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View from the trenches

Having been tagged by the effervescent Mr Eaon Pritchard, to share my own view from the trenches, that’s exactly what I’m doing. Because what better way to procrastinate on a Friday morning than show you a picture of my desk? It’s not quite blogging about kittens, but it’s a slippery slope, let’s face it…

(click on each photo for tagged notes on Flickr if you too are putting off work, and want to procrastinate a little longer)

The trenches themselves. The meta-trenches in fact, because you can see Eaon’s post on my screen. Wooaaaah. Note also my highly sophisticated system for raising my computer to the right height. That and it’s a stash should we run out of printer paper.

 

The wall next to my desk. Genius from Winnie the Pooh and That Cern Thing Explained G2 cover. Still makes me laugh. Yes I am a massive geek. We know this.

 

This cupboard is just to the side of my desk. For some reason there’s a cuddly yoda attached to the door. I don’t know why. I like to think he provides sage wisdom to the office using jedi mind tricks.

 

The print on the wall behind my desk. It’s a big garden maze. With random disembodied hands stuck on in various places waving hello. And the rather pleasing ‘Caution! John Terry‘ yellow sign added for good measure.

 

OK I’ve shown you mine, now John, Amelia, Sam, Asi and Le’nise, you show me yours… (If you can be arsed joining in, tag it ‘view from the trenches’)

Oh F**k!

So I managed to wipe out all my 2008 posts while upgrading wordpress

Oh COCK.

I suspect this will be a lost cause but in case anyone’s wondering where all the archives went, I’m a HUGE spanner.

You know that database backup plugin? Helps to use it before you upgrade the script. (Yes, I’m an idiot and hopefully this’ll learn me)

Ho hum, no sense crying over lost, er, blog posts.

Update: Thanks to the wonders of Google cache, I’ve got all the posts back. Just a hideously boring process of reposting them all individually. But better than losing it all. Comments will be lost in the ether, but in the grand scheme of things, not that big a deal compared to losing a year’s worth of posts. And that backing up the database thing? SO won’t be making that mistake again!

Fuckbeans.

The Extreme Sticky Note Experiment

Utterly fantastic

Another fantastic bit of viral content from Office Max, following the storming success of Elf Yourself.

I’ll never look at the humble post-it in the same way again!


Eepybird’s Sticky Note Experiment from Eepybird on Vimeo

Leaving on a jet plane

[photo courtesy]

Off on holiday for a much needed break – hoping to come back well-rested, having got through a pile of books, a bit less pasty, and a lot more bendy (it’s a yoga holiday!)

Normal service will resume when I’m back