Posted: Wed 21 March, 2007 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Work-related |
One of my work colleagues is dyslexic – or just a lazy speller/typer, I can’t decide which.
A perfect example of her messages to me is this one :
the browses upload thnag ain’t workoign for me today so i’ve copied to T:\phase1 let me kno wif you need any more info on this CHeers
Good, innit? I just wish I’d made any of it up…
Posted: Tue 20 March, 2007 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Domestic, House Purchase, Photography, Travel, Work-related |
One of the things that is likely to happen more now I’m among the car-ownng fraternity is that I plan/hope to get out more with the camera. Of course,it’ll probably also mean that I’ll go out more with Hound – which I can’t see her complaining at, except when I yell at her to get out the fucking way, as she’s in the bloody photos again.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s not like I’ve been held back from doing this sort of thing while we’ve only had the one car – although for some strange and yet-to-be-analysed reason, I really don’t like leaving Herself carless for periods of time. So if anything I’ve held myself back, and I can’t even satisfactorily explain why – which is never good.
But now I’ve got my own car, I think/hope that’ll change a bit. I know I want to go out more, although of course there’s still the “minor” issue of motivation, as I’ve already written about this week.
Still, it’s certainly part of the current plan, to be able to go out more – particularly in the early mornings and/or late evenings, and get some of the photos and images that are currently floating round in my head. There’s ideas for specific shots, but also (pardon me while I sound like an advertising maven) concepts for sets, series, and themes of shots that’ll make for interesting projects.
Long-term, I hope that some of them can be seen as commercial sets and entities – that’s most certainly the plan – but they’ll all involve a fair dollow of work beforehand. Mind you, they wouldn’t be any fun if they didn’t.
Posted: Mon 19 March, 2007 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Charm School, Customer Services, Work-related |
One of the more fun things about my current workplace’s blatant inefficiency has involved the (further) extension of my contract.
Because the people involved are utterly disorganised, inefficient, and have more feet than clues about the business, I’ve even ended up writing my own contract extension documents. Then all I did was ask them to sign it, and I’ve sent it on to the umbrella company.
You know, if I were less honest, I could’ve added – oooh, I dunno, a zero to my day rate, or something – I doubt they’d have even noticed.
But I’ve been good. For once.
Posted: Sat 17 March, 2007 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Cynicism, Health, Work-related |
I’ve written before about the office’s wonderful (if bizarre) Health and Safety initiatives, including the ‘caution: wet floor’ signs you can trip over and the signs on the stairs warning that there may be people on them.
Over the last few days, there’ve been a spate of new posters going up all over the place, warning about slips, falls, dangerous areas and the like. Most of them have images of x-rayed broken hands and the like.
All of these posters have been laminated, and stuck to the walls with dodgy knackered blu-tac stuff. So they fall off the walls again. Because of the subject matter, they’re all in ‘high-traffic’ areas, like the stairwells, communal areas, and the like.
I’m just waiting now for someone to slip on one of these posters and come skating down the stairs, doing themselves a nasty injury along the way. I will laugh – not at the person who’s fallen, but at the concept of the Health and Safety signs being dangerous in certain situations…
Posted: Thu 15 March, 2007 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Work-related |
In a fit of chaotic timing, I’ve got an interview this afternoon. In fact, due to the joys of post-dating things, I’m there now.
Initially it was arranged for next week, but of course that wasn’t going to happen. So instead it got brought forward to today. Should be interesting!
Posted: Thu 15 March, 2007 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Getting Organised, Own Business, Photography, Thoughts |
While we’re away next week, I’m aiming to start getting used to the RAW format for photos. I know the camera will take RAW and JPG images simultaneously, so that’s going to be the initial stage.
As for processing those .RAW images, I’ve just downloaded a trial edition of Phase One‘s software, Capture One LE, which should be interesting. I’ll install it on the laptop, so it’s away with me, and then just see how it goes.
I’ve written before about my feelings with regard to RAW vs. JPG, but I’m slowly coming round to the idea that maybe I do need to do some work with RAW files as things progress. So we’ll just have to see how it goes – I suspect that the learning curve may be rather cliff-like, but it’ll give me something new to do…
Posted: Wed 14 March, 2007 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Cynicism, Five Year Plan (now Ten), Getting Organised, Own Business, Photography |
Gah, there are times when I’m such a twonk, it’s unreal.
I’ve just redone some things on my photography portfolio site, having decided (once I’d uploaded a whole bundle of photos at one size) to change the image sizes so that the site looks better. And now, having re-uploaded all the photos that were there before, and some extra ones as well, something else has just occurred to me.
Fortunately, this one isn’t likely to involve me having to redo all the uploads, and I can change things around primarily using PHP.
But it’s still one of those blinding moments of “Ah! That’s an idea! Why didn’t I think of it earlier?” that can be awesomely annoying, even when they are a good idea, even if it’s one I should’ve had like two months ago.