Tuesday, January 26, 2010

This blog has moved

I'm now blogging at the slightly better-looking Wordpress site:

http://cedgray.wordpress.com

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Well heavens, I'd forgotten I even had this blog, so long has it been since I've written anything anywhere except Facebook and Twitter.

Brief update: Jo now 4, also have Laurie, who's 15 months.

Assume all the usual bleatings about trying to update more regularly...

Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Bastard crinoids

After some years being 'fractionally employed', I went for a job interview yesterday at that most august of institutions, The BBC. The job description contained everything but my name, height and weight - so well does it fit my requirements. It's essentially a librarian/research role, and involves recognising and cataloguing film footage and still images of wildlife caught by the BBC for their many world-class wildlife documentaries. There's a nice fat database to contend with, a very complex hierarchical indexing system to apply, and tons of superlative animal footage - all of which factors contribute to the growing pool of saliva on my keyboard.

There was a brief test during the interview, just to see what I could recognise, and at which I did quite well (even recognising guanacos, as distinct from llamas!). I didn't, however, recognise the stately crinoid when I was presented with a picture of it, nor could I say what phylum (echinoderms - like starfish) or even kingdom (animals!) it belonged to. Felt pretty stoopid.

Still, they'll let me know in a day or so. In the meantime, there are some Covenant aliens that are just squeaking for a quick and painless lasering.