Busy Busy
January is turning out to me a very busy one but I’m enjoying work more than I have for months at the moment. Acknowledgement and Boring are currently on top form and I’m really pleased with the work we are putting out. We’ve a great team and a great vibe in the office: I guess it’s official – we’re cooking on classical gas.
Recent work stuff includes a social network for the media buying industry lots of filming for BoringStudent plus we are also working on a couple of really nice CMS driven sites, doing updates to some legacy projects and doing some very ace rich media ads and social media bits for a number of clients.
Our headcount is on the up with Greg having just joined, and Giles joining next week. There are also some very interesting new business opportunities on the horizon and we’re also getting into mobile in a big way. As Yazz sang, the only way is up! Although, thinking about it, what ever happened to Yazz? Hmmm – one to ponder there.
For all you techies reading this we’re also mid way through a project to offer increased redunancy on sites we host. We’ve always taken hosting very seriously and have now moved to using a dual datacentre/auto failover at DNS level approach with our most uptime critical sites. We’ve been very impressed with the results so far.
As some of you know all too well, hosting is a favourite pub conversation of mine (along with ticketing systems and plane crashes), so at some point I’ll be writing about virtualisation, cloud computing and lots of related things on this blog. Make sure you book mark the hosting category of this blog to not miss out 
In other news I’ve decided that I’m going to move from Islington to Shoreditch: not only will this save me 80 minutes a day in walking time, it will also mean that I’m nearer the office, nearer my gym (yes I am still going!) and I quite fancy living in a new part of town.
Finally as if all this wasn’t enough I’ve also decided that I am going to start reviewing restaurants on this blog. The first review will be this weekend.
Forget Obama. Forget Ross and Bland. Forget Verne falling off his little scooter. This blog is where the excitement is to be found in 2009. Can you bookmark it? YES YOU CAN!