My Work

Surya does its business via phone and email, and our email has been overwhelmed by spam. Last week, I trained SpamAssassin on one of our sales manager’s spam folder and set it loose over the Thanksgiving weekend. It blocked well over a thousand spam mails from reaching people’s inboxes. Instead, I sent them to mine, … Read more

Business is incredibly slow here at Surya at the end of a year. This year, we’re asked to work only four-day work weeks in December. Now since I’m salaried, I shouldn’t care, as I supposedly get a fixed annual pay regardless of how much or how little I work. That was the meaning of ‘salaried’ … Read more

Note: My decision to take the pencil sketch and redraw and ink it in Photoshop over the objections of the assistant sales manager for the line who said the sketch’s roughness was “why we liked it,” was vindicated when the sales manager said she liked it, but needed the background to be a blue gradient … Read more

Surya/Haven Girl Spring ’07 Just finished a new Haven Girl brochure and put it on the web via Picasa 2. People inside the company are even asking for me to put things up here; it has truly become a useful way of getting high resolution pictures of our lines to people for use in advertising. … Read more

I am spending all my EQ2 time on the Echoes of Faydwer beta at the moment, so there’s not a lot to post about EQ2 until they lift the NDA. Enjoy the next couple weeks of ramblings about life, television and IT 🙂 It took years to stop thinking of myself as a programmer after … Read more