Office Max!

1. Create a space that encourages design research: “the office space we inhabit is filled to bursting with games, toys, and other play objects”

“We’ve also included all 12 installments of our series on a small-business start-up, The Cereal Bowl, which serves up dozens of varieties of cereal at a restaurant across from the University of Miami campus. There’s also a Cereal Bowl slide show.

She spearheaded the creation of the program in 1979, when she was serving as news director at the South Florida public television station, WPBT. When NBR launched for the first time in January 1979, she both managed the program and served as its co-anchor. The program, celebrating its 25th anniversary of its national syndication this year, was nationally syndicated in 1981 and remains the leading source of daily business news on television. NBR has been credited for spawning the genre of daily news programming broadcast and cable television.

In the 6th and 7th grade classes I teach them to use Office Products more effectively (they think they know how to use them already - I show them lots of things they never knew - hehe) Usually in those classes I end up with about the last 2 weeks to do something different. I used to teach PowerPoint during the last two weeks, but there are so many other other products out there that are better in many ways.

I like Wordpress. I like having my little blog and setting out how I like, talking about whatever I like and making my own little website. Myspace seems a bit proscriptive to me - sure you can change the wallpaper and shuffle things around, but it’s still a myspace page like all the others. Wordpress is no different, but it just feels better to me. I just don’t like the look of Myspace. Also, it doesn’t work that well with Safari, which is a bit of a pain in the ass for me, since I use Safari for everything, pretty much. Maybe I should forget about myspace and get iLife instead. But then I would have to change my url again! Oh, it’s all so confusing!! Somedays don’t you just long for good old pen and paper!?

Well, my new work place has had some management / investor issues lately and our alleged new offices are no longer our new offices.. this has now caused a bit of a problem as the lease on the current office space has expired end of last month. Luckily half the office is still free so they are using that for the management and callcenter staff, python development staff are working at my managers place and me (php development) and the sysadmin get to work from home - which is totally awesome other than the lack of social stimulation.

1. Leave the copy machine set to reduce 200%, extra dark, 17 inch paper, 99 copies.