Engerland

I am wondering if I am the only person in the world that is not watching the England v Argentina. Our offices have joined Cancer Research UK in raising money by letting staff watch in our AV meeting rooms for a donation. My floor is now very sparsely populated with people at the news desk watching and reporting and the odd person not interested at all.

Buying Online

I’m starting to get a little hacked off now. I ordered 3 books on March 7th and to date I have received only one of them. Blackwell.co.uk mailed me to say they were on back order and due April 22nd, we are now at June 6th 🙁
I ordered a Canon Digital Ixus V2 from Nomatica.com last month and it hasn’t arrived either. They wrote and said it would be despatched May 23rd we are now 2 weeks past that date and I called them today. They say they have no idea when they are coming in stock but it should be around mid June. Grrrr.
See it may be cheaper on the web but it is just not as satisfying as going out and coming home with the goods you purchased.

O’Reilly book on blogging

The book isn’t aimed at people who already blog, although many such readers will find useful information such as customizing their blogging software. Picture your coworkers who haven’t discovered blogging yet–they know how to work their computer, they’ve seen a couple of blogs and figure they want to run one themselves. You should be able to give them this book and it’ll educate them about choices of software and hosting, walk them through installing and using their chosen software.

Is this wise?

Flags

I always thought it was strange that it didn’t matter where you went in the US you where constantly bombarded with the stars and stripes. Every little town had a flag, every other house had a flag, every other building had a flag, every other person was wearing some sort of star spangled banner clothing.
Over the last few days I realised it was just because we seemed scared to show our own flag. The Union Flag was always associated with neo-nazis and the National Front.
Seeing The Mall decked out in Union Flags and the front of Buckingham Palace bathed in projections of St Georges cross, Union Flags and other such emblems made me realise patriotism isn;t strange at all. In fact maybe we are strange for not showing a pride in our country.

I wonder how many St George Flags will still be flying if the team get kicked out of the world cup? It seems a shame that it takes the Queen’s Golden Jubilee and the World Cup before we show any semblance of national pride.

Purple in the Park

Purple was fun. Met Andrew before hand and then met Paulie in the park followed by Colin who I haven’t seen in ages. Then Scally and the usual blogger suspects. Jonathan and Markie and Ian. I also met up with Steve who was over from Amsterdam for the weekend.
I eventually made it home earlyish as I am travelling down to Farborough to see my niece and assorted family on the Sunday.