April 1st, 2009
Happy April Fool’s Day! I remember when it used to be bad luck to play a joke after midday. Now, you’ve got pranks being pulled the night before, all the way through to midnight. Not that I’ve been pranked in any way today. Last year, when I was home from university for Easter, my father and sister decided to change every single clock in the house while I was in the shower. Before I went to the bathroom, it was 10am, and when I got out, the time was apparently 4.00pm. I froze, astounded. “Have I really slept until 4?!” I demanded of my sister, who just sniggered and nodded in the most convincing manner possible.
I thundered downstairs to my father, sat at his computer. “It’s 4 o’clock?!” I repeated, staring in bewilderment at the clock on the wall. As I turned towards Dad, my eyes fell upon the clock on his computer screen. 10:23. “Oh.” It dawned on me that I had been had, hearing my sister crease up with laughter up stairs and watching Dad attempt to look innocent.
This year, I haven’t really been ‘had’ at all. No one is really bothered by it in the office. A few amusing tales of websites we’ve come across, but other than that, it’s been just like any other day.
My favourites have to be YouTube and Gmail’s pranks. So simple, and so obvious that they are pranks, but funny nonetheless.
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March 30th, 2009
I bought this website when I finished my degree last May, in the hope that potential employers would visit the website and be in complete awe at the wonderful design of it. To be honest, it was no more than the website title in fancy lettering I downloaded and pretty, bright colours. I was proud, for some unknown reason, of the simple few pages (my CV boasting my degree and a Flash portfolio I spent ages adding websites I’d designed on the spur of the moment to) but as soon as I got a job, it started gathering dust.
The hosting was handy for when I couldn’t be bothered with the hassle of uploading to Photobucket or elsewhere, but other than that my poor webpage I spent weeks over became quite neglected. Every single month my bank statement taunts me - “Look, we’re taking money off you for something you don’t even use!” and finally the guilt became too much.
Plus, there’s the fact that almost everyone else in my office has a blog of some sort, even if they are professional rather than personal ones, and I got jealous. “I want a blog.” I sulked as I watched the 3 PhD students I work with pretty up their research blogs.
“What would you write in it?” One asked, perfectly fairly. I shrugged. I don’t really have a lot to say, to be honest, apart from rambling about such nonsense as is evident from this first post. So this will probably be mostly personal, as we have a work website that I maintain anyway. So if I wanted to blog professional nonsense (and I use the term nonsense loosely), I’d do it there.
So that is why this website has been dusted off and brought back to life after almost a year. Enthralling, isn’t it?
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