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Morning already?
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 08:28 amI overslept.
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
Disappointed
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 10:21 amThe Met Office seems to have forgotten to put 50p in their weather meter or whatever it is that does the forecasting. All week we have been consoled, during the heavy downpours, that today and tomorrow would be warm and dry; a balmy 70 degrees, which is good for this time of year.
I think we may have got the right amount of degrees, but instead of cool, dry breezes and sunny periods, we have leaden skies and rain.
Twenty-first century weather forecasting is very much like twentieth century weather forecasting, only with prettier maps on the telly.
I think we may have got the right amount of degrees, but instead of cool, dry breezes and sunny periods, we have leaden skies and rain.
Twenty-first century weather forecasting is very much like twentieth century weather forecasting, only with prettier maps on the telly.
Disappointed
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 10:21 amThe Met Office seems to have forgotten to put 50p in their weather meter or whatever it is that does the forecasting. All week we have been consoled, during the heavy downpours, that today and tomorrow would be warm and dry; a balmy 70 degrees, which is good for this time of year.
I think we may have got the right amount of degrees, but instead of cool, dry breezes and sunny periods, we have leaden skies and rain.
Twenty-first century weather forecasting is very much like twentieth century weather forecasting, only with prettier maps on the telly.
I think we may have got the right amount of degrees, but instead of cool, dry breezes and sunny periods, we have leaden skies and rain.
Twenty-first century weather forecasting is very much like twentieth century weather forecasting, only with prettier maps on the telly.
Presentations
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 01:31 pmIs there anything quite like a finance presentation in a warm office to help a body catch up on much-needed sleep? I suspect not.
I have just spent an hour sitting with about 50 other drones listening to a not-very-well-presented presentation on public housing debt and how the Government finances it. A rather dry subject at the best of times, but with an ill-prepared presented and a PowerPoint presentation where the slides were inserted in seemingly random order...?
I can't say that I know any more about the specifics now than I did before I went in; I have a reasonable grasp of the generalities, but...
No matter; I'm not about to be tested on it.
Hope I didn't snore.
I have just spent an hour sitting with about 50 other drones listening to a not-very-well-presented presentation on public housing debt and how the Government finances it. A rather dry subject at the best of times, but with an ill-prepared presented and a PowerPoint presentation where the slides were inserted in seemingly random order...?
I can't say that I know any more about the specifics now than I did before I went in; I have a reasonable grasp of the generalities, but...
No matter; I'm not about to be tested on it.
Hope I didn't snore.
Presentations
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 01:31 pmIs there anything quite like a finance presentation in a warm office to help a body catch up on much-needed sleep? I suspect not.
I have just spent an hour sitting with about 50 other drones listening to a not-very-well-presented presentation on public housing debt and how the Government finances it. A rather dry subject at the best of times, but with an ill-prepared presented and a PowerPoint presentation where the slides were inserted in seemingly random order...?
I can't say that I know any more about the specifics now than I did before I went in; I have a reasonable grasp of the generalities, but...
No matter; I'm not about to be tested on it.
Hope I didn't snore.
I have just spent an hour sitting with about 50 other drones listening to a not-very-well-presented presentation on public housing debt and how the Government finances it. A rather dry subject at the best of times, but with an ill-prepared presented and a PowerPoint presentation where the slides were inserted in seemingly random order...?
I can't say that I know any more about the specifics now than I did before I went in; I have a reasonable grasp of the generalities, but...
No matter; I'm not about to be tested on it.
Hope I didn't snore.
The wider world of blogging
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 06:08 pmHaving been tempted into opening a MySpace account by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
telemeister I find that I don’t really know what to do with it. So far I have used the blog section a little, but those are largely cut and pastes of the public entries I put here (it seems a bit silly to put friends locked stuff on it), though there are some differences.
It’s not as user-friendly as LJ in my opinion, certainly insofar as the customising goes, anyway. I have to confess that it is probably as much to do with any lack of application on my part as anything. I have found a couple of people over there who are over here: neither of them ever log on (probably rarely here, too) :ruletwo and magpye, I’m looking at you. Equally, I find Mr Hudson, late of Comic Showcase there, but even when online he responds not to friends requests. Maybe I should change my aftershave? No-one on my meagre friends list who are REAL people write anything or do anything with it. It all seems a bit odd, really.
Of course, you get to pretend to be friends with famous and not so famous rock stars. So it is that I can pretend to be mates with Greg Lake and Robert Fripp, on speaking terms with both current versions of Barclay James Harvest and disappear down the pub with Jakko M Jaksyck. That would all be better if I thought for a single moment that they really were who they said they were, and not just their official fan club or publicity agents at best, or just scunners pretending at worst.
