It’s been a month, that’s for sure. I thought I would post some figures and the end of the month, So I could have a record of what I’ve done, and you if you wanted could get an insight into some of the things I do in a typical 30 day period.
- This is the 52nd Post to the blog this month
According to Google Reader I look at 180 web feeds, and over the last 30 days I have read 6,911 items, starred 101 items, shared 10 items, and emailed 0 items.
That means on average i read around 230 items on the Internet a day just through google, the reality is it’s more like 300 a day during the week, and a lot less at the weekends. I don’t read them all, that would take up all my time, I scan headlines, read snippets and if i think it’s interesting star it for later. so i suppose I’ve read 101 interesting things
- Along side that I’ve read 46 weekend newspaper articles (well the weekends are slow!), manly since i’ve stopped buying newspapers and reading it all on the Internet.
- Google Web History, which is much more inaccurate, because it’s not setup on all browsers I use, says I’ve searched for 627 things, the top site I then go too being wikipedia. and apparently I search the Internet most at 9am.
- My Home email, is something I hardly use, I have 180 messages this month, I suspect most of them are junk or from facebook that i haven’t deleted yet. I dare not think what my work email is like.
- the digital camera has counted up 480 pictures this month: personally this one is my favourite
- My facebook status has changed 32 times.
- I think I’ve had 19 days in work, which probably means around 100 cups of tea (in work) this month. and as anyone I work with will tell you I’ve made about 5 of them
I don’t think this an overly exceptional month for me. the blogging and the book reading are a bit abnormal, but the rest of it is just what I do on a day to day basis really.
Just finished Blink by Malcom Gladwell. This is his next book after The Tipping point which I read about three weeks ago. Unsurprisingly it’s very similar in style, and has the same type of quite interesting insights with Rambly bits in it. On the whole Malcom Gladwell books don’t give you amazing insight into how we think or what makes us tick, but they do lift the lid a little bit on the whole mysterious world of just how it all works.
The most interesting part of this book, was the references to the Harvard Implicit Association tests, that you can take on line. They show you just how scarily your brain is wired up in so for example how you associate careerer with male and how you probably have a preference for white faces over black no matter how much you think you don’t.
oh and apparently, when they changed the green on the 7-up can so it was a bit more yellow, people started to say it tasted nicer.
Next: I am re-reading Simplicity by Edward De Bono
I took some time at lunch time today, to absorb some more of the city’s culture. Me and a few others from the web team went to see and Hear Ben Johnston work on and talk about his latest painting. the “Liverpool City Scape”, I’ve blogged about this picture before, but today was the first day I’ve seen it. all be it from a distance of about 10 feet, because you can’t get close. it’s still not finished.
I’ll probably sound all pompous now, but listening to Ben talk about how he came to paint these types of painting and how he came to be painting in Liverpool was really interesting. I’m thinking I should start sending the designers (and even the developers) in the web team to art galleries. Not so they can start making websites that look like a cityscape, but it’s more of an indirect thing, when you see a group of people being so overtly creative, it rubs off and you leave feeling all creative. pity i then had back to back meetings for the rest of the day.
You can see the progress of the painting with this photo set, and they even have a webcam.
Some things I wondered on my way to work.
- Why is there a kissing gate on Lime Street?
- Is the new penny farthing the seediest pub in Liverpool?
- what benefit is there in getting to town at 8:30 and then spending 30 minutes in a coffee bar?
I don’t know with home schooling if we will ever have a definitive start, sure the will be the day when daisy doesn’t start school, but by then we will probably be way into the swing of things.
Today could be counted as a start too: when I got home, Daisy and Mummy where desperate to tell me about what daisy could now do. it seems we’ve had an afternoon, of very basic phonics and Daisy can recognise SAT, SAM and AM, and she had ago at SAD although she doesn’t really know D.
’school’ today also had a lesson on how to hold the knife and fork, although I don’t know if that was a ‘lesson’ or at ‘dinner time’.
Not that we have lessons and breaks, it’s all a bit organic really. It’s more opportunities and Daisy being inquisitive than us teaching her; her actual biggest advance in the last few weeks has been purely self taught colouring in, last week she spent three days colouring in one picture, the type of attention to detail she must have gotten from her mother.
We’re not pushing, Daisy is wanting to learn new things, and why she’s like that we’re not going to stop her -with any luck that will carry on for many a year.
Today we moved to our new office in work - finally we got out of the open plan nightmare where far to many people where trying to work, and the noise was ridiculous.
we now have our own office just for the web team, and gosh it was quite,? I think it’s all a bit of a shock and it’s going to take us a while to get use to it. before we where put in open office hell, we had a quite nice office in the main council building, a wonderful 140 yeah old masterpiece, built when the city had loads of money, and didn’t mind spending it. Since then we’ve scuttled between the non-descript 60’s building that make up the rest of the councils’ office buildings - but at least as of today it’s our own non-descript 60 office.
For this week we are squeezing our dual monitors onto call centre desks, and trying not to knock each others tea over.? until they can get around to putting our rather plush (and much bigger) desks up on Friday. this of course means another desk move. but that’s OK.
This morning I worked out that I am now on my 6th desk since starting here 613 days ago, that’s a little over one desk every 100 days. and I get my 7th next Monday.
As of this moment in time I have 44 requests in facebook, and I don’t really want to look at them.
the truth is that most of the things that fly around facebook I just don’t like; it could be a result of my job. I spend huge chunks of the day trying to ensure that we do quality work, that looks clean professional and is easy to use. and then facebook is full of little tacky applications that look awful and make no real sense when you use them, except thousands of people do.
but then content is king.
Anyway. I don’t feel very social in this world of social networks, people keep asking me stuff, and I just ignore them.
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