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Pork
Posted Feb 10, 2000
My job keeps on surprising me.
I've just got off the phone from a man who invited me down to Milton Keynes to watch him cut up a pig and take pictures of it. Obviously, this is for the pork information that I am currently researching and writing, but it seems odd all the same.
Things are really weird here with much discontentment about the management but much excitement about the work. I don't know if this is the same across the web-content industry, but it seems pretty endemic within my corporation.
Still, if I get to see a man slicing the head off a dead pig, it's got to be worth sticking with for a few weeks at least...
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Job Fatigue
Posted Feb 8, 2000
Really, really really, really hacked off with my job.
If I see another recipe about pork I will shoot someone.
Somebody please let me out of this place....................................................
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At work during the holidays
Posted Dec 29, 1999
Well, I'm writing this at work on Wednesday 29th December 1999 and I'm not at all chuffed about being here. I've spent all morning pasting cooking tips into webpages and this afternoon I'll be sticking some celebrity chefs' recipes up online. Bunch of nadgers.
There's hardly anyone in the building or even in the street outside. Our office is half full, and we're all working away quite hard (except for singing along to the cd player every now and then). Is this typical of internet-based offices between Christmas and New Year?
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Using the internet
Posted Dec 4, 1999
I think I have finally reached the stage where I am using the internet as both an entertainment and information tool, as it is meant to be. For the last few years, I have been surfing pretty much aimlessly and not feeling particularly satisfied with what I was coming up with. I fell into the trap of being overwhelmed by the sheer size and scale of the net, without actually determining what it was I wanted from this magnificent beast. Now I have come to realise that I want a number of things and I feel that I have found them (to a limited degree - I'm sure there's lots of stuff I don't know about yet). The things I look for are:
fun
interactivity
social interaction
lots and lots of content
The kind of sites that I now enjoy are updated pretty much daily, they have places for me to contribute, either privately, as in this journal space, or for public consumption, they do not ask me for money or burden me with having to contribute something (I can just surf them and leave), and they are something that I would like to share with others. I know that this pretty much sums up what the net is all about, but it's quite a revelation to me to find that I am now enjoying it "to the max". No more looking at a search engine screen and ondering what I want to look at, I just go into one of my favourite sites and see what's there. If it sparks my interest, I stay, if it doesn't, I nick off and look at something else.
It's nice to know I'm doing it right at last.
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Upbeat
Posted Oct 29, 1999
Possibly my first upbeat entry in this section!
Today was a Friday and I finally managed to get my hands on the html for my site. It was bliss to mess around with someone else's tags and actually make the thing look the way I'd had it in my mind for the last four weeks. Lovely.
I have also managed to book myself a holiday later in November - in Cambridge, of all places - so I'm in a good mood about that as well.
All in all, a successful day.
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