BBC NEWS UK The best 'and finallies' of 2005
This is something that just caught my eye, and I said to myself that would go great in the notebook blog thing that you do, so here it is, not sure how long the page will be around for.
So its going to be just a bit interesting just to see how long it will last.
31 December, 2005
Odd Thoughts from a High Desk
Odd Thoughts from a High Desk
this is my other blog that I do, dut as you can see for the blog on 31.12.2005 I talk about the problems that I am having with it. So I will have to make a decsion in 2006 on which blog site and software to use.
this is my other blog that I do, dut as you can see for the blog on 31.12.2005 I talk about the problems that I am having with it. So I will have to make a decsion in 2006 on which blog site and software to use.
beatmaka.com > Music > Recent Releases
beatmaka.com > Music > Recent Releases
Just a link to one of my fav music sites, ther always appears to be some very different music, it tends to be much better than what's in the UK charts.
Just a link to one of my fav music sites, ther always appears to be some very different music, it tends to be much better than what's in the UK charts.
30 December, 2005
Miss May
Nice Picture Number 2
These are two more pictures that I have found on my hard disc, I still do not know who the lady is all that I do know is that she is the same lady as the earlier pic that I uploaded the other day to this blog.
I have just found out that I can not upload 2 pictures at the same time using the blog this feature of pisca, I don't know if I have done some thing wrong or if that is the way that the software is supposed to work. Any way I have just uploaded the second picture that I tried to upload earlier.
I have just found out that I can not upload 2 pictures at the same time using the blog this feature of pisca, I don't know if I have done some thing wrong or if that is the way that the software is supposed to work. Any way I have just uploaded the second picture that I tried to upload earlier.
Nice Pictures
Greenland Part 2
Found yet another picture that I took on my way out to the USA in Oc/Nov 2005. This is Greenland from 30 000 feet, and as I said in the last post it was cold. One thing that I have just seen which I did not see before is that some how or other managed to get a glacier in the picture, from the looks of it some melting has gone on and if you look real hard you can see that the Glacier is just not as big as it used to be. Is this my evidance of global warming, I don't thinks so, it could just be showing that there was not much snow or that the clounds were not as think and the sun has managed to melt more snow and ice this year, so perhaps if I was to photograh the same glacier again in say a year or two we would then know what is happing. Apart from that its a nice picture espically when you think the plane was moving at 500 mph and I had to take the picture throuth then plane windows.
Greenland
I think this is Greenland, the reason that I am not sure is that we were on a plane that did not have one of them small screens which show you where you are and all that sort of stuff. I can tell you that it looks cold, very cold. Mind you the plan was at 30 ooo feet and it was only -60 centigrade, so not sure which was colder.
SCI-FI-LONDON
SCI-FI-LONDON
Found this interview with Dirk Maggs while googling around the internet like you do. The real reason for the Googling was to see where my websites are when you do a serch, I am glad to say that my sites are still first :) which is nice, but then as my websites are on very specalist subjects its not that surprizing that they are no 1.
Found this interview with Dirk Maggs while googling around the internet like you do. The real reason for the Googling was to see where my websites are when you do a serch, I am glad to say that my sites are still first :) which is nice, but then as my websites are on very specalist subjects its not that surprizing that they are no 1.
29 December, 2005
Books
so I have a load of book tokens and there is a sale on in the book shops in Guildford, yes you can see whats going to happen can't you? Give me an hour in a well stocked book shop, well you can guess the rest, I'm in heaven in the end I come out with six books that would have cost me 60 quid, but due to the sale and one of the offers of 3 books for the price of 2 I am out of pocket to the tune of 30 quid. I must admit that all the books are ones that I do want to read and that several of them I have been waiting until they came in a paperback version. For some reason some of the books take more than a year to turn up in paperback, why this shoild be so I just do not know, but at least I have got the books that I wanted. So at this time I have eight books in the stack to read, which is good
Man Conquers Space: Website Updates
Man Conquers Space: Website Updates This is a website that I have been looking at over the last few years. I really want to see the completed film, espically as I have followed the ups and downs of the films progress( or lack of it) over the years. Some of the stills from the film really do look good. The film does appear to still be in production but no clue is given as to how long it will be before the film see's the light of day. Even when that happens I don't have a clue as to how I shall get a copy of the DVD or Cd, but I shall have a real good go and see what happens.
28 December, 2005
shalommyfriend
shalommyfriend As is my want I did a search of blogs that google has searched and I found this page
TKF Main Index
TKF Main IndexHere is another one of my websites that I do. As you can see it one that also needs updating
Dirk Maggs Radio Producer/Director Credits 2006
Dirk Maggs Radio Producer/Director Credits 2006
This is the start of a very long job where every page of the Dirk Maggs website has to be updated, all by hand as every page is handcoded, why? It's a good question, the simple answer is that the site is very old and the other answer is that I don't know any programming and I wanted a site that would work on almost any machine that can access the internet, arn't I a real sweety, the real rerason is I don't have a clue how else to run the site with static pages.
The good news is that I will not have to edit every single page again until next December! great or what! So only another 200 odd pages to go then..
This is the start of a very long job where every page of the Dirk Maggs website has to be updated, all by hand as every page is handcoded, why? It's a good question, the simple answer is that the site is very old and the other answer is that I don't know any programming and I wanted a site that would work on almost any machine that can access the internet, arn't I a real sweety, the real rerason is I don't have a clue how else to run the site with static pages.
