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“I don’t want to end up like Robert Dziekański” or my Canadian immigration experience.

Pressyuk — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:57:39 +0000

This week I mentioned that I had a very inconvenient run in when entering Canada on business. My trade during the day is datacenter engineering for a major tech firm. I work as part of a team rolling out new kit across our network of datacenters (or DCs) across the globe. Its the main reason [...]

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Where we’re at currently…

Pressyuk — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:55:33 +0000

It has been a pretty interesting few months behind the scenes here at Hard Graft towers since our last update which was waaay back in April. Thats almost five months? Incredible. Anywayyou’re probably wondering why there has been such a massive gap between comics and I’m here to explain the relevant reasons why this is [...]

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Update for June 2011

Pressyuk — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 12:23:46 +0000

Schedules out of the window, budgets under strain and the spectre of ever more delays loom. Thats the general outlook for May and June. Doom and gloom. Basically things aren’t really going all that well on the Hard Graft front. Issue 3 faces ever more delays and financial squeezes mean that I’m delaying the current [...]

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Kickstarting the brain #4 : Traitors Den

Pressyuk — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:07:35 +0000

For the past few days I’ve been challenging myself to come up with a script idea a day. The outline is as follows: So I thought I’d try and get up to speed and stretch myself a bit so I set myself a challenge to write an idea a day.The criteria is as follows: The [...]

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Kick starting the brain #3 – Tackle Bag XV

Pressyuk — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 03:55:17 +0000

As mentioned the other day I’ve decided to try to think up a new comic idea a day, every day for the foreseeable future. The criteria is as follows: The idea must be vaguely unique to ones you have created before. The idea must be in the form of an elevator pitch of one to two paragraphs [...]

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Kick starting the brain #2 – Student politics

Pressyuk — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:10:27 +0000

As mentioned yesterday I’ve decided to try to think up a new comic idea a day, every day for the foreseeable future. The criteria is as follows: The idea must be vaguely unique to ones you have created before. The idea must be in the form of an elevator pitch of one to two paragraphs of three [...]

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Kick starting the brain #1 Cromwellian conspiracies

Pressyuk — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 23:14:27 +0000

Things have been going relatively slowly at Hard Graft towers recently. Part of the problem is complacency whilst other faults could be a malaise that has descended like a cloud upon my creativity. Not necessarily writers block but I’m not challenging myself either. However recently I bought the first three volumes of Bakuman which is by the [...]

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Situation normal

Pressyuk — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 01:49:57 +0000

So the people marched through London, the people spoke at the rallies and the idiots did their very best to disrupt and dilute the message. What little message there was anyway. The idea of the Leader of the Opposition speaking at a trade union rally seems odd especially when that person has to reach out [...]

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What the Arab Spring means for the Big Society

Pressyuk — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:37:32 +0000

Across the Arab world and North Africa there has been an awakening. People across the region, tired of petty totalitarian politics, casual brutality, poverty and unemployment have risen up and in some cases shaken off the foul yoke of the vile Middle Eastern strongmen who have plagued the region for so long. The fact that [...]

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Good music.

Pressyuk — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 05:21:53 +0000

Went to see the Imagined Village live last night. They’re an English folk music project which seeks to preserve the old songs and tell a few new ones along the way. You may sound a big confused by the sounds of sitars and dhol mixing with fiddles and guitars but when you hear John Barleycorn [...]

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