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One of the things that sucks about my part time job is that I’m not really free to keep up on what’s going on in the world, or at least what people are talking about. This is despite the fact that I’m pretty much surrounded by the internet. (That whole doing my job thing tends [...]

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Today is a considerably slow day here at the office. The bulk of us are either in meetings or preparing for our Major Annual Event (™ patent pending) that takes place tomorrow night.
Me? I’m in the office, “on call” as it were; basically if something happens (or needs to happen) to the web site, it’s [...]

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Overheard at work: “They prefer us to use Mazola Firefox….”

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Around this time last year, a co-worker on my team decided to leave for greener pastures. (No, really – she decided to go back to school and I understand there are several rather spacious grassy knolls there.) A couple of months earlier, our boss did the same, but do pursue some freelance work.
In the interim, [...]

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I’m in the midst of an on-again/off-again project at work where I need to create some city-centric graphics for our steering committees. Austin, Tex., is one of the three graphics I need to work on. Since I received no suggestions of what image to use to represent the city, I went to iStockphoto.com (”Old Reliable” [...]

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The Balloon Room: Balloons filled my boss’s office this morning, all but burying her guest chairs. (FredoAlvarez/flickr)

When i got home last night, I chatted online with one of my co-workers, who had to stay at the office late to post stuff on our website. Armed with a nearly full bag of bright yellow Gay.com balloons, [...]

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Shorts are apparently now banned from my office. I’m not particularly thrilled about this myself (I’m prone to sweating out of context, like in a snowstorm; yes, it’s happened before. Don’t ask!) with a hot-n-sticky summer in D.C. approaching. I wonder how the other staff and interns will react — or if they will at [...]

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The Secret of Apple Design - Apple, Inc. has made an art of not talking about its products. Fans, journalists, and rumormongers who love it or love to hate it have long had to practice a sort of Kremlinology to gather the merest hints as to what is coming next out of Cupertino.
Cool business card [...]

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I’m sometimes amazed by how frequently we refer to things by their initials here at work. Earlier, I responded to an email with the following:
OIS was never in the CMS, so this is an FTP thing.

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In my last entry, I described meeting Cameron Moll as me having a “rock star moment.” By that, I mean meeting someone famous I admire for whatever reason. This is the good kind of rock star moment, that I of course would like to have more often.
And then, there’s the other kind of rock star [...]

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