words XXIV

Why is it that my floor has the least amount of talent on it in the building? *sigh* The quick visits to other floors really show whats missing. The Tube strike today has had a not insignificant change in the numbers around, the floor is half empty. I wasn’t too bad, got in within abou 45 min. Going on lunch now.

I’m reading a biography of Michael Collins by Tim Pat Coogan at the moment (Amazon) and its a fascinating piece of work. It is generally considered the definitive biography of Collins and one of many in a series on modern Irish history by Coogan. I started in on Saturday I believe and unusually for me I’ve not made much headway into it. I’ve read about 170 pages so far and given today is Thursday and I’ve been reading more because I’m enjoying it and I’ve been taking the bus to work so even more reading time its kinda strange. I guess its just a case of having to pay more attention to it and of course its a harder read. By that I mean it is not fiction and as such it doesn’t flow quite so freely, its following events and the results of those events.

In other news, last night I went home and took it easy, played some Bond. I beat it a couple of nights ago but I’m going back for all the hidden extras and medals and shit. I watched the last 30 min of ER aswell. C4’s ads during the week had worked. I use to watch it when it first started off years ago and was solid drama but just never really felt like keeping up with it after the second season of so. It was ok, nothing great considering what was happening. I would have thought there would be a lot more reaction and ya know spend more than a minute at the funeral. Went to bed shortly after that ended and slept a lot better last night. 🙂

I’ve just watched Steve Jobs keynote address from MacWorld in NYC and I have to admit to being very impressed. The i family is coming along really nicely. Standouts are iSync, the new iPods and the new range of iMacs.

My head hurts, I need more sleep. I need my Mac to be faster so this install is done and I’m rebooted and back to work. Fuck it all to hell.

Still in the Spider “Give me Information” mode….

Jesus fuck, I hate being patronised by people who have not got a goddamn fucking clue what they are talking about. Ya know patronising is a good thing but have the fucking decency to patronise about something you know about.

“Maybe I will never be, all the things that I want to be, but now is not the time to cry, now’s the time to find out why”
Live Forever – Oasis

Ok this is pretty strange. I wanted to post a link to the story about the IRA apology. I hit Unison.ie and Ireland.com and both are now register for access. Checking out news.bbc.co.uk I’ve gone 3 links deep into World and UK and I can’t find it. Ah ha, if I head down another level to Northern Ireland I find the story and I get a 404, here however is the IRA statement in full.

It is an impressive statement in style and content.
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Hmmm
US planning to recruit one in 24 Americans as citizen spies
Operation TIPS
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WHEDONesque : I like this idea a lot.
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So I still don’t know quite what I’m thinking about the entire thing. I’m hoping to have a clearer picture tomorrow but I suspect it is just a hope.

Sigh, one edited post. It was all said in jest, fuck I really need to get more sleep. I’ll try tonight. I’m gonna go home, play some Bond. I suspect I will watch some more West Wing, I was looking on the IMDB quotes page (here) for it and marveling at the writing skills. So I think I will just watch some season 1 again tonight.

Victory is mine, victory is mine, great day in the morning people, victory is mine. Donna, bring me the finest muffins and bagels in the land.

and of course the fucking meeting didn’t happen because the person with the information couldn’t make it.

Got a meeting in just over an hour to actually sit down and get some information. The more I learn about this project the more it worries me. I have no real clue what I have let myself in for and there are no answers available to the lists of questions that are mounting, not least of all when are we going and when are we coming back. The timelines seen to be completely different depending on who you ask. I don’t like uncertainty at the best of times, but this is something pretty fucking big to be uncertain about. I suspect I’m overreacting to a lot of things (and yes I am aware of that) but it feels hastily thrown together and there is no planning in here.

Its become clear that a number of the questions that I have just plain can’t be answered, but you know movement on dates and location and other stuff like that could be sorted. All that takes is a couple of calls, I just wish we could do that and get something sorted. Maybe all that will do is put my mind at ease, and indeed the mind of the other developer involved. Right now we have provisionally agreed to a project in the US for an extended period and we don’t have a clue what we are doing…in any sense.

And I should check on stuff before getting all riled up about it. It was said purely in jest.

I fucking hate my laptop its getting beyond fucked up. I just lost another post because yet again it froze for no reason. Note to self; tomorrow night bring home the cd burner and reinstall it all.

Note the time on this post. *sigh* I wish I could figure out what it was. Only thing I’m thinking of right now could be weather? Its been very hot the past couple of nights? Or perhaps its all down to stress and I need to not worry about this project…uh huh like thats gonna happen.

Kinda distracted with stuff…shock that huh. Not been up to much. No CSI tonight, Saturday nights are season 1 repeats which is fine as I have not seen most of them, but no Monday night reshow will probably mean I miss a lot. 4 levels later on Bond now, about to have a crack at the fifth…and thats that one sorted..