The good news is that I will not have to edit every single page again until next December! great or what! So only another 200 odd pages to go then..
27 December, 2005
Dirk Maggs His Chronology
Dirk Maggs His Chronology ha ha Just playingf, wonder how many items I could do in a day on this blog.
U571 Lies, Dam Lies, Hollywood! James Follett
U571 Lies, Dam Lies, Hollywood! James FollettThis is a page that is from my James Follett website, this page is the most accessed on the site and has been so since it was put on the web. The strange thing is that the film that caused this page to be made was not all that good and it has rather discovered from view, and some how or other it managed this trick all on its own, which is quite a feat don't you think? There have been over the years a good response to this page, and that is one of the reasons that it has and will stay on the site. The other reason is to make sure that everything some one searches for U571 thay can get this page which will tell them and show them what is real and what is a story made up to make money for the entertainment industry in Hollywood.
Main Page - Maggsium
Main Page - Maggsium
As this is my notebook here is the book mark for my wiki that I am working on. It goes with out saying that the wiki is on my Fav director Dirk Maggs, the idea in the end eg in 2006 is to shutdown the Dirk maggs website and just have the wiki. One thing that I have had to do is set it up to only allow new content by registered users, as some people out there love to spam anything that has new or orginal content in it, why this is so I have no idea, its just one of them things I suppose. The current wiki is version 3 version 2 which was really getting well with content had a bad time and the database got broke somehow, and there is no way to save it it is still readable but you can't edit the content, which does make it just a bit of a white elephant, when wiki database version 3 is done I shall delete version 2 from the web server, so that will be some time in 2006 at the very slow rate that I am adding content to version 3.
As this is my notebook here is the book mark for my wiki that I am working on. It goes with out saying that the wiki is on my Fav director Dirk Maggs, the idea in the end eg in 2006 is to shutdown the Dirk maggs website and just have the wiki. One thing that I have had to do is set it up to only allow new content by registered users, as some people out there love to spam anything that has new or orginal content in it, why this is so I have no idea, its just one of them things I suppose. The current wiki is version 3 version 2 which was really getting well with content had a bad time and the database got broke somehow, and there is no way to save it it is still readable but you can't edit the content, which does make it just a bit of a white elephant, when wiki database version 3 is done I shall delete version 2 from the web server, so that will be some time in 2006 at the very slow rate that I am adding content to version 3.
James Follett Computer Titles
James Follett Computer Titles Did you ever play any of these games, I would love to hear from you if you did, also what you thought of them.
I suspect that I am now getting just a bit carried away with these new tools that I have found. But as this is my Blog/notebook I can do what I want with the pages.
I suspect that I am now getting just a bit carried away with these new tools that I have found. But as this is my Blog/notebook I can do what I want with the pages.
James Follett Author
James Follett Author
This is my James Follett website that has been going since 1996 ish, not sure of the exact date at this time, i just thought I would see if some of the tools Blogger give you work. I know the picture side of things is working, you only have to look at what happend yesterday!
This is my James Follett website that has been going since 1996 ish, not sure of the exact date at this time, i just thought I would see if some of the tools Blogger give you work. I know the picture side of things is working, you only have to look at what happend yesterday!
26 December, 2005
BBC NEWS | Technology | 2006 full of broadband promise
BBC NEWS | Technology | 2006 full of broadband promise
This is something that would be nice, more speed, for some reason the cable companies of this world apper to be falling behind the telcos of this world, for some strange reason I thought that it would have been the oppiste, ho hum strange old world we live in.
This is something that would be nice, more speed, for some reason the cable companies of this world apper to be falling behind the telcos of this world, for some strange reason I thought that it would have been the oppiste, ho hum strange old world we live in.
Prepare for Go
Audio Renaissance.com
Audio Renaissance.com
This is a page I have found on some of the work my fav radio voice has done, and it tells you her name.
This is a page I have found on some of the work my fav radio voice has done, and it tells you her name.
Mistake
I tried earler to get this pic that i like on to this blog site of mine, everything appeared to work, but when I looked later on it had not worked for some reason so I am trying again to see if this will work.
As I said last time I just love the bright colours and the contrast, the persons legs are nice, and no I do not know who it is and I still can not find out where I got the pic from. Yes most &*&^**
As I said last time I just love the bright colours and the contrast, the persons legs are nice, and no I do not know who it is and I still can not find out where I got the pic from. Yes most &*&^**
Another Pic
MissyB
Who is The Person?
Odd Thoughts From a High Desk
Odd Thoughts From a High Desk
Just seeing if you can blog your own blog site, why not some one must have treid it before, oh and I found this stuff which made me laugh for a second or two.
· How come only car keys are the only keys with teeth on both sides?
· Since bread is square, then why is sandwich meat round?
· Why is it the TWELVE days of Christmas when there is only one day of Christmas?
· When something's funny why is it called a "knee-slapper" when you actually slap your thigh?
· Why is it that when babies are born they only weigh like 7 lbs yet the mom weighs 30 lbs more?
· Since a running back runs forward, why is he called a running back?
· If you die and you have a broken leg do they take the cast off?
Well still not too sure if this blog software is working correctly, and I don't like the skin that this blog has and i want a new one but have yet to work out how you change it.
