Paul Coffield

The joys of being a commuter

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

A staff meeting that overran by half an hour meant finishing work at 17.30 today.

Not such a bad thing, except that the train after the one I normally catch leaves at 17.35 – my current recrd for getting from the office to the station is 7 minutes and this still invokes a further 2 minutes to reach the relevant platform.

So catching a train an hour later than normal means getting home an hour layer than normal.

It’s funny how 30 minutes has a knock on adding up to an hour and a half in travelling time.

In defence if the meeting itself, it did fire the team up to defend our use of Firefox over IE6 and also to force us into developing a presentation for the senior management so that we may enlighten them to the benefits of our current working practices.

The desirable outcome still seems a but unobtainable, but the passion to get our point across will surely gout or something?

We shall see…

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Time keeps marching on

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

It’s been a few weeks since my last post and despite aiming to be a more regular blogger, time does indeed keep marching on.

I’m now working as part of the website creation team at Yell.com, a position which allows me to help small businesses get themselves online, often for the first time.

Combine this new job with much more motivation to get fit and my time just seems to get eaten up – but at least it’s in a productive way!

I’ve also taken on 2 freelance projects that are now under development, so expect more about them as they progress to the go live stage.

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ABFL sketch

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

After leafing through a number of Logo design books in Waterstones the other day, I found myself in Costa creating this sketch.

I added my portfolio URL to the banner across the heart to give it some relevance to me personally. I also decide to try and digitise the image, adding colour along the way.

Now for whatever reason, I started this process in Photoshop rather than Illustrator. This being the case, I have not yet achieved the overall image that I had hoped for, but I had spent too long working in Photoshop to be bothered starting in Illustrator.

To be completed sometime soon – probably next weekend.

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Back to blogging

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

Once again I have found myself getting too wrapped up in doing other things that have kept me from having the time to sit down here at my Mac and add to this blog.

As off tomorrow I shall be undertaking a role building templated websites for yell.com, which should hopefully allow me to slip back into my previous way thinking/working – we shall see.

It is still uncertain as to whether a creative career is going to be my future or whether I shall indeed join the MOD Police and follow in my Fathers’ policing footsteps. Having got as excited as I did about the prospect of the Yell position, I feel that even if I do become a police officer I shall have to continue with the freelance web design work as a method of keeping my interest alive and active.

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