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August 25, 2009

jA 380 Instruction Manual - Coming soon

Filed under: Time Management — Tags: , , , , — admin @ 5:06 am

It’s just coming up to 5 am, and I still haven’t managed to get to sleep yet, despite feeling tired and crashing out around 10pm. Sometimes my mind and body just don’t match up, so I think I’m going to fall to sleep, only to suddenly find a whole load of ideas buzzing around my head looking for somewhere to fly to. When I sit down at a desk, I can always stack up any ideas on a quick to do list and manage them accordingly - without pen and paper to hand this isn’t so easy.

I’ve had a concept going for a couple of years to relate each day to a flight, and to include 7 principle procedures to make everything gel together, but I’m some way off from getting these firing on all cylinders - so this post is one of those public reminders to self to get it done, and to create a proper ‘jA 380 Instruction Manual’ for myself & other like minded people.

The key seven points are:

Ø Check In - focus on key priorities for the day - should be pre-planned ‘destination’.

Ø Re-fuelling - eat properly, starting with plenty of fresh fruit.

Ø Take Off - channel creative ideas into getting the most important and urgent things done first.

Ø Cruise - sit back, relax, and get on with the rest of the day.

Ø In Flight Entertainment - make sure there’s plenty of fun each and every day, ideally during aswell as after work.

Ø Landing - wind down properly - switch off.

Ø Maintenance - keep body and mind in good shape at all times - get plenty of mental and physical exercise.

 

To be continued….

In the words of Truman Burbank - good night, good morning, and incase I don’t see you - good day aswell!

Why I’ve still got a Lockerbie in my bonnet.

I’ll start with the #Rainman stuff first - travel by air and rail should be the safest means of getting around, but the small Scottish town of Lockerbie, which should otherwise be known for delicious Mature Cheddar Cheese, has the macabre history of being the site of horrific train and plane crashes. Except of course that, whoever was to blame, the downing of Pan Am flight 103 was no accident. In terms of terrorism top trumps, the image of the ‘Maid of the Seas’ cockpit nose cone turned on its side is perhaps second only to the horrors of 9/11.

So why is Scotland’s nationalist First Minister so proud to release the man convicted for this atrocity? What I really dislike about this debacle is the notion that he was released because there were a lot of people who thought he was innocent.

That just isn’t the way justice should work - the principle of innocent until proven guilty works the other way round, namely that a convicted man should remain as such until there is a body of evidence presented to a court to prove otherwise.

Instead, we have got a complete muddying of the waters between innocence v. guilt and compassion v. justice. Throw in the whole question of Peter Mandelson’s deals regarding Libyan oil and the inevitable flag waving return to Tripoli, on a flight numbered 103 just to rub it all in, and we really have made a complete laughing stock of both British and Scottish justice.

Considering all this, it really is a great shame that it should be seen as a symbol of Scottish pride to let this man free, especially when the Scottish legal system has so much to be proud of, not least the concept of a Not Proven verdict.

Much as though I really don’t like bringing any more attention to terrorist attacks on transport networks than is necessary, I really do think that it is just a tad rich for Americans to be calling for boycotts of Scotland and the UK because of Al Megrahi ’s release - as if such a boycott would bring the man back to prison. There are still many questions which need answering, perhaps most importantly from Gordon Brown with respect to where he stands on this issue, but I can think of two words to say in response to American boycott calls - Guantanamo and Bay.

August 11, 2009

James v Thomas The Tank Engine

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I quote (from Wikipedia):

In the stories, James crashed on his first day into a field. It was blamed on the wooden brake blocks he was given. James has a reputation for being naughty. Some of the incidents include breaking a coach brake pipe and needing a passenger’s bootlace to fix it, crashing into tar wagons, and spinning on the turntable. Despite his behaviour, James is an engine proud of his red paint (err, I think you mean Sky Blue, ed) and is generally considered to be a really useful engine. He is similar in size to Edward and is one of the few engines allowed to pull the Express when Gordon is away.

Enough said!

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