Last night I was fortunate enough to be on the floor of the Stuart C. Siegal Center at VCU to photograph the Rams defeat the Richmond Spiders 65-57. There’s a photo feature of my work up on RVA News.
Archive for the ‘Work’ Category
2009 Black and Blue Classic
Sunday, December 13th, 2009St. Joseph’s Villa
Monday, November 23rd, 2009Yesterday I had my first paying photography gig through RVANews photographing St. Joseph’s Villa as they celebrated 175 years in operation. Check out the results!
Snow Day
Monday, March 2nd, 2009Richmond finally got enough snow to mean something – at least 6 inches in some places – and I’m sitting here at work.
You see, my office doesn’t have an official inclement weather policy, and my job generally requires me to be here when I can. Since I have butt-loads of work to accomplish in the first half of this week and no ability to telecommute, I had to venture out into the snow in my trusty Jetta (man, that traction control came in handy today!) and rock the lower three gears of my transmission all the way up Broad Street.
I’d rather be out in the snow taking photographs. Maybe I’ll knock-off early and do just that…
Brain Baked
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008Things could be slow this week, folks…
Between a crazy busy work week and crap-loads of work around the house, my mind isn’t all there lately.
But I did get something nifty, recently 
Here goes nothing…
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008So tonight I’m planning to attend an information session about VCU’s MBA program. I’m hoping to learn more details, particularly, about the part-time option. Afterward I intend to pick up a study guide for the GMAT, and we’ll see what happens…
Best Tech Job Listing EVER
Thursday, June 12th, 2008Compared to the veritable ocean of garbage job listings on all the major job websites, this posting for Greenview Data is a heaving sigh of fresh air.
(I don’t know how long the listing will persist, so check it while you can.)
The Worst Gets Worse
Friday, May 9th, 2008I’ve complained about the network goons at my company restricting access to harmless websites before. I’ve lost access to Twitter, kottke.org, Zeldman.com, and a number of other sites which seem to have no worse impact on my productivity than checking the news.
Well today they crossed the freaking line, without warning as usual. Now they’ve blocked Gmail. Yahoo! Mail is also blocked, incidentally, though I rarely use it. They’d already blocked the chat functionality, which was understandable, but blocking web-based mail in general? This is ridiculous.
Oh yeah, YouTube is still freely accessible, which continues to make little sense and boggle my mind.
Stinkin’ paranoid network goons.
UPDATE:
I have my access again. I don’t know whether it’s the email I sent to the Help Desk (likely not – I received no reply) or somebody many levels above myself complaining about the same problem. I’m just glad to have it back.
Early to Rise
Thursday, April 17th, 2008Last night I actually managed to get to bed before 7:30 and – Miracle of Miracles!!! – fall asleep before 8:00.
I did this because I semi-voluntarily came into the office this morning at 4:15 to oversee my portion of a production database release. I woke up once at about 11:40 to hit the head, and then only woke up again at 3:25 this morning, five minutes before my alarm was to go off anyway! So now I’m sitting here in the office at 4:45 AM typing a blog post.
If there’s any advantage to being up SO early, it’s that I’m leaving the office around 2 PM this afternoon. I plan to take a nice full hour-long lunch at noon – anyone care to join me? – and then finish up my day before heading out to FINALLY shoot that roll of B&W film in what’s supposed to be a glorious afternoon. Heck, if today is as sunny as it’s supposed to be, maybe I’ll even fire off that roll of slide film in my bag…
Chatty Cathy
Monday, April 14th, 2008The Almighty Network Administrative Overreactors for my company have seen fit to block the chat portion of Gmail. Now I feel like I’m missing a life line to the outside world.
That’s right, Corporate America. Keep showing your employees that you don’t trust them to simply get their work done, and cover it up with the weak blanket response of “it’s in the name of security.”
They cut off my twitter.
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008Mugs, try not to laugh too hard at that post title…
It appears that as of some time this morning, the network control freaks at my company cut off access to Twitter. Now when I attempt to visit the page I get the ominous restricted access notice. I’m sure sending the infrequent 140 character message through a web page was putting a real drain on productivity and security.
UPDATE:
It’s worth noting some sites that are still NOT blocked: YouTube, Apple’s Movie Trailer page, Flickr, just to name a few. Boggles me mind, it does.