The working day

The working day:

• eMails
• Meetings
• Updating documents
• more eMails
• even more meetings
• Updating even more documents
• losing…will…to…live…

Why do we subject ourselves to this existence.

Jet Lag

It would be good to be able to tell everyone that my lack-of-sleep expression is down to jet lag; that I have been “on the road” for weeks jetting all over the place and its all caught up with me; it would be good, at least from my perspective, to be able to say all this because jetlag is about the closest thing I can describe it to. Naturally this is all nonsese. I am suffering from post-second-child-being-born-lag. He is a good sleeper, but the first child has a cold and thus keeps me up as I am currently baby-sitting his transition from being a single child to part a clan. And whilst my eyes are closing all the time I would not change a thing

Worst day of the year (?)

Back in 2005, some Prof figured out a mathematical formula to find the most depressing day of the year. For 2008, 21 Jan is that day.

Except that I had a good day today because it is Martin Luthor King day in the US, which is a national holiday, which means no eMail all day!

Science, once again scuttled.

• The Times
• The Daily Express (No!, I do not read the DE, I found it via Google News search)

Nunzio La Vecchia

For this Christmas I got the album, which you could call it light jazz in style. The one track that I really like (and I would guess the one track that anyone really knows about) is the title track from the album Emotion. What amazes me is that fact that this chap is not only an accomplished musician, but is an accomplished pilot, race car driver, lives in Switzerland and runs a tech innovations company. Really makes you think…

• Emotion
• Nunzio La Vecchia

Gorillapod

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Originally uploaded by DeMeggers

I got a Gorillapod this year. Its fabulous. The main intention was to have a smaller/compact tripod for my dSLR so that when I start my forthcoming project (Prague by Night) then the large tripod can stay at home. The main things about the Gorillapod is that it will allow me to ‘attach’ it to anything to create the stable platform needed for the 15 seconds it will take to get the shot.

Gorilla pod can be found here

Remembrance

If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied.

-Rudyard Kipling

 

iPod Shuffle - R.I.P.

My shuffle died so now I am podless. I hope this is not because I was blaspheming about its shiny new cousin, probably not. But the annoying thing is that it is less than a year old and the battery has gone walkabout (i.e. it’s stuffed). This is annoying for three specific reasons:

• Its less than a year old - need I say more…
• …yes I do. Its also impossible to tell what is actually wrong with because there is no display, just random flashing lights and nothingness. (Yes, I have charged it many times). Then I didn’t even get the flashing lights, even when charging.
• It broke down long after the standard warranty (90 days) had expired.

 

Yes, there will be a replacement but I must admit, as much as there are plenty of lovely Apples in the basket, having one die on me so soon after I have bought it will make me think twice or maybe even consider going back to iRiver - my H140 is still sitting around somewhere and still works, but weighs a ton.

Until then the commute is quiet

Something Interesting

It would be rather good to have something interesting to say. Maybe today I met some fabulously interesting people, had lunch with a politician to discuss the state of the country and foreign policies (after all, I am a foreigner here), how about visiting some really interesting place during a business visit to sign a multi billion dollar contract for something fabulous, what about discovering some really useful thing that will act as a solution to stop the destruction of our world.

No.

None of this happened.

My day was boring and mundane, as usual. Except that my wife couldn’t get online this evening because a mouse ate through the network cable. Or something like that.

So instead of reading something interesting from my day you have to read this crap.

So instead I urge you to read about someone else’s adventures, or just enjoy the pictures…

• Stuck in Customs

Two years in Prague

I have been living in Prague for two years now. It has been an interesting adjustment. Not least given the fact that I have lived in many other countries, and principle cities for some time. On the face of things, Prague is a fabulous city. Much like all capital cities in the world it does not represent the country. You can’t assume that London = UK, or even represents England, it is a country within a country, and Prague is typical of that. So Prague is very different to Czech Republic, and so are the people who live here.

It has been said that Prague is the most progressive city of the “old” Eastern bloc, ex-communist countries. I can believe this. Bratislava, for example, does feel a long way off from where Prague is. But then Prague does have a lot more investment in comparison. It is also a place in perpetual turmoil and change. It is being dragged from the era of neglect, decay, and extreme apathy, into a new era, this is an era of progress, of civic pride, where buildings shine, the old faces of Prague have new life pumped into them, and change of attitudes lands heavily on the laps of unsuspecting peoples.

Back

A week away, without internet, TV, news, anything. Just lots of heat and sightseeing. So, I guess there will be some write up about the experience, sooner or later.