Just seeing if you can blog your own blog site, why not some one must have treid it before, oh and I found this stuff which made me laugh for a second or two.
· How come only car keys are the only keys with teeth on both sides?
· Since bread is square, then why is sandwich meat round?
· Why is it the TWELVE days of Christmas when there is only one day of Christmas?
· When something's funny why is it called a "knee-slapper" when you actually slap your thigh?
· Why is it that when babies are born they only weigh like 7 lbs yet the mom weighs 30 lbs more?
· Since a running back runs forward, why is he called a running back?
· If you die and you have a broken leg do they take the cast off?
Well still not too sure if this blog software is working correctly, and I don't like the skin that this blog has and i want a new one but have yet to work out how you change it.
Generation Star Wars
Generation Star Wars
What you find when doing a search on the net for Dirk maggs
What you find when doing a search on the net for Dirk maggs
25 December, 2005
David Williams Websites
David Williams Websites
This is my main page with the main websites that I have, on another page are the other websites that I do.
This is my main page with the main websites that I have, on another page are the other websites that I do.
Odd Thoughts From a High Desk
Odd Thoughts From a High Desk
This stuff is doing my head in, and why am I doing this on the 25th don't i have a life
This stuff is doing my head in, and why am I doing this on the 25th don't i have a life
17 October, 2005
Citrus
As you may or may not know I have a separate website that has all my writing on. The site has been going for several years and is coming on nicely thank you.
Citrus
Anyway what I was about to say was that one part of the site deals with my citrus fruits book, which has been a project that I have been doing for some time now, it must be some time, as the book has got to version 5a. Well that's not 100% true as on the site the last published version is 5. On the computer is version 5a which was started some time late last year and was basically some corrections to version 5 and some new pictures that I had found.
Version 6
Well for some reason that I have yet to work out I have been doing some more research and the result is that version 5a is now most defiantly version 6. I can say this as I have added a lot more information, mainly on different varieties of some of the citrus fruits that I did not know very much about. If anything the additions could be more than 25% more than version 5 or 5a.
Publishing
Now we come to the part that goes to make life interesting and that is what am I going to do next, do I freeze the book as it is and publish it as version 6 or do I carry on to such and such date and then publish? I have yet to make my mind up which way to go, but I do know that one way or another I will have a version 6 I just don't know if I am going to get it done before the end of 2005.
Citrus
Anyway what I was about to say was that one part of the site deals with my citrus fruits book, which has been a project that I have been doing for some time now, it must be some time, as the book has got to version 5a. Well that's not 100% true as on the site the last published version is 5. On the computer is version 5a which was started some time late last year and was basically some corrections to version 5 and some new pictures that I had found.
Version 6
Well for some reason that I have yet to work out I have been doing some more research and the result is that version 5a is now most defiantly version 6. I can say this as I have added a lot more information, mainly on different varieties of some of the citrus fruits that I did not know very much about. If anything the additions could be more than 25% more than version 5 or 5a.
Publishing
Now we come to the part that goes to make life interesting and that is what am I going to do next, do I freeze the book as it is and publish it as version 6 or do I carry on to such and such date and then publish? I have yet to make my mind up which way to go, but I do know that one way or another I will have a version 6 I just don't know if I am going to get it done before the end of 2005.
13 October, 2005
"Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell"
Finally after nearly 3 weeks of reading at dinner times only I have finished a book that I enjoyed very much. Even better the book which comes in at 1006 pages only cost me 3.73 as Tesco were doing one of there top ten book offers.
Book
The name of the book is "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell" written by Susanna Clarke the first thing that got me is that this book is her first novel, and wow what a novel, I have to admit here and now that when I first saw the book in hard back I was not too sure if it was my kind of book. But I am glad that I did decided to invest 3.73 as it's money well spent I had nearly 3 weeks of great entertainment what more could you ask. As an author she now has the task of proving to everyone that she is not a one book wonder, I hope she is not as I want to know what happens next, in fact I have the feeling that she does as well.
Film, Radio?
This is a book that I think could be adapted to radio as a series and it would work real well, it would need some good casting and a director who can get his or her head around the whole of the story. As a film I suspect that a lot of the depth and richness that make the book so good would be lost which is a pity, but I think that is due to the medium of film and the fact that a book is always much richer and deeper in depth than a film can ever be.
Book Two?
I have tried to find out if she has started or nearly finished book two but so far the answers have been unanswered, which is sad, so I have allowed myself and told myself that if she does get a new book out in 2006 it will be late 2006 or early 2007 before I will get chance to read it, perhaps by then something in another medium will have turned up who knows, lets hope so.
My mood:
bouncy
distressed
enthralled
relaxed
satisfied
thoughtful
Book
The name of the book is "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell" written by Susanna Clarke the first thing that got me is that this book is her first novel, and wow what a novel, I have to admit here and now that when I first saw the book in hard back I was not too sure if it was my kind of book. But I am glad that I did decided to invest 3.73 as it's money well spent I had nearly 3 weeks of great entertainment what more could you ask. As an author she now has the task of proving to everyone that she is not a one book wonder, I hope she is not as I want to know what happens next, in fact I have the feeling that she does as well.
Film, Radio?
This is a book that I think could be adapted to radio as a series and it would work real well, it would need some good casting and a director who can get his or her head around the whole of the story. As a film I suspect that a lot of the depth and richness that make the book so good would be lost which is a pity, but I think that is due to the medium of film and the fact that a book is always much richer and deeper in depth than a film can ever be.
