Archive for February, 2008
I’ll be there with you / Don’t worry / I’m sorry / Goodbye
When I joined my current company I very much came on in a junior role. I got a junior salary and did menial tasks to keep the other two members of our fledgling team on focus with the other more important jobs. Through perseverance and patience I gradually moved into a developer role working on content management systems, database design and the like. Throughout all of this I moved to a standards based markup process and even now, I derive much pleasure from elegantly marking up a design; the current designer is astoundingly skilled and I believe challenges me with every new design. Needless to say I was peerless in the most literal sense of the word and was able to set my own boundaries, unfortunately this utopia of job satisfaction was never going to last. (more…)
September Rain
I don’t really know what I expected from watching Evangelion again, now ten years since I first saw it. I somehow thought I would be immune to its subversiveness, that I had outgrown the way it digs into me like nothing else. I was wrong; but far from the perceptual epiphany I had the first time through, it has brought to the fore questions I’ve been asking myself recently but without really knowing it: the questions fundamentally concerning what I’ve become. (more…)
