Morning All,
hope the week hasn't been to stressful for everyone
Here, at Chez Smith, life plods on as normal. We have actually achieved one of the goals of the summer, Liam now has his "Liverpool" bedroom (pictures later when I get time to take any), all that is needed now is a few hours to pull everything form the loft and place everything back in it's proper place - before it gets turned into a "normal teenagers" bedroom -
It has also been a very hard, if hard is quite the correct word, week at work. It's been one of those "complex" weeks, nothing went the way it should.
The main focus of my working week was a "State of the Nation" type Conference at a Hotel in Sleaford. to be honest, I should have been going to another event in Grimsby, but I am day off on that day, and EVERYONE has to go, whether you want to or not, so there I was, driving through the darkness and cold, of a quickly descending Winter, at 07:00 a.m in the morning to make the start at 09:00 (having picked some else up first!!). The only problem with these events in our area tends to be hinged on one thing - Our CST Manager. For anyone who would like to know, a CST manager is, in effect, what other Companies would call an Area / Territorial Manager, and in the scale of things you have the workers (that's ME), my Boss (he's in charge of Our Local Team, usually based on, or around a, Town /City or large district of a City, usually a team or 30 lads and lasses - give or take) and then you have the CST Manager, who , in our case, is in overall charge of all the Teams in the Lincolnshire County area. His "problem" ? - he tends to take over everything and do it his way. That , normally isn't really a problem, but when his boss is there, as one of the main speakers of the event, and then our CST Manager "butts-in" when Matthew was trying to say something.
If it had happened to me, I would have been insulted. The thing is, as well, when our CST Manager has finished, you always tend to feel "depressed". When he makes a point, it always comes over as full of "doom and gloom". The BT way of life is coming to an end - we're all "Dooomed".
To be far to him, I know what he was trying to say. Make us aware of the Competition.
Make us aware that the Telecoms world is changing, evolving
I have no problem with that.
But it's just the way it's done. I think we should be looking at this as an opportunity, a way forward, a "nettle" to be grasped. But "Doom and Gloom"?. It takes several days to become "positive" again, and I did feel for the lads and lasses yet to go
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Now we go to Smudgers' trawl of the Internet's stories
iTunes launched for Windows Apple's hit on line music service iTunes is made available to millions of PC-using fans for the first time.
I must admit, that in actuality, this story is now at least a week old, and the reason I'm posting it now is that I feel "cheated" if thats the correct way to put it. Being a "law abiding" sort of person, and someone wishing to do things the right way, when I heard of stories by which you could download Music Files, by paying a nominal fee, and then everyone gets what they want, but that sort of system was available only on the MAC format, I mumbled something "negative" into my coffee cup, and went back to being a fed-up MP3'er. Then, last week, the above story appeared. Windows users could now have what the MAC user had been able to access for many months - HURRRRRRRAY. So I download the iTunes software, anxiously waiting for the next step.
Then?
Reboot the computer, access the program, click on the shop link, AND?
"iTunes would like to apologise, but due to the information your have supplied, this service is only available in the USA at present" - " OHHHHHH ~@@'$$%%". What have we in the UK done wrong to deserve this. The "Artist on demand" system on Music Match is restricted to the USA only, and I'm starting to think that we, over this side of the pond, don't count for anything
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'Keep cool' over computer hassles People are letting computer problems get to them, potentially damaging their health, a survey suggests.
I know stress gets to people in different ways, but now, they have proved that your computer is harmful to your health. Talk about tell us something we already knew. How many of us have avoided low flying CRT's which have been thrown in frustration - 
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Burrell 'saddened' by Princes' attack Former royal butler Paul Burrell says he will not apologise for writing a book on Princess Diana, despite criticism from Princes William and Harry.
I think this, at least in the UK, one of the saddest things that I have seem this week. Princess Diana seems to attract as many "Conspiracy" theories as does the the deaths of many other "Famous" people, but I think it is the apparent betrayal that's probably the most obvious "stab in the back". On the evening news last night, they showed an Interview with Paul Burrell, not long after Diana had been killed, saying that, in effect, any information, any conversation,and probably more pertinent, any correspondence, he had with, or from Diana, would be their secret, their private confidence. But now we see him using the "premonition" letter as a way of advertising his book - what a creep. And in all this, until now, Diana's Sons, the Princes', have kept a dignified silence. But it could only be for so long, and yesterday it came. A Statement, read on their behalf, talking of betrayal amongst other things. Their lives are always in the Public Eye, 24/7. A life they never had a chance to refuse, that is just not an option. They loose their mother in such a Public, "suspicious" way.Revelations about this and that over the intervening years, and now this?I'm not a Royalist as such (but the thought of "President Blair" gives me the shivers), but no-one deserves to grow up , suffering the loss of any parent, in this way. Why doesn't Burrell just leave it be?
Well That's all for now
God bless
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