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7 July 2005

Oh heck, I’ve been passed an office so I’d better comply.

My desk at work My desk at home

The first photo is my desk at work. The second, the complete mess that is currently my desk at home. Home is a real mess at the moment (too much work – no time to tidy!) so photos will have to wait for the moment.

Work

At work my main machine is a G4 Powermac with an old skool TFT studio display. You can see some photos of the tunnel in which I work over on Flickr. It’s a nice office to work in (we’re in the arches of a Victorian railway viaduct), but they’re demolishing the office/shopping complex opposite at the moment so it can be a tad noisy. The demolition works are literally a few metres from our windows.

Home

The Powerbook you see is the same Powerbook in the photo at work – it’s my personal primary computer. At home I hook it up to a 19” Iiyama CRT, which whilst bright isn’t particularly clear. I tend to code on the Powerbook’s TFT as its nice and crisp. I’ll replace the CRT with a nice big cinema display at some point soon, hopefully.

The Powerbook is a G4 1.25Ghz, which I just upgraded this week to 2Gb RAM. It’s a really nice machine for my needs. The extra memory enables me to have a whole bunch of browsers and stuff open alongside my coding tools, Fireworks and reference Words docs without any noticeable degradation in performance. Yay for that.

On my desk loiters a Shuttle XPC which currently runs Windows XP but hardly ever gets booted. Under the desk are a couple of Windows servers for ASP and SQL Server development, and a couple of Linux servers running Debian – for web development and domain control. Behind my desk is Rachel’s desk, which has all that stuff over again, give or take. Behind me is another desk with a Solaris box and a bunch of other misc boxes for this’n’that. Plus a beer fridge. Once I tidy up I’ll take some photos. We’re doing well lately keeping the computer count down, and we managed to get rid of some when edgeofmyseat.com moved into their new offices.

And now for something completely different

I’m playing pass the parcel with:

- Drew McLellan

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  1. § John Oxton: Good luck with Dean Allen… I reall do think he is just the creation of some warped genius mind, I don’t think he actually exsists! Nice CMS he has though! :)
  2. § Dat Nguyen: Damn Dean, wake up and make your already nice CMS better!
  3. § Andy Mac: When you say your Iiyama isn’t that clear, are you running it at a high (like 100 or 120 Hertz) refresh rate?

    Try it at around 85 Hertz and see if that makes any difference to the clarity.
  4. § Graham Bancroft: Not sure about all that technical stuff, but a beer fridge! what more do you need?
  5. § Peter Mount: I’m drooling. I wish my home desk was as tidy as your home desk.

    Seriously, that Powerbook looks really great. I’m drooling.

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Drew McLellan (@drewm) has been hacking on the web since around 1996 following an unfortunate incident with a margarine tub. Since then he’s spread himself between both front- and back-end development projects, and now is Director and Senior Web Developer at edgeofmyseat.com in Maidenhead, UK (GEO: 51.5217, -0.7177). Prior to this, Drew was a Web Developer for Yahoo!, and before that primarily worked as a technical lead within design and branding agencies for clients such as Nissan, Goodyear Dunlop, Siemens/Bosch, Cadburys, ICI Dulux and Virgin.net. Somewhere along the way, Drew managed to get himself embroiled with Dreamweaver and was made an early Macromedia Evangelist for that product. This lead to book deals, public appearances, fame, glory, and his eventual downfall.

Picking himself up again, Drew is now a strong advocate for best practises, and stood as Group Lead for The Web Standards Project 2006-08. He has had articles published by A List Apart, Adobe, and O’Reilly Media’s XML.com, mostly due to mistaken identity. Drew is a proponent of the lower-case semantic web, and is currently expending energies in the direction of the microformats movement, with particular interests in making parsers an off-the-shelf commodity and developing simple UI conventions. He writes here at all in the head and, with a little help from his friends, at 24 ways.

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