I reckon that I’ll give it another week and then just cast it loose; after all, that’s what I did with my Blogger account (though I deleted and reactivated that in a different format before abandoning it) and my Wordpress account which I never really got going on.
No, all my blogging needs are covered here, with you lot. I don’t think I have the energy for more than one lot of real rambles day in and day out. Especially when I have the strong suspicion that I’m the only one there.
telemeister I find that I don’t really know what to do with it. So far I have used the blog section a little, but those are largely cut and pastes of the public entries I put here (it seems a bit silly to put friends locked stuff on it), though there are some differences.It’s not as user-friendly as LJ in my opinion, certainly insofar as the customising goes, anyway. I have to confess that it is probably as much to do with any lack of application on my part as anything. I have found a couple of people over there who are over here: neither of them ever log on (probably rarely here, too) :
ruletwo and magpye, I’m looking at you. Equally, I find Mr Hudson, late of Comic Showcase there, but even when online he responds not to friends requests. Maybe I should change my aftershave? No-one on my meagre friends list who are REAL people write anything or do anything with it. It all seems a bit odd, really.Of course, you get to pretend to be friends with famous and not so famous rock stars. So it is that I can pretend to be mates with Greg Lake and Robert Fripp, on speaking terms with both current versions of Barclay James Harvest and disappear down the pub with Jakko M Jaksyck. That would all be better if I thought for a single moment that they really were who they said they were, and not just their official fan club or publicity agents at best, or just scunners pretending at worst.
I reckon that I’ll give it another week and then just cast it loose; after all, that’s what I did with my Blogger account (though I deleted and reactivated that in a different format before abandoning it) and my Wordpress account which I never really got going on.
No, all my blogging needs are covered here, with you lot. I don’t think I have the energy for more than one lot of real rambles day in and day out. Especially when I have the strong suspicion that I’m the only one there.
The wider world of blogging
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 06:08 pmHaving been tempted into opening a MySpace account by telemeister I find that I don’t really know what to do with it. So far I have used the blog section a little, but those are largely cut and pastes of the public entries I put here (it seems a bit silly to put friends locked stuff on it), though there are some differences.
It’s not as user-friendly as LJ in my opinion, certainly insofar as the customising goes, anyway. I have to confess that it is probably as much to do with any lack of application on my part as anything. I have found a couple of people over there who are over here: neither of them ever log on (probably rarely here, too) :ruletwo and magpye, I’m looking at you. Equally, I find Mr Hudson, late of Comic Showcase there, but even when online he responds not to friends requests. Maybe I should change my aftershave? No-one on my meagre friends list who are REAL people write anything or do anything with it. It all seems a bit odd, really.
Of course, you get to pretend to be friends with famous and not so famous rock stars. So it is that I can pretend to be mates with Greg Lake and Robert Fripp, on speaking terms with both current versions of Barclay James Harvest and disappear down the pub with Jakko M Jaksyck. That would all be better if I thought for a single moment that they really were who they said they were, and not just their official fan club or publicity agents at best, or just scunners pretending at worst.
I reckon that I’ll give it another week and then just cast it loose; after all, that’s what I did with my Blogger account (though I deleted and reactivated that in a different format before abandoning it) and my Wordpress account which I never really got going on.
No, all my blogging needs are covered here, with you lot. I don’t think I have the energy for more than one lot of real rambles day in and day out. Especially when I have the strong suspicion that I’m the only one there.
telemeister I find that I don’t really know what to do with it. So far I have used the blog section a little, but those are largely cut and pastes of the public entries I put here (it seems a bit silly to put friends locked stuff on it), though there are some differences.It’s not as user-friendly as LJ in my opinion, certainly insofar as the customising goes, anyway. I have to confess that it is probably as much to do with any lack of application on my part as anything. I have found a couple of people over there who are over here: neither of them ever log on (probably rarely here, too) :
ruletwo and magpye, I’m looking at you. Equally, I find Mr Hudson, late of Comic Showcase there, but even when online he responds not to friends requests. Maybe I should change my aftershave? No-one on my meagre friends list who are REAL people write anything or do anything with it. It all seems a bit odd, really.Of course, you get to pretend to be friends with famous and not so famous rock stars. So it is that I can pretend to be mates with Greg Lake and Robert Fripp, on speaking terms with both current versions of Barclay James Harvest and disappear down the pub with Jakko M Jaksyck. That would all be better if I thought for a single moment that they really were who they said they were, and not just their official fan club or publicity agents at best, or just scunners pretending at worst.
I reckon that I’ll give it another week and then just cast it loose; after all, that’s what I did with my Blogger account (though I deleted and reactivated that in a different format before abandoning it) and my Wordpress account which I never really got going on.
No, all my blogging needs are covered here, with you lot. I don’t think I have the energy for more than one lot of real rambles day in and day out. Especially when I have the strong suspicion that I’m the only one there.