Linkedin is crumpling
A while back, I wrote about an experience with a scam/recruiter who managed to call me over at work, trying to get names and emails of people I worked with. I’ve been recently very annoyed at linked-in for a similar issue. Here’s the story. (more…)
RACE MORNING!! That’s it! That’s today! Below is a race report of my first ironman distance event!
FINISHER!!
Parcel Farce
Today I received a strange phone call. Someone whom I forgot the name from claimed to be from parcelforce, and told me there was a parcel waiting to be delivered to me, but for security reasons, in case I wasn’t able to receive it myself, he needed me to give me “two security names”…
Now, I’m aware those sort of phone calls are simply dumb stupid recruiters trying to obtain names of people inside the company, and I could well have hung up straight away, but I was keen to dig a bit more!
This post could also be entitled/summarised with “rant, rant, rant”, but for my own sake, I’ll make the effort of explaining what’s behind it.
My full time job title is “Front-end developer”. To anyone outside the web industry, it either means “err…. no idea”, or “a dude that makes websites”. To the initiated and (most) of my coworkers and industry pals, it means a whole lot more: I’m an expert in HTML, CSS, javascript (front-end technologies)… (more…)
… at betfair =) And unlike the many things that happened on Ivan’s 100th day, mine started quite quietly.
Well, that’s if you can call a 5:30am work day start quiet, but to some respect it is
So far it’s been an incredible journey these last 100 days, both professionally and personally, and this just makes me happy.
When I initially registered ekynoxe as my freelance practice, I already had a potential client, there was going to be quite some work to do, short term future was looking exciting, albeit a little bit unknown.
Afriq Consulting
There are many things that a designer/developer has to go through, with varying degrees of complexity and annoyance. We’ve all been there, all endured the pain of a browser not liking your latest CSS wizardry, servers crashing and a few late payments. It’s annoying, but except sometimes for this last one, we live!
However, for me, there is one thing that tops it all. (more…)
Dan Pink’s talk at the RSA.
A lot of wisdom so many organisations should dig into…