in Ottawa again, this time for the whole weekend. I must say the city I saw this weekend was much more familiar to me than I’d seen in recent visits, which is a very good thing. I saw a certain Aunt from Alta Vista who I don’t see very often, who mentioned exactly how much older my cousin is than I am, which in turn confirmed to about 95% certainty that my cousin was in a specific person’s grade 8 class, which is really funny news. No embarrassing link, but there might be one person chuckling while they read this. Oh – said cousin now teaches at that very same school.
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A portent of things
to come? Razorfish is being sued for what their client thinks was bad, unprofessional web design. “[…] The company delivered (late) a site that was ‘flawed by grave technical and navigational problems.'”
It’d be fun
to go to fray day 4 in San Francisco. I haven’t been there in about 10 years, and it’s quite obvious that the event would be fantastic. Hmmm.
I’m becoming
a huge fan of [Inside]. Their coverage of the Napster/RIAA hearings in Washington is excellent. I’m also a huge fan of Pat Leahy, who I think of as a neighbour of us Montrealers, coming just from down there in Vermont.
I don’t talk about
work at all in this space. Mostly a question of boundaries, really – I wouldn’t want anyone to mistake my personal ramblings for anything coming from the company (not that it’s a huge threat, but still). But I will say this – the transition from a very small company to a larger company is fascinating to watch, and to be involved in. As someone who’d never worked in an office, per se, before this job, I was always quite disdainful of bureaucracy and structure. Now, though, I’m learning the value in adding such structure, as long as it’s done well. And it’s actually pretty fun, trying to dream up ways of doing things with the creativity and vitality of the old days, but much more efficiently.
I’m very happy to state in public that my co-workers, all 130 of them, are among the smartest, most talented groups of people I’ve known. It’s quite amazing, actually.
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