Mockery for beginners

Maturing the Economist Groups's web IT infrastructure will have to wait for me at least.

I've been accepted to an elite super group of corporate paratroopers. We will be incubating our very own digital divide skipping child. It will have 6 parents. Arnie and Danny had 7, I think, in Twins (the movie)

We will be planting seeds for The Economist's newest venture. M&A's aren't easy money so every so often I guess you have to try doing something yourself. I wonder whether our competitor to myspace/youtube/google/breathing/talking/communicating will work. Why am I picturing the baby from Charmed who scares off dates for Mommy with a white light in his mouth?

I have to say my application to join was terrible, really terrible. I wrote about software instead of innovation. It's because I'm crap, and a little because I was in the middle of the JoelOnSoftware book. However I did muck about and make my blog inaccessible and break the up and down arrow keys in the process. The css is nice, the first time you load it and you get your posts in a viewport. I basically think I got in because I lent a playstation 2 eyetoy to Mike Seery for the web cast. Mum, I told you gaming would get me somewhere.

Forget the application however, the interview was a joke. I interview a few people in my existing role. I sat with Mike in a Pret and proceeded to answer "Yes I can do that" and "That won't be a problem" without any justification. To be fair to me a little bit, as I already work for Mike albeit through the onion of management I didn't realise I would be interviewed in such a real way. It clearly must be the eyetoy, or perhaps it was the eyetoy drivers that make it work so well on a pc

I join a cast of superstars from the Economist. We are redstripe. Tom, a superstar, has a blog at http://fedoralreserve.wordpress.com/

Labels: innovation, IT, team