Posts Tagged ‘work’

08.19.10 | graphic design skillz: elementary

so this friday, my work is throwing a summer picnic over at mission bay… shirts are being printed to commemorate the occasion

i saw the creative dept creating some designs so i decided to get a piece of that action… all their stuff was super nice, using floral-ish brushes

…then here’s me with my design… i think it’s awesome — i’d rock it outside of work (maybe)

and you know my name is simon...

oh yea… and i’m not even going to this event — but how awesome would it be to see roughly 100 people rockin’ this shirt at the beach?

…tho my shirt didn’t win… i was one of the finalists! #smallvictory (yes, i just used a hashtag in a blog post… weird)

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03.03.10 | coding fun!

so this won’t make sense to any of you, but i was pretty proud of myself when i made this. i used various xsl elements to basically have the page pull data from an xml document:

xsl

...
<xsl:variable name="readmore">
  <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="@readmore != ''">
      <xsl:value-of select="@readmore" />
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>
      See all <xsl:value-of select="@title" />
    </xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
</xsl:variable>
<div style="font-size:8pt;">
  <a href="{@url}"><xsl:value-of select="$readmore" /></a>
</div>
...

this is a sample of the xml that it pulls:

<page id="..." title="Newsletters" url="newsletters.asp"
  thumbnail="include/media/images/products-newsletters.gif"
  description="blah blah blah">

so since there isn’t a title attribute to this node, it’ll default to the title. on the page, it’ll say “See all Newsletters”

i made it myself! yay

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11.18.09 | you rock, websense!

so we have this system in place at work called ‘websense’ that basically blocks certain sites… mostly obvious sites like amazon (shopping), espn (sports), etc.

and some not so obvious… like my site… my site was blocked for “entertainment” — i mean, c’mon! my site is definitely NOT entertaining… i think it was categorized when i had a bunch of youtube videos on the home page…

so this basically stopped me from being able to view my own site at work (unless i used quota, which we have 60 minutes of each day — yea… bull)

so i had enough… i remembered that chaunce actually contacted websense  a while back and had his site recategorized

and at work, because of my title here, i am able to view sites categorized as “social networking and personal sites” — allowing me to see facebook, twitter, and other blogs

so here’s the email i sent websense:

Hello -
I would like to request that my blog get recategorized to the “Social Networking and Personal Sites” category — currently it is set up under the “Entertainment” category.

At my workplace, I have been granted access to view sites categorized under “Social Networking and Personal Sites” because of my position as Web Developer.

My web site address is http://www.gorirrajoe.com.

Regards,
Joey

–
Joey Hernandez
Gorirra Consulting
Web Developer
www.gorirra.com

that email was sent on 11/15 @11:30p

well the very next day, 11/16 @12:45p i get this email:

Thank you for writing to Websense.

The site you submitted has been reviewed.  We have made an update to the following URL in our master database to address this issue:

http://www.gorirrajoe.com/ – Social Networking and Personal Sites

Categorization updates should be available in the next scheduled publication of the database.  A new database is published every business day, five days a week, Pacific Standard Time.  You should notice any updates referred to in this message within 72 hours.

Thank you for your assistance,

The Websense Database Services Staff
M.P.

w00t!

so here i am now… writing a post from work on 11/18! i had no idea i’d get a response THAT fast

so to websense… your response time to review claims and subsequently update your database rocks! work’s usage of websense still stinks… ha

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11.16.09 | i’m lazy

yup… that’s it… i’m lazy!

before this year is through, i’ll update my beer list… i “promise” (see that? i put it in quotes so you can’t hold me to it!)

i prolly won’t be putting as much description in the posts since i drank most of them months ago…

what i do know is i won’t be doing another “year of the beer” thing next year…

yes, my alcohol tolerance has skyrocketed, but i’ve got a gut for days… christ… i’m at a point in my life where i get back injuries from playing one game of ping pong (i did win tho… suck it, andy!)

