that even the radio travel news people were commenting it was abnormally stuffed all round the western side. It took half an hour just to do the bit between the M4 and the M40, and the rest wasn’t much better, ’til we got (as usual) to the M1, at which point it all clears up for some fuckforsaken reason.
Still, as days goes it was OK, it looks likely I’ve got the work, it means Hound is now sorted for her Happy Pills for another three months, so that’s cool.
But by the time I got home, my brain was just roadkill, which is why I didn’t write this post last night.
Posted: Wed 20 May, 2009 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Animals, Domestic, Own Business, Work-related |
One of the downsides of working from home at the moment is things like this…
Problem exists between keyboard and computer
This is standard practice – although at least this time he wasn’t sleeping on the keyboard itself
