View from the Potting Shed

Jane and I got back from London last night, to discover amongst the mail on the doormat a letter from the University of St Andrews inviting me to an interview. On Wednesday. That’s right: this Wednesday; the day after tomorrow!
The interview is for the post of Assistant Information Architect/Web Manager, which would be such […]

This last week I’ve filled in two job application forms, both for very different jobs at The University of St Andrews — one in Education Liason, the other in IT. Both posts caught my imagination and I’ve been quite excited filling in the application forms imagining how I might carry out those roles using […]

Bling!
I had an email from my friend Jonny Coore today. He’s a student at the Church of England vicar factory Trinity Theological College, Bristol, and he offered me this tempting thought about my job situation:
How is the employment situation? Birmingham still needs a Bishop and I thought we could do a job share - […]

Now this is the kind of stuff that get’s me excited. I followed a link from Jonny Baker’s blog — I used to play bass guitar in the worship band at St James the Less, Westminster about 10 years ago with Jonny, though I doubt he remembers me; I always remember him as being […]

I’m just wondering if there are any people out there in Internet Land who have experience of the Certified Internet Webmaster (CIW) course and qualification, and whether it is worthwhile doing it?
I’m thinking about doing some formal training in web design to prepare me for “April And Everything After” (apologies to Counting Crows).
Also, do you […]

My JIIG-CAL results print out from June 1985. Yes, that’s geniune ye olde 128 line, tractor-feed computer paper.
Thinking about what I’m going to do next I looked out my JIIG-CAL print out from 1985 to see what it had suggested that I do.
JIIG-CAL stands for “Job Ideas & Information Generator - Computer Assisted Learning” […]

What way will the iPod generation play?
At my sister-in-law’s wedding a couple of months ago, Peter Neilson mentioned in his sermon about the current generation being the “iPod generation”: Insecure, Pressured, Over-taxed and Debt-ridden.
I found this online article by The Times’ Economics Editor, David Smith, called “Anxious life of the ‘iPod’ generation” who writes:
“We have […]