oh yea… i also wanna write up a review about this seidio booberry case i got (it’s not gonna be good for them…)

been crazy busy at work (for which i’m thankful, right? right?) — been part of some fun, major projects… another of which is almost done… and it looks like gorirra is gonna make a last quarter sprint with some (3) upcoming projects… let’s just say this year’s company christmas party is gonna be off the heezy (party of 2… ha)

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05.20.09 | i look funny, but yo i’m makin’ money see?

i could probably safely assume that chaunce and i are the biggest nerds at work — maybe that’s why they moved us together (far away from the department)

we have a pirate flag, random star wars toys, and the pièce de résistance: scrabble

i was pretty confident with my scrabble skills… but i haven’t won yet — fack…

i get a good lead in the beginning, the chaunce throws in some random word with q’s and z’s that HAPPENS to hit a triple word score.

here’s our last game — i got destroyed with his multi-word combos…

335-235

335-235

“men” was mine… hell yea

this is what happens when andy leaves and i don’t play ping pong

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04.30.09 | stay thirsty, my friends

i love these voiceover dubs — found these two gems today… slapchop!

this one’s just damn clever — the addition of breakin’ 2: electric boogaloo clips just makes it gold

jabooody dubs does it again — a ton of hooker references! and rightly so!

at work, chaunce and i got moved and now we’re cubemates… it’s gonna be like jake and amir!

[collegehumor 1909271]

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04.22.09 | that’s what she said

in honor of “sexual harrassment” day at work, here are some videos!

“why do women have boobs?”

a random PSA by batman and joker:

[funnyordie d8fab5370c]

michael scott’s catch phrase:

and for no damn reason, bruce (family guy):

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04.09.09 | cause you had a bad day

*names withheld

damn… this temporary thing is killing me… i’m down to help and all and be a team player, but i’m thinking of the group. when (if?) i go back upstairs, they’ll be back in the same rut.

and then what happens when this happens again, someone’ll call in sick or go on vacation… oh, there’s joey that we can pull back down here

the person who’s out doesn’t even do the same things i’m doing!

there’s just no thought process behind this or how much it affects others…

christ, i was in the middle of a friggin project and now i had to pass it off to another coworker — i’m ticked cuz 1) this was my first real high visibility project and 2) i had to increase the workload for that person…

this was going on in my head all day (among other bullshiz)… everyone in this dept is gonna burn out soon… the shizz they go through from crappy customers… blech

then the padres lost… c’mon!

i feel beat down today (not off)

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04.02.09 | friggin’ indian givers

so i’ve been saying “batman” all throughout the day today… why?

cuz one of my coworkers kept saying it — it’s from crank yankers

[comedycentral 24554]

// interesting first frame shown in comedy central’s video player… ha

quote of the day: “just when i thought i was out… they pull me back in”
term of the day: “indian giver” [ wiki ]

UPDATE

[comedycentral 60189]

“do you have black caulk?”

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03.26.09 | book: the peter principle

"why things always go wrong"

"why things always go wrong"

yea… a book review — deal with it

so geoff suggested it because he thought that i’d relate to the different topics discussed… and damn, i related a bunch to it

the overall principle states that “In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence.” [wiki] — this basically means that you’ll keep getting promoted until you hit a job title where you just suck

i’ve seen this before — a great salesperson will be promoted to a managerial position and since they have a sales background and not a managerial background, they’ll suffer at that position

the book details how fast one will move up the ranks… this is where it gets similar to my life…

peter defines pull as “an employee’s relationship–by blood, marriage, or acquaintance–with a person above him in the hierarchy” — it’s similar to the phrase, “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know”… kinda sorta…

anyway, the patron is a person who can help me to rise — we’ll call him chaunce in this case… ha — peter states, “an unmotivated patron is no patron”

“see that the patron has something to gain by assisting you, or something to lose by not assisting you, to rise in the hierarchy” — i guess he gained many free zj’s with my recent move upstairs… so there you go. congrats, chaunce

shoot… i hope i haven’t hit my incompetence level… LAL (i totally stole that from amir)… ok fine, LOLerskates!

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