Book Two?
I have tried to find out if she has started or nearly finished book two but so far the answers have been unanswered, which is sad, so I have allowed myself and told myself that if she does get a new book out in 2006 it will be late 2006 or early 2007 before I will get chance to read it, perhaps by then something in another medium will have turned up who knows, lets hope so.
My mood:
bouncy
distressed
enthralled
relaxed
satisfied
thoughtful
12 October, 2005
Nanofiber Main Product Page
Nanofiber Main Product Page
As you can see some nano fibres already exsist but non of them are like mine.
As you can see some nano fibres already exsist but non of them are like mine.
David Williams Websites
Great Ideas II
As you can tell, sometimes I use this page as a notebook were I can leave my ideas that I have so that at some stage or time in the future I can look back at them and then decided if the idea is worth spending more time on. Most of the ideas dont go anywhere e.g they don not lead to anything else other than and entry here in this note book. But sometimes the idea is worth looking at again and so the entry is a second look at an earlier idea.
Idea No 2
The basic idea is why can't you have rain water goods made in such a way that they will generate electricity?
Nano Fibre
The idea is that nano fibres are placed into the rain water goods at time of manufacturing, and they by some technique that I don't yet know of, if its at all possible the electricity generated can be channeled in such a way that it can be used to reduce the running costs of the building that the rain water goods are attached to.
Rain Water Goods
You may ask what are rain water goods and the simple answer to that question is that rain water goods are things like gutters and drain pipe work, it could also be I suppose the roof material as well, but not normally.
Problem One
The very first problem with this great idea of mine is that Nano Fibre is something that at this time does not yet exist. It may be a product that will get made sometime in the future if such a thing is possible. One thing is for certain if such a product does get made then someone is going to get very rich indeed. The other thing that is also certain is that nano fibre will exist in more than one form as it will end up being tailored for different uses and the different operating conditions that it will have to operate in. I suppose the other and that is the last thing is that the very first examples of nano fibre won't be as efficient as the later examples and the later examples will end up costing much less money as manufactures learn how to improve the process and get better production techniques in place. Its possible that lawsuits and all that sort of stuff will also happen as people realise that there is real big money to be made in using nano fibres.
Something To Think About
I have the feeling that there are more uses for nano fibres but at this time I just can't think of any more of them so when I do think of any more uses I will put them in this notebook.
My mood:
amused
bouncy
creative
ecstatic
enthralled
exhausted
geeky
grateful
nerdy
optimistic
rejuvenated
relaxed
satisfied
thoughtful
As you can tell, sometimes I use this page as a notebook were I can leave my ideas that I have so that at some stage or time in the future I can look back at them and then decided if the idea is worth spending more time on. Most of the ideas dont go anywhere e.g they don not lead to anything else other than and entry here in this note book. But sometimes the idea is worth looking at again and so the entry is a second look at an earlier idea.
Idea No 2
The basic idea is why can't you have rain water goods made in such a way that they will generate electricity?
Nano Fibre
The idea is that nano fibres are placed into the rain water goods at time of manufacturing, and they by some technique that I don't yet know of, if its at all possible the electricity generated can be channeled in such a way that it can be used to reduce the running costs of the building that the rain water goods are attached to.
Rain Water Goods
You may ask what are rain water goods and the simple answer to that question is that rain water goods are things like gutters and drain pipe work, it could also be I suppose the roof material as well, but not normally.
Problem One
The very first problem with this great idea of mine is that Nano Fibre is something that at this time does not yet exist. It may be a product that will get made sometime in the future if such a thing is possible. One thing is for certain if such a product does get made then someone is going to get very rich indeed. The other thing that is also certain is that nano fibre will exist in more than one form as it will end up being tailored for different uses and the different operating conditions that it will have to operate in. I suppose the other and that is the last thing is that the very first examples of nano fibre won't be as efficient as the later examples and the later examples will end up costing much less money as manufactures learn how to improve the process and get better production techniques in place. Its possible that lawsuits and all that sort of stuff will also happen as people realise that there is real big money to be made in using nano fibres.
Something To Think About
I have the feeling that there are more uses for nano fibres but at this time I just can't think of any more of them so when I do think of any more uses I will put them in this notebook.
My mood:
amused
bouncy
creative
ecstatic
enthralled
exhausted
geeky
grateful
nerdy
optimistic
rejuvenated
relaxed
satisfied
thoughtful
11 October, 2005
Random Blog
Right the idea is to use this blog to record my thoughts on any websites that catch my eye.
Blog RIP?
Would you like to know why there have been no new comments in this blog here? apart from the fact that I know run my own blog software on my own bit of the internet. Well its simple really, honest.
Well I lost not only my login name but also my password, now normally loosing one means you can find the other, but when you loose both well, the results are not pretty.
I am still going to keep my main blog going, but use this one for them other blog bits and bobs now that I have found both my username and password.
Well I lost not only my login name but also my password, now normally loosing one means you can find the other, but when you loose both well, the results are not pretty.
I am still going to keep my main blog going, but use this one for them other blog bits and bobs now that I have found both my username and password.
14 March, 2005
The end of this Blog
I have now found some software that allows me to run my blog on my webspace.
So I am going to stop this blog here and use mine.
