Quickflix share prices hits all time high

Today Quickflix's share price hit an all time high of 24.5 cents! This is brilliant. It shows that the market is finally getting the Quickflix idea, and that there is confidence in what we are doing and our direction.

It's about time really. Being 1 of the 2 big players in this market is important: we don't need to be the biggest, or the only player. Quite the contrary. We want to be the BEST in town. Being the only player would make us stale, unexciting and unimaginative. With competition in the market not only do we constantly STRIVE to be the best, but we innovate at the same time. This is something we haven't seen alot of from our competitor, who must now be more than a little worried. Online DVD Rental is what we do, its all we do and we do it bloody well.

Competition is a good thing. Expect a whole lot of tit for tat between the players in the coming months but we have the drive, brains and determination to be the best and stay the best.

Saving the environment in 1 easy step...

I've made my first moves toward a cleaner, greener simv and I would like to share with you how you too can help fix the world. It is easier than you think. Alright if you're ready, let me bestow my wisdom.

BUY A WICKED ARSE GOPED SCOOTER.

It is that easy. Seriously it is one of the coolest toys I have ever bought AND every day I ride it I am saving the environment just that little more.

The goped is fun to ride, quick and one charge lasts for ages. If you live within 10kilometers of your work get one. Do it. Do it now.

New Quickflix Office & Project Phoenix

Today marks the end of our first week in the new Quickflix Office. We've finally settled in, I've got myself a bonsai tree and a wall to utilise and everything seems to be going pretty well.

The bonsai on my desk.

For those who aren't familiar with my job I am a senior developer and graphic designer at Quickflix, the biggest independant DVD rental company in Australia. I have been working for Quickflix since its inception, and have been involved with its development from prototype to full blown business.

As with most companies where their entire existance revolves around our technology we've reached a point where we've out grown our current IT offering. We're wanting to do things now to enhance our members experience that are just not feasible in our current environment.

Enter Project Phoenix. This project is about two things. Providing our subscribers with the best possible online DVD rental service through both efficient fulfilment and delivery and becoming the household name in home entertainment by having the best most engaging service available.

I am fortunate enough to be leading the redevelopment of our website from the ground up. In the next couple of months I will be blogging about our progress and you should see notes and info on the development of a new beautiful and dynamic interface, new exciting features and tools to make the Quickflix experience amazing, and ideas I will be using to help my team turn flashes of inspiration into full blown features.

I will be taking photos through the entire process and you can see these and more photos on my flickr page under the "Pix from the 'flix" set.

If you are a Quickflix member and have had some ideas about how you would like to make your Quickflix experience even better please don't hesitate to post a comment on any of posts I make. The more suggestions and ideas you provide the better we can make the service.

Please note: This blog is in no way affliated with Quickflix. I mearly work for them. As part of my contract and NDA, I will not be able to directly comment on new features and things that have not been yet released to public. I cannot comment on the inner workings of Quickflix so don't expect special insights that have not been made public to our users or the market.

EDIT: Fixed Typo

My last day!

Well, today is the last day of my job at changecorporation. Over 3 years I have worked there and in that time I have seen almost every face come and go. After the owner there is only three other people that have been with that company longer, with the next longest serving after me joining a few months later than I.

This is the first time I have ever "left" a job. The last place I worked was closed down and everyone made redundant, and before that I just kinda stopped getting hours assigned to me at Kmart because I got more and more expensive the older I got.

It feels good to finish. Sorta like closing the book on a chapter of my life.

Change hasn't been a bad place to work. I have enjoyed most of my time there. As always its the people you work with, rather than the actual work that make a job. Shout outs to all the peeps that I have had to the pleasure of knowing in my time a change, there are just too many to name, but they know who they are :)

After today I have a month off, during which I shall be travelling to Japan! 2 weeks of craziness in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka.

Keep watching couch-review.com for updates on my trip and photos from my adventures.