ColorQube is awesome

Friends and longtime readers will probably know that I work for Xerox. With this post, I’m doing them the favor of highlighting something rather awesome that got launched today.   (Obligatory CYA text: This post is entirely my own and does not represent Xerox – and I wouldn’t ordinarily do a product plug unless I [...]

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9 for ’09: 9 famous people who made 2008 better

  1. Tina Fey With her portrayals of Sarah Palin, Tina Fey almost single-handedly made SNL good again.   2. Joss Whedon Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. If you haven’t seen it, you owe it to yourself to do so, because it is simply so off-the-wall laugh-out-loud funny. And the music rocks, too. Honorable mentions to [...]

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Relief, and sorrow

I am still employed. Not entirely sure why, at this point; let’s look at the reasons I had to be hopeful. The 2008 numbers are up The person who crunched the numbers is gone. My manager wasn’t called upon to axe people My manager is also gone. But the axe is now done swinging, and it bit [...]

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The Other Other L Word

The prospect of impending layoffs at Xerox has been weighing heavily on all of us here in the last couple of months; ever since it was announced that the company was seeking to cull roughly three thousand employees from its workforce, most of us have wrestled with the unanswerable question “will I be one of [...]

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9 for ’09: 9 ways in which 2009 will manage not to suck

This is the start of a new temporary (maybe 9 days) feature wherein I make lists of stuff. So yeah. Reasons 2009 won’t suck. 1. New albums from Guster and Carbon Leaf They’re not the only ones, of course, but two perennial favorites who will be releasing new material for the first time since 2006. [...]

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Brandverbing

Some time back, I was talking with some of my Xerox colleagues about a particular admonition dispensed during orientation:  that Xerox is a noun and must by no means be used as a verb. When I was five, before I had ever heard of Xerox Corporation, I remember my piano teacher telling me to “xerox the [...]

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Portland, Day Three

No wake-up call this time. Not even the one I had actually requested. Fortunately I am still insufficiently adjusted to the time zone change and thus I was awake in good time anyway. Back to the conference center, wherein we discover we have gained two new faces. Well, not literally, nobody grew a second head [...]

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Portland, Day Two

I got punked. The person who had stayed in the hotel room before me had apparently requested a 5:45 am wake-up call, and this hadn’t been cleared from the system. I had been needing to be up at about 6:30 in order to be ready to head out by 8:00 for a day-long offsite meeting. [...]

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It’s official.

Just got a very welcome email, which began as follows: Oliver, Congratulations and welcome to the Xerox family. I am pleased to confirm your start date of Tuesday, September 02, 2008. So yeah, w00t, I can has job, and any other overused meme-age you care to put here.

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