Which is
http://www.dswilliams.co.uk/dip/
So see you there!!!!
So I am going to stop this blog here and use mine.
Which is
http://www.dswilliams.co.uk/dip/
So see you there!!!!
13 March, 2005
Travel
Well my brother in law got to Branson MO by 1.30 am UK time, which when you stop and think of the distance that he has had to travel is really quite amazing.
What's more amazing is that we take it all for granted, that you can travel that kind of distance in one day.
What's more amazing is that we take it all for granted, that you can travel that kind of distance in one day.
Now What?
Well not really much more to say on the subject of travel, just that I wish that I could be on my hols now, instead of having to go back to work on Monday. But there are far worse things that you could end up doing so all in all I should be happy with what I have.
12 March, 2005
Early Mornings
Today picked up brother in law to take him to the train station with his wife at 5 am so the could train it to the airport
What do you think the chances are of meeting traffic on the roads, slim, no way, yeah good chance?
How about having to queue up to get into the train station?
Yep, even I was surprised, so was the other driver.
Brother in law caught his plane and is now on his way to the USA to see his wife's folks, only a 11 hour trip...
What do you think the chances are of meeting traffic on the roads, slim, no way, yeah good chance?
How about having to queue up to get into the train station?
Yep, even I was surprised, so was the other driver.
Brother in law caught his plane and is now on his way to the USA to see his wife's folks, only a 11 hour trip...
10 March, 2005
Project Part 1
As this is a place that I can store thoughts from a high desk I actually have one to store.
Idea 1
Do version 4 of the Citrus book
This is what happens when you change text colours, yes you start to feel sick....
Citrus Part 1
So things are still strange with the continued downloading of my Citrus book that I have on my web page at http://www.writing.dswilliams.co.uk/citrus.html the downloads are now running all most every day.
There are plenty of sites on the net that will give you far better information, so I have no clue as to what's going on.
I am thinking that I should perhaps do a version 4.0 of the book, the current version runs to 56 pages of A4, what the new version will run to I just don't know. What the current version would look like if published as a normal sized paperback book, and how many pages it would to run to I have no idea at all.
Why?
There are plenty of sites on the net that will give you far better information, so I have no clue as to what's going on.
I am thinking that I should perhaps do a version 4.0 of the book, the current version runs to 56 pages of A4, what the new version will run to I just don't know. What the current version would look like if published as a normal sized paperback book, and how many pages it would to run to I have no idea at all.
Checking
So here I am at the computer I have uploaded a new post to this Blog, what happens?
When I go to look at my Blog, no new post...
Whats going on?
I check several hours later and there it is
Why the delay?
Whats going on...
When I go to look at my Blog, no new post...
Whats going on?
I check several hours later and there it is
Why the delay?
Whats going on...
09 March, 2005
Blog RIP?
I was as I said the other day talking about if Blog sites die quicker on the net than your average website.
Will it got me thinking are there other reasons for why a web or Blog site only lasts a few months, is it a purely English speaking thing? Is it a purely western thing?
I am sorry to say that I just don't know the answers to these questions. But I hope that by keeping a good look out on the news sites on the net and the BBC, that some one some where will have the same questions and will be in a position to provide some of the answers. I think form where I am sitting( on a high desk) that the answers when they do come in will be interesting.
Will it got me thinking are there other reasons for why a web or Blog site only lasts a few months, is it a purely English speaking thing? Is it a purely western thing?
I am sorry to say that I just don't know the answers to these questions. But I hope that by keeping a good look out on the news sites on the net and the BBC, that some one some where will have the same questions and will be in a position to provide some of the answers. I think form where I am sitting( on a high desk) that the answers when they do come in will be interesting.
Spelling
One thing here that I have to say sorry for is my appalling spelling, having word blindness does tend to make the world an interesting place and having a spell checker is of no help when both the correct way to spell a word and the wrong both look okay!
08 March, 2005
China
I had this thought today all about China, and as this is my note book for ideas and all that sort of stuff I thought I would jot it down here.
So What's it about?
What I think will happen is that in the next 5 years e.g by 2010 China will become the most powerful nation on the Earth in economic terms.
WHY?
Well the rate of growth outstrips all the other countries in the world today, a trend that has been going on for 5 years or more so far.
One large province alone produces 5 million graduates in high tech subjects each and every year, that's only one of many more.
By the way, the cost of getting the very best graduates is one third the cost of USA or Europe.
A lot of the very high tech R&D is on the move, yes you guessed it, it's in Asia or China, that is a trend that is getting faster and quicker.
The Chinese working population are a very flexible workforce, from what I have read, take on change better, quicker than most other workforce in the world.
So look out China is going to be the world's economic powerhouse.
Another Reason?
This is another reason that I came up with, I suspect that it's wrong or flawed in some way or another but I put it here just for the fun of it.
The USA is falling or slowing down as an economic powerhouse because of its claim culture, it's easier to sue some one than to make money by use of your hands or your brain. In other words the society has become cannibalistic in nature, so it's rate of producing new things, drops as people become wary of being sued in ways and means that they never thought possible.
Right Or Wrong?
Who knows? Much more clever people will talk and comment on China over the next few years and I for one will keep a look out, just to see how accurate my look into the future was and how off target I was..
So What's it about?
What I think will happen is that in the next 5 years e.g by 2010 China will become the most powerful nation on the Earth in economic terms.
