It's all about the music, man…

One of the best things about working in the creative industry is the generally more relaxed nature of the offices; jeans & t-shirts instead of shirt & tie and getting to listen to music pretty much all day long!

A couple of days ago a link went around the 'net showing how to create a nice wee visualisation of your listening habits based on your Last.fm profile (here's our Last.fm profile page) which straight away just about all of us did!

It seems that we listen to quite a wide variety of music although the big winners are Boards of Canada, Blur and Belle & Sebastian.

By Colin Frame
Published: 21 August 2008
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Olden days

Colin's parents found a picture of Newton Terrace in the good ole days. It was in a book, possibly an old book - sorry I can't be more specific. Anyway, it shows the other end of Newton Terrace (home of tictoc's Glasgow office) which used to belong to Henry Samuel & Sons, furriers. Cue much excitement about Newton Terrace being the birthplace of the high street chain of jewellers (furs and diamonds are both luxury goods after all), but a little research on Wikipedia showed us this was unlikely. Ho hum.

By Kate Wooding
Published: 9 May 2008
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It's a boy

Although it only feels like 5 minutes since Mel went on Maternity Leave we are delighted to announce that we have a new member of the tictoc family, a baby boy!

Mel, baby and dad are happy and well.

p.s. Name to be confirmed.

By Fiona Dorman
Published: 10 April 2008
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Birthday Present Roulette

There has been a recent spate of birthdays at tictoc towers with Drew, David and Tom all celebrating getting another year older! The quality of birthday presents received has however varied enormously.

Tom was deighted with the robot that his boy's had made for him, Drew's bookshelves were stocked up with what sounds like a very interesting collection of books and David......well David's star present was a Pot Noodle (complete with bow)!

This started us thinking about best and worst presents we'd ever received. Whilst some of us couldn't remember what Santa had brought us this year let alone create a present Top 10, others were happy to share:

Mel
For my 16th birthday (I think) just when you're at that really annoying teenager stage when everything in life is "so unfair" my main birthday present was an Encyclopedia!! Imagine my excitement!!! Those totally impractical, cheap rubbish stiletto shoes and bat wing sleeve jacket would have to wait for another year! My most traumatic present issue has to be when I was around 4 or 5 and wanted a real silver cross bouncy pram like the lady next door had (mine would have been child sized obviously!), came downstairs and what did I get? a wee plastic buggy with orange and pink flowers that wouldn't last the week never mind the year!! gutted to this day!!

Alan
Aedan was born just after my birthday so he was my best, aaawww.

Paul
Best present. My first skateboard when I was 11. Got a skateboard for my birthday and christmas every year after that and still am. Don't think i've ever had anything i considered bad. In my book anything that's free is good.

Kerry
Best present has to be my Dyson that was initially bought as a joke but turned out to be a surprise hit - love it! Presents that year also included Nigella Lawson's 'How to be a Domestic Goddess' now that in my opinion is a rubbish present and after gathering dust for the past few years I'm sure it will soon be looking for a new home via the local charity shop.

By Kerry Reid
Published: 14 March 2008
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Photo Friday

By Melanie Russell
Published: 8 August 2007
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What our mum's think we do!

We thought it would be mildly amusing (and to be honest interesting!) to ask our Mums (and Dads!) to describe, on the spot and without thinking, what they think we do all day here in the tictoc family therefore below are the responses so far. I have to confess I'm so far hugely impressed with the responses and will happily confess that I guess we underestimate the genius of our parents but then, they are responsible for us so we shouldn't be surprised!!

Mel 

Andrews Dad : 
"You create, from scratch, these wonderful web site thingies that most companies, conglomerates, councils and even individuals see as being
necessary to advertise and promote their particular areas of expertise, their facilities, resources and abilities.

I understand you also create programmes in several computer languages, so you could be known as a polyglot in the computer world. What you do with these programmes is a bit of a grey area for me, but I assume you use them to make your web sites do interesting things at the touch of a button, rather than just provide contact details and an e-mail address to which all queries should be sent."

Colins Mum :
"You put together on a website text from a customer to advertise his product, with suitable pictures, and sometimes set up a buying facility"

Mels Mum:
1st answer - "Design logos and brands and build websites" 

2nd answer - "hopefully make enough money to keep me in the manor to which I expect in my later years!!"

Alans Dad :
"I haven't a clue! Do you sit at the computer and play around with designs and pictures?"

By Melanie Russell
Published: 26 June 2007
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