Entries from January 2007 ↓

Someone in our office said yesterday “Can someone blog about something other than the iPhone?”

Clearly I’m not a *real* blogger if I don’t post something about it. So here goes.

What is all that stuff for anyway? An no buttons? Eeee-uuww the screen will get so greasy. Gross. My phone rings. With a normal “Ring. Ring” kind of sound. I answer it. I can make a phone call by dialling the number (the workflow for finding a number in the address book is so frustrating it’s just easier to keep that brain alive by actually remembering someone’s phone number and actually pressing the keys). I can send and receive a text. It doesn’t even have a little display panel so that I can see who’s calling and thereby screen calls.

I’m sure as with all these gadgets, if I had one, I’d probably use it and become a music listener, downloader, phone emailer etc but for now I’ll just let everyone else who really appreciates it gush and fight to be the first to get one. And then everyone will want to touch it and experience buttonless heaven. Eee-uwww. The fingerprints.

Oh my god! I’m just wathcing the first episode of Ugly Betty. What a fanTAStic show!

Everything is   O R A N G E   !!

OK, some live orange-blogging from the show:

• Chairs in the cafe and boardroom
  
• The pedestal bowl of oranges in the ex-editors office
  
• The walls throughout the office
  
• The drawers in her office
  
• The personal gym that the owner has – even his pilates machine!
  
• The signs ‘Gym’, ‘Digest’ (the cafe) and ‘Mode’ (the name of the magazine)
  
• Carpet in the entrance tunnel
  
• The rug & lounging chairs in the wardrobe
  
• The little containers of lollies on the board table
  
• The boardroom chairs
  
• Orange tinted glass wall in her office
  
• First photo shoot
  
• The assistant to the ex-editor in chief’s bow tie
  
• Orange file sleeves for taking to meetings and photo shoots
  
• Office flowers
  
• A mannequin
  
• Lamp
  
• Filing tray
  
• Compendiums – love these!
  
  
  
  
  
• The phone in the ex-editors office – I want one. In fact I want it all!!
  
  

My cat friend Harry has Feline Hyperthyroidism – a tumour on his thyroid – and he is currently at the vet’s after receiving radio-therapy treatment waiting for 20 days to pass until his radiation levels are low enough for him to be exposed to his family again. They aren’t to visit him but if they do they can only look through a leaded window. Poor Harry! Poor family!

He’ll be home on 27 January.

My brain sides are uneven on the side of preferring function to form. Our new desks at work are very styley – dark brown ‘wood’. However, they heat up in the sun and are very hot to lean on and act as a little heater in an office that’s aready fairly hot with sun streaming in; and they show up every greasy finger print … not that I have greasy hands … just general touch marks.

Finally we moved into a ‘real’ office. There’s quite a bit of space at the moment … which means that instead of hearing what everyone’s saying because they’re practically sitting on top of you, you now hear them echoing around the office even from other rooms. Just me and one other in this room for now. Lovely.

Sunday afternoon baking. It looked and tasted amazing!

Live action blogging … almost! Taken at dusk this evening – armed squad scoping the lane across from our place.

They were there until after dark when it all ended uneventfully as far as we could tell at our end of the lane. Nothing on the web or radio about it yet.

Update 7.20am 4 January 2007:

Found the perfect news item to match what was going on across the road last night except that it’s a way down the other end of the city! Could there have been 2 incidents or has this reporter really messed up?

Dangerous man eludes police
By DAVID DICKENS – The Dominion Post | Thursday, 4 January 2007

A man believed to be dangerous remains at large after an armed police raid of an inner-city Wellington apartment block failed to locate him.

Lower Tory St, between Wakefield St and Courtenay Place, was closed to road and foot traffic for about half an hour early last night in what police described as a serious incident.

Details about the man who eluded the swoop are sketchy.

Wellington police said the man they were searching for was not the Newtown rapist or a gang member but must be considered dangerous.

“We used the armed offenders because of the kind of guy he is,” said Sergeant Marc Clausen.

“The person we were looking for was not there.”

The man was thought to have been holed up in the Maison Cabriole apartments.

At least a dozen members of the armed offenders squad searched the building for about 30 minutes. One officer carried a sniper’s rifle.

Source: www.stuff.co.nz

Am completely mesmerised by this photo taken by a colleague. *Very* talented. And evidence that there is some sun, somewhere in Wellington … unless he used a flashlight …