WHY?
Well the rate of growth outstrips all the other countries in the world today, a trend that has been going on for 5 years or more so far.
One large province alone produces 5 million graduates in high tech subjects each and every year, that's only one of many more.
By the way, the cost of getting the very best graduates is one third the cost of USA or Europe.
A lot of the very high tech R&D is on the move, yes you guessed it, it's in Asia or China, that is a trend that is getting faster and quicker.
The Chinese working population are a very flexible workforce, from what I have read, take on change better, quicker than most other workforce in the world.
So look out China is going to be the world's economic powerhouse.
Another Reason?
This is another reason that I came up with, I suspect that it's wrong or flawed in some way or another but I put it here just for the fun of it.
The USA is falling or slowing down as an economic powerhouse because of its claim culture, it's easier to sue some one than to make money by use of your hands or your brain. In other words the society has become cannibalistic in nature, so it's rate of producing new things, drops as people become wary of being sued in ways and means that they never thought possible.
Right Or Wrong?
Who knows? Much more clever people will talk and comment on China over the next few years and I for one will keep a look out, just to see how accurate my look into the future was and how off target I was..
07 March, 2005
Dead Blogs
Dead Blogs
I did some surfing of the old web Blogs, and I have come to the conclusion that Blog pages die faster than websites, which when you think of how easy it is to make a Blog.
Just look at blogger for how easy it is to set yourself up.
The why should so many Blog sites end up with just a few posts?
Is Blogging a passing trend?
Was it cool to say to your friends, "Look at me I'm with it I have a blog nanh nanh"
So of the 20 or so Blog sites that I looked at, only two of them are what I would say were a live. (By live I mean a post in the last month or so) most of the sites I looked at, had between 1 and 5 posts.
Most of the sites seemed to have lasted some 3 months on average.
I did see somewhere on the net that the average website last 6 months, I suspect the reason being that you have to put far more effort into making a website than you do a Blog site.
I have not seen anything in the press about this Blog life span, gee could I be the first to have spotted this trend?
The other thing that I did notice was the trend towards photoblogs, spotting this trend is a no brainier, now that digital cameras have become so much cheaper.
I have yet to see a digital camera being given away with your cornflakes, but it has to happen.
I did some surfing of the old web Blogs, and I have come to the conclusion that Blog pages die faster than websites, which when you think of how easy it is to make a Blog.
Just look at blogger for how easy it is to set yourself up.
The why should so many Blog sites end up with just a few posts?
Is Blogging a passing trend?
Was it cool to say to your friends, "Look at me I'm with it I have a blog nanh nanh"
So of the 20 or so Blog sites that I looked at, only two of them are what I would say were a live. (By live I mean a post in the last month or so) most of the sites I looked at, had between 1 and 5 posts.
Most of the sites seemed to have lasted some 3 months on average.
I did see somewhere on the net that the average website last 6 months, I suspect the reason being that you have to put far more effort into making a website than you do a Blog site.
I have not seen anything in the press about this Blog life span, gee could I be the first to have spotted this trend?
The other thing that I did notice was the trend towards photoblogs, spotting this trend is a no brainier, now that digital cameras have become so much cheaper.
I have yet to see a digital camera being given away with your cornflakes, but it has to happen.
06 March, 2005
Picture No 1
The Elephants came marching
Dave
At last I have got a picture to load into this thing...
I was starting to think I was doing something dim. Turns out that my firewall was stopping things from happening, all without telling me.
So you know what that means...Yes more pictures
So what's with the Picture?
I must admit that I just grabbed the 1st picture I could, to see if this thing was working. The picture was taken as a test for the Nikon 870 camera that even after 9 months I am still learning how to use.
What's much worse, is that I have owned a Nikon digital camera before, so I really should know how to use it.
Still the results from it are, when I get it all setup right very good.
Still?
Yes still?
Not sure about?
but its' far better than ! or < or even &
Re-reading this I don't have a clue what it is all about either!
Not sure about?
but its' far better than ! or < or even &
Re-reading this I don't have a clue what it is all about either!
Checking
Why?
just checking to see if this blog thing is updating correctly and my last page does not appear why?
just checking to see if this blog thing is updating correctly and my last page does not appear why?
Strange things
Strange Things
Just been looking at my web site logs, like you do, that is if you have a website, for some reason looking at your site logs can be fun and also just slightly an addaction.
Anyway what I was going to say was that looking at my logs I have a website that has no links to it.
I have never put any adverts for it yet one of the pages on it is now getting downloaded some 20 times a day.
Now you might say so what!
What you don't know and I am now going to tell you is what the masses are downloading, and that's the bit that made me rise the odd eyebrow, that I have, (your number may vary) is that the file is call citrus and is a small book that I wrote, just for the fun of it.
The book runs to thirtyA4 pages and talks about all the differant citrus fruits that you can get and what they are and in some cases what they look like.
One of the strange things about the book is that first version gets downloaded more than the third version and thats the version that has the most information and some pictures.
I have yet to work out how people are finding the page , because as I said earlier I have never asked for if to be put on a search engine.
I suppose you want a link to the page
well here you go try this one http://www.writing.dswilliams.co.uk/citrus.html if you have a look do let me know what you think if you have the time and the energy, I do know just how nacked you can get wizzing around the internet.
You have to keep yourself fit, and make sure you drink plenty of fluids!!!
