Archive for September, 2006

Sep17

Where am I?

I decided I’d get a jump on visiting our other office today. It’s in Skelmersdale - about 50 mins ride from home. At least, that’s what all the online maps told me.
Firstly, I missed a motorway turnoff. Anyone can do that, right? I got off at the next exit (I think it was the next, [...]

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Sep15

Post interview come down

It’s amazing how tired you get after a few hours of pure terror.
I always get nervous before interviews, even if I don’t really care about the job. And this one was worse than most ‘cos there were three interviewers!! Most of the talking was done by just one of them though.
Anyways, I don’t reckon I’ve [...]

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Sep14

Why me?

Ok, this sort of stuff only happens to me.
While I was waiting to start this new job, I’d applied for another job (in the same company). I’ve just got an interview! So the last day of my first week, I leave work, go home, get on my interview duds and head into Manchester to face [...]

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Sep11

Survived

Well, I made it through my first day.
It was pretty easy to be honest. But then, first days in a new job usually are. Ask me in a few months - no doubt I’ll hate the sight of Dreamweaver by then…..
To be honest, I’m not that keen on it now.

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Sep8

A techie is not me!

No longer a Tech Help operative, I now walk the lonely road - in Limbo between jobs. Until Monday anyways.
To all the techies and smiley types that know me and read this blog - farewell. I’d like to say it’s been fun working with you, but then I’d also like to say that I’ve just [...]

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Sep7

Born to - stay within the speed limit

Shot by Jon, one of the guys from work, while on the back of my bike. He said he wanted a joyride, and one of the other chaps wanted guitar strings. A ride into town followed. When I got back, he showed me what he’d done in the only bit of the journey that wasn’t [...]

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About

The Hippy (aka Jim Evans) was born in 1973 and has spent most of his life pushing technology as far as it can go, then giving it another shove to make sure.

He works in a bank writing internal software, runs websites for the fun of it, and campaigns for Greenpeace in his spare time.

This is his blog.