Story Telling
Well it is a busy day for me. I have to re-design some output from one of my systems. We're going to try a landscape approach. I'm actually still waiting for all the designs to come in- but I've got somethings to be trying out.
I have to go and pay in an expenses cheque which is much needed since I have zero pence, however we get paid on Monday, week early, (yay I won't be poor anymore) and most of it will be gone by Tuesday, the downside of this early fiscal injection is that I then must wait five weeks until the next pay cheque. In between I have to buy flights to Poland for a stag weekend.
Since it is the school holidays the drive in has been much easier (How that effects my opinion on the congestion charge I'm unsure) - and we get to leave slightly earlier, despite that, so far this week I've been leaving later everyday. I'm determined to get gone on time today so I can attend the dry cleaners with one of my suits, I don't get them done too often - as it can damage them. Another bonus of the kids not being in over summer is that I don't have to come in suited a booted, I still look mighty cool though.
The weather has started to become more consistent too after several days of mixtures of sun and rain each day is starting well this week. That isn't to say it hasn't been consistent so far this summer... it has... consistently wet.
Whilst driving in I have had the pleasure of my Radio 4 recently. This morning I was amused by two items, not the items directly more so small artefacts that came out of them. The first at 0818 was at the abrupt end of an interview with the chairman of the BBC trustees - a technical glitch which the presenter attributed to the interviewee being in New Zealand and using "one of those things called Skype" no I remember using Skype 4 or 5 years ago and being amazed how it just cut right through the network making really simple voice chat online a reality - something that even my brother and my mother could manage. My amusement came because in this age when us online folk are Skype'ing away with gay abandon and using Google maps to find our directions on our iPhones... the mass media companies are finally cottoning on... Sky News uses Google maps, or MS Maps depending what mood they're in. The BBC was using Google Earth to demonstrate where UK flooding was happening some weeks ago and now Skype popping up.
The second was the reappearance of someone whose media career I thought was dead in the water. A one Jeffery Archer. Despite being a convicted criminal I am fond of Lord Archer - a terrific rogue. The article was concerned with twists at the end of tales... Lord Archer's point was that great writers don't need to use a twist to engage the reader they have many other tools in their arsenal - however good story tellers often use the twist at the end of a tale to engage the reader, to make it worth their while. I can whole heartily agree Lord Archer is not a good writer... but he is a jolly good story teller.
I have to go and pay in an expenses cheque which is much needed since I have zero pence, however we get paid on Monday, week early, (yay I won't be poor anymore) and most of it will be gone by Tuesday, the downside of this early fiscal injection is that I then must wait five weeks until the next pay cheque. In between I have to buy flights to Poland for a stag weekend.
Since it is the school holidays the drive in has been much easier (How that effects my opinion on the congestion charge I'm unsure) - and we get to leave slightly earlier, despite that, so far this week I've been leaving later everyday. I'm determined to get gone on time today so I can attend the dry cleaners with one of my suits, I don't get them done too often - as it can damage them. Another bonus of the kids not being in over summer is that I don't have to come in suited a booted, I still look mighty cool though.
The weather has started to become more consistent too after several days of mixtures of sun and rain each day is starting well this week. That isn't to say it hasn't been consistent so far this summer... it has... consistently wet.
Whilst driving in I have had the pleasure of my Radio 4 recently. This morning I was amused by two items, not the items directly more so small artefacts that came out of them. The first at 0818 was at the abrupt end of an interview with the chairman of the BBC trustees - a technical glitch which the presenter attributed to the interviewee being in New Zealand and using "one of those things called Skype" no I remember using Skype 4 or 5 years ago and being amazed how it just cut right through the network making really simple voice chat online a reality - something that even my brother and my mother could manage. My amusement came because in this age when us online folk are Skype'ing away with gay abandon and using Google maps to find our directions on our iPhones... the mass media companies are finally cottoning on... Sky News uses Google maps, or MS Maps depending what mood they're in. The BBC was using Google Earth to demonstrate where UK flooding was happening some weeks ago and now Skype popping up.
The second was the reappearance of someone whose media career I thought was dead in the water. A one Jeffery Archer. Despite being a convicted criminal I am fond of Lord Archer - a terrific rogue. The article was concerned with twists at the end of tales... Lord Archer's point was that great writers don't need to use a twist to engage the reader they have many other tools in their arsenal - however good story tellers often use the twist at the end of a tale to engage the reader, to make it worth their while. I can whole heartily agree Lord Archer is not a good writer... but he is a jolly good story teller.
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