Thursday, July 07, 2005
Puts things in perspective...
Let's be clear about this, I'm really not the most athletic of people. Dispite this, even I was interested in the prospect of London getting to host the Olympic games in 2012. I don't want to go. In fact, I don't plan to be working in England by then.
After the excitement of yesterday I settled today and have made pretty good progress in laying out some overview documentation to help plan the migration of a particularly knotty function associated with the "b%$$&y interfaces". I glanced at a news web-site during the morning, so I saw the shocking news from London. A few minutes ago I got a 'phone-call from my wife. She's in Ireland and because she knows I move about so much she tends to worry about what might have happened to me. Of course, I'm in the same scruffy and disreputable state as usual and I was able to reassure her.
The point is, worse things happen all over the place and it is very nice to feel loved even if from time to time it can feel a bit stiffling.
It is very disturbing when terrorists strike. We shall have to see who claims responsibility for this (which always seems to me to be an inappropriate phrase). They exploit the open society in which most of us like to live. A disturbing thought which passed my mind was to ask whether there is any connection between the announcement of the Olympics and the attacks today? I can see that creating the association would lend the attack greater impact in the minds of the attackers. It also creates the disturbing possiblity that there may be an equivalent gang waiting in Paris.
Still, back to "the interfaces". They're paying the bills and life must go on.
After the excitement of yesterday I settled today and have made pretty good progress in laying out some overview documentation to help plan the migration of a particularly knotty function associated with the "b%$$&y interfaces". I glanced at a news web-site during the morning, so I saw the shocking news from London. A few minutes ago I got a 'phone-call from my wife. She's in Ireland and because she knows I move about so much she tends to worry about what might have happened to me. Of course, I'm in the same scruffy and disreputable state as usual and I was able to reassure her.
The point is, worse things happen all over the place and it is very nice to feel loved even if from time to time it can feel a bit stiffling.
It is very disturbing when terrorists strike. We shall have to see who claims responsibility for this (which always seems to me to be an inappropriate phrase). They exploit the open society in which most of us like to live. A disturbing thought which passed my mind was to ask whether there is any connection between the announcement of the Olympics and the attacks today? I can see that creating the association would lend the attack greater impact in the minds of the attackers. It also creates the disturbing possiblity that there may be an equivalent gang waiting in Paris.
Still, back to "the interfaces". They're paying the bills and life must go on.
# posted by tom_gillies @ 12:36 PM 
