Just recently, I realised how important impressing yourself is when trying to maintain enthusiasm with your job. Doesn’t really matter what you do (as long as you care!), but things can go stale if you keep doing the same thing over and over, and never really provoking an “AWESOME! I did that!” reaction. Even if it’s only something small (at 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, little things can be fairly impressive!), it can give you a needed boost to productivity (ugh), enthusiasm and general satisfaction with work, life and all that!

Personally, I get my kick from cleaning really crappy data. Lucky for me, I’ve had a lot of crappy data to clean recently, so I’ve been able to flex my XPath, Regex, semi-complex MySQL and image manipulation muscles relatively frequently. If you’re as much of a fanatical cleaner and hoarder as I am, cleaning data is probably for you. Grab a 50MB CSV and try to programmatically make sense of it. It’s fun! I promise.

I don’t know what that pigeon is up to, but I do know I’d be more scared of a pigeon above me than a human in front of me. Saying that, DSLRs have been mistaken for RPGs, so maybe he’s just seen that.

We all use math, every day.

There’s no-one cooler than the guys playing a SNES emulator in the pub (and publicly failing at Mario!)

Even a lovely, white R8 doesn’t proclude you from getting ticketed for parking like a twat.

Jake?

I always seem to spot something different on the way to catch a train. The light we’ve been having in the morning recently has been so bright, it’s my favourite time to go out hunting for photos.