Tag Archives: work
A Surprise Christmas Gift
A surprise package arrives outside Dan’s office door. What’s inside? A whole heap of goodness, that’s what. Continue reading
QR Codes of the Bodleian
For the Bodleian Libraries’ latest exhibition, Treasures of the Bodleian, Dan’s produced some unusual QR codes to sit alongside the exhibits. Continue reading
Time
Some people are goldfish, and some people are midgets. Dan’s a goldfish. What are you? Continue reading
Work Calendar [NSFW?]
Dan is momentarily alarmed by an abstract art piece – supposedly inspired by a flower – that appears in his office’s calendar. Might be NSFW? Continue reading
First Class Film
Dan watches X-Men: First Class, and spots his office in the background during a part of the film. No; not the part with the battle between the jetfighter and the levitating submarine. Continue reading
Fonts of the Ancients
Dan adds UTF-8 support to the CMS that powers the Bodleian Libraries’ websites, and ponders how he’d justify the scope of Unicode to a (hypothetical) time-traveling scribe from ancient Egypt. Continue reading
My New Pet Hate, part II
Dan shares a screenshot of a screenshot within a screenshot.
I N C E P T I O N. Continue reading
A Small World Conspiracy
Dan is contacted by somebody he met many years ago in a chance meeting, which quickly goes on to lead to an even more bizarre coincidence… Continue reading
The Final Hours
It’s Dan’s final day working for SmartData: on Monday, he starts his new job at the Bodleian Library. As I’m sure you might have guessed, he has a nice, relaxing weekend planned between the two… Continue reading
On This Day in 2002 (New Job!)
Dan looks back to 2002, when he began working for SmartData. Now, nine years on, he’s planning to move on to his next job, with the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford! Continue reading
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