Forgot to say...

We have finally taken over unit 17 Cotton Street. It's small but really necessary for us to spread out....

Serving the nation ..?

Totally misleading title, that one! Just a short one to tell you about the installation of more servers at our studio (running Lucid Lynx as per usual). We decided to stick with HP Compaq technology a while ago, using G5 & G6 servers with dual Xeons, and seem to have made the right choice.

In addition, we are swapping out our old custom-built workstations with end-of-line HP XW workstations. Ooooh.. fast...

thanks for all the fish...

Seriously, many thanks to the many applicants for the graphics assistants job. Sorry to tell you but this position is now filled. We are currently trialling Ross Fraser in this position for a couple of months.

However, we are expanding, so watch this space...

time for a new view...

We are looking for a graphics assistant and we have had experienced people apply for what is really a minimum wage job for a starter.

Why? The colleges are hugely over-producing media and design students.

Some of them are also coming out of college with egos that are really scary. I've had people tell me that I was doing things wrongly, when they have had days worth of experience. Time for the colleges to give students a sense of perspective of where they are in the scheme of things.

student reactions...

Well, we've just passed that time of year again. Student art cards... I think we've got the pricing and the formula right, because the students were flocking in for biz cards and flyers. We did more than twice as many this year as last, maybe due to a direct competitor letting some students down... really surprising, as this is the most important time for the students, and the last thing they need is to have an unreliable supplier...

We also sponsored the end-of-year show at Aberdeen College again this year. Someone asked why we didn't have banners etc up telling the world, to which we replied that we were doing it to support the students... not our business...

Killer Karla at Karting...

Karla, Maaj and Lyyne were renamed Killer Karla, Mad Maaj and Loony Lynne after last nights' kart-racing at KartStart.

All 3 showed a killer instinct on the track, and backed up by Nutty Nikki and GoGo Jo, had Ian, Keiran and myself scared senseless on the track.

Then it was off to the Old School House for a few pints to refresh...

All really good fun though. Who says females are delicate....

plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose...

For those who don't speak french, basically it means - always change, but always things remain the same... I understood how wise the French were to come up with that saying when I realised, during a week off last week, that myself and the whole team are working flat out, and have been for several years now.

So to cheer them up, I'm a) looking for some new people and b) taking them karting in a few weeks (this is before their sky-dive for charity)...

Should be fun...