A New Daily

Today was my first experience of the new daily newspaper 'i', brought to us by The Independent. It's basically a condensed version of he Independent, sort of like the Metro, which rips articles from the previous day's papers and puts them in one paper for commuters to read for free. At least, that's the impression it gave to me.
It was an easy read, I browsed and I find more than one article particularly interesting. In today's edition was an article critiquing the new film The Social Network, or more to the point, critiquing the society Mark Zuckerberg has created: 'They are forging a culture in which words are things you vomit out onto a keyboard - because without the keyboard, and the screen at the other end of it, the words are nothing - and one in which an experience isn't real until it's been ratified by a photo, or a tweet, or an "update" that your "friends" can gasp at.' (Christina Patterson, My View, 27/10/10)

She has a point. Why do we sit at our computer's, updating and tweeting, almost as if we have nothing else in our lives? It is so unheard of for someone NOT to have Facebook, and even people who don't see the point in Twitter are still signing up because their friends are encouraging them to do so. There are millions of blogs just like this one, that document the writer's life because they are so desperate to write it all down and make the experience real. Whatever happened to writing in a journal or diary? Was it just a predated version of the blog? They were more private, but now we feel free to write our hopes, our fears, our tears of sadness and joy on the internet for all to access. Is that evolution?

The Social Network was well-written, well-directed, well-acted and well-edited. I doubt it will win an Oscar, but it will be nominated for awards because it tackles something that everyone is involved more and more in, and people like films that tackle "real issues" (although the issue here is probably whether or not Facebook was a stolen idea and how the man behind it is an "asshole", rather than how our culture and society has developed and moulded around the Internet and its endless possibilities).

I will be seeing Paranormal Activity 2 tomorrow. I was extremely scared by the first one. And it's taken some persuasion to go and see the sequel. But I am currently reading Feel the Fear... and Do It Anyway, so I'm doing it anyway.

Simon Cowell is God.

A remark I made today at the car boot sale I was selling at led my mother to think I had a crush on him. I don't, it's just that I am acutely aware of just how powerful the man is.
According to wikianswers, he's worth £112 million.
Although the Daily Mail, quoting from the Sunday Time's Rich List, claims it is £165million.

Is it wrong of someone like myself to wish to possess such fortune and wealth? Ultimately, money is often respect. And I do crave respect.

My mother has also seen fit to get behind Ann Widdecombe (not literally) in her latest pursuit of Strictly Come Dancing success. Also, she is anti Paul Daniels, because of his & his wife's current outing on a marriage behind the scenes show, and Gavin Henson, because we should be behind "our Charlotte". (we're not Welsh, we've never met her, so I'm not sure how she's "our" Charlotte, except that she's also female.)

I went to see Buried at the cinema on Thursday. Claustrophobic doesn't even describe it. It's really very good. The editing, and the camera work, and the acting and storyline all pull together and allow for the coffin-location not to get boring. Although the frustration you of course feel for the character Paul can be nowhere near the the frustration he feels. And the near-elation at the end when you so desperately hope it'll work out ok, but deep down you know it can't happen, met my expectations.
I can't see how it will do well in DVD sales though. Possibly it'll find a market in Ryan Reynolds fans, those who didn't make it to see it at the cinema, and those who quite like the knew genre of Iraq/Afghanistan war films, that focus on the mental and psychological effects of war, as opposed to the action and the death.
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Today was a good day at work. In fact, more like a great day. I enjoyed it immensely, and hope that the job continues this way. I have a line management meeting next week so I will mention that I like it.

I mostly have some photos I wanted to share with you.

The first one is a baby having been defeated by a dinosaur. I came across the carnage in the ELC in Wimbledon. Personally, I think it was probably a fair fight, and that the best man/creature won.


Second is Barack Obama appearing on an assessment I had to take to check my workstation health & safety. During the online assessment I learned what makes a well-organised workstation, how to keep my back healthy and that your monitor to be an arm's length away from you. Barack is demonstrating that often you need to use your mobile devices to keep updated on your work and in contact with people. There are some simple safety tips to make sure that your use of mobile devices leaves you healthy and uninjured. This includes not using it a lot.

I had to take a test at the end. I got 100%.





And the last picture is of some graffiti/wall art I discovered down a pedestrian walkway, sort of a short-cut but not quite a short cut to & from work.

I think it's lovely, and while it is still light at half 4, I intend to walk down there everyday after work.
It is located in Sutton, between Sutton Common Road and Hallmead Road, and it is called Coombe Walk.



That is all for now. Ciao.

The First Step on the Rigid Search

Finally I have managed to get Blogger to work. I think it's a sign that it doesn't work on the macs at work.
I created this to learn how Blogger works. Now I have decided to see what it's made of. And to see what I'm made of.


Before I go out and deliver charity bags, which is a) pocket money, and b) good exercise, I am trying to find out the news on the BBC. Except so far all they are talking about is the Papal visit.
Which I really don't care about. Because I am not religious, let alone Catholic, and I am not in any way racist or homophobic. Plus I am a woman. And I might not be keen on children, but that doesn't excuse the behaviour they covered up.



Top news story? Spending cuts have gotten boring then? Have Pakistan's floods receded?
Personally, I think this should not be top story on the website AND get the first 5-10 minutes of television news coverage.

Maybe I'm missing a trick by not being Catholic/religious. But as far as I'm concerned if I wanted to be inferior in an organisation, I'd rather get married. And that's saying something, coming from me.