The Lounge
A place within slickhouse for general chit-chat. Take a seat, make yourself a brew, get comfy and type away…
The Apprentice, week 11
Tonight’s episode was the penultimate of this year’s Apprentice, on BBC1.
The 5 remaining candidates were whittled down to just two, via a series of interviews with 3 of Sir Alan’s associates.
The surprise came when Sir Alan chose to put Katie through to the final two - the bigger surprise was when she didn’t really react to the great news. Instead, she sat staring at the table - later conceding to Christina and Simon, letting them go through to the final next week.
The outcome couldn’t have been any better, though I was expecting Tre to be one of the two, but his interviews went pretty poorly - as the interviewers uncovered the real truths behind his businesses.
So roll on the final next week! And for those less-observant out there, I can confirm that Sir Alan is going to hire the finalist sitting on his right. Which, I believe will be Christina as usual…
Botswana.slickhouse.com
Hello Lincolnshire Echo/County News reader!
If you’ve stumbled across slickhouse.com by mistake, then you may be looking for the African Dreams site, documenting our trip to Botswana in July:
Those of you that haven’t read this week’s Echo/County News will have missed the two articles about our trip to Botswana. Take a look at the above sub-domain to learn more about our fund-raising!
New Job!
I’m always a bit weary about mentioning anything to do with work, as either my colleagues may read it and be offended, or I’ll run into some legal issues. But on this occasion I think I’ll be safe - the only worrying thing is if my colleagues read this prior to finding out in a staff meeting…
Anyway, I applied for a Web Designer job a fortnight ago - Thursday 29th March to be precise. The job application process involved an Agency who took my CV and passed it onto the employer if they felt it was worth a read. On the Friday I had both a missed call and several emails from the Agency, asking me if I could attend an Interview on the following Monday. However, I was so caught up in work, finishing off an ICT Suite that I didn’t catch the messages until that evening - by which time, Monday morning was too close to take time off.
Luckily, I was able to re-arrange the Interview for the Thursday as I was off to see Ricky Gervais anyway.
To cut a long story short (as it’s already becoming long), by about 11am I was offered the job, having arrived at the premises for 9am. After some deliberation I accepted it - as it was a big decision moving employer, especially as they had been so supportive.
So, on Tuesday May 8th I begin working as a Web Designer for IOCEA/CShop - turning a dream job role into a reality!
CG Partnership V4.0
As I have recently transferred my entire website over to WordPress, I decided to do the same with work’s website - www.cgpartnership.com
It’s basically the same layout as before, but everything is powered by WordPress, which means all the staff members can contribute to News items, update pages and add content.
The whole process has taken 3 days on/off in-between teaching, but I think it is suited quite well to the WordPress platform.
I’ve noticed recently that a lot of websites are moving over to WordPress as their CMS - even though it originally started as a pure blogging platform, many have found its simplicity to be ideal for end users.
I’ll be working on V6.0 of slickhouse.com over the coming months, transferring old content over, but also editing the theme as much as possible. It looks like from here on I’ll be using WP as the backend to many client web projects. Stay tuned!