wake up and smell the copy
Posted in blog on Jan 9th, 2008
Right. Regular visitors will notice that Hackbash has been in varying states of disrepair since Monday. It’s my fault – sorry and all – but don’t say I didn’t warn you. Anyway, we’re now situated at new web hosts, who have answered and solved all my emails for help. They’re dirt-cheap and I’m very grateful, [...]
Posted in digression on Jan 7th, 2008
If you’d asked me a little while ago what the single most annoying thing in the world is, I might have proposed this: the moment when you’re stuck in a seemingly interminable queue for some kind of customer service representative, and a prerecorded voice interrupts the ring tone to tell you: “we apologise for the [...]
Posted in blog on Jan 4th, 2008
Recent experience suggests that I’ve lost my IT mojo: that silicon and I are no longer on speaking terms. And yet, I persist in fooling around with forces more powerful than I can imagine. First it was the broadband upgrade, then a tedious episode over Christmas that started out as an attempt to breathe new [...]
Posted in digression, journalism on Jan 4th, 2008
OK, I made a new year’s resolution to leave the BBC alone, but I can’t resist it. Sorry.
Posted in journalism, work, writing on Jan 3rd, 2008
Last week Dave Lee picked up on Spannerworks’ advert for a new journalist, and drew our attention to the fact that it was, frankly, rubbish. I hope that Charlie’s reply to Dave’s follow-up post explains a bit more about how we work and what we’re doing in a marketing agency. We’ve spent plenty of time [...]
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