I’ve been working off my wonderful girlfriend’s Macbook for the last month and decided it was time to invest in one of my own. I knew I needed a PC both for development and my budget, but I have to admit the sleek and stylish Mac had grown on me. I feel like I acquired [...]
I wasn’t really nervous at all about the meeting this morning. I worked late last night drafting mock ups of the proposed changes and printed them out in dazzling color. I wore my pin-stripe suit pants and a grey cashmere v-neck, which coupled with my new J-crew Herringbone put me in a very respectable light. [...]
I am working for a client who wanted their current blog, which was part of a custom CMS, transferred over to WordPress. No problem. I created a new theme, cranked out the code so it looked like it did before, added a little more style, and used some cool widgets like the tag cloud. When [...]
If you have ever been to a catered meeting or a conference you know there are different calibers of desserts. I find this especially true in the academic world, where there is always that plate of desserts at the end of the table where you’ll find the same selection of cookies and a variety of [...]
If you work in media services at a University, chances are your office is in the basement. It’s alright, don’t feel sorry for yourself, sitting there without any windows, dripping pipes over your head, poor ventilation and cubicles the size of a shoebox, you provide an extremely important service to the students and staff of [...]
Our new offices are pretty cool. One of the conference rooms has a giant wooden pulley and skylight cut into the ceiling of the room. Two of the offices adjacent to the conference room on the same side of the building have higher ceilings, one of which has to be 25ft high. There is a [...]
I just got done installing Google Talk on all the offices computers. It was decided at one of our weekly staff meetings that it would be a good idea. I thought great, you know what? Not a terrible investment actually, I can see how this will increase efficiency and aid in inter-office communication. How come [...]
I thought this time was different. Everything I had went through before should have prepared me for this moment. There were beeping sounds, lights were flashing, everything went black. I did everything I was trained to do, everything I thought was right, but it wasn’t enough. I needed help. I thought the first time it [...]
Today we celebrated the upcoming birth of one of our coworkers babies by taking time away from our desks and sharing overpriced carbohydrates and seltzer water with each other. Every office party we ever have consists of the same monotonous selection of cheeses, breads, plain non-fat yogurt and fruits. Without fail, people can walk into [...]
It was Friday, and naturally I was hungover. Thursday nights are an excellent time to sip/guzzle free wine at art gallery openings and I had capped the night off with rounds of $5 PBR and shot combos at a bar my friend works at in the Lower East Side. Tequila has for some reason been [...]