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The dot.com chair

5 August 2003

I would sound shallow and insulting to say that the best thing about my new job is that I get to sit on a dot.com chair, but wooo for the Hermon Miller Aeron desk chair. I reckon that’s the sign that you’re working for a proper dot.com.

- Drew McLellan

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  1. § Jesse: I have the competitor chair at work but I have no idea what the actual name of it is. Think I would prefer the Aeron but they don’t give deals to education institutions :(
  2. § Drew: boo! shame! The Aeron is the unofficial official dot.com chair.

    Come to think of it, you don’t work for a dot.com so you don’t deserve one ;)
  3. § Mike: Ah ha! I’m typing this while sitting on the ’vistors chair’ version of yours! Being a visitor at the company I’m at means I don’t mind... There are ones like yours and its NOT a dot.com (as your know)... Does that mean I should not sit on it and swap it for the OfficeWorld one in the room?
  4. § Drew: You should NOT sit on a dot.com chair at any time, save for the following circumstances:

    a) you work for a dot.com
    b) you used to work for a dot.com until it all went tits up and you had to sell your left kidney, your children and your story just to pay off the finance on the Audi TT and this is the only thing you’ve got left so you’re going to sit in it whether I like it or not.
    or
    c) you’re being ironic.
  5. § Rachel: I would sit in a dot com chair but I’d rather buy new pooters than posh chairs ... besides I have a bouncy ball to sit on.
  6. § Mike: awww... but its sooooo nice to my back. I have a dot com domain name... does that count at least part way?
  7. § Tim: Mmmm...Aeron...I used to sit on one when I worked at CompuServe/AOL. I miss that chair ;(

    Oh, and I miss the weekly massages too...

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Drew McLellan 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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