Mar. 6th, 2008

mapsedge: Me at Stone Bridge Coffee House (Default)
First, a happy belated birthday to [profile] esme7777!  (How could I have missed that?  Oh yeah...I suffer from CRIS: cranial-rectal inversion syndrome.)

Work is work.  I'm in what passes for a Happy Place, e.g. I have a laundry list of tasks that I can check off one by one.  Measurable progress, as opposed to the early conceptual stages of a website where it's all ethereal and shit.  I hate that part.  We expect to take this website live today or tomorrow, so it's down to cleanup and polish.

I've revamped the Map's Edge Media website, www.mapsedgemedia.com, to be more useful to me and anyone wanting to know what I do.  It's very minimalist but very SEO friendly - I should soon start appearing in Google for search phrases like "celtic music kansas city" and "kansas city videography", hopefully on the first page*.

I found out that one can create an entire website - not just a blog - using Wordpress, and because I'm skeptical I'm going to give it a try and see if it's possible.  The blog software I downloaded (Forest Blog) is powerful, but very early-90's - no Ajax; "please wait"-pages  all over the place; extremely inefficient ASP code.  Lot's of bullshit of the kind that I was writing six years ago and have since learned better.  Be damned if I'm going to pollute myself with it again, and I simply don't have time to re-write it just now.

I stopped at the coffee shop this morning on my way to work to pick up a menu (for the website, which is also getting a makeover) and get my free latté.  Doing their website costs me nothing, lattés cost the shop fifty cents apiece...my deal was that I have no out-of-pocket expenses, and I never pay for coffee again; it all works out. 

Chatted with the barista of the day, Abi, a very competent singer, very sweet though much in need of a hairstylist.  The espresso still sucks - their "espresso" blend coffee isn't nearly dark enough - but I stop in because I like my town, and I like the coffee shop.  It's not as warm and fuzzy as it used to be under the new ownership, but they're still trying to find their feet; I'm willing to give them that much.

* If you want to try it, please do, but give Google a chance to do it's thing, okay?  I only requested the indexing last night and it can take up to two weeks.
mapsedge: Me at Stone Bridge Coffee House (Default)
First, a happy belated birthday to [profile] esme7777!  (How could I have missed that?  Oh yeah...I suffer from CRIS: cranial-rectal inversion syndrome.)

Work is work.  I'm in what passes for a Happy Place, e.g. I have a laundry list of tasks that I can check off one by one.  Measurable progress, as opposed to the early conceptual stages of a website where it's all ethereal and shit.  I hate that part.  We expect to take this website live today or tomorrow, so it's down to cleanup and polish.

I've revamped the Map's Edge Media website, www.mapsedgemedia.com, to be more useful to me and anyone wanting to know what I do.  It's very minimalist but very SEO friendly - I should soon start appearing in Google for search phrases like "celtic music kansas city" and "kansas city videography", hopefully on the first page*.

I found out that one can create an entire website - not just a blog - using Wordpress, and because I'm skeptical I'm going to give it a try and see if it's possible.  The blog software I downloaded (Forest Blog) is powerful, but very early-90's - no Ajax; "please wait"-pages  all over the place; extremely inefficient ASP code.  Lot's of bullshit of the kind that I was writing six years ago and have since learned better.  Be damned if I'm going to pollute myself with it again, and I simply don't have time to re-write it just now.

I stopped at the coffee shop this morning on my way to work to pick up a menu (for the website, which is also getting a makeover) and get my free latté.  Doing their website costs me nothing, lattés cost the shop fifty cents apiece...my deal was that I have no out-of-pocket expenses, and I never pay for coffee again; it all works out. 

Chatted with the barista of the day, Abi, a very competent singer, very sweet though much in need of a hairstylist.  The espresso still sucks - their "espresso" blend coffee isn't nearly dark enough - but I stop in because I like my town, and I like the coffee shop.  It's not as warm and fuzzy as it used to be under the new ownership, but they're still trying to find their feet; I'm willing to give them that much.

* If you want to try it, please do, but give Google a chance to do it's thing, okay?  I only requested the indexing last night and it can take up to two weeks.
mapsedge: Me at Stone Bridge Coffee House (Titanic)
Dear Secretary,

I do not have warm and fuzzy feelings about you when you walk in my office and say, "I'm bored." I'm not your playmate. I'm certainly not your boss insofar as I do not have the authority to assign you work to do. I'm a guy who likes a good drive-by but otherwise prefers to be left alone to work.

If I don't stop typing, and I don't make eye contact, and I don't reply, that's saying something.  Listen to it.

My door is the thing whose job you are at this moment doing, which is, filling the doorway. Please pull it to as you leave so it can do its job.

- Wm



Dear Data Guy,

Can we make it an S.O.P. that when you wipe a customer's inventory data for a website I'm working on, you inform me?  That way, the next time this happens, I won't spend three fucking hours trying to track down a bug that isn't a bug, merely an absence of data.

If you're going to be an asshat, do it to your own deadlines, not mine.

Thanks,

 - Wm

p.s.  Lift the ring when you piss.  This isn't a dorm or a frat house.  Have some fucking standards, mm-kay? 
mapsedge: Me at Stone Bridge Coffee House (Titanic)
Dear Secretary,

I do not have warm and fuzzy feelings about you when you walk in my office and say, "I'm bored." I'm not your playmate. I'm certainly not your boss insofar as I do not have the authority to assign you work to do. I'm a guy who likes a good drive-by but otherwise prefers to be left alone to work.

If I don't stop typing, and I don't make eye contact, and I don't reply, that's saying something.  Listen to it.

My door is the thing whose job you are at this moment doing, which is, filling the doorway. Please pull it to as you leave so it can do its job.

- Wm



Dear Data Guy,

Can we make it an S.O.P. that when you wipe a customer's inventory data for a website I'm working on, you inform me?  That way, the next time this happens, I won't spend three fucking hours trying to track down a bug that isn't a bug, merely an absence of data.

If you're going to be an asshat, do it to your own deadlines, not mine.

Thanks,

 - Wm

p.s.  Lift the ring when you piss.  This isn't a dorm or a frat house.  Have some fucking standards, mm-kay? 

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