I lost my job today. It wasn’t completely unexpected, and in some ways I’m relieved not to have to commute almost 3 hours a day. But, with the current economic climate, it’s going to be difficult for me to find another job in web development. I really don’t want to flip burgers. I am looking forward to using the time to seriously update my skill set. Believe it or not, this was difficult at work, even when we weren’t busy. Spending 12 hours of every 24 either at work or in transit tends to sap one’s energy. Let’s hope sudden unemployment has the opposite effect 🙂
Author: James McNally
Geek Porn Movies
From The Hollywood Blockbuster Becomes Geek Porn Department:
| “Enemy at the Gates” | “Enema for Bill Gates” |
| Jude Law as Vassily, the Russian sniper | Lewd Jaw as Vaseline, the rushing stripper |
| Joseph Fiennes | Joe “Parking” Fines |
| Rachel Weisz | Rachel Vice |
| Ed Harris | Ed Hairless |
| Bob Hoskins | Rob Foreskins |
And there you have it, a porn-techno-thriller for the Linux set.
(Note to self: Now sit back and watch the sad, strange search requests come rolling in…)
First RSS Experiments
Following Anil‘s lead, I’m fooling around with this RSS thing. Convert your blog here.
PowerPoint Slides From The Microsoft Trial
And now, ladies and gentlemen, for your edification and enjoyment, my latest project: Powerpoint Slides from the Microsoft Trial. I’ve really just got the ball rolling. If you think the idea has potential, please send me some of yours. Also, it was my chance to play around with CSS positioning, so it may not look very good in 4.0 or earlier browsers.
DSL and St. Patrick’s Woes
I apologize for my scarcity. My company moved offices while I was in Austin, and as it turns out, YoYoNet will be unable to fulfill their end of the bargain in supplying us with a DSL connection. My boss was furious, since he signed the lease on the new office only after assurances that we would have a fast connection. Now, it looks like dialup until one of the DSL providers is ready to wire our office way out in the sticks. This sucks. We’re a WEB DESIGN company, working with dialup? It’s embarrassing! And we don’t even have that set up yet, so all the email I want to send will have to continue to wait. SXSW chums, I’m still here, and I’ll talk to you all soon.
Happily, we’ve seen the back of another wretched St. Patrick’s Day. I hate that day. I hate the way it commodifies my heritage, and reinforces all the silly stereotypes. And the worst part of all? Green beer! Whose idea was that?! News to all: Irish people are not all drunken leprechauns.