Woke up to some really good news for a change on the BBC; with the first of the Chilean miners coming up from 69 days trapped underground. Despite the view that the cage would be a tight fit, it looked to me to be quite spacey, although I suspect that coming up the tunnel was a bit claustrophobic, even for people who spend their working lives underground. I wonder how much post traumatic stress will be involved. For the first 17 days with no contact they must have wondered at times if there was any hope left. Watched Ed Milliband's first PMQ's. I thought he acquitted himself well. He certainly wasn't humbled by David Cameron, who of the two of them came across as the most uncomfortable in their own skin. Immediate reactions were also quietly positive. I suspect that Ed is going to have a field day adopting a fairness agenda. It's a fairly easy target in an environment of cuts to identify a raft of the cuts to label unfair, particularly when you don't have to publish an alternative to be picked apart by the government. In my distant past I worked for almost 15 years for the Post Office. Privatisation seems to be back on the agenda although I haven't a grasp of the detail so difficult for me to comment in full. Frankly I would worry for any commercial organisation that considers buying a stake in Royal Mail to be a wise investment. Nevertheless when I see people like Billy Hayes spouting his union style claptrap it makes my blood boil. Dinosaurs like Billy are why the Post Office is in the mess it's in ( although not the only reason to be sure). I'm never quite sure why management did not sort out the organisation years ago to achieve a fair days work for a fair days pay. Today it's an organisations of contrasts with pockets of old fashioned, unproductive, union run locations and some modern, productive but unhappy sites. Almost as an aside it's worth remembering that Alan Johnson is a former CWU General Secretary. A sleepy day. Woke up, slumped in my chair, at about 5pm. Would hope to be awake now for the evening to watch some TV and have a bit of dinner. Nope, fell asleep again and woke up when I poured the remnants of a cup of tea over myself. Damn it, feel like an idiot when I pull stunts like that. It makes me feel like I'm definitely heading backwards rather than making forward progress, particularly because stuff like that was pre-chemo behaviour. Now I know why I have gone steadily downhill over the course of the day. I went to get my evening pills to discover my morning pills were still in the cup untouched. What a plonker. Not much I can do about it now other than take my evening pills with a top up of quick release morphine. The Apprentice is underway. The girls lost tonight and the bitchiness came out in the Boardroom, big style. Karen Brady was right, the girls were so unprofessional it was funny. Road kill was my comment off the cuff. They all could have gone home for me. My advice was to calm down. Clearly Lord Sugar does not like it when the aggro levels are high and real companies don't function that way. "Gobshites" don't go far. I'm surprised at the decision but I don't think any of that final three will make it far. Wrote a couple of iPad app reviews... Simplenote & Dropbox - would recommend these two apps to anyone as cloud based storage, note keeping, document carrying applications and probably the only two you will ever need in this area. I have them on my work pc's, home pc's, iPhone and iPad and they allow me to carry around almost anything I am going to need, including things like PDF's VLC - allows you to load up files directly via the app section of iTunes and being VLC plays media files in almost any format (I was already a fan of the VLC app for PC's). Very handy for any videos downloaded from the web e.g. from YouTube and various webcast formats plus any avi's you might have. Certainly saves having to convert files between formats to try to get iTunes to play them. GoodReader - the Swiss army knife of document readers. Again you upload files to it via the App section of iTunes. I know from experience that getting files into Apps is not intuitive. I'll try and find a link to a "how to" or I'll get some screenshots myself to illustrate. Something to keep me occupied for a bit tomorrow.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
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