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What your email address says about your computer skills – The Oatmeal.

Each year x-factor evokes strong emotions from those that view it and from those do not.

Some people love it for its commercialism, others hate it for the same reason. Some have crushes on the acts while others feel kinship though race, sex, age or accent. Some love the choreography others think it is shameless distraction. There are favourites and villains, costumes and scripts.

For me it’s just like watching pantomime. Something fun, not to take too seriously. To boo, to cheer. To feel part of an audience hurling emotions at celebrity caricatures.

And then there is twitter with its xfactor hashtags. A maelstrom of soundbites of love and hate, humour and outrage, things that should never be said, and others that should be said more.

It’s three hours each weekend that I’ll never get back, but as harmless childish fun to me it’s something that money cannot buy.

Burning anything is disrespectful whether it is draft papers, flags, korans or people. It always reflects more on the person doing the burning than it ever does on what is being burned. Equally arguing that is ok to offend provided those people will not retaliate is also disrespectful.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11233106

Often i may using publicly available data infer or guess other details that may or may not be true. I see no problem with sharing those inferences or analysis with people that have the same access to facts as myself provided i am clear that those are inferences and opinion and are not fact.  I may at some point learn some secret that confirms or denies my opinions, but that does not effect the opinions that i share if asked by those not privy to the same confidential information. I will not lie. and thus sometimes may chose silence or feigned ignorance.  I may at times nudge people to talk together, or suggest directions for investigation or development based on perceived shared goals. While i may at times be seen as an instigator I believe that my legacy is as a facilitator. I refrain from doing harm, except where it is necessary. I don’t take sides. I come to an opinion and choose where to stand. Wether that is in the same place as others is a consequence of that judgement. I will state as fact information I know to be untrue.

…how long until all the apps have been written?

Recently I had to try and recover files from a pc that had a faulty CPU/motherboard combo.  Initially I was planning on opening another system and swapping the drive. But then I got to thinking wouldn’t it be great if there was a cable to connect an IDE device to a USB plug. I looked on ebay and found such a gadget existed, ordered and delivered for under £10 and all files safely recovered.

Some people quote “Everything happens for a reason” as though destiny has our lives predestined on rails. I prefer to think of it the other way, that whatever happens it should be our goal to find the best outcome and maybe by doing that we create reason where none existed before.

Meeting efficiency is inversely proportional to the log of the number of people.

After a long day at work, I do not want to have to spend an additional 5 minutes pretending to be a checkout guy, and I really do not want to do it for free.  As a paying customer is it to much to expect to be SERVED by a human being?

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”
— Groucho Marx