After many weeks of speculation in various forums around the world about the successor to Canons EOS 20D, the announcement yesterday was really dull. EOS 30D is an incremental upgrade to EOS 20D. Evolution rather than revolution. My (film) EOS 30 has a few very useful features that all Canon DSLRs lack today: control-knobs that […]
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Joining NewCo after all
On a meeting with HR I was informed that the company wanted to move me to another department, rather than laying me off. As my reason for declining was the long commute, not the job in it self, I surprised my immediate manager (again) by saying that I’d prefer to join NewCo after all. She […]
Thanks, but no thanks
When asked to join NewCo, the new, unnamed joint venture of OMX and TE, I declined. Maybe I should have informed my immediate manager a couple of days ahead to spare her the surprise. I don’t think she was permanetly injured by the shock. What will happen now? Apparenly HR hadn’t expected anyone to decline, […]
Falling
Monday morning. -8°C and the stone steps leading down to the railway station are shiny with ice. Suddenly my feet disappear under me, and I find myself at the bottom of the stairs, having bounced on my back all the way down. I get up, nothing broken. Looking around I ‘m glad noone saw me.
1 m² free desk-space
I recently discovered that my stock options actually had some value, (sic!) and sold all of them. This gave me some unexpected cash that I promptly invested in a new monitor. Its a 24″ Dell 2405fpw. Now I could get rid of a 21″ Dell and a 17″ Sony monitor sitting on my desk. As […]