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I have had, possibly the longest, most-tiring week of my working life. After months of planning the project that I was leading on finally came to fluition: Virtual Open Week. Following on from the modest success of our Virtually There…
Continue readingThis evening I find myself tired. In my day job, it has been Open Day, and the October one is one of our biggest and most important for next year’s recruitment. I always feel a bit of a fraud for…
Continue readingI’m on holiday! Oh yeah! 😀 It’s been a long ol’ week, and not just because of the second 10-hour day at work, but its over now, and I’ve even got an old office chair I was able to take…
Continue readingWorked a 10-hour day today, thanks to Emma kindly dropping me off at work and then collecting me again at the end of the day. What it did mean though, is that instead of working my normal 8:30 to 4:30…
Continue readingToday has been a highly productive day at work in which I have refreshed our faculty/departmental news pages with a new look to manage the new design (okay, its about nine months old already…) of the main website. The news…
Continue readinghttp://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/mar/08/autism-career-ladder-workplace Penny Andrews has recently been employed as a graduate trainee librarian at Leeds Metropolitan University. She beat over 200 people to her post, despite having Asperger’s syndrome, dyspraxia and cerebral palsy. Andrews’ employers have more provision for disabilities than…
Continue readinghttp://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/mar/08/autism-career-ladder-workplace Penny Andrews has recently been employed as a graduate trainee librarian at Leeds Metropolitan University. She beat over 200 people to her post, despite having Asperger’s syndrome, dyspraxia and cerebral palsy. Andrews’ employers have more provision for disabilities than…
Continue readingToday I got to see the inside of the new content management system. Powered by Ektron the new system goes live to replace the main site at work and then I shall move my sites over after to it so…
Continue readingToday’s snowfall has been much-publicised, so much so that both Kirsty and I arranged yesterday to work from our respective homes. When it came to this morning there was just the lightest of dustings left on the ground from yesterday…
Continue readingSo with the feared 2nd January, so I had to return to work, which was okay and I was productive, but I did find myself yearning for the sofa and my book. Come the afternoon I had to console myself…
Continue readingYesterday was the last Tuesday that I would work this year. Today was the last day I would work this year. That said, to say *day* might be pushing things a bit. After a morning trying to finish things off…
Continue reading~ Further to last night’s late night developments, and the need to take Scooter to the vets for his eye operation, and the need to take Emma to the doctor for a checkup after last night, it seems sensible to…
Continue reading~ After the dangerously slippy roads of yesterday (with the dusting of snow we had), this morning was cold, damn cold. Apparently last night it got to -7ºC. Bbrrr… So today I went to work the shorter but slower way…
Continue readingToday has not been the best of days – a bit too frantic and stressful to be likeable. After the server migration yesterday (which went well) there was just a bit of snagging to be done on some of the…
Continue readingI feel vindicated in the theory put forward yesterday. After assistance yesterday setting up the technical side of the new webserver, today I more or less, single-handedly got all my websites that currently operate on two failing servers working on…
Continue readingMy job title may be the grandly sounding Web and Digital Media officer, but I am essentially a web designer; I’m also writer; I can paint and draw… I am essentially a creative individual. I like technology and I enjoy…
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Continue readingAfter moving into the Faculty Marketing Emporium yesterday, today I was joined by my new office mates, in the form of Claire and Emrys. I’ve been on my own since the IT folk moved out in September, and I have…
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Continue readingIt being the school holidays, it made the return to work a little easier. After my day in the garden yesterday I was tired and achey this morning and not really that with it, thankfully the traffic was light and…
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