One last thing about the citrus books is that the number and types of citrus fruits that are outthere did to me surprise me. Here in jolly old England we are lucky if we get half of the fruits I have found and wrote about. One of the reasons appears to be that there is no market for the fruit. The other reason appears to be that the fruit does not appear to travel very well.
I am not sure if those two reasons are the whole story, if like real life I suspect that the real reasons will be far more complacted ( spelling) so thats all I have to say at this time on my books called citrus.
Just been looking at my web site logs, like you do, that is if you have a website, for some reason looking at your site logs can be fun and also just slightly an addaction.
Anyway what I was going to say was that looking at my logs I have a website that has no links to it.
I have never put any adverts for it yet one of the pages on it is now getting downloaded some 20 times a day.
Now you might say so what!
What you don't know and I am now going to tell you is what the masses are downloading, and that's the bit that made me rise the odd eyebrow, that I have, (your number may vary) is that the file is call citrus and is a small book that I wrote, just for the fun of it.
The book runs to thirtyA4 pages and talks about all the differant citrus fruits that you can get and what they are and in some cases what they look like.
One of the strange things about the book is that first version gets downloaded more than the third version and thats the version that has the most information and some pictures.
I have yet to work out how people are finding the page , because as I said earlier I have never asked for if to be put on a search engine.
I suppose you want a link to the page
well here you go try this one http://www.writing.dswilliams.co.uk/citrus.html if you have a look do let me know what you think if you have the time and the energy, I do know just how nacked you can get wizzing around the internet.
You have to keep yourself fit, and make sure you drink plenty of fluids!!!
One last thing about the citrus books is that the number and types of citrus fruits that are outthere did to me surprise me. Here in jolly old England we are lucky if we get half of the fruits I have found and wrote about. One of the reasons appears to be that there is no market for the fruit. The other reason appears to be that the fruit does not appear to travel very well.
I am not sure if those two reasons are the whole story, if like real life I suspect that the real reasons will be far more complacted ( spelling) so thats all I have to say at this time on my books called citrus.
05 March, 2005
Idea Part 1
Idea
Rewite the chemistry pages of the website so that I make it clear to one and all that what I have written may have to be checked to see if
1. It's right
2. It's correct
3. It's in English
4. It's of any interest to anyone
The link to the site is http://www.writing.dswilliams.co.uk/chemistry.html
Will have to do this soon, as the page has not been updated for 3 months.
Rewite the chemistry pages of the website so that I make it clear to one and all that what I have written may have to be checked to see if
1. It's right
2. It's correct
3. It's in English
4. It's of any interest to anyone
The link to the site is http://www.writing.dswilliams.co.uk/chemistry.html
Will have to do this soon, as the page has not been updated for 3 months.
Templates
All Change
Had to happen
I have now changed my templates for this blog 3 times in two days, its a pain as I have yet to find one that I like a lot.
So I suppose that I will just have to keep on looking for just the right skin.
There just changed the text colour just to see if I could....
Had to happen
I have now changed my templates for this blog 3 times in two days, its a pain as I have yet to find one that I like a lot.
So I suppose that I will just have to keep on looking for just the right skin.
There just changed the text colour just to see if I could....
Does it all work
Well, its slow but things are starting to make sense I think.
Wll I can know most of the time log into this blogger thing...so that's got to be an inprovement hasn't it?
The advert thing from Google, well not sure that I like how it has set it's self up.
The serach bar for Google I like but not were it has put it's self not sure if I know how to change it yet.
I was going to talk about the fact that tomorrow here in the UK its Mothering Sunday and Mother's Day at the same time. I then find out that the UK has always celibrated both days( which are seprate else where) on the same day whay that should be I don't know.
I do know that the sales of Mother's Day cards must be great for profit. The types of cards that you can get, that some how pass for a Mothers day card is , well unbelveiable.
I am sure that even 5 years ago you could not have sold some of the cards as Mother's Day cards
some are out right rude, silly, stupid some are even nice!!
And yes if you ask I did get a card
Wll I can know most of the time log into this blogger thing...so that's got to be an inprovement hasn't it?
The advert thing from Google, well not sure that I like how it has set it's self up.
The serach bar for Google I like but not were it has put it's self not sure if I know how to change it yet.
I was going to talk about the fact that tomorrow here in the UK its Mothering Sunday and Mother's Day at the same time. I then find out that the UK has always celibrated both days( which are seprate else where) on the same day whay that should be I don't know.
I do know that the sales of Mother's Day cards must be great for profit. The types of cards that you can get, that some how pass for a Mothers day card is , well unbelveiable.
I am sure that even 5 years ago you could not have sold some of the cards as Mother's Day cards
some are out right rude, silly, stupid some are even nice!!
And yes if you ask I did get a card
04 March, 2005
Get a Life
What
So you look at all the posts to this site and you see that they are all within the last two days, and you say to yourself
Loser !
This might be true, but then as I am using this a a notebook to myself, its of no intrest to me what you think of all the posts that I have done in the sapce of a day or two.
One possable reason for all the posts is that I have a lot to say
Another is that I have to test this software and the system to see if I like it and that I can get on with it.
The testing so far is going well I think.
well I have made alot of posts...
An earlier post started to talk about the DDW and I plan to talk about it again soon. I think its something that I need to get down in written form. Having an online notebook is great as I can look back and see how my thoughts on this subject have changed and deleloped over time.
