During my 8 or so years contracting I've been fortunate enough to work with a variety of different companies, from the cautious and slow-moving banks through to dynamic and fast-paced digital agencies.

Throughout my journey I've been lucky to meet and work with some truly brilliant people, great designers, developers and managers. I've also come across my fair share of 'others':

• The others aren't interested in learning.
• The others carry grandiose titles like 'Senior Software Architect' simply for being in the company for 10+ years.
• The others repeat the same mistakes over and over again.
• The others use seniority to quash innovation and perceived threats from the lower ranks.
• The others view new ideas and technologies with scepticism.
• The others view the 'hired help' with suspicion and contempt.
• The others treat their job as entitlement.
• The others clock-in and clock-out.
• The others play political games to compensate for poor performance.

I'm sure you know who the others are in your workplace.

The message for this blog post is to encourage you to be the best you can be; don't settle for being an 'other'.

Contrary to what the predictive text suggests, the Scrum teams I have worked in have always been rather pleasant!

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From The Guardian

"Wikileaks is hosting what it says is a copy of the entire UK postcode list, last updated on July 8 2009, that contains all 1,841,177 UK post codes together with latitude and longitude, grid references, county, district, ward, NHS codes and regions, Ordnance Survey reference, and date of introduction."

If you are working on a geo-location application for the UK market I suggest you download the file while it's still available as I'm pretty sure the cease-and-desist letter is already in the post from The Royal Mail!