crops of computers

Yes well I did some research on transliteracy after all but we also worked all weekend and painted our new offices to boot - white ! so I was again too knackered to blog.

Yes so it was that with such a pristine interior I ventured to the dell site yesterday to get us some more hardware - indeed I ordered some lovely kit, multimedia notebook and workhorse workstation - yum yum. Being a qualified member of the digeratti I off course completed my transactions on-line. what else is one to do ole bean ! I got the PDFs of the order confirmations via email and boom, where's my network card I ordered ? Doesn't seem to be in this spec ? wait maybe myopia or just plain stupidity is to blame here Mick, but I distinctly remember seeing 10/100 network card in the first 'customize and buy' page I visited - did I somehow inadvertently uncheck that option thus islandising my new workhorse, I decided a quick call to sales support just to ensure that I, a qualified member of the digeratti hadn't been responsible for the error.

boy was that ever a major mistake, I spoke with 11 (yes eleven) different representatives from dell, had the pleasure of 10 song extracts, took one hour and five minutes out of my life and lived in the call centre limbo called customer support, I went round in more circles than a one legged carousel operator - boy was it ever frustrating - I did get to the bottom of it though, you see while I might have a part-time affiliate geek member ship, I just don't make the cut, my Network card was integrated in the mother board so didn't appear in the spec. Doah.... I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

impausable

Following my visit to the bank, I took a little time for a quick coffee break, but time today isn't based on counters, boiling kettles, the passage of the sun or the phases of the moon, it has little to do with atomic clocks or digital interrupts, in our 'time poor' western society, it's really concerned with activity levels, task completions, time commitments and more and more often outcomes & results - can you remember the last time you had the opportunity of being bored ? or indeed when you 'got the time' to do something you loved and enjoyed just for the sake of participation, rather than reward or satisfaction - I'm attempting to resolve these things just now (with two sugars please).



In the past, I've successfully completed several periods of practical research on these matters, from living the power of now to implementing hardline hardnosed time management techniques in a corporate environment, my extracurricular exploration of quantum physics theory eventually led to simply staring at the sea or night sky in awe. The results are inevitably the same, implicit empirical and practical proof that you are better served simply just ‘getting on with it’ and going with the flow of time rather than gorging yourself on it’s abstract complexities, time has a way of presenting you with contemplative fractures – the bain of today’s pace conscious society, ‘the queue’ which actually provides me with welcome intervals to appreciate those pauses and their wait for liberation from time.

Moving On.....or up even

So today, we decided that a new move is on, we're off to new offices. You wouldn't think that we'd need them so quickly what with being such a young and small company almost in it's total infancy in fact, but the brains believe that we will fast outgrow the current space, so we're off to a business park to.....erm.... do some business I suppose. I've looked at the new space and it's certainly not atypical, it's got some quirkiness about it that I like. So let's hope we get the logistics sorted and get our desks set up real quick. Thanks to last weeks hard work, we have our first set of official customers to satisfy....wahoo..
Yup things is on the up and starting to look pretty good. Obviously....otherwise I'd be spending a lot more time doing this blog and whining. But now we’ve lots of work to get done,....until tomorrow.

Keeping it all under wraps

So there you go, after weeks, months and indeed years of working for other people and making not inconsiderable amounts of money for them in the process, I finally get to work in a company in which I have a modicum of influence (& ownership)
yipee....and double yipee.... and the square of double yipee...and...triple yipee times yipee and .....You get the message, I'm happy about this development.

Anyway, I got so excited by the whole thing that I started to blog about it in another blog http://dimedaily.blogspot.com/ (which I will now add to the side bar)

So even though, we have lots to shout about, should I keep it all under wraps until the super/hyper / mega offical launch thangy. Well.....

I recently listened to several podcasts, particularly one's concerning/interviewing Steve Rubel, the arch podcast pr guru/ publicist type/ dorsel fin attachment / new yawker / good guy and while he's obviously a bright intellect, he somehow strikes me as someone milkin, ( while conciously counting down) his fifteen minutes... I'm sure he'll remain respected wherever he was previously respected before his pronouncements on podcasts became popular, however I can't help thinking the next tide of innovation will swallow him up into obscurity. fair play to him.

anyhow I think maybe I best shut up until I can provide those facts and figures so beloved by people of a particluar ilk, however 'creatives' like me will no doubt understand my afflection to joy, optimism, that creative freedom offers. yipee