busier and busier....

We thought we were coming back to a quieter January, after the rush up to Christmas. Needless to say, we were totally wrong with this January being almost 3 times busier than last January.

February hasn't been any different, so far, with everyone running around like busy bee's. Amongst the many projects on the go are a Pizza Home Delivery website, a video site for a Dance company, websites for flowers, an innovative new golf product also being launched in Japan, a site for a charity in India, and many others.

So for March....in like a lion, out like a lamb? don't think so......

sore heads...

Almost at the end of the week and we are still 1 short after Karla's birthday bash at the weekend. Much drink was consumed (Karla's bad influence, don't you know:)) and everyone was suffering for a few days. Main victim was Karla however, who claims it's a bad cold/flu :)

The event was at the Tunnels with Dead Rabbit playing and DJ after. Excellent!

Images to follow, if I have time....

race to the end of the year

A bit belated, this one. We finally got all our gear including the big printers, down to the new place. So what now? Well we're starting the year on a high note with tons of work, so much so that I was in on the 2nd doing a website for a client in a rush.

The week before, I was in installing new workstations for the extra people coming on in late January. After the G5 servers were such a success, we went with HP workstations with the new Triple Phenom processors. Wow! HP Compaq has really put the boot into the competition with that combination of processor and GPU in their new workstations. Opening a file that used to take 90 seconds ( a big one) takes 15 seconds on the new machine. Well worth the cost.

Art of noise?

Tenuous, to put it mildly:) Just a short note to say that we have some Mike Cairncross pieces in our new Cotton St. studio if anyone wants to have a gander. Mike is the sculptor and artist known for the Leddach Chair, and the steel sharks. (big things:)

another day older....

Sitting here working on a Friday night, I thought to myself.... sad git. Way too much work, not enough time. We've launched 6 websites this month including 3 CMS's and 1 database. Time doesn't stand still etc.

So that's me off to the flicks.... tata!

Well I never ....

So the Fiery thing went well, but we still don't have our big printers down here. The large format ones are still to come in. We were amazed to see the delivery of the new Aficio 4500 machine and finisher though. Ever seen one of those stair crawlers? Quarter of a ton of machine lifted by one man, up a corner set of stairs. Amazing bits of kit!

We're looking at one of the medium level OCE machines to add to our existing digital printers. Might well go for it!

Sarah (ex-accountant) was saying she's bored with the new job. Can we hope she ends up in Aberdeen? Her and Maaj would make a formidable organizational team. Especially when combined with the new work-flow software system that we are having commissioned. Meeting after meeting for the sole pupose of getting down on paper what we want it to do. Ah well..... give it time...

Very Fiery .....

So we finally did it. On top of our set of new G5 servers running Linux (Har de Har), we have also just taken delivery of our brand-new super-duper EFI (Canon) RIP and print server. For such a beast of a thing, it's tiny..... you feel you could put it in a pocket :) Ok, not quite!

It's a bit of a step away from our existing Best RIP technology, even though we recently spent a bomb in upgrading to the very latest version (they're not scared to charge, these big software companies). We thought it was time to go the hardware route as it's more stable and doesn't cost £600 a time when we need a colour profile.

Watch this space for progress reports....