Post-weekend blues

I miss Ibiza so much this morning; the sun, the chilled out atmosphere - why is it no one has been able to recapture that in this country? Bristol isn't exactly a small city yet most of the clubs are god-awful!

Perhaps that's the point of places like Ibiza, even at it's most commercial the overall experience is hard to recapture.

Chrome

In Google's bid for ahem world domination they've released Chrome. http://www.google.com/chrome

It's a new browser. I've had a little play with it and it seems pretty basic at this point; lots of IE features I would like to see like a links bar. (If this feature exists I don't intuitively know how to switch it on). The search/address bar is really good (it's linked to google and is all in one solution).

It'll be awhile I'm sure before it becomes widely used enough to warrant adoption in our QA testing but it's interesting to see the birth of a new Browser and certainly worth everyone having a look.

Internet Explorer 8 is also on it's way, http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta/default.aspx but I've not been able to get it working yet. It'll be a good day when that launches :-)

Google is 10

Google has turned 10 and the BBC has played a brilliant homage to it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7598527.stm

Ibiza

I'm back from my holiday in Ibiza, I had an amazing time.

I will be going back

Do better

I had a bit of an internal chat today about me. All very complimentary (of course) about how I'm very good at grasping top level stuff, seeing the bigger picture, understanding business needs, requirements, process. Of course (as is the nature of a sandwich) you have to put some criticism in, and it's that which is ultimately going to be the barrier to the pay rise you're after.

The advice I was given, and it's good advice. Is to focus on the granular detail and not just be aware of the top level. It's good to have respect, but you need to have trust too.

Good ways to manage this is to keep a prioritised list, (which I do) but make sure that the small stuff you deem unimportant isn't left so long it becomes important.

A late one once in awhile is a good thing, an extra 10 minutes a day to knock a few things out can save you a heap load of time.

Manage expectations, don't forget that your colleagues are "internal customers".

Madonna

Madonna was AMAZING - check her out

Recession

If you're confused as me about what a Recession is then read this - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7495340.stm

Now don't you feel better? I really do think the media has a lot to answer for. It sounds like the economy is driving itself into a recession partly by media attention. Of course environmental concerns (food scacity, resource scacity) are also important factors e.g. cost of food, fuel. The fact is, shit costs more.

I say grow stuff at home, recycle, be careful, save, be sensible, spend, enjoy, get what you need, cut what you don't need, buy a bike, cycle to work, go to the gym, drink less - have a BBQ. Don't worry.

World famous

It's been awhile since I've posted here, but why am I not world famous yet for my words of wisdom? Possibly because there are millions of others with the same idea.

I had best write something controversial to get noticed.