If I am lucky my typing and spelling might even get better( I dotue it) or I learn how to use the spell checker that is installed as part of this blog software.
As you can tell I am not doing very well....
So you look at all the posts to this site and you see that they are all within the last two days, and you say to yourself
Loser !
This might be true, but then as I am using this a a notebook to myself, its of no intrest to me what you think of all the posts that I have done in the sapce of a day or two.
One possable reason for all the posts is that I have a lot to say
Another is that I have to test this software and the system to see if I like it and that I can get on with it.
The testing so far is going well I think.
well I have made alot of posts...
An earlier post started to talk about the DDW and I plan to talk about it again soon. I think its something that I need to get down in written form. Having an online notebook is great as I can look back and see how my thoughts on this subject have changed and deleloped over time.
If I am lucky my typing and spelling might even get better( I dotue it) or I learn how to use the spell checker that is installed as part of this blog software.
As you can tell I am not doing very well....
The Digital David Williams
The Digital David Williams
Now that's a really great title, well I think it is.
The idea behind DDW as I will now call it is to use the internet and anything else I can get my hands on, and that I have worked out how to use, to record in some way or other part of me.
EG how I think, what I think about this and that. I have come to realise, as I get older that how much of yourself do you leave behind you if you are an average Joe( person)?
The answer that I came up with for me was very little. I have stored on the wayback machine my very early websites, mainly becuase I started on the web just after www became possable, and the very first web browser, that worked was around
Now that's a really great title, well I think it is.
The idea behind DDW as I will now call it is to use the internet and anything else I can get my hands on, and that I have worked out how to use, to record in some way or other part of me.
EG how I think, what I think about this and that. I have come to realise, as I get older that how much of yourself do you leave behind you if you are an average Joe( person)?
The answer that I came up with for me was very little. I have stored on the wayback machine my very early websites, mainly becuase I started on the web just after www became possable, and the very first web browser, that worked was around
Hello.com
Aggh
Why why can't I get this hello.com software to work?
All I wanted to do was use it as an easy way to upload my photo's intoo this blog/notebook, can I get it to work?
No No No
I am so ***** about it
Well, if at first you dont' succeed, give up, so thats what I am going to do
I will have to come back to trying to put a photo up.
I other news I still have to decide if I want to put this blog/notebook on my own domain/website, I do have pleny of room. At the last count I still had some 1.5 gigs of webspace left.
The figure above should be more inpressive when you see just how large my websites are and the number of pages they have on them. At the last count it was over a 1000.
Have a look http://www.dswilliams.co.uk don't be fooled by there only appearing to be only two sites, click on the master link and you will find more.
These other sites are only the public ones there are several more large test sites that are locked from public view.
I was just thinking, as this is also a notebook to myself I can make as many entrys as I want, this is cool I think
Why why can't I get this hello.com software to work?
All I wanted to do was use it as an easy way to upload my photo's intoo this blog/notebook, can I get it to work?
No No No
I am so ***** about it
Well, if at first you dont' succeed, give up, so thats what I am going to do
I will have to come back to trying to put a photo up.
I other news I still have to decide if I want to put this blog/notebook on my own domain/website, I do have pleny of room. At the last count I still had some 1.5 gigs of webspace left.
The figure above should be more inpressive when you see just how large my websites are and the number of pages they have on them. At the last count it was over a 1000.
Have a look http://www.dswilliams.co.uk don't be fooled by there only appearing to be only two sites, click on the master link and you will find more.
These other sites are only the public ones there are several more large test sites that are locked from public view.
I was just thinking, as this is also a notebook to myself I can make as many entrys as I want, this is cool I think
Photo or not to photo
Its something else that has been going through my mind. Should I put up a photo of yours truley?
I mean would it make a big differance if you could see what I looked like?
Can your stomach take the shock?
Will you view of the world be forever ruined?
Can my spelling get any better?
At this rate the answer to all these questions has got to be no.
The other very slight problem is I have yet to read the instructions on how to upload photo's, so I guess that will at this time be the main reason why there is no photo's
I mean would it make a big differance if you could see what I looked like?
Can your stomach take the shock?
Will you view of the world be forever ruined?
Can my spelling get any better?
At this rate the answer to all these questions has got to be no.
The other very slight problem is I have yet to read the instructions on how to upload photo's, so I guess that will at this time be the main reason why there is no photo's
No I don't
Well I suppose it had to happen, yes thats right some how or other I lost my links to this blog, and then just to add to the fun I did not remmber what my username for this account was.
It does not help that having a real common surname means you end up trying some strange name combinations to get an account to work.
Not much else at this time I want to say, mainly because I am still trying to work out if I want to keep this account. Or try to run it on my own webspace with my own domain.
It does not help that having a real common surname means you end up trying some strange name combinations to get an account to work.
Not much else at this time I want to say, mainly because I am still trying to work out if I want to keep this account. Or try to run it on my own webspace with my own domain.
03 March, 2005
Two Posts
I seem to have managed to post 2 blogs at the same time, which for a first time user is pretty neat I think. not sure how it happend but it did.
I think I shall now and go read the manual and see what I can and can't do with this system.
I think I shall now and go read the manual and see what I can and can't do with this system.
So Now what Again
So if this works I should now habe 3 whole post's, that makes me a Blogger, wow now I really have joined the big time!!!!
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