Posts by Andre Alessi
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Cracker: RIght On., in reply to Bart Janssen,
I actually know the answer to that because I have a friend (whom I really still do like) who can’t abide National for it’s soft and spineless approach to economics in NZ. Act is almost right wing enough in their economic position to satisfy him.
A guy I went to school with is (or was, I think he's moved on to local politics) a speechwriter for a few folks in ACT. As a kid, he was a young pakeha with upper class parents, obsessed with Nazis and WWII.
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Cracker: RIght On., in reply to Andrew E,
Hopefully the nails will prove somewhat more effective.
It's notoriously difficult to hammer that last nail in when you're pinning yourself to a cross, but I have faith that Phil Goff will manage it with his usual grace.
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Cracker: RIght On., in reply to Craig Ranapia,
ACT is neither libertarian fish nor populist right-wing foul,
It's tuna, the "chicken of the sea":
Just imagine Don Brash with Jessica Simpson's body. Go on, I dare you.
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Up Front: Home is Where the - Ooo, shiny!, in reply to BenWilson,
I’m sure there are programmers who regularly meet deadlines, but I’m also pretty sure they do it by massively overestimating how long things will take.
My old boss used to say "Always underpromise and overdeliver" which is a great strategy as long as you're dealing with people who don't start panicking at the "underpromising" step of the process, then assume the "overdelivering" is the result of their panicked emails and phone calls.
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Up Front: Home is Where the - Ooo, shiny!, in reply to BenWilson,
I don't know, kids seem like a pretty expensive alternative to an alarm clock.
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And whatever you do, do not spend too much time nyaning.
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Up Front: Home is Where the - Ooo, shiny!, in reply to Lilith __,
And likewise with emails. Answering email, even just work-related email, can be so disruptive. Perhaps you need to set certain blocks of time aside for doing email, has anyone out there managed to do that?
A significant part of my work day is actually email-based, so I need to be checking it constantly throughout the day. What I do is only check my work emails, never my personal emails. I don't have a landline phone though (well, I do, but I never plug it in because the only people with that number are telemarketers) so i don't worry about personal calls-the majority of the calls I recieve during the day are work-related, and I can always pull the "I'm sorry, could you call the office line instead?" routine if it's taking up too much time.
For context, I work from home as part of a team with a largely discrete amount of work each day that needs to be done, and with a virtual desktop that effectively lets me do the same things I do from my work PC. Obviously that makes my situation a little different from many other posters.
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Up Front: Home is Where the - Ooo, shiny!, in reply to Josh Addison,
OK, someone beat me to the Mitchell & Webb "working from home" link - am I too late with this one?
Oh that's perfect.
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I am terrible at working from home. So, so terrible. I get distracted so easily, and before I know it, it's 7 pm.
I live with flatmates who are seldom there, and my computer is in my room, so I'm seldom distracted by anything that isn't food or already on my computer. Paul's advice upthread is really useful though-get dressed and get out.
One other thing that works for shutting down my own personal work-kryptonite is turning working from home into a kind of ritual. Associate certain actions with it, and make them stick until they become unconscious. Get dressed in clothes you'd wear to work. Start at a specific time. Have set breaks. Contact your workmates (if you have them) regularly. If you use your personal computer, set up a seperate user profile for work stuff seperate from your non-work stuff, with no games, etc available and a picture of your boss as your wallpaper (no, really.) Finish at a set time.
This won't work for everyone, obviously.
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Hard News: A Work of Advocacy, in reply to Jacqui Dunn,
It’s a felafel a minute on this thread! Getting coat, going now……
You know who else likes felafel? Oasama Bin Laden. I'm just saying, for a thread about terrorism, we're venturing into some scary, scary places.