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Very Odd

// November 28th, 2005 // No Comments » // Personal

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Having just discovered this my black cloud is temporarily lifted
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Some of you may recall my penchant for very strange flash games which in turn has led me on a number of occasions to try and play something written entirely in Japanese.

Well it’s time for another one:

????? (Kill Time*)

I have no idea what the instructions say but the aim of the game is to prevent the little sumo dude from catching your mouse pointer. He’ll jump for it, try and shoot it down and try various other means of getting it. See how long you can survive for!

*According to Google Translation anyway

A wonderful weekend

// November 28th, 2005 // No Comments » // Personal

Or not.

I seem to be stuck under something of a black cloud at the moment. Hardly surprising all things considered.

Friday night was an ok one. Went to a local restaurant for my mum’s work leaving do. I’m still not too sure how I ended up getting invited but I was so I went. I had to be careful though as on Saturday I had two installs of the Paymaster app to do.

This actually highlighted something I love about Jersey. The directions to the second install took me most of the way along my usual route to work and then down a little lane I must have passed at least 500 times thinking it was a drive way. It wasn’t and took me all the way down to a little valley with some lovely cottages and a hump backed bridge. Had I not needed to explicitly visit one of the cottages I would probably have spent my entire life not know they existed.

Installs done and time to head home to work on the new help and support centre for the Paymaster website.

Sunday meant a lazy morning followed by Petanque in the afternoon (we got creamed!) and then dinner and the meeting of a good friend for a quiet (shortly to become not so quiet) drink.

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Reading that back I actually wonder why I bothered typing it but if anybody actually has an interest in the general level of inanity that makes up my day to day then please enjoy and tell your friends.

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Like I said – something of a black cloud

Balls

// November 25th, 2005 // No Comments » // Personal

Every so often the marketing world creates and advert that is so beautiful it should really be classed as art.

The recent ad for Sony’s Bravia range is just such an example. 500,000 rainbow coloured bouncy balls storming their way down a San Fransisco street… Of course in this modern day and age I had instantly assumed it was CGI.

It isn’t!

How cool is that? And how long did it take them to clean up afterwards?

Lost before I’ve begun

// November 23rd, 2005 // No Comments » // Personal

For the past couple of years, on the run up to Christmas I’ve played a little game with myself… want to know what it is?

Ok then. The rules are simple but the game can only really be played by those living in the UK.

All you have to do is see how close to Christmas you can get before you hear Slade’s “Merry Christmas” …

In previous years by carefully applying ear buds and iPods I’ve managed to get up to Christmas eve (although I did cause offence in a number of social situations where the host reached for the crimbo tunes CD and I vaulted over the sofa and was out the door faster than you can say Noddy).

Why not join in this year and see how far you can get? The field is wide open as I have already lost… yup, that’s right … lunchtime today (the 23rd of freakin NOVEMBER) and I heard the dulcet tones wafting across the crockery section of a well known local department store.

I swear this shit comes earlier every year.

Lemur is back where she should be

// November 23rd, 2005 // No Comments » // Personal

After a brief teeth gnashing moment everyone’s favourite daughter of a protomonkey is back on her own blog.

Some say she simply left the keys on the dresser before leaving for London and got back to find herself locked out. Others believe the tales of an army of winged monkeys out to hijack lil lemur’s on-line home… I happen to know it was a permissions issues with the MYSQL driver but by all means believe one of the others if you prefer.

Now, to find something to write about me.

Just in case anybody was wondering…

// November 23rd, 2005 // No Comments » // Personal

Lemurgirl (that would be me) is having a few technical issues. The God that is Pixy Misa is trying to get me sorted again but until then I might be hanging around here for a bit… just to confuse you!

I was going to make a long rambling post with pictures and things but I might leave that for another time. For now I will just say that I AM alive – though only just. It’s bloody cold in Durham! – and you will be hearing from me shortly.

It’s all very exciting!

Lemurgirl xXx

I’m not meant to be typing this…

// November 21st, 2005 // No Comments » // Personal

I should really be working but I thought I’d better give people an update as to where I’ve been and what I’ve been up to.

At risk of becoming repetitive I’ve been working … all the hours available with the remainder of my time split between sleeping, eating and the other day to day minutae.

Unfortunately, whilst I’d love to give you more detail recent events have transpired to make me more than a little cautious about what I make public on this site. Hopefully I’ll be able to give you more info later on (and yes I am more than aware of the meanness of waving big secrets about and not sharing) but in the mean time you can derive what you will from the following cunnning montage:

More as and when

More Monkey Business

// November 4th, 2005 // No Comments » // Personal

You remember back in July I posted an MP3 by a group called the Arctic Monkeys? You remember that I was really impressed and was telling everyone that they could be the next big thing?

Well it turns out they are.

It’s like having my own little John Peel moment

All we need now is a jingle

// November 4th, 2005 // No Comments » // Personal

It’s been an odd week.

We’ve been so busy trying to work out the best way to take the business forward that it’s been difficult to recall how things happen in the rest of the world.

Sure there are companies out there who can make it through the day without having to sit down and work out if they are trading insolvent yet… sure there are some people who can start at 9 finish at 5 and not have to worry about working the weekend… sure there are jobs that don’t require you to be a master of everything and focus on making the most from your strengths … but this isn’t one of them.

Predominately my role within the company is meant to be marketing. This means that every so often I get the chance to actually do some marketing. Yesterday was one of those days.

We have a print / radio burst campaign starting next week and I finally got all the proofs finished and sent off for the newspaper guys (Design agency? What’s a design agency?) and I got the call from the creative team putting together the radio ad. They’d got two scripts and wanted to see which one we would go for…

This morning they emailed through an MP3 of the finished ad … Fancy a Listen? (MP3 700kb)

Listening to it and checking the art had been received by the paper it was almost possible to believe that this was a normal job … almost.

Boy did you get that wrong…

// November 1st, 2005 // No Comments » // Personal

So last night was Halloween … apparently.

I assume it must have been or the youthful end of the population of jersey just got real ugly overnight.

I got home last night at half nine and found that there was a paper bag on the step … hmm …

The parents had only just got back from Egypt the day before so it was unlikely that they had managed to get any goodies together for the kiddies* and I figured this was trick by default. So I stepped over it and went inside to get changed.

After about an hour I thought I would go and have a look to see just what level of nastiness the bag contained. I cautiously opened the door – the bag was still there.

I gently prodded it with my boot … nothing exploded, scuttled off or stank so I took a closer look.

The bag was full of sweets … all sorts …

Now I know I’ve been known to be less than amazing in my knowledge of ancient customs and rituals but wasn’t this meant to be the other way round?

Of course now I’ll have to pelt rotten eggs at every child I see for the next week to readdress the balance.

*I don’t think kids today would appreciate 3 Ryevita and a tube of mosquito repellent and that was literally all they had in.