Every now and again something happens that puts a contrast between how we used to do things and how stuff happens today. and I'm not talking about a long time in the past either.
An example would be, I can remember when if you wanted to meet up with someone you would agree a time and a place and then you would turn up on time. Not like today with our mobiles and our 'I'm running late' texts.
Anyway the horrible earth quake in NZ was another one of those moments. One of the side effects of living in a city like London is that you get to know people from all over the world. So when some thing like the quake happens the chances you know people effected is quite high and long with it the need for news and to know people are OK.
Fortunately this is were Facebook is golden. By the power of social media everyone connected with the area could post an update or answer a message to say that they and theirs were fine or not even in the area. It gave quick piece of mind to those of us on the other side of the world, who otherwise might not find out details for a very long time.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
69 Hours
Sometimes I wonder what on Earth I'm doing.
I've just finished my first week back after my hols and it was a mental one.
69 hours (normally it would be 40) including some serious late nights and taxis home.
We managed finishes of 8pm, 8:30pm, 12:15am, 03:20am, 11:30pm and another four hours on Sunday! I also managed over 60 quid on taxis.
All this was to build a website for one of our phone clients. They had a new phone being announced on Sunday night at a international conference so a bit of a pressure deadline. Sunday night found me in the office madly trying to fix bugs and get the site up and running before the chairman of the phone company finished talking and told everyone the website address. I just made it! Talk about shaky hands at the end.
Now I have to work out how this expense claim things works and sleep!
Yawn!
I've just finished my first week back after my hols and it was a mental one.
69 hours (normally it would be 40) including some serious late nights and taxis home.
We managed finishes of 8pm, 8:30pm, 12:15am, 03:20am, 11:30pm and another four hours on Sunday! I also managed over 60 quid on taxis.
All this was to build a website for one of our phone clients. They had a new phone being announced on Sunday night at a international conference so a bit of a pressure deadline. Sunday night found me in the office madly trying to fix bugs and get the site up and running before the chairman of the phone company finished talking and told everyone the website address. I just made it! Talk about shaky hands at the end.
Now I have to work out how this expense claim things works and sleep!
Yawn!
Tuesday, February 08, 2011
Still Icy
Second ski trip this time to Corcheval with the Ware Skiers.
Corcheval is very posh in places with Gucci and that sort of shops all over the place. We stay way out of town, up hill, by the slopes for a fast-ish (9am in the boot room, when the body was willing) getaway in the mornings.
Being far from town we didn't do too much going out but the wine and dinner and the hotel bar were just fine.
The skiing was very icy caused a few crash including me twice, once fast on a steep slope and once slow on a rough bit of a boarder cross run. There hadn't been any new snow for a couple of weeks and the weather the whole time was cold and clear. good for the sun tan not so good for the snow conditions. Fortunately the base snow was good so the going was still doable for the whole week.
I really need to wax my skis now before the third trip :-)
Corcheval is very posh in places with Gucci and that sort of shops all over the place. We stay way out of town, up hill, by the slopes for a fast-ish (9am in the boot room, when the body was willing) getaway in the mornings.
Being far from town we didn't do too much going out but the wine and dinner and the hotel bar were just fine.
The skiing was very icy caused a few crash including me twice, once fast on a steep slope and once slow on a rough bit of a boarder cross run. There hadn't been any new snow for a couple of weeks and the weather the whole time was cold and clear. good for the sun tan not so good for the snow conditions. Fortunately the base snow was good so the going was still doable for the whole week.
I really need to wax my skis now before the third trip :-)
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