We Saw a Chicken …

Tag: office

  • aquarium requiem

    Good Morning, Just a note to everyone to tell you James swam over the Rainbow bridge last night. It was a quiet end for our fishy friend. I know I will miss his enthusiastic greeting every morning. He had a great time zipping around his tank and welcoming everyone to the office. But I know I will not miss hearing the same remark several times a day... "I think he is dead" So now to all I say "yes I think he is" So now the questions arises - Is James replaceable?

  • view

    Hey, I can see the WindShare wind turbine from my office window. It’s not running…

  • dig the digs, eh?

    200 University Avenue, Toronto

    Work has just moved to a sweet suite on the 13th floor of 200 University Avenue. I have a lake view from my office window!

  • the great lost opportunity

    I’ve always thought that Adobe missed a great opportunity when they didn’t make their basic PDF writer freely available for Windows. Other OSs now have transparent print-to-PDF options. If you’re lucky, a corporate PC might have MS Office Document Image Writer installed, but a 300dpi monochrome TIFF can’t compare to a PDF.

    Still, one can always install PDFCreator (if you have admin rights to the PC, of course). It’s a shame they decide to bundle a marginally dodgy toolbar/spyware package with it, but you don’t get that if you use the MSI installer package.

  • rip the carpet up off the floor

    It’s moving day. We’re moving the office from North York to downtown. Very downtown, in fact; 200 University, almost my old Oanda stamping ground.

    In celebration of leaving Vic Park & Sheppard, I guess I really must have one last burger from Johnny’s…

  • outlook contacts to palm, iPod, etc …

    This is a neat workaround: Export Outlook Contacts using a small VB script. It works, too — I now have all my work contacts in my Palm.

  • big trash

    wish I could have carried it out; there was a HP 5000 GN (huge network printer) marked out as trash on the same floor of our office.

  • I (still) believe in bugs

    mantis

    We found this praying mantis at the back of the office. Paul picked it up, but it flew off. It didn’t seem to mind having its picture taken.

    This (my second) mantis sighting was much more interactive than my first.

  • windfarm or wind farm?

    So how do you write it?

    I use the former. Some people might say that the latter is more correct (one doesn’t refer to a pigfarm, after all), but we’re not really farming wind here. That we leave to the bean farmers (hohoho; I do believe that was the very same joke that Lord McAlpine used to use when showing bigwigs through the RES Ltd office in Hemel Hempstead).

    I’d really prefer to use the term windpark, using the original meaning of park for an enclosed field. I guess it’s a bit European for most folks here, so it’s windfarm for me.

    (One shouldn’t confuse a windfarm with WindFarm, the toolbox of choice for the leet wind haxx0r).