Blogcoven

Oh ho, ho freakin’ ho. I’d booked flights to Paris, had a shopping list from home for things to get and everything when I come in this morning and a jolly geologist say ‘you’re on a chopper monday’.

I’m familiar with the idea that most everything is owned by a handful of people through very large corps and conglomerates of corps. I’m even familiar with Rupert Murdoch’s small empire of news outlets. It’s still disconcerting to me when I reflect on the fact that this particular collection of media is called the News [...]

I’ve slept home, in the bed I pay for, something like one night a week on average over the past six or seven weeks. Alas this doesn’t mean I’ve been wildcatting about the place trying to remember the name of the girl I’m waking up next to, I’ve just been on near constant rotation either [...]

Things… are strange. Middle management have fled, fled like rats for three to four weeks apiece from now. Leaving me, co-worker and Senior Management. I am now, due to CWs newness, the senior engineer on a field that I know little about. Already on my desk today landed ‘we need an ops budget for that [...]

I would like to talk about Joel – he is the sort of person who speaks real sense on software engineering that you have to be impressed by. He has a strong set of ideas and a good sense of direction. He speaks to other technical people on matters of the real world. His only [...]