Any Colour You Like

How unfair isn’t it that I start a blog and everything goes topsey turvey. Got a meeting with Rolls Royce tomorrow at 8am (how inconsiderate!) and my project group have decided they need to practice before we leave… Speaking of, they are not pulling any weight and we wouldn’t even have a project if it wasn’t for my massive amount of dedication to the cause. And I still have stack loads of other things to do.

But at least I got an awesome new quickstep routine at dance practice tonight. All sorts of swooshing and charging and drama. Bring on the first comp of the year; actually don’t because it is in only two weeks and I have so much to learn. We are already practicing twelve hours per week and I am not sure there are many more hours we can wring out.

For those of you than need educating, this is a Quickstep. I won’t be quite that good =)

Next post I promise to be more jovial

I personally think this is a very good effort on our part. And it was great until it fell down. But we only lost six bottles out of 498!

498 bottles of beer in the living room, 498 bottles of beer...

And as with the weather as with work for me at the moment. How can it be possible to have three massive presentations in one week and absolutely none for the rest of the year? I wish I was doing a sensible organised degree like physics where the workload never overlaps. Instead I have to be on a course that can’t even timetable my core units so they don’t overlap with each other. I am none to keen on having to decide which lecture to prioritise every Monday and even less keen to get up in the dark mornings in order to make that decision.

But at least one of my presentations is about Steve Jobs and Apple Computer(!). I haven’t had a excuse to talk for England about such a good topic since week three of PrIB computing class, and now in 2008 I have even more ammunition. Did you know for instance that Apple earns well over half of Microsoft’s profits and three quarters of Microsoft’s revenue despite cornering a ‘measly four percent of the market’. If I had a choice between that kind of four percent, or the low margin dregs of the other ninety-something percent then I know which I would choose. The morals are (1) never underestimate your competition, (2) design sells and (3) the public can’t get enough of sexy brushed aluminium.

I guess it had to happen sooner or later. What with the blogosphere taking over the webosphere taking over peoples lives. So I have eventually started a blog too.

But seriously, it is mostly thanks to you guys and how much I enjoy reading about the things you are up to in your daily lives. We don’t see each other nearly enough and I am terrible at staying in touch so I think it is only fair if I give this a try. You never know, I might even find something important to say if I ever get round to doing something really meaningful like creating  a forum to support people’s personal campaigns or getting a real job to solve the energy crisis. Or even just coming up with some classic Dave one-liners.

As it is though you will probably just have to make do with some flashes of insight into my pretty standard over-stressed-have-bitten-off-more-than-I-can-chew life style. And believe me, I say style in the broadest sense of the term!

Album of the month

Much love,
Neil.