Dream update

January 30th, 2004

Weird dream last night. This one is unusual in that I can identify different blog posts that I read yesterday in it.

I’m in a small, cluttered office. There are two journalists there. They are journalists for some pop magazine, like ‘Heat’. I get the feeling that I’m not so much there for an interview as I am to help them out.

In exchange for telling them how to use their computers, they will teach me how to be a journalist.

One of the journalists, a woman, is the more excitable of the two and is leading the interview.

Later, I’m at home. I recieve a letter. It’s from the lawyers representing Ikea. They are wanting to sue me because I’ve been using their trademark illegally. I have no idea what they are talking about.

It transpires that the female journalist had taken the example database that I’d set up for her and created a crude front end web page for it. The database is full of furniture items that I’d made up for the example. Unfortunately she’d put a little blue and yellow Ikea logo at the top of the page, and I’d got the blame because it’s my database.

I remember thinking that it was surprising that a friendly company like Ikea would take to defending their logo so fiercely in the courts, and over such a trivial infringement of the law.

Then I woke up, half-an-hour later than I should have, having forgotten to set my alarm.

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