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An exercise in critical thinking and writing by Joey Day

Tag: work

Disney Dream Desk

“Disney”:http://www.disney.com made an exciting announcement today. Well, you might not think it’s exciting, but everyone here at “ContentWatch”:http://www.contentwatch.com is ecstatic.

ContentWatch in the News

This doesn’t happen very often, but I have a “Google News Alert”:http://www.google.com/newsalerts set up to catch it when it does. “ContentWatch”:http://www.contentwatch.com appeared in an article called ["Safe Surfing":http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/family/article/0,1299,DRMN_107_3028609,00.html ] on “RockyMountainNews.com”:http://www.rockymountainnews.com.
The article comes in response to the Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn a proposed federal law (i.e. the Child Online Protection Act) that would [...]

ContentWatch Upgrades

ContentWatch updated their website today (it’s been in the works for several months) and released version 1.8 of it’s content filtering products.
The website redesign looks pretty spiffy. I like the way they’ve organized things, but I’m a little dissappointed that it’s not coded to current W3C standards (they don’t even declare a doctype!). During the [...]

New ContentWatch Offices

I moved all my stuff down to the new office today. I’ve been doing a lot of manual labor lately putting together cubicles and hauling heavy desks and computer equipment around. The new office is a bit shabbier than the old (try to imagine green carpet and cubicles with white hardware and pink fabric), but [...]

Superfluous Punctuation

So, a few weeks ago my friend Mike wrote in his blog about people using punctuation around passwords and other information that should be word-perfect.
Case in point: today I got an email at work from a lady who wanted her ContentCleanup login information changed. Here’s a direct quote from her email:
bq.. Please change my username [...]

Going Through Withdrawals

ContentWatch (the company I work for) just hired a new business manager who has decided to whip the place into shape in terms of productivity. My manager sent out the following email a few days ago:
bq.. Team,
Some of you may be aware that people and responsibilities have been changing lately. Prior to the formal [...]