New Last Rites album...

...is out. Have just ordered it. Must ease up on the spending a little, but I've been waiting for this album for ages so decided I could get away with it.

Still no pay raise...

...but I do now have a job title that describes what I do in the same terms used by everybody else's job titles. No longer am I a Web Development Support Officer... I am now a Web Design Officer.

Well, more accurately, I have been so for over a year, but now I'm actually allowed to say that I'm the web design blokey. I also no longer have "support" in my job title, which is a plus.

Next stop: Payrise. Or else, damnit.

Work Rant...

Images. More specifically, photos. Everybody wants websites with loads of photos on, yet they go quiet whenever you ask them what they want to be in the images, or what messages they want to convey, or to who.

Then they default to pictures of the buildings. Yes, we have some quite nice buildings, but if you're wanting to sell the university, or to make it look vibrant and active, they don't really cut it. They make everything look like an estate agent's brochure. How about some people, folks? Not just mugshots, either. Something active, with a bit of movement or personality...

Gah.

Work Rant 2

No.

No, when I said no, I meant no. Not Yes. No. A negative response.

I can't "look into it". I can't find a way to make it work. This is why I said no. What you are asking for is impossible. I cannot make a larger amount go into a smaller space without shrinking it. There's an old adage about quarts and pint pots...

Bigger things do not fit into smaller spaces. That is all I have to say on the matter.

Apart from "No", that is. I'm happy to say that some more.

Nonononono.