May 14th, 2007, 3 Comments »
Via Neatorama, you can enter a message into this website and watch it appear on a big LCD display in an office in Spain. Here’s what I wrote (click for larger version):
There’s an industrial principle that says if you make minor changes to the workplace, you’ll get a temporary increase in productivity from your workers. Maybe that’s what’s going on here.
May 7th, 2007, 2 Comments »
But I couldn’t resist showing you our new office:
I think there’s enough space for the whiteboard on the wall behind us.
UPDATE: It ain’t all fun and games, as last night I caught a cockroach whose body (it’s body!) was as big as my thumb. Plus, we got a new washing machine, but it’s entirely in Italian. I spent quite a while on Babelfish figuring out what words like ‘biancheria’ and ‘molto sporchi’ mean. I still don’t know what ‘risciaqcqui’ means, but I’m just going to hope for the best.