on the train

Ok. How cool is this: on the train sending this to the blog from my phone. Love it. I also love the phone: nokia n-gage QD. For so long i listened to my friends & avoided getting one but i love it! The games are great; i have about 10, i use the pda functions, its got great batt life. They took the mp3 player out of this model & made it smaller & lighter & there's really no comparison to the old one, but i dwnloaded a lil app to play my mp3's & it's my walkman as well. Might have to start writing some reviews for this site to give it some content because as far as i know no one ever reads any of this.

The new firm

Interesting working in the funky see funky doo world of advertising.
It's sort of like this Company absorbs everything that's "best
practice" with regards to making a better workplace for employees and
the Company. For example if you get in before 9am there's a girl making
espresso on a nice big machine. And there's subsidised beer on Fridays.
And air hockey and more. But it's sort of soulessly applied to the work
place. Someone "upstairs" read; if you want your employees to get in
early without demanding it - give em some motivation like coffee or
raisen toast.

working for two weeks

working for an advertising agency for two weeks. Interesting. Not the place I'd like to spend heaps of time as it's kinda funky see funky do if you know what I mean.

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offering bullshit gap financing type options to films that already had
pre-sales. If you already had the stuff in place that they were
requiring then you wouldnt need their funding. They were supposed to be
set up to fund new production and they dig squat. Useless government
and banks getting into bed to fund tax dodges for large investors.
Total Joke!

Heard about the flicks

Film Licensed Investment Company Scheme: well the minister who approved
them last time was certainly in bed with someone because they were a
joke. I got all the application forms and it stated you had to list all
the projects you were going to invest in up front. And then when the
two companys that were approved released their prospectus' - guess
what? Neither of them listed any productions. They had not even looked
at any, and why? because the bullshit companies weren't even really
funding films. They were set up as dodges. They were

Seek totally sucks

So does commuting but more about that later. The jobs website
(www.seek.com.au) which recently floated on the ASX and made the
founders multi millionaires, sucks badly.
I have sent off into the ether via their crappy website about 10 job
applications in the last fortnight, and I've heard zip back. You hit
the apply now button, send off your CV and a well crafted cover letter
and it just dissappears. I'd love to even get back a rejection letter
rather than the stony silence that comes out of that crappy site. I'm
not going to apply for any more jobs online there unless they list a
phone number and then I'll call up and get a direct email address or
better yet a real address and post it.